Category Archives: Random Thoughts

Burt Barr at Sikkema Jenkins

By Fintan Boyle | Published: June 18, 2010

As Jonas Mekas tells of the premiere of Warhol’s film Empire –a single static shot of the Empire state building held for eight hours without camera movement or cut–the crowds were at a near riot. “We want our money back, we came to see a movie. This movie doesn’t move”. And this was at the [...]

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Ars longa, divorce brutale.

By Fintan Boyle | Published: May 4, 2010

I rode the subway. To see Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection that is. To have stepped onto the curb at Acquavella gallery, 59th just off 5th, and paid a cab fare would have been, well, tasteless. The Sculls have long been positioned as the Ur collectors of contemporary art in New York. [...]

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More Online Curating

By Romanov Grave | Published: January 30, 2010

Advice from artists – scratch banality, find gold by Regina Hackett

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Minus Space – Online Curating Projects

By Romanov Grave | Published: December 14, 2009

Here is a site with ongoing online curating projects. http://www.minusspace.com/category/viewlist/ Looking for more.

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Anticipating Ruin, Mining the Past

By Romanov Grave | Published: December 9, 2009

Looking forward… or is it all over? If the current state of curated group shows is any indications, there may not be a way new way or a different way to find some meaning in the art being made now without looking backward. Historical amnesia. All genres have been coopted and cyncisim is a style rather [...]

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