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Last December, before my visit to Crystal Bridges, I wrote about the challenges of being a museum funded by Wal-Mart money and located in Bentonville, Arkansas. I had interviewed the museum’s director, Don Bacigalupi, and I was taken with his brand of populism — which did not equate inclusion with dumbing down content and pandering [...]
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Tom Sachs and Kanye West at the opening of SPACE PROGRAM: MARS. All photos on site for Art Observed by Elene Damenia. Tom Sachs takes New York City to Mars in his new immersive installation at the Park Avenue Armory, SPACE PROGRAM: MARS.
As you may or may not know, The Best Part is celebrating its 3rd anniversary of finding and publishing the best of art + design on the web. It's been an amazing experience, I've met or spoken to some of the most incredible artists in the world and learned a ton in the process. The numbers continue to grow, and my readers have been incredibly loyal. You guys really are a testament to how far this blog has come in the last three years. If you have any doubts of the intelligence of the blogosphere and its readers, simply go through my Twitter followers' list sometime and you'll see what I mean.
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Things were looking dire on Tuesday morning at Sotheby’s during the Chinese fine art auction. A battered troop of about thirty art handlers—accompanied again by the inflatable fat cat crushing a union worker—marched a long semi-circle inside the partitioned protest zone, chanting “No contract, no work, no peace.” It’s been eight months since these 43 hardworking men and women were put out of their jobs for demanding fair pay and benefits. AFC thinks that’s more than enough. Let’s fix this.
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You may have seen me post this photo to my instagram a couple days ago and yes, it is our next giveaway! Elli Popp sent over these beautiful ceramics featuring drawings by Edwyn Collins (had to link it for the Empire Records fans). So who wants ‘em?
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If a museum owns two major works from the same period by the same artist, can one of them---by far, the more celebrated of the two---be deemed redundant and expendable? That seems to be the thinking behind the Akron Art Museum's announcement , through Christie's, that on May 8 it will auction off Cindy Sherman 's "Untitled #96" from her landmark "Centerfolds" series---the famous image of a girl (Sherman herself) in an orange sweater, lost in reverie. Her removal to the auction block is intended to capitalize on the heightened interest brought to Sherman's already sought-after work by the Museum of Modern Art's current retrospective , which reproduced the orange-sweater image "in all the media related to this show" (in the words of the Christie's announcement). Cindy Sherman, "Untitled #93," 1981
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