Fridays Links Roundup

On this weeks roundup we check out the conservation of contemporary art, AFC’s recap of Venice and Basel, and most importantly cats getting stoned via boing boing. Hope everyone has a great weekend and maybe well see you at galleries tonight.

• Paddy Johnson’s recap of this years Art Basel and Venice Biennale. It didn’t sound like we missed much.
• Ed Winkleman’s post on starting a commercial art gallery in a poor economy.
• “Millennium Park’s tradition of dazzling and delayed public art goes on“
• Becky Smith is closing Bellweather in New York after 10 years.
  
• Art 21 has a great post by Richard McCoy about the the conservation of contemporary art.
• Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen will be showing his Deadpan in Times Square.
• Dieter Rams on Plural Blog
  
• “Judge Slams MoMA, Guggenheim on Secret Holocaust Art Agreement.” That doesn’t sound good.
• Offworld has a sneak peak at a follow up to my favorite Iphone game Rolando 2!!!
  

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Meg Onli is a visual artist and blogger born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Meg moved to Chicago, Illinois in 2005 where she received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been with the Chicago-based art and culture podcast/blog Bad at Sports since 2006 where she is currently the Associate Producer. She has an unfathomable apatite for documentary films, 60s & 70s performance art, and cute cats. Meg has exhibited work in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. Currently, she is working on a project that documents her steps in recording Motwon’s first girl group sensation, the Marvelettes, version of “Where did Our Love Go?”

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Tagged: art 21, Art Basel, Becky Smith, Bellweather, conservation of contemporary art, Dieter Rams, economy, Ed Winkleman, Guggenheim, MoMA, Paddy Johnson, Richard McCoy, Steve McQueen, Venice Biennale