Charles Saatchi is at it Again

Three students from the Royal Academy Schools were astonished yesterday when the man who made the fortunes of Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the Chapman brothers picked their entire graduation show. Mr Saatchi, 65, snapped up five cutout cartoon characters by Angus...
Free Art School in Miami?

Free Art School in Miami?

Via Brett Sokol for New York Magazine: If the glory, freneticism, excess, and sunny evanescence of the current contemporary-art boom has a symbolic home, it’s Miami Beach. Thanks to the appearance of an exponentially more fabulous Art Basel Miami Beach fair each...

Yale Art Student Uses Abortion as an Art Medium

From the Yale Daily News: Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement. Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often...

Elkins Stone Theory Institute part 1

Finally, after a six month wait, it is here… The audio from the 2007 Stone Summer Theory Institute: Is Art History Global? This will be a series of six or seven 2-4 hour excerpts from the week-long event. In advance of the second iteration “What is an...
Wafaa Bilal Censored at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Wafaa Bilal Censored at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Via B. Blagojevi? for ArtCal “Iraqi American video artist Wafaa Bilal’s recent exhibition at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, Virtual Jihadi, was closed by the University’s administration a day after its initial opening on 5 March 2008....