We all saw this coming: Jeremy Strick to resign…or not?
“One member of the museum’s Board of Trustees, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Strick had resigned during a ‘tearful’ scene at a meeting of the board. A MOCA spokeswoman, however, denied that…”

It sounds as if the board might accept Eli Broads offer.
“The agreement, which the board voted on at a long meeting Thursday afternoon, is not final and is subject to numerous conditions, including Mr. Broad’s examinations of the museum’s financial accounts, according to the people, two of whom attended the meeting on Thursday.”

Los Angeles mayor Villaraigosa makes a plea to MOCA
“His letter to board co-chairmen Tom Unterman and David Johnson asks that the board take time to thoroughly review its options and set aside 30 days to allow the public an opportunity to provide input before a decision is made.”

Eli Broad asks LACMA to show him the money.
“The question, he said, is which bailout carries a stronger guarantee of secure funding for MOCA’s endowment and exhibitions: his $30-million offer or LACMA’s merger proposal, to which no price tag has been publicly attached.”

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This week Duncan and Richard talk with the Director and President of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Cuno. They talk about his new book, the new wing of the Art Institute opening in May, and a bit of baseball talk thrown in to boot!

James Cuno is president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago and former director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Harvard University Art Museums. He has written widely on museums and cultural policy. His books include “Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public’s Trust” and his latest “Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage, (Princeton).

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Art Institute of Chicago
James Cuno
Johnny Damon
Yankees
Red Sox
Dodgers
Cubs
Manny Ramirez
Nomar Garciaparra
Derek Lowe
White Sox
Lou Piniella
Carlos Zambrano
Renzo Piano
Who Owns Antiquity
Getty
Parthenon
Ottoman Empire
United Nations
Unesco
George Bush
Edward Said
Orientalism
Frank Gehry
Rice Building
Pritzker Pavilion
Lisa Dorin
Leonardo Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Madeleine Grynsztejn
MCA
Olafur Eliasson
Martin Myers
Charles Hutchinson
Monet
Cezanne
Roland Barthes
Van Gogh
Gauguin
Edward Hopper
Kerry James Marshall
Bruce Nauman
Ellsworth Kelly
Robert Gober
Eva Hesse
Richard Serra
Cy Twombly
Weiner’s Circle

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Since its founding in 1984, the Contemporary Jewish Museum has engaged audiences of all ages and backgrounds through dynamic exhibitions and programs that explore contemporary perspectives on Jewish culture, history, art, and ideas. Throughout its history, the Museum has distinguished itself as a welcoming place where visitors can connect with one another through dialogue and shared experiences with the arts.

Richard and Duncan rattle on for an eternity during the intro, but there is the singing of some Queen as they discuss being named Chicago Magazine’s podcast of the year.

ALSO THE RETURN OF MIKE BENEDETTO!!!

Connie Wolf
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Chicago Magazine
Daniel Libeskind
Willis Polk
John Zorn
JCC San Francisco
Reboot San Francisco
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Matthew Ritchie
Stanford University
Jewish Theological Institute
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
MoAD
California Historical Society
Cartoon Art Museum
SFMoMA
Whitney Museum of American Art
Joan Rosenbaum
MCA
Annie Philbin
The New Yorker
Andy Warhol
Golda Meir
Albert Einstein
The Marx Brothers
Gertrude Stein
Sandra Bernhard
Franz Kafka
Quentin Tarantino
Grindhouse
Death Proof
Robert Rodriguez
Sydney Portier
Rosario Dawson
Kurt Russell
Z oe Bell
Lost
Kill Bill

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Recorded live in front of a studio audience at Triple Base Gallery on July 10th, 2008 as a part of the exhibition “Open for Business”. In this raw interview Brian and Patricia talk to René de Guzman about the cultural origins of art, how museums can be relevant in the 21st century, and Oakland’s future as an art center.

René de Guzman is the senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of California. Previously, he was the director of visual arts at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).

Triple Base Gallery
René de Guzman
Oakland Museum of California
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Mark Tribe
Rhizome
LACE
Creative Time
Angela Davis
César Chávez
Coretta Scott King
Howard Zinn
Paul Potter
Chicago Seven
Black Panthers
Mark Dion
MoMA
MoCA
David Wilson
Museum of Jurassic Technology
James Irvine Foundation
Dorothea Lange
Trevor Paglen
Charles and Ray Eames
Daniel Libeskind

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James Elkins and the crystal something-or-other.

No, no, But James Elkins is back to talk with Duncan about the Stone Summer Theory Institute, the Art Phd. and why your sorry ass is going to be in school forever.
Stone Summer Theory Institute at SAIC: What Is an Image?

From July 13-19, the second annual Stone Summer Theory Institute at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will present a forum for some of the world’s foremost art theoreticians to address unsolved issues in the field.

This year’s Institute is focused on three fundamental questions: What is the nature of the visual? What are images? What are pictures?

A combination of public events and private discussions, the Summer Theory Institute invites fifteen young scholars to explore issues in art conceptualization with renowned international scholars, artists, and authors, this year including Gottfried Boehm, W.J.T. Mitchell, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, and Marie-Jose Mondzain.

ALSO: WEST COAST PEOPLE READ AND OBEY!

In conjunction with “Open for Business”, Brian and Patrica will interview René de Guzman live in public at Triple Base Gallery on Thursday, July 10th at 5:00 PM. The raw interview will then be posted to the site as that week’s show.

René de Guzman is the senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of California. Previously, he was the director of visual arts at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).

James Elkins
Stone Summer Theory Institute
Irit Rogoff
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Penn State Press
Nelson Goodman
Ferdinand de Saussure
Gottfried Boehm
Martin Heidegger
Rosalind Krauss
Bookforum
Jean-François Lyotard
Sigmund Freud
Ann Hamilton
Hans Haacke
Jacques Derrida
Meyer Schapiro
WJT Mitchell
Joel Snyder
Critical Art Ensemble
Jacques Rancière
Proximity Magazine
Joseph Koerner
Pepe Karmel
Errol Morris
Ryerson University
Sigmar Polke
Go. Go now.
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WTF? this weeks show is as long as your arm and brimming with what you need to
know about the art world around you…

It’s a three shows for the price of one deal!!!

First Duncan takes on the Chicago Artist Coalition to find out, what they do and
what business they have publishing a magazine.

Next,Terri and Serena talk to David Adjaye and Cydney Payton at The Museum of Contemporary Art: Denver
and figure out how you go about building a museum.

As if that was not enough, Mark Staff Brandl our European Chief checks in to remind us
how important it is to be a member of a community.

The show closes with a tribute to the Birthday of Joseph Mohan.

Paul Celan
Gio Ponti
Mark Dery
Daniel Libeskind
Roberto
Behar
Santiago Calatrava
Luis Barrigán
Sigmund Freud
Chicago Artists’ Coalition
Olga
Stefan
Jeremy
Biles
Chicago Artist News
Rod Blagojevich
Wesley Kimler
Dwell
ReadyMade
New Art
Examiner
Frieze
Artforum
William Conger
Joan Livingstone
Peter Jones
Flatfile
Corinne
Schatz
Marlis Pekarek
Josef Felix Mueller
Urs Eberli
Clemens
Mueller
Rachel
Lumsden
Elisabeth
Nembrini
Elisabeth
Keller-Schweizer
Ursula
Badrutt Schoch

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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 December since 2002, the once-tattered resort town has gained a new sense of itself as an aesthetic destination that goes beyond the mere appreciation of a set of well-wrought silicone implants. Now members of the local Establishment, enamored with their smart new friends—collectors, artists, and curators from around the world—want to see if they can get them to stick around. It’s partly about wishing to be taken seriously as a cultural alternative to New York and Los Angeles. But it’s also a bet that fertilizing the creative class is good economic-development policy—especially in a city hit hard by the real-estate meltdown. Which is why a local developer and collector, Craig Robins, is starting a free postgraduate art program in Miami.

He’s not alone in this municipal-improvement gambit: Terry Riley, a former Museum of Modern Art curator, moved down two years ago to be director of the Miami Art Museum and oversee building its $220 million Herzog & de Meuron–designed home. Riley cites the example of Spain and its Guggenheim Bilbao as a model: “They wanted to catch up, join the European Union, and transform the country. They realized that to do that, they had to go from being a cheap vacation destination of sangría, sand, and sun to a place that could compete with the rest of Europe as a major cultural destination.”

That’s what Robins, a mam trustee, wants most of all, too. “Miami is on the verge, but we need to keep stimulating creativity,” he says, rising from his office desk and passing a John Baldessari painting—a dead plant emblazoned with the credo that always happens. (“Looking at it keeps me sharp.”) “I felt that the only thing missing was a graduate school. Our artists get to the next level and have to leave Miami if they want to continue their education. Why should we lose them to Yale?” In fact, the current Whitney Biennial features three Miami artists—William Cordova, Adler Guerrier, and Bert Rodriguez—more than any other city except New York and L.A.

The son of a local developer, Robins is a Miami Beach native who’s always had an interest in art (he wanted to trade in his graduation Rolex for a Salvador Dalí print). He learned that there’s added value in a cleaned-up bohemia. “Everybody thought these properties were useless,” he recalls of South Beach’s cheaply purchased Art Deco buildings, many of which his company restored as boutique hotels and chic retail strips. Artists were a key part of the mix that revived the area: Courtesy of Robins, many found themselves with subsidized studio spaces or special commissions—enough that in 1992, this magazine christened the resort “SoHo in the Sun.” Art has been part of his real-estate strategy ever since, from the $250 million Aqua residences, bedecked with work by Guillermo Kuitca and Richard Tuttle, to Miami’s design district, where the Robins-founded Design Miami fair (in partnership with the owner of Art Basel) has drawn crowds to otherwise deserted streets. Not coincidentally, Robins is the district’s biggest landlord.

This area will also be home to his new program, headily named Art + Research. If all goes according to plan, it’ll open in September 2009 with eight-to-twelve “resident artists”—who will receive full scholarships, studio space, housing, and stipends. They hope to expand it later. The University of Miami–operated venture already has an impressive roster of New Yorkers onboard. Founding faculty include artists Liam Gillick and Rirkrit Tiravanija, both of whom teach in Columbia’s M.F.A. program; Yale instructor Steven Henry Madoff; and White Columns gallery director Matthew Higgs (they will all squeeze Miami tutorials into their current gigs). Former Columbia art-school dean Bruce Ferguson consulted on it. And for added star power, sitting on the board of Robins’s nonprofit Anaphiel organization to guide the school are former Whitney director (and Robins’s cousin) David Ross, John Baldessari, and ex–Art Basel director Sam Keller. Robins will kick in $2 million to help fund Art + Research for its first four years, and the University of Miami has promised to help raise another $2 million.

Unlike at Columbia and Yale, there won’t be any formal M.F.A. degrees awarded to those who complete the two-year program, which will revolve around a topical theme that changes with each entering biannual class. Accordingly, don’t expect to see the “resident artists” hunker down in front of easels and live models. “Most art is conceptually based now. It’s art based on an idea,” says Madoff. “It didn’t turn out that the twentieth century’s most influential artist was Picasso. It turned out it was Duchamp … We don’t need to do foundation courses, how to draw, how to sculpt … You don’t need three credits for American Art History From 1945 to the Present.”

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The gift is the largest donation in the institution’s history, with about $125 million going towards the New York museum’s endowment, according to a Wednesday report in the New York Times.

The 75-year-old billionaire hopes the donation would spur others to give generously to the Whitney.

Stating that his intention was to help the Whitney retain its Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue at 75th Street.

“I believe the Whitney and the Breuer building are one,” Lauder told the Times.

The Whitney announced last year it was planning to open a second location in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, causing some to believe that it would sell its current locale because it wouldn’t be able to run two buildings.

The 77-year-old museum is one of the least endowed in the city. Its current endowment total of $195 million pales in comparison to the $850 million of the Museum of Modern Arts.

According to the Whitney’s director, Adam Weinberg, the gift will allow the museum to venture into “adventurous programming.”

Lauder has been active at the Whitney. Six years ago, he a launched a campaign to purchase $200 million worth of American art by the likes of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstien, Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock.

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This week the show is Co-hosted by Lori Waxman, recorded live in coffee shop on a Saturday night during dinner.

She and Duncan check out what is going on in the Chicago Alternative spaces. San Francisco beats down Eli Broad/LACMA and it turns out Marc LeBlanc is part of the oppressive white male hegemony.

Ah, Bad at Sports is “sweet as pie.” Let the hate mail flow freely.

Philip von Zweck
Whitney Biennial
Deb Sokolow
Washington Post
Greenbrier Resort
Lisa Boyle
Western Exhibitions
Eric Lebofsky
Steven Husby
Sarah Lobb
Fraction Workspace
Monique Meloche
Cindy Loehr
Roots and Culture
Ryan Fenchel
Brendan Meara
BCAM
Jeff Koons
Barbara Kruger
Andy Warhol
Damien Hirst
Jenny Holzer
Cindy Sherman
Richard Serra
Roy Lichtenstein
John Baldessari
Chris Burden
Robert Irwin
LACMA
The Guggenheim
The Met
Dia Beacon
Gilbert and George
The Tate
The Brooklyn Museum
James Turrell
Gus Van Sant
New Langton Arts
San Francisco Arts Commissions Gallery
Eve Fowler
Jen Smith
Zoe Crosher
Catherine Opie
Hillary Clinton

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