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Letter From Paris: Occupy This

Pssst…Can we talk about money?  I keep on getting press releases from Phillips de Pury about all the wonderful things they’ve sold, the auction records they’ve broken – Richard Prince’s “Cowboys and Girlfriends” portfolio fetching $146,500; Andy Warhol’s “Grapes” topping $104,500 – and the next pot of gold waiting in the auction markets in New York and London.  And if it’s not from an auction house, the emails chime in from the art fairs in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Geneva or galleries in India, Hong Kong or some new white cube that just opened here in Paris.

News: Art and airplanes, Printeresting edits, opportunities, and more!

News The art and airplane trend We’ve told you  before about Jordan Griska’s “Grumman Greenhouse“, the repurposed submarine bomber turned sculpture/community greenhouse that was recently installed in Lenfest Plaza. Well artist Matthew Day Jackson also has part of a plane – the cockpit of a B-29 – on display in London as part of his exhibit at Hauser & Wirth. The piece is entitled “Axis Mundi”, and while it is cool, it isn’t a greenhouse, so we think Griska wins this round.

Étant donnés: Duchamp, the crowds will come

Duchamp studies are a thriving industry in academe and his work continues to have a major influence on artists, so it was no surprise that the first annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), devoted to Duchamp’s final work, would attract a full house.  The enthusiasm was such that by 10 am on Saturday morning (Sept. 12) the audience was seated and expectantly quiet.

One thing I learned about Paris

Crowd inside Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors. Paris is a magnet for tourists over the holidays. Let me say that again in case you’re planning a visit between Christmas and New Year’s: Paris is so full of tourists over the holidays that you will spend hours in line to get into museums; you will be packed like sardines on the subways; you will elbow your way through stores and markets. It’s the New York of Europe. But of course you will have a good time. And depending on your patience for your fellow humans you may have a great time.

The business of art with Jerry Saltz and Jeffrey Deitch

Art critic Jerry Saltz and art dealer Jeffrey Deitch came to the Wharton School Wednesday to talk about the art biz. The talk was a collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Art and Wharton. ICA Director Claudia Gould did the intros to a spillover crowd in Wharton’s Huntsman Hall. An unusual number of the attendees were dressed in suits! I also spotted a couple of big-time collectors, gallery people, artists and art students in the mix. Gould said Saltz, the critic for New York Magazine, took a no-nonesense approach to discussing art. Deitch, she said, was a Harvard MBA, who ... More » »

Jeff Koons and Hot Air — A Marriage Made in Heaven

Jeff Koons’ Rabbit in yesterday’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times From the It’s a Miracle! Department: Jeff Koons‘ Rabbit (1986) a stainless steel sculpture based on a mylar balloon was resurrected and transformsed into its original mylar state in yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. The new, 50-ft. tall Koons piece is owned by Macy’s. Read Roberta Smith’s short article.

Hitler, vacuums, transience and mice

[We selected some posts written by Colette Copeland's students at the University of Pennsylvania to run in artblog. Here they are:] The truth, sort ofPost by Seth Manoff In the 1930s, Hitler burned books which he deemed subervise or which went against Nazi propaganda. Most of the world condoned this, though it was a crime against humanity. While the days of Hitler are past, in Oswaldo Romberg’s mind, the days of distorting the facts are not. In this post-Capitalist consumer world which is in collapse, everyone is supporting the idea of relative truth through the uses of new technologies. Oswaldo ... More » »

The huckster: Jeff Koons at Penn

Rabbit, by Jeff Koons The key words Jeff Koons delivered in has talk yesterday at the University of Pennsylvania–”I always loved sales.” He still does. I felt from the beginning to the end like I was listening to one of those sales speils, in which the huckster makes leaps of illogic that sound almost right. He went back to memories of enjoying selling (what was he selling, chocolates to raise money for the team? subscriptions to Boy’s Life?) as he knocked on doors, awaiting the opening door. “You never knew what odor was going to come out.” Is he kidding? ... More » »