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Artists’ Contracts | Curators

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Based on a 1971 contract produced by exhibition organizer Seth Siegelaub and lawyer Robert Projansky, artist Maria Eichhorn took nine years to interview a group of artists and gallerists discussing the troublesome aspects of drafting contracts that may or may not have protected artists and their future gains. Two pictures in the book show Vassilakis […]

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Tags: Art · Art Market · Bern · Books · Business · Contemporary Art · Culture · Debate · Risk · Strategy · Theory

Art or Not Art?

June 26th, 2009 · No Comments

James Elkins, E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory and Criticism at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been busy editing several insightful and inquisitive books as part of The Art Seminar series published by Routledge. The State of Art Criticism is a follow up to his earlier book What Happened to Art […]

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Tags: Art · Books · Business · Criticism · Debate · Education · New York · Technology · Theory · Video

Contemporary Thinkers

April 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments

Thanks to Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery students, art collectors and anyone else interested in understanding contemporary art, can tap into short and succinct explanations of theories by some of the major thinkers who have formulated their interpretations of art since 1960. This book is an explicative and critical index to the works and ideas […]

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Tags: Arezoo Moseni · Art · Basel · Books · Contemporary Art · Criticism · Culture · Education · History · Online Journals · Philosophy · Strategy · Theory

Idea Index

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Each year as part of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a distinguished jury panel awards a $100,000 prize to an idea which supports the development and implementation of a strategy with significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challange of Appalachia was John Todd’s winning idea in […]

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Tags: Arkitektur · Community · Design · Environment · Evolution · Mind · Strategy · Technology · Theory