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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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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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The winner of 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge was announced yesterday. Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand Systems (SPM/MoD) was submitted by Smart Cities Group an interdisciplinary team of students at MIT. The June 6th ceremony will be part of a weekend long celebration in Chicago where the $100,000 prize will be presented to the winners . […]

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A month ago Evan Mirapaul, the contemporary art collector and founder of Elements Quartet, pulled off a gracious last minute appearance in a revealing Artist Dialogue with brilliant librarian and artist Deirdre Donohue. He was ecstatically enthusiastic as he showed us his copy of The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel. National Library Week (April […]

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Over the past seven or eight years the contemporary art market has had an unprecedented rise in activities and prices. The irony is that if we were to look through the auction catalogues of contemporary art from fifteen or twenty years ago we will recognize works by artists who have lost their place in the […]

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