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Swiss media executive Uli Sigg is one of the biggest collectors of contemporary Chinese art in history, but in a conversation today with The Art Newspaper’s Louisa Buck at the Frieze Art Fair in London, it became clear that Switzerland’s former ambassador to China is writing its history as well.

The New York-based Poster Boy collective, celebrated (particularly on Gawker)  for “remixing” those large, MTA subway advertisements by slicing them up and re-arranging their contents to humorous and often political effect, has moved its act aboveground -- to city billboards.

Doesn’t the Metropolitan Museum of Art know that the devil wears Prada? Or maybe that's the idea.

It’s October, officially National Arts and Humanities Month -- and that means it’s time for the annual presentation of Americans for the Arts National Art Awards, taking place as usual in the grand ballroom of Cipriani on 42nd Street in Manhattan, Oct. 17, 2011 and sponsored by some of the usual suspects: Wells Fargo, the Annenberg Foundation and the Broad Art Foundation.

Some nudes are nuder than others. The New York Academy of Art on Franklin Street in Tribeca is holding its annual Take Home a Nude art auction and party at Sotheby's New York on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011.

In the clutter of art magazines, Art Review is no more or less distinguished than any other of the fish-wrappers that come with glossy color pictures and earnest art-critical blah-blah.