Everyone already knows that yBa artist Sarah Morris -- celebrated for brightly colored abstractions that are part early Frank Stella, part Larry Zox, and that have sold for more than $160,000 at auction -- is an appropriation artist.
The highly anticipated performance by multimedia artist Rashaad Newsome, set for Saturday midnight, May 7, 2011, was to involve the artist being knighted as "king of arms," a heraldry ritual that Newsome had traveled to London to study.
The Whitney Museum has slated the groundbreaking ceremony for its monster new Meatpacking District headquarters for May 24, 2011. But that's just shovels in the ground.
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, home to a vast collection of Renaissance masterpieces by Giotto, Leonardo, Raphaeland just about every other artist of note, is catching up to the contemporary art world.
The New York Times took a half-hearted potshot at hedge-fund billionaire and super-collector Steven A. Cohen in "Business Day" section last Saturday, penning a story with a lead noting that the "once-secretive" Cohen "is suddenly everywhere."
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