December 2010
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"My Jerry Saltz Problem" by James Panero →
An astounding piece of analysis on the Jerry Saltz “artStar” phenomenon.. A must-read for anyone at all interested in how the internet is currently contributing to the de-materialization of art, facilitated by scum hack sell-outs like Saltz, who distort and debase art and promote its devaluation dimensionally across me.dia, while benefiting personally in the SUCK art topology. In...
February 2010
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Appendix 1: Iron Checkbook Shapes Cultural Los... →
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: February 7, 2010
LOS ANGELES — Every American city has its power brokers, but only Los Angeles has an Eli Broad.
Mr. Broad dominates the arts here with a force that has no parallel in any major city. Los Angeles would literally not look the same had Mr. Broad not chosen it as his home 40 years ago, and his business-focused method of managing his giving has...
January 2010
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Part 6
> PJM: Is that the last box, Milo? MILO: No, but close enough. I’ll toss the rest on top. Let’s take a break and have a cuppa. PJM: Sounds good. PJM: So, what’ll you do? MILO: Same as last time. Head to the mountains. PJM: Any sage advice? MILO: Zeelio was right, when he said, “Remember poetry.” Even in wartime, the humanity of the fighter must be spared. I once...
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What a surprise > Jerry Saltz: ARTSTAR DEATH...
CREDIT: Artnet News
Jan. 19, 2010
REALITY TV MEETS CONTEMPORARY ART Is the contemporary art scene truly ready for its “Project Runway” moment? Because it’s on the horizon, as the Bravo cable network prepares to air Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” beginning in June 2010. It seems quite likely that the wide television exposure...
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“Deitch has always reveled in the idea that there’s no difference between...”
– Jerry Saltz on Deitch > & how does this prepare JD to run MoCA?
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The best anti-recommendation on Earth for JD →
If Saltz recommends Deitch, what more could a city need for termination-justification? MILO sez: Shitcan Deitch immediately and stop the bleeding!
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Part 5
> [The mood is melancholy.] ZEELIO: Well, I guess that’s it, then. MILO: Let’s wrap this up. I’ve put my place on the market, and am leaving next week. PJM: “The Court has recognized that the First Amendment applies to corporations…” V: I can hardly talk. TR: — MILO: All our discourse on the selection of anti-art expert Deitch to MoCA is now moot....
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‘Art Star’ Vanessa Beecroft: Slammed at Sundance →
Vanessa Beecroft had better prepare for some serious damage control, since director Pietra Brettkelly’s documentary on Beecroft, The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins, opens at Sundance tonight. The doc cluster-bombs her faddish fascination with Sudanese orphans and paints Beecroft as a hypocritically self-aware, colossally colonial pomo narcissist. The film is brutally effective because it...
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The Deitch Vision! →
April 12, 1997 — April 26, 1997 76 Grand Street, New York I Bite America and America Bites Me was the first American exhibition of the work of the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik. Arriving in New York from Moscow, not as a man but rather as a dog, Kulik spent his two-week visit to New York as a dog, living in a heavily secured dog house in the gallery. Visitors to the gallery were...
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PART FOUR
“Pioneering don’t pay.” - Andrew Carnegie
» Being on TV is not my natural state. Some revel in it; I most enjoy working behind the scenes—the producer/director role, not the actor role, although I did get used to it. «
[Deitch, ARTINFO] ZEELIO: What about Robber Barons? Have there been any great Hollywood films about Robber Barons? PJM: Lots and lots of ‘em. ...
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WatchARTSTAR: Season 2
ArtStar ON-AIR PROMO» Reality Show Contestant Biography: Travis, Artist
Primarily using materials of corporal quality, my work explores the transitory nature of existence. Sculptures slowly disintegrate and require replenishing to “live” on. Videos capture the transformation of individuals into a mob collective. Portraits are collections of fragments and stray marks that are...
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MOST VALUABLE ART IN PRIVATE HANDS →
by G. Fernández - theartwolf.com [Created: May 2008. Last updated: December 2009]
Not all the Art masterworks are exhibited in the great museums of the world. Some of them belong to private Art collectors, one of the most expensive and exclusive “hobbies” reserved only to billionaires. This list highlights the most valuable paintings still in private hands, divided in three categories...
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WatchArtforum at The New School - Art and Money
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Partner:New School Location:The New School New York, NY Event Date:04.14.08 Speakers:Amy Cappellazzo,Thomas Crow,Jeffrey Deitch,Tim Griffin,Kathy Halbreich,Yinka ShonibareSummary The event is moderated by Tim Griffin, Editor of Artforum. Panelists include: Amy Cappellazzo, Co-Head, Christie’s Contemporary Art; Thomas Crow, Rosalie...
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Part Three
“The art world is all about money, power and sex.” Mihai Nicodim >
» ARTINFO: What about using the Internet to get discovered? DEITCH: I’m sure the Internet’s impact is coming, but I’m not really using it to look [for new artists]. It’s inevitable, though, that there’ll be some sort of good art version of MySpace. «
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» Because people cannot go into the...
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WatchAs we were saying… [See Part Two]
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Wanna Be a TV Art Star? [comments are must-see] →
[FECAL FACE]
Written by Trippe Friday, 10 July 2009
The cable TV station Bravo is putting together an art reality show and are putting out a casting call. Could be funny/ good/ stupid/ whatever. Why no San Francisco casting call??! - “an hour-long creative competition series among aspiring contemporary artists who will create and compete to conquer the art...
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ARTSTAR by Paul McLean [Part Two]
» 2. The essential economics of motion pictures … 2.1 Nobody knows I still like the way the fundamental property of the movies was put by a wise District Court Judge (whose smart decision was overturned by the Supreme Court). »> Moving picture films are a fluctuating and uncertain product. Until a film has been exhibited no one knows or can accurately estimate its value as a...
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JEFFREY DEITCH, A MAN FOR ALL PARTIES - Carol Kino →
For a more thorough portrait of Deitch, than has generally emerged in the fluffer stuff obfuscating the discussion, promulgated by the likes of some access-craving flacks at the major “news” outlets.
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Deitch & MOCA: What we've (all) learned so far →
…MOCA hired New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch to be its next director. (He officially starts the job on June 1.) It only took until Tuesday afternoon for some of the difficulties in hiring an art dealer to run a museum to become clear. [MODERN ART NOTES, Tyler Green]
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“DEITCH: We also want to work with people who are fun and capable of getting...”
– ARTINFO/DEITCH i/v, 2006
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“ARTINFO: Talk about the intended audience for the program—who they are and what...”
– ARTINFO/DEITCH i/v, 2006
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The ARTINFO Deitch ArtStar Interview →
By Bryant Rousseau
Published: July 18, 2006
NEW YORK—Within the art world, Jeffrey Deitch is one of the best known and mostly instantly recognizable gallery owners. But this summer, Deitch’s celebrity is expanding beyond the streets of Soho and Chelsea, thanks to his role as host of the first visual arts reality television show, ArtStar, whose eight episodes are airing through the end of this...
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WHO NEEDS INDIVIDUAL ARTIST NEA GRANTS??! →
LOS ANGELES, CA.- United States Artists (USA), the national grant-making and advocacy organization, announced the recipients of 50 USA Fellowships for 2009, totaling $2.5 million, at a celebration at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. This event marks the fourth consecutive year of the USA Fellows program, which annually awards fifty unrestricted grants of $50,000 to artists of all disciplines from...
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[Part One]
ARTSTAR by Paul McLean [Part One]
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WHO IS JEFFREY DEITCH, AND WHY WAS HE APPOINTED TO RUN MoCA in LA?
PJM: Hi, everybody. Welcome back, and happy Martin Luther King Day.
ALL: Happy MLK Day!
PJM: I re-convened our panel to confront the issue of Jeffrey Deitch’s hiring to the leadership slot of Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. Over the past year we’ve on several occasions...