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PHOTOS: Marilyn Minters Paintings Up Close

Posted 12.20.2011

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Straddling the tasty and tasteless, glamorous and grotesque, Marilyn Minter's hyper-saturated (in every sense of the word) paintings are like a ...

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Francis Bacon Painting Sells For $28.7M

AP | Posted 08.29.2011

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LONDON -- Christie's auction house says a painting by Francis Bacon has sold for 17.96 million pounds ($28.7 million) at a sale in London. Christie's...

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STREET ART: Ben Wilson's Chewing Gum Paintings, On Kuriositas

Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanks to Kuriositas, our curiosity was momentarily quenched when they revealed a unique kind of street art. Imagine walking down the street and all ...

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A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist's Model: My Sessions With Don Bachardy

Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lisa Adams

Out of the blue I was contacted by the model booking agent for Don Bachardy, to sit for none other than the venerable portrait master himself--a man w...

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Bravo TV And Sarah Jessica Parker Launch "Work of Art": An Art Reality Show

Noah Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Noah Becker

The fact that Jerry Saltz is involved in Sarah Jessica Parker's new Bravo reality TV gives it added credibility. Here are my suggestions for realistic art world challenges.

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Art Writers Writing About Art Writers Need To Focus More On The Art

Noah Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Noah Becker

Why does it seem like more writing is about ego clashing than about what we should all be here to do -- write about or talk about the actual contemporary art in question.

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