Chinese farmers’ art works on display
Chinese farmers’ art works on display

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Clockwise from top left: Shi Xinning’s “Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition” (2000-2001), Wang Guangyi’s “Chanel” (2005), Yue Minjun’s “Untitled” (1998), Zhang Huan’s “Family Tree” (2000)

Postcards from Nowhere
It is the artists, and a certain line of thinking about art, that have given the people with the cash permission to buy and sell what amounts to nothing, and to do so for ever larger and more insane sums of money. All this sensational commerce is fueled by the anti-aesthetics that were born nearly a century ago among the Dadaists, and have by now morphed into the laissez-faire aesthetics that give collectors sanction to regard one of Jeff Koons’s stainless-steel balloon animals as simultaneously a camp joke and a modern equivalent of a Tang dynasty horse. (A critic in The New York Times described one of these glistening metal doggies, currently on display on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as a “masterpiece.”) The artists involved–beginning with Duchamp and including Rauschenberg, Warhol, Salle, and Koons–celebrate, or toy with, a number of apparently contradictory thoughts: that art is nothing; that art can be anything; that randomness and order are the same thing; that art has no particular place in the world; that art can be found anyplace in the world; that art is just another commercial product, like tennis balls and washing machines.

IGo here for the full story: nside Art - Van Gogh’s Fascination With the Night Sky - NYTimes.com
“The Starry Night,” van Gogh’s hypnotic canvas from 1889, is one of the Museum of Modern Art’s most popular paintings, attracting thousands of visitors every year since it entered the collection in 1941.

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TheStar.com | Canada | Record prices for Canadian art
Paintings by renowned Canadian artists net record prices at Heffel auction

Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82 - New York Times
Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82

George Lois, the Man Behind Esquire Magazine’s Most Famous Covers, Gets His Own Show at MoMA - New York Times
GEORGE LOIS, one of the most influential admen of his generation, is the sort of person who has a dozen brainstorms an hour, at least half of them good and only a few really harebrained. Among the better ones were the early Xerox commercials showing a chimpanzee deftly operating a photocopier, the “Think small” ads for Volkswagen and the “I want my MTV” campaign. He also dreamed up Lean Cuisine and the “I want my Maypo” slogan.

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