Ceci n'est pas un Stella.
Not a Stella (photo by Steve Marcus for the Las Vegas Sun). I have two reviews in the pipelines working their way to your eager eyes but in the meantime I couldn't pass up this story. ARTINFO reports on a story from the Las Vegas Sun: There's a painting up near the bathrooms in a building of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas which e

Offense Against Taste and Language
Clearly a professionally written Website. Proofreading courtesy Yours Truly. So Associated Press, always on the job, reports that beloved British artist Damien Hirst has a show, No Love Lost, opening at the the Wallace Collection tomorrow (Wednesday, October 14, 2009). I'd like to set aside several t

Popping Pop Art
Venus of Willendorf, 24,000 BC It's extremely difficult now to imagine a world in which popular culture is ephemeral. The blossoming of the Internet and its overlay, the World Wide Web, has effectively granted most people access to almost the entirety of human history and culture. Some kind of record of almost every artifact, from 160,000-year-old stone tools right up to Takashi Murakami's latest plastic ejaculatory sculpture, is available in moments.

Stuckists Rule, Tate Drools
The Stuckists Badge Artinfo reports that the Stuckists showed up at the Tate denouncing the Turner Prize. I don't know much about the Stuckists except that their L.A. contingent's Website sends a lot of traffic to my post on John Currin. Looking them up again I find the original Stuckist manifesto and I find, much to my surprise, that I agree with them. "Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists"? Hell yeah!

Richard Prince Sucks
Richard Prince's cowboy crap Associated Press reports that the Tate Modern has shut down an exhibit of Richard Prince's Spiritual America which includes a photo of a photo of a nude ten-year-old Brooke Shields. Never mind that this image of Prince's is about thirty years old. Never mind that it's a photo of a photo. And never mind that a quick Google search will turn it up. In fact,