Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday NEWS and LINKS
If you happen to be in Whittier, CA, check out the opening of Stas Orlovski's Nocturnes tonight at Rio Hondo College. There will be a reception and an artist talk tonight at 7pm. The show will be on view through November 18.Tough times for the Chelsea Art Museum.
Socialites as curators. Interesting topic: what does it mean these days to be a curator? Has that job title shifted in meaning? The article describes Restoin-Roitfeld as "part dealer, part gallery-owner and part party-host", and yet none of those three titles accurately describes the job of a curator.
Kanye West: yet another attempt at being controversial.
The Artist Pension Trust (this article is from May 2010, but it's worth a read if you're not up to date on exactly what the Pension Trust is)--thought I'd mention it today since someone asked me about APT this morning. Interesting to note: "Around 110 individual investors support the fund. Shareholders in APT's parent company MutualArt, they each gave an eight-year commitment to fund APT's operations..." and the fund is now in it's seventh year. What happens after this eight year commitment is up?
Stolen Holocaust Art Database!
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