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Art World Abstracts: We’re Finally Getting a Memoir From Marina Abramovic,...

It's a wonder this hasn't come sooner, but now here we are—Marina Abramovic shall write a lengthy memoir, and it's a good bet she will be paid handsomely to do so. It's said it will "chronicle her...

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Art World Abstracts: A Peek Inside Jeff Koons’ Stone-Cutting Facility, and More!

What's ol' Koonsy up to at that crazy-big space he developed in rural Pennsylvania? Oh, just developing "new bodies of work" in “the most advanced stone fabrication operation in the world.” The robots...

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Art World Abstracts: Armory Show Roundups, Facebook Bans Jerry Saltz, and More!

As you may be aware at this point, it's Armory Week in New York City. And that means we're seeing wall-to-wall coverage of the fair and its related hubbub. So here's a nice interview with Noah...

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Art World Abstracts: Looking Back at Armory Week, Details About Venice, and...

The main meal of Armory Week has been served and consumed, and now it's time for dessert: Roberta Smith's review of "Bjork" at MoMA. It manages the tightrope walk of being very kind to Bjork and...

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Art World Abstracts: Brands Have Basically Taken Over Everything, and More!

Do you remember that time at Art Basel—whether it be in Miami, or Hong Kong, or Basel—when someone started handing out Davidoff cigars? I remember pretty much precisely. It was at a party for Gladstone...

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Art World Abstracts: Facebook’s Censorship Network Targets Nude Paintings,...

A few days back, a Paris court ruled that a a man in Paris could, in fact, sue Facebook for censoring their posts—in this case, a post that shared an image of L'Origine du Monde by Gustave Courbet. And...

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Art World Abstracts: The War on Selfie Sticks Reaches Europe’s Museums, and...

Thinking of spending a nice day taking selfies with a selfie stick at the National Gallery in London, or the Palace of Versailles in Paris? Think again! Selfie sticks are banned from the storied...

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Art World Abstracts: Art Institute of Chicago to Give Degree to Kanye West,...

Kanye West is the most important cultural force alive, so it's understandable that the art school from which he dropped out, the Art Institute of Chicago, would give him an honorary doctorate. We all...

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Art World Abstracts: London’s National Gallery Taps Director Amid Strikes,...

Months after current director Nicholas Penny announced that he would step down this summer, the National Gallery in London has found a new director in Gabriele Finaldi, currently the deputy director at...

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Art World Abstracts: Drake to Soundtrack a Show at Sotheby’s, and More!

Started from the bottom, now he's here... at Sotheby's. Drake—the world-conquering rapper who recently recounted his problems with demands for wifi passwords and the plight of being sent too many boxes...

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Art World Abstracts: A Lichtenstein to Go for $50 Million at Sotheby’s, and...

A wonderful Lichtenstein—The Ring (Engagement)—is expected to go for $50 million at Sotheby's during the spring auctions. But it could also go for, you know, a lot more than $50 million.

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Art World Abstracts: The Tale Behind David Geffen’s Gift to Lincoln Center,...

David Geffen—who is most certainly the only billionaire to do business with both Bill Clinton and Kurt Cobain—wanted to give away $100 million. Yay! But, well, he could have presumably given that $100...

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Art World Abstracts: Larry Gagosian’s Kappo Masa Is a Hit Despite Itself, and...

Vera Wang, Derek Blasberg, George Clooney, Robin Wright, Martha Stewart, Karlie Kloss, Naomi Campbell, Lauren Santo Domingo, Irina Shayk, Jason Schwartzman—they have all become regulars at Kappo Masa,...

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Art World Abstracts: The Kids Are Getting Naked for a James Turrell Show, and...

Things are often much more fun if everybody's naked. Like, take skinny dipping. That's a good thing! Normal swimming is boring. But that doesn't exactly mean that one must go to art shows topless and...

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Art World Abstracts: Why a Sports-Minded Harvard MBA Now Runs Sotheby’s, and...

In what may be a very telling look into the future of one of the world's biggest auction houses, this article about Sotheby's mentions not a single artwork or artist. There are no references to...

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