Munich’s Goetz Collection will be a few Richard Princes and Christopher Wools light come the middle of February. Christie’s London announced on Tuesday that Germany’s largest art collection has consigned 128 artworks for the Post-War and Contemporary Art auctions on February 13-14 and April 17. (more…)
Larry Gagosian’s power might be waning (maybe), but the mystery surrounding the infamously press-shy dealer is as appealing as ever — particularly as he fights numerous of legal battles and faces almost a full stable of defecting artists. Eric Konigsburg published a lengthy, in-depth look into the life and career of the art world’s most dominant dealer in New York Magazine this weekend, which will appear in the January 28 print issue. (more…)
Whereas last week Richard Prince took to his blog Birdtalk to unleash a chirping tirade of anti-ARTINFO vitriol, this week finds the appropriation artist feeling more reflexive and thoughtful, particularly as he recalls early encounters with Jack Goldstein — currently showing at Adam Lindemann’s gallery Venus Over Manhattan — Lawrence Weiner, and Carl Andre. True to form, he also throws in a couple of impenetrable riddles — at least one of which quotes one of his joke paintings — and in the midst of a long story about Andre mentions that “he hit on my girlfriend.” (more…)
After taking a hiatus during Hurricane Sandy, Richard Prince got back to blogging this week, with a vengeance. Foremost among his concerns is ARTINFO, to which — though he’s not sure if it’s singular or plural, nor exactly what it is (for the record ARTINFO is a website, and is singular) — he sent “a huge FUCK YOU,” in his most recent post. He also claims that he had the idea for Twitter in 1990, but that it was “appropriated” by the social media company, and invites both ARTINFO reporter Judd Tully and GalleristNY editor Andrew Russeth to appear on his television program, “Who Gives a Shit?” Evidently, there’s a great deal to parse this week. (more…)
In last night’s U.S. presidential election incumbent Barack Obama prevailed, much to the delight of many observers in the art world — whose stakes in this year’s contest were especially high — who immediately took to Twitter to express their delight (and, in one case, unease) at the outcome. See some of ARTINFO’s favorite responses to last night’s election below. (more…)
This week we continued to survey the personal blog of appropriation, Pop artist, and budding soft drink mogul Richard Prince, and while he wasn’t as prolific as last week, he did manage to deflect a rumor that he’d painted an image of a topless Kate Middleton on a pumpkin, rock out at a Crosby, Stills, and Nash concert, and attend Dan Colen’s celebrity-filled book launch. (more…)
While looking for more information on the baffling news that Richard Prince has launched a drink called Lemon Fizz with canned iced tea giant AriZona, we happened upon the photographer, painter, and appropriation artist’s blog and noticed that he’s been very active lately, and is writing some fairly provocative things. Thus this weekly feature was born, in which we will present to you Richard Prince’s best blogging moments from the past week every Friday. (more…)
FAIR-USE WARS: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced that it has filed an amicus brief in New York urging a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court ruling that found that artist Richard Prince’s “Canal Zone” series of appropriated photographs infringed upon the copyright protection of the original photographer, Patrick Cariou.
