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"Why do journalists write the same six generic stories about art over and over again?": record-breaking prices, graffiti, lost works rediscovered, plaigarism, sensationalist discoveries, restoration. To which we might add #7 today's art is crap isn't it.
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"I like to get back and refurbish all works, to keep them in perfect condition. That way, they don't start to look shabby and neglected [...] It's funny how people worry about paintings fading, when artists' careers can fade even faster"
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Bryan Boyer's architectural thesis research blog. Looks interesting!
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tv stills from Adam West-era Batman plus captions. Or: "lolbats", as we might have knowingly said this summer.
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"forget the sensitivity, the beauty, the being good. Hirst's art cannot be called "good" but it can be called great. It is ugly and brutal and true and far more modest than anything else here. You want genius? He's a genius." (I do love Jones's writing)
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Was very good (and I say that as someone who can only parse menus by scanning for meat words).
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"Strand has built scores of imaginary reading rooms, from the prison library in Oz to the Barnes & Noble clone in You’ve Got Mail. [...] furnished each floor in the Library Hotel with a different Dewey decimal category"
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"the plot wasn't there until I finished the book, probably [...] It began with this plane crash [...] All those things had to be uncovered or unearthed"
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The North Pacific Gyre - largest landfill site globally? (albeit completely inadvertent). See also Alan Wesiman's book.