Must-read Articles

NYTimes “Art Awards and Irony at the Guggenheim”
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/art-awards-and-irony-at-the-guggenheim/

"Is the art world ready for its Oscar moment? Its Golden Globes, maybe. No one thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Guggenheim Museum’s First Annual Art Awards on Thursday night, but the evening was marked by tipsiness, table-hopping and an amiable, clubby ambiance, and felt more like a low-key dinner..."


The New Yorker “Screen Test”
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/11/02/091102ta_talk_taylor

"The conceptual artist Rob Pruitt was sitting in a downstairs room at the Guggenheim Museum the other day, listing all the things he likes about the Oscars. “I love all the conventions: the red-carpet aspect, and the speeches, and the cameras catching the expressions of the people that didn’t win,” he said..."

 
NYTimes on the Frieze Art Fair (slide show)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/10/16/arts/20091017-frieze-slideshow_index.html?ref=design
 

NYMag “Is This a Michelangelo?”
http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/60279/

"The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Young Archer is a marble Renaissance youth with an amazing backstory: Thirteen years ago, it was declared by NYU’s Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt to be an early work of Michelangelo himself..."
 

NYMag “Fall 2009 Gallery Tour” (slide show)
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/10/video_jerry_saltzs_fall_2009_g.html

 
The New Yorker on Arshile Gorky
http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/11/02/091102_audioslideshow_gorky

"This week in the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Arshile Gorky retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In this audio slide show, Schjeldahl talks about the mysterious and tragic life of Gorky, one of his favorite twentieth-century painters, and analyzes several of his major works..."

 
The New Yorker on Irving Penn (slide show)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2009/10/19/slideshow_091019_irvingpenn
 

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