2012-03-22T10:28:30-04:00 lifetype-1.2.10_r6971 http://www.pattaylorfineart.net/blog/rss.php?blogId=8151&profile=atom Copyright (c) tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-22:32715 2012-03-22T10:28:30-04:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/world/americas/mexican-art-project-puts-faces-on-crimes-toll.html?ref=world   Does looking into their faces change our behavior? Can it make us ...

Things to question http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/world/americas/mexican-art-project-puts-faces-on-crimes-toll.html?ref=world   Does looking into their faces change our behavior? Can it make us braver? More tolerant? Change our minds politically?    May I remind you of Tuol Sleng http://www.tuolsleng.com/ the photographic museum of Pol Pots deliberate massacre? Or the documentation of victims in the camps of the Nazi Holocaust?    Perhaps our sympathies are not so easy to engender. Perhaps they never have been.  tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-14:32515 2012-03-14T15:07:37-04:00

... (Original Post) An art evaluator can save you money and some embarrassment. The purchase of art for investment is tricky. I have authenticated a Warhol print bought for $200 and sold for ...

Things to question ... (Original Post) An art evaluator can save you money and some embarrassment. The purchase of art for investment is tricky. I have authenticated a Warhol print bought for $200 and sold for $7 thousand. I have had to inform clients that the artist whose work they were interested in purchases was probably laundening money for the mob.  A good art evaluator has a background in art history, including a knowledge of art techniques, research methods and the art market.  tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-13:32503 2012-03-13T12:29:55-04:00

... (Original Post)   The motives for collecting art vary widely. Gunter Sachs' collection for sale, expected to reap huge returns on his initial investment. 

General Stuff that I have an opinion about ... (Original Post)   The motives for collecting art vary widely. Gunter Sachs' collection for sale, expected to reap huge returns on his initial investment.  tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-12:32455 2012-03-12T12:38:23-04:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/world/americas/bernardo-pazs-inhotim-is-vast-garden-of-art.html?_r=1&hp   "For now, he seems more concerned with luring the masses to Inhotim to ...

Places you have to go http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/world/americas/bernardo-pazs-inhotim-is-vast-garden-of-art.html?_r=1&hp   "For now, he seems more concerned with luring the masses to Inhotim to see works like “Restore Now,” a mammoth send-up of academic norms by the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, in which texts by French philosophers like Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze (yes, the ones many people pretended to read in college) are interspersed with images of mutilated bodies."  At one point in my life I was married to an intelletual (See Man in Glasses, Unamused on my Website www.pattaylorfineart.net) and tried to read Derrida. It was impossible.  tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-10:32459 2012-03-10T15:03:01-05:00

"Anger mixed with contempt simmers silently in Iran, Syria or Turkey. It is rarely vented in the international arena, if only because internal political problems make it impossible. In some ...

Things to question "Anger mixed with contempt simmers silently in Iran, Syria or Turkey. It is rarely vented in the international arena, if only because internal political problems make it impossible. In some cases, corruption and the lack of individual freedom needed to expose outrage publicly facilitate the wrecking of monuments. It would take a very courageous man to stand up in Uzbekistan and shout that artifacts, including glazed tile revetments, are dispatched to Western auctions." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/arts/10iht-melikian10.html?pagewanted=2&src=recg   Ever wonder how the Ishtar Gate came to Berlin? We think of curators of museums, art historians (such as I) are above the nasty games of looting. Think again. The precious pages of religious texts, the Holy Qu'uran, the word of Allah as dictated to Muhammad ripped from their bindings and displayed as discreet "art objects" is purely criminal. tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-10:32457 2012-03-10T12:51:35-05:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/us/austin-proud-of-eccentricity-loses-a-favorite.html?ref=todayspaper   Keep Austin Weird is the rallying cry of this amazing city that is my home. ...

Influential Artists to Know http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/us/austin-proud-of-eccentricity-loses-a-favorite.html?ref=todayspaper   Keep Austin Weird is the rallying cry of this amazing city that is my home. Leslie Cochran, or just Leslie, rode around town on a bicycle with a small box dwelling attached, wearing a thong and high heels. He ran for Mayor several times.  There is another guy who rides a bike naked (except for a cup), but Leslie was special. Part con artist, part visionary...We all mourn him and anyone in Austin who doesn't isn't reallyl an Austinite.  tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-08:32413 2012-03-08T17:44:34-05:00

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/03/06/148037544/unmarked-ordinary-scenes-with-unsettling-stories   I had the privilege of studying with Garry Winogrand at The University of ...

General Stuff that I have an opinion about http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/03/06/148037544/unmarked-ordinary-scenes-with-unsettling-stories   I had the privilege of studying with Garry Winogrand at The University of Texas at Austin. Our crtiques were hardcore events: all of us baby-faced students standing around chainsmoking and trying to look tough. We were all doing the street photography that Garry was such a fantastic example of. He made us look and look and look at the history of photography, so we knew about Atget and Cartier-Bresson long before it was fashionable. Garry would stride back and forth in front of the board where our black and white pictures were tacked up. The world according to Garry: If it's not in the picture, it's not in the picture. If it is in the picture, it only exists in the picture. He was the living embodiment of "The Intentional Fallacy. We couldn't talk about the context of the event, we couldn't say what we "meant" to do or what the image "meant" to us. As Garry would growl, "if it's in the work, it's in the work." That is what I find so troubling about this series of images. Without the identification of the series, would there be anything untoward about these scenes. Could one not--as in the work of Cindy Sherman--simply fabricate a scene and a back-story?   I'm with Garry on this: If it's not in the work, it's not in the work.   tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-08:32407 2012-03-08T17:09:19-05:00

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/08/148225343/with-cutbacks-greeks-say-antiquities-are-at-risk   The Greek sites were under-protected two decades ago because the government was poor. Now ...

General Stuff that I have an opinion about Places you have to go http://www.npr.org/2012/03/08/148225343/with-cutbacks-greeks-say-antiquities-are-at-risk   The Greek sites were under-protected two decades ago because the government was poor. Now horrendous austerity measures are resulting in wholesale looting of the heritage of Mycenean and Greek cultural riches. Support the Greeks by traveling to Greece! tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-03-07:32393 2012-03-07T19:12:15-05:00

http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/231900287?cid=SBX_iwk_related_commentary_Macintosh&itc=SBX_iwk_related_commentary_Macintosh   "Good enough" is not good ...

Influential Artists to Know http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/231900287?cid=SBX_iwk_related_commentary_Macintosh&itc=SBX_iwk_related_commentary_Macintosh   "Good enough" is not good enough. tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-08-21:22201 2011-08-21T12:06:59-04:00

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