Kellesimone Waits @ Frank Pictures

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Kellesimone Waits: Power Plays
November 7, 2009 - January 2, 2010
Frank Pictures

guess who wants to learn to paint...

"...'You know, in all my years of interviews, no one has asked me about my artistic skills,' he said, excitedly, still clutching our hand. (He held it for like a MINUTE. We died.) 'They saved all my doodles from the White House. I do know that,' he added. 'I used to doodle during all the White House meetings and someone thought they were worth saving. Maybe they weren’t bad!...'"
NY mag /daily intel

in the news

Prop 8 in the Culver (LA) art news....

and:

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) –– Eli Broad and fashion designer Valentino were among the collectors who converged on Sotheby's in New York last night to pick through big-name contemporary art at discount prices.``It's a half-price sale,'' said Broad, a 75-year-old billionaire who predicted for years that prices would fall. ``Things are a little more reasonable.'' Broad snagged Ed Ruscha's 1969 mustard-hued ``Desire'' for $2.4 million, 40 percent under the $4 million low estimate...

Broad gave paddle No. 434 a workout, buying a large orange Donald Judd aluminum and Plexiglas sculpture for $1.1 million and a small Robert Rauschenberg painting for $2.6 million. For the Broad Art Foundation, he bought Ruscha's ``Desire'' and a gaudy Jeff Koons sculpture for $2.2 million...

Christie's holds its contemporary auction tonight, featuring Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard S. Fuld Jr.'s drawing collection, estimated to bring in about $20 million. Works by younger artists go under the hammer on Nov. 13 at Phillips de Pury & Co...

Desire, 1969
oil on canvas
60 H x 55 W (inches)

peyton + michelle @ new museum

from vulture ...Due to the results of last night's election, Elizabeth Peyton's new painting Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008 has, as predicted, joined the 104 other works in her current retrospective at New Museum.

a day of transferring patriotism

(click image)

looking for some political art for the day?

OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding @ Parsons ny


...and if you are la, this is coming to REDCAT gallery in a couple weeks:

9 Scripts from a Nation at War
Opening reception: Friday, November 21, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Palin and the arts (from artnet)

and also if you are in ny and a woman and have a career in the arts

Obama and the arts

please read (click page)

obama home

McCain and the arts: yikes

thought this was definitely worth posting from winkleman's site (good reporting):

List of budgetary spending priorities

McCain would “maintain status” on spending for:
• AIDS programs
• Environmental programs
• Foreign aid
• Housing projects
• Job training programs
• Medicaid & Medicare
• Student loan programs

McCain would “slightly increase” spending for:
• Education (K-12)
• Law enforcement
• Military & Veterans Benefits
• Border Control

McCain would “slightly decrease” spending for:
• NASA
• Welfare

McCain would eliminate spending for:
• Arts funding