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Comora Tolliver

Britton Tolliver

unsexy thoughts

"It always was about sex, not money," she said. "Sex was what held me in bed and got me out of it again in the morning. But now it's fading fast. I don't have the same craziness about sex that I had – I'm more interested in ideas." Tracy Emin///Sex craze fading fast, says Tracey Emin at London exhibition launch: guardian.co.uk

don't be soooo depressed

...As many undergraduates fret about graduation, at least one subculture of students in the expensive college landscape is exuding a decidedly morose state of mind: art students. Like many undergrads seeking specialized humanities degrees, student artists wonder what viable place they can occupy in a tightening economy, which now is luring young people into more stable careers in government, the sciences, health care or consulting...
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Richard Freeman, a Harvard professor and National Bureau of Economic Research director, said young artists can take comfort: Young bankers are almost on par with them in choosing risky careers. Freeman, though, is hopeful for humanities majors. "If you think of a place like McKinsey consulting, and you come with an art degree, they may prefer you because they're looking for creative thinkers," he said...
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...And some offer positions that seem to exploit young people's desperation to gain a foothold in a creative industry. "The one thing I am dealing with is that paid internships are not paid anymore," Ammadi said. "Employers ask, 'Can we get students to volunteer?'...
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In one of her recent photo classes, Nizborski was showing classmates and the professors a project titled "Middle American Recession," a series of images of her sister, her sister's husband and their three kids in Missouri. Nizborski's sister works part time and the brother-in-law had been forced to cut back his weekly hours at a job at a concrete plant. Nizborski said her photo subjects seemed a bit baffled by her path. "They were like, 'What do you go to grad school for?'"///Art Students' Predicament: Special Skills but Limited Prospects, Ian Shapira/// Washington Post

Twitter report: "just saw" _______ artist

AndrewGauthier: Standing behind Chuck Close at the Whole Foods meat counter is weird.

MissPainterly: Saw Tracy Emin today, Cavendish Sq. Ive made huge life decisions on the back of her words, so much to say to her,but I walked on by & smiled

smiledannapamela: Just met dash snow and his baby mama.

jcapDesign: Saw Dash Snow and Terry Richardson, just handing out, in Nolita on Saturday afternoon.

"I Think I am Seeing Things"

Jacob Feige
After Dense Fog, November 20 - January 10 @ lombard-freid

Andrew Guenther
Looking for Culture Part III: Back to My Old Ways, November 22,2008 - January 10, 2009 @ freight and volume

Charlie White
Teen Idols #4 16 X 20 inches, Teen Idols #2 16 X 20 inches
(as seen on iheartphoto)

Artlog interviews Terence Koh

What brought you to art or what brought art to you?

Koh: one is born an artist. whether you choose to accept this path of torture is completely up to yourself. the path of an artist is pure torture because you have complete freedom. its not limited by the constraints of the body like dance or fashion, the barrier of language in poetry. art is infinite. and i am a universe unto myself.

interview: artlog, photo: asianpunkboy

Get the women back in the kitchen, Mark Leckey wins the prize

Of course, the guy has to win it ("it" being the Turner Prize)...

In Leckey’s case, he admits that he’d like to have more exposure in Britain (he shows a lot in mainland Europe, but rarely in the UK), but he’s not interested in commercial gallery or museum exhibitions. ‘I want a TV show’ he said last night. ‘I want to do an art variety programme… like The Two Ronnies, but with art’. ‘Wow’, was the best the astonished interviewer could manage.

behind the scenes with Cindy

TimeOutNY: You switched over to a digital process for your last series of works, self-portraits dressed as different clowns, which was shown in 2004.What was that like for you? Initially, when I was doing the clowns, I barely knew how to use Photoshop. It’s a whole other learning process of “How do I do this and still make it look like a photograph, but not really?” The process of shooting digitally completely changed my way of working, because I can just see things instantly on the computer. In the past, I would shoot, like, one or two rolls of film, and then have to take off the makeup and the wig and the costume, and bring the film to the lab, and then wait, like, two or three hours, pick up the film, and then sometimes I’d have to reshoot everything! It’s totally changed stuff. I mean, one unfortunate side effect is that I tend to work really late into the night because I just keep going, I’ve come so far and I am so close! And so I’ll just keep shooting and shooting. But it’s really fun; I love it. more here

I find it fun to picture Cindy trying to learn Photoshop and digital photography in '04! I am not dissing the lady...it just paints a silly portrait, no pun intended.

artist dwelling

rita ackermann


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sarah sze


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mary heilmann

story via nytimes magazine - artful lodgers

Openings LA: Rachel Whiteread @ Gagosian

Gagosian Gallery LA