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CRITICS' PICKS, OPENINGS, YOUR VIDEOS, YOUR BLOGS

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Editor: Rebecca Wilson
Deputy Editor: Constance Gounod
News: Anthony Haden-Guest
New York: Jerry Saltz  Doug McClemont  Morgan Falconer
London:   Matthew Collings Rebecca Geldard
Los Angeles: Catherine Taft
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Hong Kong: Kate Cary Evans
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TODAY'S FEATURED VIDEO

FRANCIS UPRITCHARD: THE NEW ZEALAND PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

Co-curator of the New Zealand Pavilion Heather Galbraith discusses the work of Francis Upritchard whose installation 'Save Yourself' is on view at the Fondazione Claudio Buziol. This video is supplied by Creative New Zealand, and filmed by BlueBach Productions.

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JULY 04, 2009

BITCH IS THE NEW BLACK AT HONOR FRASER, LA

Honor Fraser's annual summer group show has been curaed by Emma Gray and spotlights 14 Los Angeles-based women who are all emerging or established artists from roughly the same generation and are bright lights on the local scene. All share a certain maverick outlook and ballsy attitude that distinguishes them at a time when their male counterparts ...read more...


SAATCHI ONLINE TOP 10 CHOSEN BY VICTORIA CHAINE MENDRZYK

Ten artists working with geometrical abstraction registered on Saatchi Online chosen by Victoria Chaine Mendryzk, a freelance writer currently living and working in London.

Manvendra BegerhottaManvendra Begerhotta
Melissa EdeMelissa Ede
Rj KissRj Kiss
bongtae 봉태 김 kimbongtae 봉태 김 kim
Jeff HudsonJeff Hudson
                  Mais Mais
Elizabeth CookeElizabeth Cooke
Emil SinaEmil Sina
Doug FrohmanDoug Frohman
Robert MarsdenRobert Marsden
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THIS WEEK'S OPENINGS AROUND THE WORLD

This week sees the opening of a show of recent work by Jeff Koons at London’s Serpentine Gallery, as well as shows for Jeff McMillan, also in London, Lyndall Phelps in Milton Keynes and Silke Otto Knapp in Oxford. Elsewhere, there are outings for painter Chris Vasell in Los Angeles, Hannah Cole and Tanya Traboulsi in New York, and a two-hander fo...read more...

 

July 03, 2009

JERRY SALTZ ON NO SOUL FOR SALE, NEW YORK

This week at No Soul for Sale, a makeshift four-day art fair, I caught an enticing, exciting glimpse of one of the ways the near future may look. The intrepid X-initiative, housed for the next nine months in the former Dia building on West 22nd Street, is staging what it calls an exercise in "radical hospitality," inviting more than 30 respected no...read more...


THIS WEEK'S NEWS ROUND-UP

Ai Weiwei calls for an internet boycott; the choreographer Pina Bausch dies; Sarah Jessica Parker's art TV series goes into production; Haunch of Venison closes its Zurich gallery; Heathrow's Terminal 5 is set to become an art gallery; plus a report on the recent contemporary art sales in London.

July 02, 2009

SHANE HOPE AT WINKLEMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK

For his first solo show, entitled 'Your Mom Is Open Source', New York-based artist Shane Hope presents his latest suite of Molecular Modeling prints ("Mol Mods") and "Compile-a-Child" drawings in which he collapses possible futures like technoprogressive child's play.


MURMUR ART AT SELFRIDGES, LONDON

murmurART, a pioneering new platform working with emerging artists at the outset of their careers, launches this summer with a pop-up exhibition at Selfridges. Conrad Shawcross, Tracey Emin, Kirsty Wark, Tim Marlow, Kay Saatchi, Anita Zabludowicz and Kevin Spacey have each selected one upcoming artist for the exhibition and all the artists in the s...read more...

July 01, 2009

JERRY SALTZ REPORTS ON A MEETING WITH MOMA'S CHIEF CURATOR ANN TEMKIN

Last week I met with MoMA's Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Ann Temkin. We talked about the two-week discussion (that took place on my Facebook Page) about the lack of representation of women artists on the fourth and fifth floors of the museum's permanent collection (of work completed before 1970). Of the 135 artists installed on these fl...read more...


CHARLES LEDRAY AT THE FIRE STATION, LONDON W1

Charles LeDray is one of the best kept secrets in contemporary art. Based in a small studio in New York, LeDray labours quietly away for years on individual sculptures comprising a huge number of individual parts. Amongst his past work is a glass vitrine housing over 2,000 unique miniature porcelain vessels, and other works comprise furniture, jewe...read more...


VIOLET HOPKINS AT FOXY PRODUCTION, NEW YORK

In Violet Hopkins' second solo exhibition at Foxy Production, the artist appropriates images from the 1977 Voyager space mission's Golden Record, its catalogue of photographs, diagrams and sounds designed to communicate life on Earth to any aliens who may be encountered en-route. Hopkins reproduces a number of these images in ink on paper, and then...read more...

June 30, 2009

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: WILL THE CAT ABOVE THE PRECIPICE FALL DOWN?

When an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, its dissolution as a rule follows two steps. Before its actual collapse, a mysterious rupture takes place: all of a sudden people know that the game is over, they are simply no longer afraid. It is not only that the regime loses its legitimacy, its exercise of power itself is perceived as an...read more...


MATTHEW BARNEY AND ELIZABETH PEYTON AT THE DESTE FOUNDATION, HYDRA

Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton have collaborated for the first time in a site-specific installation at the DESTE Foundation's new project space on the island of Hydra. The space used to be the island's slaughterhouse, and will work from now on as a project space of the DESTE Foundation with annual exhibitions.

June 29, 2009

JERRY SALTZ: ENTROPY IN VENICE

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. There are now more than 100 biennales around the world; Venice is often called "the most important" of them. The main show of this year's Venice Biennale is the work of Daniel Birnbaum, a well-respected 46-year-old S...read more...


JAKE LAFFOLEY WINS ROUND EIGHT OF SHOWDOWN

Congratulations to the winner of the eighth round of the SHOWDOWN competition, Jake Laffoley. His artwork will compete with other SHOWDOWN finalists to find an overall winner after the 12 rounds of SHOWDOWN have been completed.
Voting is now open for the next round of SHOWDOWN and artists can ...read more...


ELIZABETH COOKE: SAATCHI ONLINE CRITIC'S CHOICE BY VICTORIA CHAINE MENDRZYK

Elizabeth Cooke's sculptures combine natural and industrial materials such as metal, stone and wood which operate as different forces interacting with each other while achieving some kind of effortless harmony. To see more of her work registered on Saatchi Online read more...

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ESSAYS BY
THE WORLD's
LEADING
WRITERS, CRITICS
AND CURATORS
ON ART AND ARTISTS

Hal Foster:
Anthony McCall: Light-Play


Matt Price:
Barbarian Theatre: Towards a Wagnerian reading of the performances of Jonathan Meese


Rod Mengham :
Anselm Kiefer's Studio Complex in Barjac, France


Barbara Casavecchia:
An interview with Count Panza di Buomo


Rod Mengham :
The Incorrectness of Martin Kippenberger


Anthony Huberman:
The Legacy of Performance Art


Gavin Butt:
Joe Brainard's Queer Seriousness, or, how to make fun out of the avant-garde


Robert Storr:
Nalini Malani: Visions at Night Fall


Alexander Garcia Düttmann :
Cy Twombly: Names and Leanings


Steven Henry Madoff:
YZ Kami and the Fact of Mere Being


Arthur C Danto:
Francesco Clemente and the Super Sopranos


John Haskell:
Richard Prince's Private Collection


Gavin Butt:
How I Died for Kiki and Herb


Joseph Nechvatal:
Yves Klein - Body, Colour, Immaterial


Norman Rosenthal:
Georg Baselitz


Jerry Saltz:
Martin Kippenberger: The Artist Who Did Everything


Ana Finel Honigman:
What Happened to the VIP Art Star?


Jerry Saltz:
On Kawara: One Million Years


Aveek Sen :
A Distance of One's Own: Dayanita Singh's Go Away Closer


Morgan Falconer:
Peter Doig


Jerry Saltz:
Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009


RoseLee Goldberg:
Be My Mirror: Performance and the Moving Image


Glen Johnson:
Warhol's Factory Records


Jerry Saltz:
Cindy Sherman's March of Time


RoseLee Goldberg :
Zhang Huan: A Sense of the Possible


Jerry Saltz:
World in a Bottle: Giorgio Morandi


Adam E Mendelsohn:
Karen Dow: Inside and Out
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CONTENTS
Saatchi Online Magazine
 SAATCHI ONLINE TV...
 MOST RECENT VIDEOS,
 YOUR MOVIE REVIEWS 
AN INTERVIEW WITH PAE WHITE
The American artist Pae White explains her work at the Venice Biennale 2009 and its connection with the central exhibition 'Making Worlds'.

SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

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DANIEL BIRNBAUM ON THE VENICE BIENNALE 2...
The director of the 2009 Venice Biennale Daniel Birnbaum explains what's behind its central exhibition entitled 'Making Worlds'.

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ELOSIE FORNIELES: CARRION
This film brings together footage of a 72-hour performance by Eloise Fornieles in which she engages with violence and consumption. In a land strewn wi...

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WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK AT THE VENICE BIENNA...
Waldemar Januszczak explores the Mexican Pavilion, where artist Teresa Margolles is showing the darkest and most powerful installation at this year's ...

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WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK AT THE VENICE BIENNA...
Waldemar Januszczak talks to Australia's representative Shaun Gladwell at this year's Venice Biennale. For more information about Waldemar Januszs...

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WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK AT THE VENICE BIENNA...
Waldemar Januszczak takes us through the "Making Worlds" exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale. For more information about Waldemar Januszszca...

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WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK AT THE VENICE BIENNA...
Waldemar Januszczak. broadcaster and Sunday Times chief art critic, takes us to some unexpected places at this year's Venice Biennale. For more in...

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WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK AT THE VENICE BIENNA...
Waldemar Januszczak gives us a whistle stop tour of the big players at this year's Venice Biennale, including Elmgreen & Dragset who have combined for...

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WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK INTRODUCES THE 2009 ...
In the first of several films we'll be showing on Saatchi Online TV Waldemar Januszczak introduces this year's Venice Biennale. In this film the broad...

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RICHARD DUPONT'S NEW YORK STUDIO
Coolhunting.com pays a visit to the Manhattan studio of Richard Dupont whose distorted replicas of the human body...

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SAATCHI ONLINE VIDEO ARTISTS OF THE WEEK


GHENADIE SONTU

ARTIST PLEASANT

SERGEI SVIATCHENKO

HUGH THOMAS

KARLHEINZ DIETRICH

ZORAN DRAGEL

PATTY SILVA

NECO BETH

YUCEL DONMEZ

ADRIANO D'ANGELO

 SAATCHI ONLINE TV...
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PIPILOTTI RIST'S 'BE NICE TO ME, FLATTEN...
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JAMES KALM AT METAPHOR CONTEMPORARY ART ...
JAMES KALM

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5 IDENTITIES, 5 DESTINATIONS
JAMES KALM

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NEW SHOWS BY WILLIAM POWHIDA AND JENNIFE...
JAMES KALM

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AN INTERVIEW WITH FRED TOMASELLI
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MARK DAVEY: NEW SENSATIONS WINNER 2008
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A VISIT TO THE STUDIO OF ARTIST AND PUBL...
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MATTHEW COLLINGS ON ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONI...
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BEN LEWIS: THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART BU...
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BEIJING SWINGS: A FILM BY WALDEMAR JANUS...
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AT THE MOVIES:
FILMS YOU LIKE...
OR DON'T

Bruno (2009)
By Dave the Flick

I liked this more than Borat!, It is like Borat refined. The usual hijinx is here, take a stereo type, ta... read more...

Mishima - A Life in Four Chapt...
By Dave the Flick

A surreal biopic, it's got it all looks great, sounds great, is great.

Red Mist (2008)
By Dave the Flick

About as inspired as a white sheet of paper. Meaningless, repetitious, trash.

My Sister's Keeper (2009)
By Dave the Flick

Tears were rolling down my face (please don't tell anyone), mushy stuff that managed to pull at the ol' h... read more...

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs...
By Dave the Flick

The franchise has probably had it's last puff here, the setup seems overly familiar, the characters actin... read more...

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Saatchi Online Magazine
agenda for daughter to
accept or reject -3

15 To befit our love Million of facts Sweet or sour Paints every truth . Yet my dear The angel of dreams, my little daughter Delve in your heart Before every rise For daw...

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Assemblage - 31st July
5:30 - 11:30pm

Assemblage promises to be the biggest event held at John Jones in 2009 showcasing work from invited contemporary designers, artists, bespoke makers, publishers, musicians...

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Natalie Kinnear - Relief
I

Movement, shapes and light. NATALIE KINNEAR www.nataliekinnearphotography.co.uk

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Natalie Kinnear - Relief
II

Movement, shapes and light - the second image in the series. NATALIE KINNEAR www.nataliekinnearphotography.co.uk

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Homage to two idols of my
youth

Only a month ago I arrived in New York City, the capital of the great American wilderness with my daughter who was born here. Once again, events concentrate in a limited ...

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Natalie Kinnear -
Fantastic

I wonder if anyone knows why I entitled this image 'Fantastic'? The clue is in the title. NATALIE KINNEAR www.nataliekinnearphotography.co.uk

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You Suck No.2- Robert Sim
small drawings http://smalldrawings.blogspot.com

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And then came The Wars
over Nothing

Art composition by Hugh Thomas. July 09. http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cf
m?id=849714

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Art as a weapon
It was just this week I sent an email to a Council planning manager with cc to the Council Mayor and CEO. And it included the pic below which was formatted into the text....

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Your Reviews...
Shows you like - or don't


Luke McCreadie
Supplement gallery, London
Artypete

This neat little gallery is a hubbub
of emerging artists. Luke McCreadie's
exhibition takes a wonky look at
drawing as a means of expressing
things about the world. The pun is
cenral to the work, something that
perhaps shows the artist's age;
perhaps comedy is a way of avoiding<...read more...

Rating:

Sung Hwan Kim
Wilkinson Gallery, London
Artypete

Sung Hwan Kim: Pieces from 'In the
Room', didn't really do it for me, the
references we to esoteric, the style
to familiar. I will give it more time
and see if any more connections are
made in my brain. I have a feeling
though, that my first impressions are
right.

Rating:

Artworks That Ideas Can Buy
Wilkinson, London
Artypete

Artworks That Ideas Can Buy, A project
by Cesare Pietroiusti. Is a wonderful
cross roads of curational and artistic
practice, with the main force of the
work being a transaction of ideas, the
pieces in the show can only be bought
with good ideas by visitors. This both
underlines...read more...

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Tracey Emin: Those who suffer Love
White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London
Artypete

Tracey Emin: Those who suffer Love, is
the name of the show. It comes from a
work by her, 'Those who suffer Love'
which is scrawled in neon in her
scratchy drawing style. Her drawings,
bring a bit of reasonableness to her
work, they are like the artistic
counter point to her 'be...read more...

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UNSEEN GUY BOURDIN
The Wapping Project, London
Artypete

On until the 4th July, The Wapping
Project presents work by Guy Bourdin
(1928 -1991). A visit to the project
is interesting in it's self. Guy
Bourdin, is a natural choice for the
site, his narrative photography, adds
another dimension to the space.

Rating:


Agenda for my daughter to
accept or reject

9 Prices are the preface for expiry So always pay the price For values 10 Seek the trust in every mind So that you don’t leave out the trustworthy 11 God is a gift Donâ...

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Natalie Kinnear -
Personality - Limited
Edition Print

Prints of the image 'Personality' will be strictly limited to FIVE. Should you wish to express an interest in this limited edition, please e-mail me at info@nataliekinnea...

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Man Wearing a Yellow Hat
- Robert Sim

small drawings http://smalldrawings.blogspot.com

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Disturbance of Void;
eating, drinking,
unknowns, death.

Art composition by Hugh Thomas. June 09. http://www.artmajeur.com/index.php?go
=artworks/display_mini_gallery&login=
hughthomas&mini_gallery_id=1274671&ar
...

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SOUNDS LIKE VENICE 2009
From 1th to 6th of July, RAM LIVE will stream 24hours non stop on http://live.radioartemobile.it/ Sounds like Venice - a sound art project and multimedia blog which gathers the testimonies, sounds and voices of world culture from the heart of Venice in the frame of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, entitled Fare Mondi//Making Worlds//Bantin Duniyan // Weltenmachen//Construire des Mondes //Fazer Mundos - directed by Daniel Birnbaum. The proje...

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Agenda for my daughter to
accept or reject

1 In this world of laurels I am not greater than a beggar And Of course Not less than an emperor So no use Don’t follow 2 Behold my little wonder Let not the limelight ...

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Natalie Kinnear -
Conversation

Another fascinating glimpse into the world of nature's detail. NATALIE KINNEAR www.nataliekinnearphotography.co.uk

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JUST GET A JOBS ARTS
GRANTS ATE LIKE A DICEY
LOTTERY

So we have these fancy grants for fifty grand like A Room Of Her Own, McArthur Grant, Bush Fellowship, Guggenheim Grant ETC ETC Grants, dream on artists, save your money and that includes juried art shows charging fees. Just get a job, Nek Chand of India famous for his sculpture garden worked full time and raised a family plus had to support a wife, never had a grant in his life, paid out of his own pocket or some artists worked for low wages pl...

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Not Sleeping - Robert Sim
small drawings http://smalldrawings.blogspot.com

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John Jones Artist
Surfaces Now Open
Saturdays

Artist Surfaces is now open Saturdays 10am -4pm. John Jones stretchers are not only better quality than our competitor's professional ranges they are cheaper too!

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SUBMITTED Essays


A fresh new artist :
Thona

Thona/tomissa

“My name is Thona Samba. I am a fresh
new painter from Paris, now living in
London. I always wanted to do something
creative..... At the age of 16 i was in a
theatre troupe for two years. Since then
I've always tried to do something in the
art.... Read more..

Define Sensuality

Rayla Noel

I paint from what I have seen and perhaps
think.Know. Am struck by. Provoked
by. One very valued friend remarked," I
love ur work.. but miss your sensuality
.." I began to worry : told him I would
try. Just that there was a whole
neighbourhood brea Read more..

new member of the
artvibrations site

Nicolas Rilliet

Nicolas Rilliet became recently a new
member of the site www.artvibrations.com .
There are new works unseen until now.

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