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• What Corrupts The Visual Art World

  02-06-2022 23:58 via tabletmag.com
  
  Institutional bureaucrats, not billionaires, have the power to constrain the possibilities for aesthetic development in the present. The figure of the contemporary artist we know today is an invention of the bureaucrats. – Tablet
  
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• Prague’s Orloj clock at centre of row over artist’s ‘amateur’ restoration

  02-06-2022 16:00
  
  Artist endowed 15th-century clock with likenesses of friends and acquaintances, possibly as a jokeOne of Prague’s most famous landmarks, a 15th-century astronomical clock, is at the centre of an embarrassing row amid claims that an artist endowed it with likenesses of his friends and acquaintances in an expensive restoration project, possibly as a joke.The 600-year-old Orloj – long a magnet for tourists who gaze up in wonder as the 12 apostles are set in motion by the clock striking
  
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• Prague’s Orloj clock at centre of row over artist’s ‘amateur’ reproduction

  02-06-2022 16:00
  
  Artist accused of putting likenesses of friends and acquaintances on 15th-century clock, possibly as a jokeOne of Prague’s most famous landmarks, a 15th-century astronomical clock, is at the centre of an embarrassing row amid claims that an artist endowed it with likenesses of his friends and acquaintances in an expensive restoration project, possibly as a joke.The 600-year-old Orloj – long a magnet for tourists who gaze up in wonder as the 12 apostles are set in motion by the clock
  
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• Punk painter Christopher Wool: ‘I make lots of mistakes – and keep them in’

  02-06-2022 07:00
  
  His text works have sold for millions of dollars – but these days the Chicago-born artist is happier roaming the Texas desert turning barbed wire into frenzied, sometimes menacing sculptures‘I was born with zero talent,” says Christopher Wool, ponytailed, flannel-shirted and 67. He smiles sweetly. “So I had to work at it.” We’re in Brussels, at the Xavier Hufkens gallery where the post-conceptual, postmodern, post-neo-expressionist abstract artist imbued with
  
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