‘I Paid for My Art Career by Dealing Drugs and Having Criminal Boyfriends’: Bjarne Melgaard Offers East Village Puppet Show
The artist's piece was an unhinged tribute to writer Kathy Acker.
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Incorporating works from many participants in their own online community, the New York–based collective DIS has mounted a Berlin Biennale that simultaneously exploits and critiques trendy digital stra…
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Reading Capital in Venice
Touring the Biennale, a fictional critic muses on the contradictions between the show's socially conscious theme and its wealth-and-fame realities.
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Early Sales at the Armory Show
Halfway down one of the aisles in Pier 94, which houses the contemporary art portion of The Armory Show, Ingleby Gallery’s booth features a painting by Harland Miller emblazoned with the…
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His Struggle: Norwegian Mischief-Maker Bjarne Melgaard Meets Edvard Munch in Oslo
“He’s a very crazy man,” my Norwegian taxi driver, Viktor, told me on the way to the Munch Museum in Oslo. “Makes a lot of scandals.” He was speaking of Bjarne Melgaard, who is Norway’s…
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‘Selling Like Hot Cakes’: NADA Opens in Miami Beach
The publicist said they had to open the doors to the NADA fair at the Deauville Beach Resort five minutes early because the crowd was that eager. Publicists are paid to say those kinds of things
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DiCaprio Shopping, Dealers “Killing It” at Art Basel Miami Beach
"Leonardo DiCaprio just came by and bought a 1973 Frank Stella painting," Ricky Manne of Marianne Boesky (New York) reported. "It was priced at slightly under a million dollars."
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Painter as Pig, Painting as Prostitute
Describing the work of Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard, it's difficult to avoid a manic, rambling inventory of the materials and images used in his paintings and installations, which, in the case of…
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