The Biggest Art World Flops of the 2010s
From misguided museum shows to ill-fated fairs filled with follies.
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The Shed’s Fetish for Immediate Experience Ignores the Reality of Contemporary Rituals
Conceived for the impossible task of serving as an alibi, if not an apology, for the $25-billion development at New York's Hudson Yards, the Shed, the 200,000-square-foot nonprofit art space that…
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Chris Ofili, Björk Included on Time’s 2015 Most Influential list
Earlier today, Time released their annual 100 Most Influential People list, including both the painter Chris Ofili and Björk as art-world representatives within the hundred. Ofili (in the “artists”…
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A Dancer in the Dark, Illuminated: Inside MoMA’s Unusual Björk Catalogue
"So I have been doing a little reading and trying to find folks who could help me define what 'ism' I am," Icelandic pop star Björk wrote to writer Timothy Morton in an email in October. In a…
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‘Let’s Make It Happen’: Deitch on Almost Joining MoMA, Bribing Michael Jackson’s Doorman, and More
“I don't really care about money,” Jeffrey Deitch told New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni last night at the New York Public Library. “Money is something to do more crazy projects with.” There you…
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Morning Links: X-Rated Edition
The Louvre Abu Dhabi will open in 2016, thanks to a 5,000-person workforce, which is expected to grow to 7,500 in coming months. [The Art Newspaper] UK galleries and museums receive 15 oil paintings…
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State of Emergency: Biesenbach’s Björk Show Turns MoMA Into Planet Hollywood
One gloomy morning this week at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I was standing in a snaking, claustrophobic line–the first of many–for the press preview of a retrospective of the Icelandic…
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Coexist: The xx’s Madley Croft on the Band’s Adventures in the Art World
As the lights throughout the Guggenheim Museum's rotunda dimmed for the fourth time one recent weekday evening, a hushed stillness fell across the crowd of more than 500. Three opening acts had…
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Sharna Burgess will be ‘over the moon’ if ‘Dancing with the Stars’ asks her to return a year after dropping her
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Ruby Rose: Demanding Batwoman Role Became More Difficult After Back Injury
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This stimulus plan would give everyone $2,000/month for the foreseeable future
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Chelsea Peretti Gets Caffeinated on ‘Phosphorescent Panic’ EP, Featuring Nick Kroll, Kathleen Hanna
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