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Yusaka Maezawa Gets a Reality TV Show, Stan Douglas to Represent Canada at 2021 Venice Biennale, and More: Morning Links from January 15, 2020

Here's what we're reading this morning.

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  The Editors of ARTnews
• Jan 15, 2020 9:00 am

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George Condo, Painter of Picasso-Inspired Tableaux, Is Now Represented by Hauser & Wirth

The artist's work recently appeared in the 2019 Venice Biennale.

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  Alex Greenberger
• Jan 15, 2020 8:15 am

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The House Always Wins: A Documentary on the Art Market

Nathaniel Kahn's film is all smoke and Koonsian economics. The only thing sacred in the world he shows is money.

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  Rahel Aima
• Nov 2, 2018 12:49 pm

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Reviewing Pat Hearn Gallery

Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Pat Hearn operated one of the most innovative galleries in New York, promoting artists such as George Condo and Tishan Hsu to Mary Heilmann and Renée Green. Highlights…

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  Art in America
• Jun 25, 2018 12:31 pm

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Jeff Koons and George Condo Recall the ’80s at New Museum’s 40th Anniversary Fete

The artists ruminated over youthful digressions and finding their way.

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  Grace Halio
• Dec 7, 2017 12:35 pm

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True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer Part Six: The Metaphor Delivered

In the summer of 2009, in the middle of a global recession, I opened a show at Rental, my gallery on New York's Lower East Side, called "Don't Panic I'm Selling My Collection." As it turned out, the…

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  Joel Mesler
• Jun 9, 2015 9:30 am

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‘As Is Is’ at Altman Siegel

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today's show: "As Is Is” is on view at Altman Siegel in San Francisco through June 27, 2015. It features work by George Con…

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  The Editors of ARTnews
• Jun 8, 2015 2:58 pm

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Dick Polich, American Vulcan, Fabricator to the Art Stars

At the intersection of two quiet rural roads in Rock Tavern, N.Y., about 60 miles north of New York City, sits a building roughly the size of a city block. While it may be obscure to most collectors…

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  editors
• Aug 27, 2013 4:50 pm

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Jay-Z Serenades the Art World

The track proclaims the rapper's desire for glitzy art along with other gratifications of the senses: "I just want a Picasso, in my casa / No, my castle / I'm a hassa, no I'm an asshole / I'm neve…

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  Brian Boucher
• Jul 11, 2013 12:04 pm

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Biggest Contemporary Art Auction at Christie’s New York, Again

In May, the auction house hosted what was then the most valuable contemporary art auction, which totaled $388 million, including a Rothko that became the highest-selling work of postwar art at…

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  Brian Boucher
• Nov 15, 2012 10:34 am