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Institutional Critique.

A satanic idol goes to the Arkansas Capitol building It's not quite "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." There's more goat idolatry and cursing.

Our Russian partner festival - http://festival.artzond.com/

In the Club where the festival will be.

Luxury Goods - The Psychosis of Art - Berlin - 1-5th Nov :) http://www.polnischeversager.de/

Club der polnischen Versager der Hit dieses Jahres hat eine bekannte Melodie, mit einem leicht veränderten Text: „15 Jahr, graues Haar, so standen sie von mir… lalalala la la la la la“, im Original von Udo Jürgens. Ja, es stimmt. Vor 15 Jahren, am 1. September 2001 um 5:45 Uhr haben wir den Club der Polnischen Versager offizie...

Hopefuly the psychosis of art will take place in Berlin this autumn.

True art http://m.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-29413245

I regret to announce that the Psychosis of Art has been postponed. When new arrangements have been made, you will be informed.

I am pleased to say that we are in reciprocal collaboration with Artzond Festival International Forum of Conceptual Art in Saint-Petersburg Russia who will participate in The Psychosis of Art. The Secret of Art is planned for July at the Small Hall of the Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Kanal Griboyedova, 103, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia joining Artzond 13 -"Secret and Evident".

Artzond Festival in Saint-Petersburg international forum conceptual art modern Russia contemporary t Conceptual art festival tendentious video art performances installations film multimedia Art event in Saint-Petersburg Russia

"There continues to be considerable art-world resistance to the idea that a gallery is just a shop, the art fair just a mall, and the art just another luxury product to set alongside jewellery, antiques, yachts and the rest. "

A sad reflection on the art world - The Art Newspaper A minor squall has blown up after the American art critic Dave Hickey’s announcement that he has “retired” in disgust from writing criticism. Art is now too popular—“I miss being an elitist and not having to talk to idiots,” Hickey said in a recent interview. Art, he contends, is made for a bunch of...

Is Psychosis a Prerequisite for Art? Does art require psychosis-like thought?

The Psychosis of Art.....

In Europe for almost 500 years the Church was the main image supplier. If you wanted to see pictures, you went to a church. There you were not looking at “art” but at vivid depictions of life that would have been just as powerful – if not more so – than film or TV today. In all of this time the Church had social control. When did it begin to lose it? I would say it started in the 19th century and that by the start of the turn of the new century, social control had followed images into what we would call “the media”: photography, films and then TV.
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The mass media has lost its perspective - FT.com I am not a historian, nor even an art historian, but I have an interest in depiction and therefore a history of pictures. Twelve years ago I wrote a book – Secret Knowledge – about the influence of technology on picture-making. Some art historians