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Like A Shark, Damien Hirst Needs To Keep Moving
Call him Dimien Hirst. The British celebropop artist who made his bones with a shark carcass and a platinum human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds is now reaping skeletal returns on his artwork, as this recent Businessweek piece reported: For all … Continue reading
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Like A Trolling Stone
Bob Dylan, it turns out, is a transmedia pickpocket. The legendary song/writer has already been accused of lifting material for his 2006 album “Modern Times” from obscure Civil War poet Henry Timrod; stealing passages from Junichi Saga’s Japanese gangster novel “Confessions of … Continue reading
WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand
Apparently, Wall Street Journal editors don’t read their own paper. Last week the Journal ran an op-ed piece about ripoff artist Richard Prince getting busted for appropriating other people’s work (specifically “[the] book ‘Yes, Rasta,’ by French photographer Patrick Cariou, … Continue reading
Ansell Kiefer
From Friday’s New York Times op-ed page: THE SEASONS | ANSELM KIEFER Before Spring Anselm Kiefer, “Snow Melt in the Odenwald,” 2010, gouache on photographic paper. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York. Text on the work is translated as follows: Snow melt … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm Kiefer, Before Spring, Gagosian Gallery, New York Times, The Seasons
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