Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup
15Dec09
On right, Rashid Johnson's "Death is Golden" and on left, Kori Newkirk's "Untitled" at the Studio Museum in Harlem's current show, "30 Seconds Off an Inch." Image via The New York Times.
Gabriel Orozco’s Whale of a Return to MoMa (NY Times)
A Beating Heart of Social Import at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NY Times)
Book Review: John Singer Sargent’s Model Children (NY Times)
“American Stories” at the MET: A Roundup of Iconic Images (WSJ)
Sotheby’s, Christie’s Contemporary Art Sales Total Drops 75% (Bloomberg)
Glenn Ligon Gets Obama’s Vote (LA Times)
Miami Postmortem: A Basel Top 10 (ARTINFO)
Video: Serena Sutcliffe, Master of Wine, on Bordeaux (ARTINFO)
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To drive this point home, artist Hiram To, who rpseerented Hong Kong in the Venice Biennale in 2007, is quoted in the article as saying: “Generally it’s the public institutions that drive the art scene and commercial opportunities are an add-on. But in Hong Kong, it’s the reverse.