Debate: Ethics in the Art Market on NPR

On February 3rd, 2009, Intelligence Squared (IQ2US) hosted an Oxford-style debate on the motion, “The Art Market Is Less Ethical Than the Stock Market.”  Panelists Richard Feigen, Michael Hue-Williams, and Adam Lindemann (”FOR”) and Chuck Close, Amy Cappellazzo, and Jerry Saltz (”AGAINST”) all presented their propositions, and what you get is a riveting exchange between […]

Opening: Some Kind of Wonderful at Gallery 1988 SF

Tonight, February 6, opening at Gallery 1988 in San Francisco, see the work of artist Nanami Cowdroy from Sydney, Australia in a group show titled Some Kind of Wonderful. The show brings together an array of vastly talented, young women working in several fields — fine art, design, character design, textiles, toy design, concept art, […]

Opening: Michel Auder at Aurel Scheibler

New York-based French artist Michel Auder will open his first Berlin solo show titled Heads of the Town today, Friday, February 6 at Aurel Scheibler.  Borrowing liberally from his friend, the poet Jack Spicer, Auder interprets the title My Vocabulary Did This to Me to produce new work that “remains self-referential in its treatment of […]