SHARKFORUM: OPINION WITH TEETH

SURF &TURF! Hooked To The Party Line , Cooked Into Conformist, Cookie Cutter Chunks,...Does It Come Any Other Way?

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Meeting Joe Fyfe at Felix Lehner's Casting Foundary

Joe Fyfe painting

Felix Lehner and Hans Josephsohn

I've been meaning to write about this for some time, but kept getting sidetracked by other events. Last summer, I met the very interesting painter and "writer on art" Joe Fyfe.

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Its Really Not Her Fault. Kilimnik: What George Bush Is To The Neocons, She Is to The Institutional/Academic Purveyors of The de-Skilled

A dupe, a puppet, this is the real role of this earnest yet utterly insipid and awful painter. A way of having painting while denigrating it by definition- by de-skilling it, thus raising the importance of its 'conceptual' underpinings/'context'-...

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Joanne Mattera on Paintings She Likes in the New York Fairs

"I went into the New York fairs knowing that I couldn't do the same kind of reporting I'd done in Miami. In fact, I really wanted to view rather than report. But as I started to see work that interested me, the camera came out. Perhaps not surprisingly, ..."

Read more at her blog.

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Adrian Ellis: Museums should beware of being used as marketing tools

The Art Newspaper presents a very sensible article on the topic of ethics concerning museums' frequent role in increasing the financial value of art work through their exhibitions. The piece is written by Adrian Ellis, the director of AEA Consulting. Link here.

Edward Winkleman has a post about it, which will probably generate a very interesting discussion in the comments, as his posts usually do. Link here.

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James Kalm: Kilimnik (No Photos Allowed)

James Kalm: Karen Kilimnik (No Photos Allowed) at 303 GALLERY

Kalm maps the process as he tries to comply with proper protocol for access to Kilimnik's current show. In the end, to file this "Report", Kalm again goes on the "low-down" for exclusive unauthorized footage.

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Neoteric Art E-Zine

Sharkforum contributor Norbert Marszalek and frequent Sharkforum commenter William Dolan have delightfully announced the launch of a new blog e-zine about art: www.neotericart.com. Titled "Neoteric Art," the two painters say it has been created to encourage open dialogue between painters concerning work, issues and the art world.

Neoteric is a pleasing adjective meaning "modern; new; recent." It would be a wonderful term to replace the currently overused "contemporary" and the now-historically placed "modern," as well as to get around the politically loaded "postmodern." Sharkforum wishes them well, and wishes Bill in his Artists' Project booth good luck too. Visit the site here.

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Sharkforum Praise: Dawoud Bey

Yes, we can also point out and extol the virtues of artists we admire.

One of the greatest treasures Chicago has is the photographer Dawoud Bey.

Bey was one of my surprise discoveries last year when I was in the Chicago Art Fair. He came to my booth, we talked, I found him very interesting. Back at Wesley's where I was staying, I googled him, my favorite spy tactic. I was amazed at how outstanding his photos were! I had suspected that he would be a good artist, but here I was presented with a great one. His works unite a strong humanism (that disgraced word) with striking formal qualities in service of an art at once aesthetically challenging, sociological (in the best sense) and personal. And all that depth is carried lightly, under a mantel of (seemingly) direct image making.

His most recent works feature pictures ...

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FEEBLE PAINTING (Hamann/Brandl Feeding Frenzy Cartoon)

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Significant Article, Link

Time Magazine, and website, writer Richard Lacayo has had it with curatorial dialectic syntax, as exemplified in the Whitney Biennial. Link.

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Poem of the Week: "This is a Story You Won't Tell the Kids We'll Never Have" by Melissa Severin

Melissa Severin lives in Chicago and works in search engine marketing. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New England College, and her poems have appeared in MoonLit, The Alembic, Seven Corners, 42opus, and The Cultural Society. She is also the managing editor of Switchback Books. Brute Fact, her chapbook, was released from dancing girl press, 2008.

This is a Story You Won't Tell the Kids We'll Never Have

Hood of your mouth
scraped with saguaro carcasses

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Seeing, is believing! NOW FESTOONING THE COVER! of ART IN AMERICA! And, NOW! At The MCA, The Consensoriat's Idea Of Interesting Painting, With Accompanying Essay (Bootlicking) by, Curator Dominic Molon. Behold, The Genius That Is, Karen Kilimnik

Come step right up! And take a long hard look at the crap you can own for about $200,000.00 of that hedge fund account- its truly mind boggling!...

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