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In search of new audiences

March 28, 2008 – 6:14

txt: Biennale Art 52nd International Art Exhibition
The 52nd Exhibition also features another new initiative emblematic of the spirit with which the Biennale relates to the international art world. During the course of 2006, the Organisational Division of the Biennale di Venezia initiated a forward-looking dialogue with Art 38 Basel, documenta 12, skulptur projekte [...]

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The Art: A False Idol After All?

January 2, 2008 – 22:01

txt: The Free Market: A False Idol After All?
For more than a quarter-century, the dominant idea guiding economic policy in the United States and much of the globe has been that the market is unfailingly wise. So wise that the proper role for government is to steer clear and not mess with the gusher of [...]

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They’ve bought even the caos

December 12, 2007 – 0:09

txt: The Colour of Money - www.frieze.com
But what about the artists who effectively harness the commercial forces of our cultural moment, which Saltz and his editors at New York find so distasteful? Their post-Warholian impact on the current artistic landscape cannot be dismissed with simplistic ethical arguments: money is bad, so art tainted by it [...]

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