This whole art thing sometimes escapes me.
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With art, the important thing is to find out what you can about the artist.
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Just beyond his tattered wood desk, a vintage Miami cruiser hangs from one of his patent-pending pedal hooks - the perfectly rusted patina on the low-riding frame is the closest thing to art on the walls.
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There's no thing of 'Lebanese art, ' it's really international modern art.
The installation is no longer physically at San Francisco, but the Imaginary Foundation has created the next best thing: a virtual art exhibit, which enables you to explore the installation and the art therein.
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People know they can learn a thing or two about the art of investing from billionaires.
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The Kramlichs are known in the art world for betting on the newest thing.
For one thing, the fear that art is compromising and even corrupting is as old as art itself.
This story is further proof, as I have written previously, that stealing art is a really, really stupid thing to do.
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Just as its traditional tatami mats and sliding doors help contextualize older works no matter the theme of the installation, the very presence of contemporary works reminds us that art in Japan is not just a thing of the past.
Fashion remains the closest thing most people get to making art, as they construct an image.
The most important thing to remember about attending at Art Basel, (unless you are a director at a high-end gallery tallying up the sales) is not to take it all that seriously.
Scripts for comics are arguably a literary form in exactly the same way that film and theater scripts are literary forms, but a script is not the same thing as the finished work of art.
But al Alousi sees these as only minor problems for his art, which he says is the "purest thing" in his life, a matter of expression, beauty and experimentation.
The entire dark chassis may seem basic and highly minimalistic, but there are small intricacies like the chrome borders, hidden port covers, and wave-shaped hinges that just make this thing feel more like a computing piece of art than a basic bargain-basement PC.
However, for the vast majority of art buyers and prospective art buyers, surely more price transparency would be a good thing.
The thing you have to remember is that the prior art that belonged to Samsung, or belonged to somebody else that they had the ability of using, they had not used for quite some time.
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For the cause of medical progress--or art patronage or university endowments--wealth concentration is a good thing.
In the highly fragmented art market, bringing art and art buyers together wherever they are in the world is no bad thing either.
He said the most contemporary thing to do now was to "abandon and live art" and that he hoped he would "be considered as someone who really creates".
But that will only work if buyers are prepared to sacrifice the one thing that is central to the way that people traditionally buy art - the chance to see it and experience it in the flesh first.
While the idea that 2013 will be a year of art sounds fanciful, if Big Data is to become the Next Big Thing, it will only be as useful as the stories it can tell, and what better way to tell a story than through images?
If Bathgate has mastered one thing in his young and enormously promising career, it's the art of distilling alienation into bruised-sounding beauty.
One thing that can clearly be taken away from the past weeks' contemporary art auctions is that the market is mighty strong.
Munch enthusiasts see a simpler explanation for the picture's grip: "A scream is a very human thing, " says Karen Nikgol, a co-founder of the Oslo contemporary art space NoPlace.
"Art is like tech--you are always trying to hash through what is the new, new thing and what is a rehash of the last new, new thing, " says Singer.
But by choosing to exclusively do small artsy films, instead of balancing art with commerce like George Clooney has done, LaBeouf is killing any chance of becoming the next big thing.
But the translation of that data into beautiful things is the next big thing. 2012 proved data alone isn't enough, it is there to support the art and craftsmanship of creating experiences. 2013 will bring that back.
Van Gogh wrote about the wrestlers picture -- which he painted as an assignment during his studies at the art academy in Antwerp -- in a letter in January 1886: "This week I painted a large thing with two nude torsos -- two wrestlers, " adding that he was delighted with the result.
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