A selection of articles from around the interwebs hand picked by the editors of SFAQ
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Peter Schjeldahl on the perils of mass art spectacles, Art Everywhere
The boring effects of middle class taste on the arts
The Gentrification of Marfa by it’s Art Folk
The decline of private sales at Sothebys
The insulting Picasso that was foisted on Robert Williams
A look at Bogota’s democratic graffiti scene
The problem of Marina Abramović and her mediocre mindfulness
Leon Black, owner of Publishing house Phaidon, buys Artspace.com online art market
Moma to digitize the entirety of Warhol’s film collection
ATTENTION DEFICIT DEFIERS:
Cory Arcangel on Warhol and his early precursors to todays digital art and the archiving process needed to rescue the artists files from his archaic Amiga computer
The enlightenment that Bertolt Brecht brought to the arts, and the delightful torture his body lived through
The secret life of Samuel Beckett, spy
A reminder of the important work of art historian and critic Meyer Schapiro
Jed Perl believes liberals are the cause for the demise of good art, or at least that’s what his publisher wants you to believe with their audacious headline “Liberals are killing art”
-SFAQ STAFF, Week of August 17TH 2014.
