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Evil Art

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein   “It” appears so harmless. “It” is an inert life, captured in a moment between helplessness and peace. But, “It” is disturbing. “It” fills you with …

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WHAT'S UP MIAMI on ROBIN RILE FINE ART

http://whatsupmiami.blogspot.com/2009/12/robin-rile-fine-art-concierge-stands.html Sunday, December 6, 2009 ROBIN RILE Fine Art Concierge Stands Out @ MIAMI ART SPACE by Jesus Manuel Rojas Torres. Miami Art Space was the place selected for another satellite art exhibit in Wynwood but also served as a launching of a worldwide art initiative to showcase artists and designers through innovative exhibitions and …

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POLL: $33.6 Million in this economy?

In May of 2008, when the hammer fell on Lucien Freud’s 1995 oil painting, “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” at Christie’s in New York, a new benchmark was set for living artists… $33.6Million. What is more, the hammer thrust a long-standing tradition in art into the public consciousness, that of challenging convention. “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” was not the prototypical model which gracefully dances through the pages of our contemporaneous magazines, across our stages or televisions, or inhabits the little box we call “ideal”. No, the supervisor in question, Sue Tilley, was quite generously “Rubeneque”.

9/11 and the Art Wound

In 2002, upon the unveiling of his September 11th-related sculpture “Tumbling Woman”, American sculptor and painter Eric Fischlweathered a veritable whirlwind of negative criticism, derision and outright vitriol.