Category — Art World
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Vito Schnabel Plans Exhibition of Laurie Anderson's Drawings and Paintings
May 2nd, 2012Vito Schnabel, the curator, dealer and son of Julian, has organized a show of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Laurie Anderson. Ms. Anderson, who is married to Lou Reed (a …
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Who are The Bruce High Quality Foundation?
April 25th, 2012The idea of the art collective - a social and creative unit formed as a catalyst for change - emerged in the 1960s partly in response to imperialism and moralism …
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Notes from the Brucennial, the highly democratic, moderately chaotic art fair that's been making the Whitney Biennial look stuck-up since 2010
March 20th, 2012“The Bruce High Quality Foundation and Vito Schnabel invite you to the opening of the single most important art exhibition in the history of the world. Ever.”So read the invite …
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation's "Animal Farm": This One Ends Well
March 20th, 2012“Welcome…to the most important group show in all of history, ever!” a black-robed twenty-something shouted last Sunday night from a wooden platform, stacked with hay bales. The first floor of …
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The Bruces are Back! A Q&A With The Bruce High Quality Foundation About Their 2012 Brucennail
February 28th, 2012The much-loved Brucennial is returning for 2012, this time downtown at 159 Bleecker Street. A sort-of-every-two-years showing of not-quite-eminent works of art, this downtown alternative exhibition is set once again …
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Dustin Yellin: The Opening of Pioneer & King and the Launch of Intercourse Magazine
February 3rd, 2012Bob Colacello, Vito Schnabel and Andrew VanWyngarden hosted a dinner to celebrate the opening of Dustin Yellin's new art space Pioneer & King and the launch of Intercourse Magazine. All photos: …
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An Artist's Big, Big Plans for Red Hook
January 18th, 2012The artist Dustin Yellin likes big things. The jawbone of a sperm whale hangs in his studio. His most recent sculpture weighs more than 12 tons. And in June, he …
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Terence Koh
November 16th, 2011The Asia Song Society, Terence Koh’s notorious, Factory-esque three-storey art gallery-cum-studio-cum-living space is almost entirely packed up the day The Block arrives to photograph the New York-based, Canada-raised art provocateur. …
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La Dolce Vito! Schnabel the Younger Emerges From His Father's Shadow
November 1st, 2011“It’s sort of guerilla warfare,” said Vito Schnabel, the curator and art dealer.He was talking about the methods of the anonymous art collective he collaborates with, the Bruce High Quality …
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Sotheby's as a Gallery
October 24th, 2011For years auction houses have looked beyond the gavel and done exactly what dealers do. They conduct private sales and run art galleries. Some have even been known to champion …
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Terence Koh: When the Personal is Political
September 1st, 2011For years now we have been witnessing a reformulation of social and political postulates that were created during the ’60s and ’70s. At that time a series of practices came …
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James Franco (a Whole Lot of Him) Takes Over Terence Koh's Asia Song Society
August 11th, 2011The air was hot and thick inside Terence Koh’s Asia Song Society on Canal Street. The heat was overwhelming before many people had showed up for last weekend’s opening of …
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James Franco Holds a Low-Key Art Opening in Terence Koh's ASS
August 11th, 2011NEW YORK— There were no bold names (aside from artist Terence Koh and P.S. 1 head Klaus Biesenbach) or event photographers at the opening of the omnipresent and multi-talented James …
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Argumenta
August 10th, 2011During the 54th Venice Biennale Vito Schnabel presented 'Argumenta' by The Bruce High Quality Foundation. The inaugural Venetian exhibition was a dialectical interrogation of the histories of painting, patronage, politics, …
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Blue Period
July 20th, 2011Not too long ago, Terence Koh, the notoriously cryptic artist with a penchant for all things white, contacted the photographer Tim Barber with a cryptic, and surprisingly colorful, proposal. “ …
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Terence Koh to Turn South Beach into a Bunny Vortex
November 30th, 2010Terence Koh, the unpredictable and mischievous New York-based installation and performance artist, plans to be predictably unpredictable and mischievous during Art Basel, installing his trademark bunny monsters throughout South Beach. …
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Who Needs the Whitney? They Have Their Own Show
February 25th, 2010If the 2010 Whitney Biennial is too lean, clean and demure for your taste, you might try an alternative, the Brucennial in SoHo, which features 420 artists from 911 countries …
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Conversation With Bruce High Quality Foundation
February 1st, 2010The Bruce High Quality Foundation claims to have formed to oversee the estate of one Bruce High Quality, a "social sculptor" who reportedly died in the September 11 attacks. The …
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Bruce Alrighty?
January 7th, 2010The Bruce High Quality Foundation knows what it’s doing. Maybe. An event at its donated Tribeca headquarters seems like a standard art party: great haircuts, painful shoes, Lady Gaga projected …
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The Bruce High Quality's Foundation, "The Bruce High Quality Foundation University"
January 1st, 2010Roughly coinciding with this year’s crop of M.F.A. thesis exhibitions at New York’s art schools, this teasing show is an apparent attempt to pull the rug from under the whole …
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And the Beat Goes On
December 4th, 2009MIAMI BEACHOn one half of the ballroom at the W Hotel last Wednesday eve during Art Basel Miami Beach, you had the super-rich and trust-funded — Stavros Niarchos, the Greek …
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The Art World's New Kid on the Block
August 5th, 2009“Did you hear about Sludgy the Whale?” artist Theo Rosenblum, a hip, bespectacled, twenty-five year old, asked during my visit to his Brooklyn, New York, studio recently. He went on …
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Enter the Afterlife: A Conversation with The Bruce High Quality Foundation
March 23rd, 2009Cameron Shaw met with members of the artist collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation to discuss Empire, on view at Cueto Project until April 11th. Inspired by Thomas Cole's The …
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Factory Workers Warholites Remember: Rene Ricard
November 30th, 2008Although he acted in only two Warhol films, Rene Ricard was one of Andy's most brilliant superstars. As an actor he's best known for his role in Eric Mitchell's Underground U.S.A. …
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Now Licking: Terence Koh
November 14th, 2008A more sick than sweet attitude pervades Terence Koh’s body of work, which is exactly why his latest pieces, stark white canvases crafted from corn syrup and sugar, seem to …
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The Paintings at Terence Koh's New Show are Possibly Edible
November 13th, 2008At last night's blowout opening party for Terence Koh's new show, "Flowers for Baudelaire," questions of taste predominated. Not about whether Koh — who created a scandal in England earlier …
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In Conversation: Ron Gorchov with Robert Storr and Phong Bui
September 1st, 2006On the occasion of his exhibit, Double Trouble at P.S. 1, which will be on view till November 20th, Rail’s Consulting Editor Robert Storr and Publisher Phong Bui paid a …
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Ron Gorchov: Double Trouble at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
June 29th, 2006Ron Gorchov can lay claim to a rare achievement: He has created a distinctive form without becoming formulaic. Eleven of the 27 works in his show on the top floor …
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Featured News
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May 2nd, 2012
Vito Schnabel Plans Exhibition of Laurie Anderson's Drawings and Paintings
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April 25th, 2012
Who are The Bruce High Quality Foundation?
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March 20th, 2012
Notes from the Brucennial, the highly democratic, moderately chaotic art fair that's been making the Whitney Biennial look stuck-up since 2010
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March 20th, 2012
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's "Animal Farm": This One Ends Well
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February 28th, 2012
The Bruces are Back! A Q&A With The Bruce High Quality Foundation About Their 2012 Brucennail