Thursday, March 1, 2012

NEW BLOG ADDRESS!

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Dear Visitors, The Ministry of Artistic Affairs has a new blog address and rss feed. Please visit us from now on at http://ministryo...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman at MoMA

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This week, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City welcomes a career retrospective of the photography of Cindy Sherman, arguably the mos...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Video: Luminous Field in Chicago's Millennium Park

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This February, Millennium Park is transformed into a digital canvas of light and geometrical form with its first-ever site-specific video...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Video: How Art Works

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An interesting take on the art world. How Art Works? A serious movie about problems and solutions.
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Case Study: Nanoparticle Party Pavilion for MoMA PS1's Warm Up 2012

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Those raucous MoMA PS1's summer Warm Up sessions are always a mess in the best way, but this year’s edition is on a mission to do m...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Case Study: Ministry Member Takes Saltz To Task Over Hirst Review

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After a few hurried but critical reads, I find myself dissatisfied with Jerry Saltz's recent review of “Damien Hirst: The Complete...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Exhibition: Andreas Gursky at Louisiana MOMA, Denmark

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With their visual mastery, the works of the German photographer Andreas Gursky insist on the vast, fascinating power of the image and stand ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Case Study: Jerry Saltz on Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and fro...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Video: Far Out Isn't Far Enough

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Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story depicts one man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Recap: Access: Tibi Tibi Neuspiel and Geoffrey Pugen

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Earlier this week Members of The Ministry were invited to a private talk with artists Tibi Tibi Neuspiel and Geoffery Pugen at Neubache...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Case Study: How Did Miami Become a Cultural Hub?

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// In this insightful essay from The Genteel , Ministry of Artistic Affairs member Karina Abramova explores the particular recent history t...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Artist: Miru Kim

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Populating My Solitude (Words and Images by Miru Kim ) Over the last ten years, New York City has grown to be my favorite city. The isl...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Video: What if Salvador Dali and Walt Disney Collaborated?

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In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino , finally bringing closure to a project that began 57 years earlier. T...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Case Study: Being An Artist in the 21st Century

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In a run-down bungalow in Los Angeles in 1969, an obscure alcoholic writer sat in a kitchen full of old newspapers and tins of bacon grease,...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Case Study: The Medium is the Money

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In the wake of Hennessey Youngman’s hilarious and pointed YouTube critique of Damien Hirst (linked below) in which Hirst gets skewered fo...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Case Study: Why We Collect

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A vast array of analytical essays exists in the blogosphere that seeks to explain why we collect art. Like trying to understand why we fa...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Case Study: Art Market Vs. Equities

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The art market defied the economic gloom to return 11 per cent to investors in 2011, outpacing stock market returns for a second consecu...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Case Study: The History of Art References in The Simpsons

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Artistic subtlety: what happened to you, bro? Just when I think I’m consuming some under-explained metaphors, I open my clutched fists an...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Case Study: Dark Side of the Poster

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Atlanta based graphic designer, Stewart Scott-Curran , took on the task of graphically representing one of Pink Floyd’s best albums, The ...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Case Study: Woman Rubs Ass on $30Million Painting

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A 36-year-old woman was charged Wednesday after punching, scratching and sliding her buttocks against a painting worth more than $30 mill...