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This Little Piggy Got Pulled From Auction

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Where the money flows, fakes will follow.
The Times of London has reported that Christie’s had to pull a work from an upcoming modern and contemporary sale that its experts had attributed to the cross-dressing, Turner Prize-winning Brit artist Grayson Perry.
Seems the artist couldn’t verify its authenticity.
Declaring that forgery is the sincerest form of flattery, […]

Craft That Thinks

Friday, April 6th, 2007

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Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft. Selections from the Wornick Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 10, 2007 - January 6, 2008
So just after I get my craft rant off my chest (two posts down), I get a press notice for this upcoming exhibition at the Boston MFA:
Shy Boy, She Devil, […]

The Art World’s Five-Letter Dirty Word

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Craft in America
A three-part PBS documentary (in HD) airing May 30,2007
Includes companion book and traveling national exhibition
How many times have I heard a glass, wood, ceramic, metal or fiber artist lamenting that their work is too often only relegated to the ghetto of craft?
Too many.
Take a look at the prices at high-end studio […]



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