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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week:

Fiona Gardner

Art - It's Difficult To Pin Down "The question of 'what is art' is irrelevant when there's no public money involved. The difficulty arises when the painter, poet, sculptor, writer and so on seeks public help, arguing that to deprive public support of artists like him is to strangle the expression of culture so critical to a society that cares about how it expresses itself." The Tyee (Canada) 07/02/07

Berlin's Art Production Machine "Berlin has become a production center for works sold from Portugal to Dubai. Rents are going up. The dilettantes have departed. The foreign purveyors have nestled in. What remains is less the innocent verve of the past than an atmosphere that -- although aesthetically adventurous and more open to experimentation than in most cities -- has matured with a shrewd eye toward marketing." Los Angeles Times 07/06/07

Is Banksy Britain's Best Artist? "A poll of 18- to 25-year-olds recently named him an 'arts hero' in third place behind Walt Disney and Peter Kay, and ahead of Leonardo da Vinci. The cult of Banksy is a broad church, ranging from millionaire bankers splashing out on 'street sculpture' to young book buyers radicalised by Iraq." The Guardian (UK) 07/05/07

The Bubble Will Burst. But Let's Define "Bubble." "If a bubble, or bubbles, exist in the fine arts--as opposed to the decorative arts--it is in the highly-touted trendy contemporary market; in the late 19th and 20th centuries; and in markets that appeal to Russia and the newly super-rich Asian countries. The 16th and 17th century Italian, French and Flemings; the 18th and 19th-century British; and the pre-Impressionist French have been forgotten in this inundation of liquidity into the art market." The Art Newspaper 07/03/07

$325 Painting Now Worth $30 Million In 1968 Ira Spanierman bought a painting for $325. "Three years later, leading Renaissance scholars identified the work as a lost 15"8 portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael. Spanierman was thrilled. Almost four decades after his purchase and discovery, Spanierman has placed the Raphael with Christie's International to be auctioned on July 5 -- during London's old master sales at Christie's and Sotheby's tomorrow through July 6. The work has a top estimate of 15 million pounds ($30 million)." Bloomberg 07/02/07

Honoring Late Superstar In Venice Harms Living Artists "Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died of AIDS-related complications at 38 in 1996, is the second American to be posthumously represented in the high-profile American pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Unfortunately, the show mostly represents a lost opportunity for any of scores of living American artists," Christopher Knight writes. A superstar, Gonzalez-Torres "hardly needs Venice to secure his reputation. Other artists do." Los Angeles Times 06/29/07

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