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ART and PRESS im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin v. Galvanize & Anonymous...

Kim Min Su; Pressemitteilung - Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, Bonn artdesigncafé | ADP magazine 4(1): Candy-coated crime | 21.03.2012 EN | DE (Übersetzung: M.B.) Seit der Ausstellung Pop...

ART and PRESS at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin vs. Galvanize & Anonymous...

Kim Min Su; Press release text by Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, Bonn artdesigncafé | ADP magazine 4(1): Candy-coated crime | Published 21 March 2012 EN | DE Not since Pop Life: Art in a...

Candy-coated crimes: Arts professionals confess vs. Iggy Pop...

Damaging artworks, lying, stealing and shooting at sculpture. Is this a typical day for today’s art professionals? Click to hear the Art Design Publicity musical accompaniment. Iggy Pop. Wild...

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Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (1992)

Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Hapshash and the Coloured Coat was a noted British pop / psychedelic design partnership of the late...

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Pluralism (1992)

Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Pluralism became highly fashionable in the art world during the 1970s and was regarded by many as the...

art design publicity reader favorites

1. Rachel Whiteread : House, London (1993)
Excerpt from Art & Outrage (1999) featuring the artist and media-coverage generating...

2. Marcus Harvey’s ’sick, disgusting’ painting of Myra Hindley (1998)
A semiotic analysis by John A. Walker of Myra, an Art Design Publicity classic. In the...

3. ART and PRESS at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin vs. Galvanize & Anonymous...
Kim Min Su; Press release text by Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, Bonn artdesigncafé | ADP...

4. Tracey Emin’s crazy media coverage vs. Cabaret Voltaire’s Kino
Inspired by Britney Spears’ crazy media coverage, we feature some of the stranger, darker and...

5. Carl Andre’s "pile of bricks"— Tate Gallery acquisition controversy -...
Excerpt from John A. Walker’s Art and outrage (1999). On 16 February 1976 the front page of the...

6. Cosey Fanni Tutti & Genesis P-Orridge in 1976: Media frenzy,...
With COUM Transmissions, the two shocked with Prostitution at London’s ICA 33 years ago,...

Ryan Gander-attributed artwork attacked by arts administrator; Artwriter...

Two more of today’s art professionals confess: Confession #6: Here is my very embarrassing true confession. Probably about 10 or 12 years ago, I was at a gallery opening in Manchester,...

Cake art controversy at Swedish museum: Pissed off art students and the...

The following is the email I sent to a few art students in the United States... "Artdesigncafe.com wants to publish an article incorporating quotes of art / art history students in response to a...

Stewart Home vs. Cosey Fanni Tutti (2011)

The upstart English artist takes on Cosey Fanni Tutti, the "mother" of Art Design Publicity magazine. Will this latent artwork be activated into a performance of legal-oriented publicity, and if...

1% art world backlash: Plagiarism & exhibition catalogues (2012)

As contributors and readers contemplate their own candy-coated art crimes this issue, this brings back memories of an art crime I witnessed about twenty years ago. Young and very green, I was...

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critical media analysis - art/design writings

Criticising contemporary creative culture

• Experimental in nature, cross-disciplinary ADP features art, design, music, PR/journalism, legal & real-talk professional practice— & mashes it together. Cross-genre, ADP works between TMZ, Twitter freak outs, Huffington Post drama & Daily Mail sensation; Facebook posing & MySpace spam; a bloggy, behind-the-scenes media watch, newspaper & academic journal; a rock n’ roll music mag & a boring art/design propaganda mag. Masked or unmasked, contributors speak truthfully about what they see in the foothills of a noisy revolution.

Creative entrepreneurship

Secretly selling art work under six artist names: The Brand...

Why should artists sell under just one brand, when they don’t have to? The following is the first installment of a series of articles by "The Brand Artist", who understandably hides behind a...

Post-Punk Banquet performance: Art historian destroys evidence...

Why are the demands put on contemporary art historians so impractical? And I think of you… There. I’m rid of it. Days. I dive by the wreck. […] Nights. I dream about a perfect place....

Candy coated crime by the Opiates (Billie Ray Martin & Robert Solheim)...

The electronic disco diva croons and kicks off the latest issue of Art Design Publicity magazine. The Opiates (Billie Ray Martin & Robert Solheim). Candy coated crime. I was on my...

Damien Hirst’s diamond skull sale publicity vs. Neuron Factory / Invisible...

Boo-hoo. While arts funding was disappearing in 2010, so did funding for a presentation by Art Design Publicity magazine for a ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie museum presentation...

UAE watch: Activism 2012

Dubai business venture: "Dear K, Just say No!" (2011)

This summer, a person in the Art Design Publicity sphere, "K", was vaguely contemplating doing visual arts business in Dubai and the UAE. This absolutely freaked everyone out who knew about it in...

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