art design publicity

Martin Creed shares his copyright angst (2011)

M. Contraband, Esq. asks the Turner Prize-winning conceptual artist to spill the beans... Martin Creed on copyright: 1 | 2 | 3

RPProjects: Revisiting the triptych at Museum van Nagsael, Rotterdam...

Sometimes things work out like a celebratory press release, and sometimes they aren’t actually that way at all. It started out innocently enough. A three-part project [April * June * August...

Christian Marclay vs. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston vs. Tracey Emin & Boy...

Much ado about nothing really, but London media/communications invades Boston and New York adding a nice little collection of well-placed, brand-building publicity outputs for artist Christian...

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David Bowie in Art and Celebrity (2003)

Excerpt from John A. Walker’s now classic book. David Bowie’s creative accomplishments, like those of Dennis Hopper, are hard to encapsulate because they are so diverse and extend across so many...

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Sylvester Stallone in Art & Celebrity (2003)

Excerpts from John A. Walker’s now-classic book. Sylvester Stallone (b. 1946, New York, aka "The Italian Stallion") became a world-famous movie star during the 1970s and 1980s for his action-man...

art design publicity reader favorites

1. 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...

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

3. 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...

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. 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,...

6. Paul McCarthy’s Complex shit crashes into building, steals editorial copy -...
Wonder how much this "performance"—and the publicity outputs—are worth monetarily to the artist...

Art and publicity book proposal (c. 2008) rejected by top London art book...

Boo-hoo to the author perhaps, but considering dreadful book royalty percentages for authors of limited volume books, actually it’s a blessing here. Instead of adding to CV marketing (sorry, got...

(Posted on 22 Dec 11)

Lynne Hull: Artwork for osprey, Wyoming (2011)

“Raptor Roosts”, like the one pictured above, came early in my career. Wyoming is a great place to see hawks and eagles, as well as other wildlife. Friends suggested that raptors hunting on the...

(Posted on 04 Dec 11)

Tracey Emin bites back (2008) (book proposal)

The following is a book proposal, enabling Emin to lash out at badly behaving journos and set the record straight. But the celebrity artist was too busy to respond to it... 1. Table of contents...

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...

Sadly, Detained in Dubai cases keep rolling on in... (music journalism)...

Just because the international media isn’t headlining new cases of expats caught in the UAE legal system, some are still getting accused and detained for a range of unfamiliar crimes, says charity...

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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.

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Indonesia: Why the art market needs art history (1997)

Astri Wright offers her thoughts about how the art market can combat against thefts of artwork and forgeries in Indonesia. "Crime does not pay," the old saying goes. That is a truth, however,...

Tracey Emin: Artist over-- and in-- the broadsheets (2001)

“... the tent and the artist offer great copy generated by the artwork’s contained textual focal points— the artwork’s title, facilitation of a media-genic headline, the description the artwork...

Tracey Emin ftd by Boy George in Burning up (1998)

The queen of "disclosure" reads poetry to a dance beat and kicks off the issue. ADP staff; Tracey Emin (lyrics); Honey Luard (media relations); Sarah Thornton (Soul Train dancer) Art Design...

New Neurotic Realism & Charles Saatchi (1999)

Excerpt fr. Supercollector: A critique of Charles Saatchi (4th ed.) by Rita Hatton & John A. Walker. While the crowds inside the galleries of [the Royal Academy of Arts] were still...

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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