Caught My Eye

September 30, 2008

Animal – Colossal Banksy Ad In Soho

Turns out that Banksy didn't even paint his latest "creation" in Soho…an ad firm did…oy!

(tags: streetart art nyc design)
Jewish Telegraph Agency – Take that, New York Jew!

JTA take a look at New York magazine's controversial article that will certainly be the subject of lots of Rosh Hashanah discussion: "New York Jews circa 2008 are wealthy white people whose protestations of outsiderness inspire blank stares or impatient eye rolling."

(tags: nyc multiculturalism)
Modern Art Notes – The Gopnik Doctrine

"Washington Post provocateur Blake Gopnik said that painters were responsible for what he considers to be the weak state of contemporary painting criticism."

(tags: art criticism)

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Hrag Vartanian is editor of Hyperallergic and a member of the Triangle Arts Association board.

He's a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and art critic who has written extensively about street art, performance art, the internet and issues of multiculturalism. He maintains a tumblelog notebook, called “A Brooklyn Art Critic’s Notebook.” He tweets a lot.

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