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A note from Adrian Searle I liked his piece about Tracey Emin as chosen artist for the British Pavilion & this quote is how it ends: “Personally I care neither more nor less about the British Pavilion than I do about any other. Tracey Emin should be seen, first and last, as an artist amongst artists, and thought about in those terms. The rest is bullshit.”

- Cheryl Meeker [Saturday, May 19th, 2007]

A belated farewell to Kitty Carlisle Hart, the patron saint of the New York State Arts Council and an unflappable supporter of the arts and their funding, even during the culture wars of the late eighties. She ended up defending The Kitchen even when we were presenting the likes of of Annie Sprinkle and Karen Finley. She thought they were great. When I finally met her at SFAI when she was receiving an honorary doctorate, I couldn’t resist - I clapped my hand over my eyes and asked “Are you a singer?” (she was a panelist on What’s My Line? for 20 years). If you wish to pay respects you can rent Woody Allen’s Radio Days, where she belts out They’re Either Too Young or Too Old, a single girl’s lament of a man-less America during WWII.

- Dale Hoyt [Tuesday, April 24th, 2007]

Log in to an online discussion with Guerrilla Girls “Frida Kahlo” and “Kathe Kollwitz”, Monday, April 23, at 1:00 PM EST (10:00 AM PST).

- Meredith Tromble [Sunday, April 22nd, 2007]

Goodby, Sol LeWitt.

- Meredith Tromble [Monday, April 9th, 2007]

Among the Guggenheim Fellowship recipients this year are Eastern states artists SoHyun Bae, Rosalyn Bodycomb, Robert Bordo, Chris Lan Hui Chou, Mary Hambleton, Kalup Linzy, Karyn Andrea Olivier, Sarah Oppenheimer, Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, James Robert Stewart, Alex Webb, Steven Westfall, and Tommy White. For the complete list of fellows, visit the Guggenheim site.

- Meredith Tromble [Monday, April 9th, 2007]

Doris Salcedo is the next artist to take on the Tate London’s huge Turbine Hall. In a series of Unilever commissions, the gallery has hosted spectacular works by Carsten Höller, Anish Kapoor, and Olafur Eliasson. Salcedo’s installment will open October 7, 2007.

- Jeannine McDonald [Monday, April 9th, 2007]

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