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founder Gary Kornblau tells why he done it and why he’s not doin’ it anymore…

- Meredith Tromble [Monday, December 17th, 2001]

The anticipated need for harder to come by funding has left California with one less art publication. Citing the desire to “be a model of how to bow out gracefully, and leave art to those who love it,” the Los Angeles-based Art Issues journal ceased publication on December 8.

- Glen Helfand [Thursday, December 13th, 2001]

It’s only for themed shopping, gaming and email.

- Ella Delaney [Wednesday, December 12th, 2001]

The artistic responses to the WTC collapse, as seen in “5,000 Trees,” the exhibition of works by Lower Manhattan residents Cheryl Dunn, Jacqueline Humphries, Tony Oursler, and Stephen Powers, at The Luggage Store, tend to be overshadowed by the cascade of media images we’ve all experienced. But Powers’ comprehensive collection of commemorative t-shirts and postcards cranked out for the street vendor tourist trade are truly fascinating, sometimes horrifying artifacts of the attitudes expressed during this singular historical moment.

- Glen Helfand [Monday, December 10th, 2001]

The anxious buzz among non-profit arts organizations is: Where’s the money going to come from in this bleak economy? Stretcher editor, Glen Helfand explores the impact the tech industry bust has had on the equation in his article High and Dry on SF Gate.

- Megan Wilson [Monday, December 10th, 2001]

because it is nothing to do with money and everything to do with love,” quoth the Material Girl before handing the 20,000 pound Turner Prize to minimalist Martin Creed yesterday. Creed graciously agreed that the Turner was “just a stupid prize.”

- Meredith Tromble [Monday, December 10th, 2001]

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