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This week’s top stories … i.e. What.You.Need.To.Know… The Long, Strange Life of Yayoi Kusama On the surface of this well-fueled publicity blitz, Yayoi Kusama is a dotty (pun intended) old grandma all about fun, polka dots and puffy balloons, including her eye-popping window display for the Louis Vuitton store on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. On the inside, which all the W magazine air kisses in the world can’t conceal, Kusama is about decades of raging struggles with precarious mental balance, gender, ethnicity, money, power, class, self-mythology, annihilation, life and death, peppered with a bit of wonder. Chuck Close Responds to Scott Blake’s FreeChuckCloseArt.com After a week of “My Chuck Close Problem” ricocheting around the internetz, we discovered what Close thought of Blake’s art project … and then Blake responded. Painter Denyse Thomasos, 47, Dies Unexpectedly Artist Denyse Thomasos, whose semi-abstract paintings evoke an architecture of floating cities, died suddenly on Thursday, July 19. The cause was an allergic reaction during a diagnostic medical procedure. Social Practice and Global Media The work of Social Practice is on the rise, but compared to the traditional art world news of auction prices and gallery openings, it doesn’t seem to be receiving as much online attention. — And a response …  Why Going Viral Isn’t Always a Good Thing The Curator Is Present Working Through the End of Art Are UK Police Cracking Down on Graffiti Artists Ahead of Olympics? Only 25% of Projects Deliver on Time and Other Kickstarter Stats You Should Know Male Strippers and the Female Gaze

This week’s top stories … i.e. What.You.Need.To.Know…

The Long, Strange Life of Yayoi Kusama

On the surface of this well-fueled publicity blitz, Yayoi Kusama is a dotty (pun intended) old grandma all about fun, polka dots and puffy balloons, including her eye-popping window display for the Louis Vuitton store on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. On the inside, which all the W magazine air kisses in the world can’t conceal, Kusama is about decades of raging struggles with precarious mental balance, gender, ethnicity, money, power, class, self-mythology, annihilation, life and death, peppered with a bit of wonder.

Chuck Close Responds to Scott Blake’s FreeChuckCloseArt.com

After a week of “My Chuck Close Problem” ricocheting around the internetz, we discovered what Close thought of Blake’s art project … and then Blake responded.

Painter Denyse Thomasos, 47, Dies Unexpectedly

Artist Denyse Thomasos, whose semi-abstract paintings evoke an architecture of floating cities, died suddenly on Thursday, July 19. The cause was an allergic reaction during a diagnostic medical procedure.

Social Practice and Global Media

The work of Social Practice is on the rise, but compared to the traditional art world news of auction prices and gallery openings, it doesn’t seem to be receiving as much online attention. — And a response …  Why Going Viral Isn’t Always a Good Thing

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