MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone Developing surprising ways to extract value from existing products is nothing new. In many ways it defines modern innovation. If one looks at the internet, arguably the single most important invention in today’s post-modern society, one…
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone As exciting as this is, imagine how exciting the collapse is going to be! The above quote turned out to be a bit of a prelude. Speaking at the Frieze art fair well before the economic…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Micah J. Malone A casual overview of our current issue strikes me as something of an anomaly. While at times we have focused volumes, we generally publish precisely what is striking the fancy of our…
BRUCE CONKLE & MARNE LUCAS @ ART GYM, MARYLHURST, OR By Micah J. Malone In Bruce Conkle and Marne Lucas’s exhibition, “Warlord Sun Kind: The Genesis of Eco-Baroque”, the artists have evoked the similarities between the natural world and the Baroque…
BACKLASH TO BRANDEIS CLOSING THE ROSE By Matthew Nash & Micah J. Malone On Monday, January 26th, The Boston Globe’s Geoff Edgers broke the story that Brandeis University was planning to close down the Rose Art Museum and sell off the…
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone Within the Blogosphere of art, I cannot count the number of times in the last week I’ve read some version of the phrase “the tanking of the economy will refocus the art world on interesting ideas…
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone How are artists affected by a down economy? With artists being both inside and outside of the general market, it is often difficult to gauge the effects a poor economy actually has. On the one hand,…
2008 ICA FOSTER PRIZE FINALISTS: A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW WITKIN By Micah J. Malone On November 12th, the 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Andrew Witkin is one of the four…
By MICAH MALONE Print this article MJM: In your essay for the last issue of Big Red and Shiny you use Eve Sussman’s video and the Nicholas Berg beheading tape to frame your argument. I’m wondering if you could expand…