Word: artists
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...NumbersART 9.2 million Amount paid at auction for Put Down Your Whip, a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong-the most ever for a painting by a Chinese artist $190 million Total sales of Asian contemporary art by auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's last year, up from $22 million...
...even though--in a moment of pretentiousness that he precedes with two minutes of apology--he says he has started to consider himself an artist, he seems like a pretty commercial one. Most of his movie ideas are action films, and his band plays the kind of pleasant, fake-disaffected pop that might appear on an episode of The O.C. "I wish I came from a more pure place," he says. "I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different...
...taboo social distinctions more openly, frankly and daringly than before. It used to be assumed that people were free to joke about their own kind (with some license for black comedians to talk about how white people dance). Crossing those lines was the province of the occasional "socially conscious artist," like Dick Gregory or Lenny Bruce, who was explicit about his goals: in Bruce's words, to repeat "'niggerniggernigger' until the word [didn't] mean anything anymore...
...czar, John [T.] Drake [’06].4. FM: What other bands were you considering?A: There was a long list of potential acts that was generated by the CEB and Concert Commission and through a very detailed and thorough process. We selected the artist that we thought was most appropriate for the event.5. FM: What kinds of bands might we be seeing in the future?A: You will see more concerts, particularly smaller concerts, that we’ll put on throughout the year and when the pub comes on in a few weeks, that?...
...chair James H. Stock admitted to The Crimson, students will have little reason to visit Littauer’s tiny classrooms for any reason other than “to get their study cards signed or to attend formal office hours with faculty members.” Both an artist and an economist can see the problem with that...