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May 24, 2012 Last Updated: 6:57:AM EDT

Right-Wing Pundit Says Wojnarowicz Video Is "Not Art," Angelina Jolie Encourages Young Artists, and More Must-Read Art News

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Published: December 8, 2010

– If You Want to Get Angry: As the entire art world condemns the Smithsonian's David Wojnarowicz video censorship, right-wing pundits are beginning to fight back. Just look at race-baiting operative Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood blog, where a guy named John Noltehas written a post attacking the video. Taking the "if I can do it, it's probably not art" argument (his quote), he sweepingly dismisses as nihilistic "that ant-covered Jesus video and anything by paint-dripper Jackson Pollock." Instead, he admires good old Catholic art, like the paintings that the Spanish used as part of their colonial campaign to Christianize Native Americans on the Pacific Coast. [Big Hollywood]

– Censorship Outrage Expands: Meanwhile, Los Angeles's CB1 Gallery is the latest to show Wojnarowicz's censored video "A Fire in My Belly" in protest of the Smithsonian'sactions. [LAT]

– Angelina Gentileschi: Rather than opting to buy million-dollar paintings at Art Basel Miami Beach, Angelina Jolie went shopping for art supplies with her kids at Lee's Art Storein New York City. Awww! She probably bought the million-dollar stuff too, though. [PWSpoilers]

– "It Was a Surreal Experience": Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz spoke to the Guardian's Charlotte Higginsabout receiving the prestigious award amid student protests at Tate Britain. "Education is a right not a privilege — as I used to say myselfon demos," she said in solidarity with the demonstrators. [Guardian]

– Oooh, Celebrity Art Basel Hookup?: Page Six notes that A-Rod and professional (and unmarried) "Housewife" Kelly Bensimon were awful cozy down in Miami, canoodling at Aby Rosen'sdinner party and elsewhere. Of course, the more important hookup would be whichever dealer or art consultant got the multimillion-dollar-contracted baseball star's ear. [Page Six]

– A Head for Business: Damien Hirstgot the title for his most famous artwork — "For the Love of God," aka "the diamond-encrusted skull" — when his mother asked him "For the love of god, what are you going to do next," the artist told the Financial Times in an interview where he says that investors in his $100 million-insured skull want to make their money back "in due time," and refuses to deny that the piece's current display at Florence's Palazzo Vecchiois a prelude to a possible auction or sale. As for his current work, hecontinues to paint his unloved paintings in his little shed, but also has "a team of some 30 assistants painting away for him, working on a newish line, the so-called 'Fact' paintings, copied from photographs." [FT]

– Time to Americanize Brit Art Funding: As British culture secretary Jeremy Huntprepares to speak today on how to promote arts philanthropy — long eschewed by the U.K. and its publicly funded institutions, but increasingly vital as cultural funding cuts ravage Europe — the Guardian offers a handy roundup on statements Hunt has made on the subject in the past.[Guardian]

– Ten Best of 2010: New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl's address on the state of the art world deems the New Museum's Urs Fischer show and MoMA's celebrated Marina Abramovicretrospective "frou frou," and states that in 2010 "money made slobbering love to itself at fairs and auctions, with art as a beard." But he likes Tino Sehgal and Pipilotti Rist, Matisse and Ab-Ex at MoMA, and various painters, mostly old or dead ones. [New Yorker]

– "Apple City" Gets Futuristic iDesign: Cupidity manufacturer Apple has tapped British starchitect Norman Foster to design the company's new Cupertino, California campus. The site, purchased from HP for $300 million, will be connected to Steve Jobs'soriginal campus by underground tunnels featuring little cars that look like they are from the future. There will also be self-sustaining plantations! [Hyperallergic]

– VIDEO OF THE DAY: A CNN reporter did notexactly do favors to the network's terrific war correspondents in Iraq with this segment on Iraqi-born Professor Camerahead. [The Stranger]

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