{"id":517,"date":"2006-04-06T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2006-04-06T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T10:20:00","slug":"news-you-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"News you can use&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/fgtorres4-767967.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/fgtorres4-730267.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/><b>Gonzalez-Torres to &#8220;represent&#8221; at the VB<\/b><br \/>The US State Department has selected the work of Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres to represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Gonzalez-Torres will be (in my recollection) the first artist representing the US who died (publicly with advance knowledge) of AIDS-related complications.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charles Saatchi and Royal Academy put together show of US art<\/b><br \/>The BBC reports that the Royal Academy is working with Charles Saatchi for an exhibition celebrating new American art. &#8220;USA Today,&#8221; opens in October, will feature thirty artists who work in the US. Among the artists included are Kelley Walker, Rodney McMillian, Inka Essenhigh, Jules de Balincourt, Josephine Meckseper, and Ryan McGinness. Royal Academy president Sir Nicholas Grimshaw said: &#8220;This is a thought-provoking and exciting array of works from tomorrow&#8217;s big art names.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Saatchi can get Damien Hirst in this show just for grins. One last dig &#8211; has DH been &#8220;knighted&#8221; yet?<\/p>\n<p><b>Art Deal of the Month (not mine)<\/b><br \/>For those who loved the Marilyn Minter in the WB or on the cover of ARTnews this month, Creative Time has an 11&#215;14 inch, Limited Signed Edition of 100 prints available for $500.<br \/>Follow this url: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativetime.org\/programs\/archive\/2006\/minter\/limited.html\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/www.creativetime.org\/programs\/archive\/2006\/minter\/limited.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonzalez-Torres to &#8220;represent&#8221; at the VBThe US State Department has selected the work of Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres to represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Gonzalez-Torres will be (in my recollection) the first artist representing the US who died (publicly with advance knowledge) of AIDS-related complications. Charles Saatchi and Royal Academy put together show of US artThe BBC reports that the Royal Academy is working with Charles Saatchi for an exhibition celebrating new American art. &#8220;USA Today,&#8221; opens in October, will feature thirty artists who work in the US. Among the artists included are Kelley Walker, Rodney&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=517\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">News you can use&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}