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Stories, links, and places around the web.

• A Hitler Learns video on Jeffrey Deitch and his ascension to curator of the MOCA This is a whole genre, dubbing the climactic scene in Downfall with contemporary schtick. Very funny.
• An article on the 'oops' of fixing torn paintings A woman at an adult education class tripped into a valuable Picasso ($100M or so), tearing it. This article looks at this and other related incidents, assessing what happens next.
• An open letter from OK Go How do you make money from music when people don’t buy music? Ok Go reflects on the state of embedded video.
• Does art need to be 'permanent' to be commodified? “Sehgal makes art that does not require the transformation of any materials. He refuses to add objects to a society that he says is overly encumbered with them.”
• Olav Velthuis talk coming up Olav will be giving a talk entitled “The Return of the 90s. The Art Market in Times of Crisis”, which might be of interest to you.

Culture, Art, Sociology & Related Spaces

• Arts Admin Michael Rushton’s blog – he is the director of the Art Administration program at IU
• Survey Documentation and Analysis Web-based analysis of survey data
• The Art Law Blog Donn Zaretsky does NOT approve of blanket prevention of de-accessioning.
• The De-accessioning Blog Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento thinks de-accessioning should be legal, ethical, and available.
• This Blog Sits at the Grant McCracken’s cultural anthropology blog

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