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First, from Ken Johnson's article in the Globe on Karen Finley, her career since those crazy days of the early '90's, and her new exhibit at Emerson:

Bill Arning, curator at MIT's List Visual Arts Center, is another ardent Finley supporter. "She looks for those areas in culture where we have a collective denial, and she makes them apparent so we have to deal with them," he says by phone. "Having watched the feeding frenzy at the Armory Show [the giant New York art fair] this weekend, I am hoping for a new wave of art students making politically engaged, non-commodifiable art. They could not find a better role model for that than Karen Finley." Plus, opines Arning, "She makes really beautiful drawings."

I think someone needs to listen to what they are saying.

Moving on, Geoff Edgers flagged this first, but I'm pleased to see that an exhibition of my old college friend Neal Walsh's paintings won an award from the New England chapter of the International Association of Art Critics for "Best Show in a Commercial Gallery, New England."  Greg Cook has the full list, and asks the question, are New England's local artists not museum worthy?

Lastly, Gary Schwartz sees the "Pollock" discovery and controversy as a matter of art history repeating itself.  I am especially pleased to read Dr. Schwartz's take, as I currently reveling in his lastest, The Rembrandt Book, about which you shall no doubt have more to read soon.  I don't want to get ahead of myself, but here are some words the book calls to mind: "lucid," "judicious," "magisterial."  So, you know, it's good.

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