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News & ArtsMonday, May 11, 2009
Visual Art Two Great Art Reads
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:35 PM
1. On the age-old-slash-New-Economy practice of artists' bartering—trading their work for everything from wedding rings to dental work to haircuts and suits, here. (Pictured: Ed Kienholz's watercolor for a fur coat.)
2. On the way curators scramble, kneel, and beg for the artworks they believe in at an unusual Los Angeles County Museum of Art fundraiser, here.
Both pieces by Jori Finkel, she who is on fire.
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