Art Design Publicity
This section lists newly added articles focused on art, design and publicity— and those in our archive.
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Like Emily Hall Tremaine’s first and second husbands, Max von Romberg and Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr., her third husband Burton Tremaine, that she married in 1945, also was interfacing to some extent...
In the thick of the anti-Nazi / Nazi fight in California, the pal of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Baroness Emily von Romberg), Philip Chancellor, was the victim of an extortion attempt by...
Almost 70 years before Damien Hirst’s publicity-driving diamond skull, arts figure Emily Hall Tremaine did the same, but became the diamond skull herself, wearing in today’s value, 14.5-220 million...
What do the following famous artworks, top in their respective museums, have in common— Jasper Johns’s "Three (American) flags" (1958), at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Warhol’s...
1930s California society publicity queen Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) sued her husband for divorce just a year after marriage, occupying American newspapers for months with...
The "original It Girl" Emily Hall Tremaine (then Von Romberg) married Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr. in August 1939. See the full-on reporting of the young publicity queen across the United States and...
Primary sources, secondary sources, media mentions: a creepy art, design and Nazi publicity compilation. "We forgave, but we didn’t forget," [Jewish architect Frank] Gehry was quoted Wednesday...
Top left: After a year-long second marriage, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) sued for divorce (7 Sept 1940; New York Daily News. Top right: Three months later, Adolph B. Spreckels...
Top left: After a year-long second marriage, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously) Spreckels sues for divorce (7 Sept 1940; New York Daily News. Top right: Three months later, Adolph B. Spreckels...
Top left: After a year-long second marriage, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) sues for divorce (7 Sept 1940; New York Daily News. Top right: Three months later, Adolph B. Spreckels...
— Jeff Cleghorn, veteran gay rights advocate Above: see Jeff Cleghorn’s fiery 4-minute testimony in the Georgia state senate on February 13, 2024. This was reported on extensively across the US and...
International news / resources regarding gender ideology issues and conflicts, with a Gender Critical focus (temporarily at artdesigncafe). Sections A-R below spotlight a sample of news reporting...
Over 7400 media outputs concerning the Evergreen State College protests and its aftermath have been processed to date, and listed, often with links, below.
2017
Continued
17 June 2017...
Approaching its fifth anniversary, check out the media case study of the "pilot program" meltdown for "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion". With pushback, this resulted in waves of shocking and...
Greenpeace meets nude installation photographer Spencer Tunick. A compilation of the publicity outputs three years on. (Event: 2007; Media coverage compilation: 18 August 2010.) A. Introduction:...
Section A. Personal context; B. a 1940 predecessor: lady with diamonds, shocking disclosure, and sensational media coverage nationwide; C. Sensation exhibition press releases; D. exhibition...
Meet the other lady behind the diptych who also experienced a shocking, celebrity-style implosion, but survived it, initially. Her name is Emily; she advised Warhol pair the two paintings like a...
Meet the other lady behind the painting. Her name is Emily. Plus a list of exhibitions and selected publications regarding A boy for Meg. Andy Warhol
A boy for Meg, (1962)
Oil on canvas
72 x...
Meet the lady behind the painting. Her name is Emily. Plus a list of exhibitions and selected publications regarding Three flags. Jasper Johns
Three flags, (1958)
Encaustic on canvas
30 7/8 x...
This start-up magazine based in Santa Barbara, headed by Emily Hall Tremaine (previously von Romberg) featured provocative content and produced national media coverage in just a two-year run. Why...
This micro-site and webpage are packed with a lot of new information clarifying Emily’s work and life.
Left: Wire service photo of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) wearing in today’s...
In 1940, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) courageously stood up and publicly blasted her second husband after a turbulent year-long marriage: "no" to his alleged spousal violence and "no"...
Meet the "mother" of the painting. Her name is Emily. Plus a list of exhibitions and selected publications regarding Mondrian’s Victory Boogie Woogie. Piet Mondrian
Victory boogie woogie,...
Living in California in the crazy and increasingly dangerous 1930s towards WWII, the two socialites accumulated a significant amount of media coverage, some with eye-popping controversy....
Living in California in the crazy and increasingly dangerous late 1930s into the WWII period, the two socialites collided with anti-Nazi vs. alleged pro-Nazi thinking, extreme spousal violence...
Media coverage you can dance to: featuring Marcus Bering, ’music-journalist’ Stephen Mallinder, and Kim Min Su. Marcus Bering. Cropped still from "Sleepwalker sculpture media coverage overload vs....
Artists Marcus Bering and Kim Min Su examined various foreign language titles and quotes from the media coverage. They present a selection of their findings with automated translations— and...
Artist Marcus Bering mashes up the international media coverage compilation of Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker sculpture at Wellesley College, adding some foreign language quotes and Google...
Artist Marcus Bering experiences mental overload while reviewing the 5000+ Sleepwalker media coverage compilation. Here’s the visual result. Click to see the Tony Matelli Sleepwalker media coverage...
Here, we spotlight key quotes and headlines prompted by Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker exhibited at Wellesley College earlier this year. These are set to Harder by Wrangler, music-journalist Stephen...
The following is an international media/Internet coverage compilation concerning Tony Matelli’s discussion-generating Sleepwalker sculpture installed at Wellesley College. (The 2021 re-release...
This is a special focus on the media coverage of Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker and the international media frenzy resulting in over 5000+ articles, many in top media, and around 800 TV broadcasts in...
First, a flashback to the media coverage concerning an acquisition of a Carl Andre artwork in 1976 by the Tate Gallery...
Now onto the press release for the show down the road...
Carl Andre:...
Two more of today’s art professionals confess:
Confession #6: Here is my very embarrassing true confession.
Probably about 10 or 12 years ago, I was at a gallery opening in Manchester, England...
The following is the email I sent to a few art students in the United States...
"Artdesigncafe.com wants to publish an article incorporating quotes of art / art history students in response to a...
The upstart English artist takes on Cosey Fanni Tutti, the "mother" of Art Design Publicity magazine. Will this latent artwork be activated into a performance of legal-oriented publicity, and if...
Damaging artworks, lying, stealing and shooting at sculpture. Is this a typical day for today’s art professionals? Confession #1: My crimes against art were hardly organised. I worked as a picture...
The electronic disco diva croons and influences a series of articles in Art Design Publicity magazine. The Opiates (Billie Ray Martin & Robert Solheim). Candy coated crime.
Candy coated crime...
Boo-hoo to the author perhaps, but considering dreadful book royalty percentages for authors of limited volume books, actually it’s a blessing here. Instead of adding to CV marketing (sorry, got...
Just because the international media isn’t headlining new cases of expats caught in the UAE legal system, some are still getting accused and detained for a range of unfamiliar crimes, says charity...
Down and out in Nottingham, England, Moogee The Art Dog tells it like it T-I is.
Sadly our media request to one of the bad boys of British art didn’t work out... This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/senior/
from: Kim Min Su
Dear Stewart,
We’re...
Media representation can be a bizarre experience, especially for those experiencing it for the first time in some volume. Such is the case for Mark Pimlott, an artist/designer and historian who...
"I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or somebody who has just died. My aim is to show the beauty of death."—Gregor Schneider As the discussion-generating German artist opens his...
A review of Philippe Starck: Subverchic design (1999) and Starck (1999). Eleven years on, this review could be applied to the majority of art/design books still produced even today. Just replace...
The commercial break
In the advertisements ("commercial breaks") that were seen in the pages of magazines or broadcast on television, the environment of representation that Americans lived in...
Looking back, it’s amazing how the elements of the Art Design Publicity game were fully in place ten years ago before the Internet multiplied everything. But will the publicity song always remain...
Boo-hoo. While arts funding was disappearing in 2010, so did funding for a presentation by Art Design Publicity magazine for a ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie museum presentation...
Are you prepared for media coverage success—or are you facilitating a media coverage disaster? A standard feature in the media/comm field, analyzing interviews, can help raise awareness to steer...
Hmm... I wonder how much this "performance"— and the publicity outputs— are worth monetarily to the artist and museum. Don’t know? Then consult your high-end PR evaluation professional... Below is...
Well if the artists are allowed to break the rules, so can the art journos, editors and PR people. Sorry. Roisin Byrne: The theft artist
Sometimes the conversation around the published interview...
We prefer the position that the freaky diamond skull was not sold, that the mass & social media channels were "appropriated"—and that the journos, bloggers, the twitterati, etc. and recipients...
How being drunk and obnoxious on national television launched the populist artist. Tracey Emin and others on post-Turner Prize 1997 program on Channel 4 (UK).
‘Since the media-hyped exhibition...
Make sure to click the sound clip below to get the full effect...
The Crackdown (Original version) by Billie Ray Martin ft. Stephen Mallinder, Maertini Broes & Lusty Zanzibar....
Shocked Beyond belief by her media coverage, here’s just the very fine tip of the iceberg of the UK’s addiction to Tracey. Tracey Emin art & media across the UK
Check out the impact just nine...
When was the last time you saw an artist being interviewed on CNN—for thirty minutes? Before Maya Lin was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour last December talking about her What is missing?...
Have you ever seen an artist stitch quotes through UK media? Nobody does it better than Tracey... Tracey Emin quotes
It is a very unusual person indeed who spends three days solid flippings...
After years of sociological research, our correspondent from Artforum’s New York City has put together a little guide to train aspiring women to make the most out of today’s art world. The...
During the excitement around the show in London last month, thoughtful criticism emerged about the project in relation to the journalistically processed publicity. But since, the lead writer...
This book is a particularly important reference on the Art Design Publicity front. The following is a review offering a short introduction. Conceptual art and the politics of publicity by Alexander...
To what extent does his expertise in communications affect his interest in art? Christian Boros interview
It’s certainly an unusual event when a former WWII bunker gets transformed into an art...
Will your jazzy, sexy press releases ever become Art too? Here we feature two more timeless classics (c. 1998) by those artist-pranksters BANK.
Our PR specialist "does a BANK"— and critically evaluates the press release for the exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern in London.
Here are the results......
featuring an ADP Marilyn Manson intervention... Pop Life at Tate Modern, London
(As a musical accompaniment to this article, we offer you a little song, already a classic, by Marilyn Manson. He...
Green Day art show
First off in the music+art room, we offer you a university art classroom-style Compare and Contrast. Here, we show you nine paintings made by various visual artists that...
Green Day art show: Eelus. Last of the American Girls.
(Ed. note: We received the statement after forming our comments.)
"The song wasn’t released when I painted the piece so I had to work...
Green Day art show: Meggs. Christian’s Inferno.
R.J.: Now we’re rockin’... that intro was great... but the chorus...?.. now we’re back to it. The artwork though is not my kind of work. This seems...
Green Day art show: Ron English. 21st century breakdown grin.
Ed. note: we received the following statement after our comments were formed.
"I see the song as an expression of the impact of...
This I did,
with the agreement of my supervisor.
The assessors would receive loose copies of the text—
revealing the censored layer,
under the condition that they destroy the copies...
So, as a law-abiding student, writer, and researcher,
taking into account this legal context,
I will now show you the effect on a couple of pages.
Mainly, the effect is like this.
At other...
Earlier during the week, one of the interns proposed something at ADP... It became clear that I needed to release this presentation at this time. So, I’ve linked my laptop to the projector......
BANK offers a simple solution… just grade them and send them back! Featuring communications by White Cube, Sadie Coles HQ and sophisticated Yanks. ADP has only been open for business for just three...
It’s amazing how critical media analysis can quickly raise fundamental questions about art world communications, like that for political discourse. But why is it still ignored by most art and...
It’s amazing what one hears when you give some people a Venetian mask... While chatting with an art journo colleague in Europe, I mentioned about ADP and how there’s a group focused on Critical...
Do you dare send your jazzy, sexy press release to Mat Gleason? Now back in the days when we were firing off press releases and looking to gather as many international press clippings that we...
Why are the demands put on contemporary art historians so impractical? Days…
I dive by the wreck. […]
Nights…
I dream about a perfect…
place…
—Laurie Anderson, Blue Lagoon (c.1983)...
We’ve never seen an artist and journo go at it like this... Here we applaud two upstanding members of the London art and media communities, artist Jake Chapman and journalist Carole Cadwalladr....
He pursued the Dubai dream, but is now haunted by what he saw. I’ll never forget that Monday morning last October in Dubai.
Until then, having breakfast in my 2-bed, 2-bath, 43rd floor luxury...
What happens when PR, art journalism, mainstream coverage and the art world collide? Patricia Bickers interview
About two years ago, I contacted Patricia Bickers, editor of Art Monthly to ask her...
Accompanying John Crossley’s reflection of experiencing a full-on UK media-frenzy, we show an aspect of their "performance art". At least 135 pre-Internet media coverage results: TV, radio, and...
What was it like to be an art student and face full-on UK media coverage? Leeds 13’s John Crossley: I survived a national media frenzy
As an art student in the UK a decade ago, I survived a media...
Does this unique mix of art, design and publicity offer a blueprint? Thomas Girst interview: Communicating BMW Art Cars
Marriages of brand-name artistic talent and luxury consumer goods don’t get...
With COUM Transmissions, the two shocked with Prostitution at London’s ICA 45 years ago, generating a discussion across the media. Anyone who publicly declares that their art show was "a joke... a...
R.J. Preece asked four artists to share their thoughts about marketing/media relations—anonymously. Here’s what the artists had to say:
Secret Artist #1: “Being an artist kinda sucks—before you...
The following is a book proposal, enabling Emin to lash out at badly behaving journos and set the record straight. But the celebrity artist was too busy to respond to it... A. Alternative proposed...
Sometimes things work out like a celebratory press release, and sometimes they aren’t actually that way at all. It started out innocently enough. A three-part project [April * June * August 2002],...
In the early 90s, there was a lot of talk about a “crisis…[of] the loss of convictions that once governed the practice of art and the interpretive enterprise associated with it.” John Gilmour, one...
The following is a presentation text for a lecture given by Mark Pimlott at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam on 8 April. "Societies have always been shaped more by the...
Amidst a rather controversial "fire-based performance", the conceptual art song remains the same. When the levee breaks by Led Zeppelin.
Burnout: In the Name of Love
A performance-interactive...
Team Bush Media Simulator
An interactive new media installation by Kim Min Su
Illinois State University Galleries, Gallery 2
Normal, Illinois, USA
February 25 - March 3, 2003
Press...
Via Tracey Emin’s experience, to what extent is today’s artwriting riddled with factual errors and underlying motive by writers, journalists, and academics? And from a real research perspective, if...
“... the tent and the artist offer great copy generated by the artwork’s contained textual focal points— the artwork’s title, facilitation of a media-genic headline, the description the artwork...
Marc Quinn interview
Marc Quinn continues to shock the uninitiated with his materials—including his own blood and excrement. From unconventional materials and processes, he creates figurative...
Back in 2000 in interview, Marc Quinn, the British artist known for using unusual art materials like ice, blood and excrement, shared his thoughts about his experience with contemporary...
As the design world awaits the unveiling of two new London hotels by the high-profile Philippe Starck-Ian Schrager team, R. J. Preece anticipates the media frenzy and looks at the previous results....
R.J. Preece (2011): Back in the day, I thought Thai artist Chatchai Puipia was an absolute nutter. I’m still not satisfied with his lack of clarity concerning his artistic intention, and his...
Philippe Starck Delano hotel - table of contents | Endnotes
Endnotes
1. I am using this form of in-text referencing, which adheres to the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing...
Appendix D. Details for Claims about Cumulative Angles— by Individual Article Appendix D: Details for Claims about Cumulative Angles— by Individual Article
The following is a detailed list of...
Appendix C: Examples for Claims about Genres
1. Ian Schrager Hotel Publicity Genres
The press kit information consists of publicity genres (See Figure 6 and Bibliography A, Promotional Genres),...
Appendix B: Details for Claims about Legalities of Writing
Considering that the following excerpts are in legalese, they are provided as quotes for the purpose of illuminating the problems and...
Appendix A: Details of Comprehensive Search Procedures
The results of the search occurred using the following procedures.
1. Press material received from Ian Schrager Hotels’ public relations...
Bibliography C: Bibliographic List of Other Sources Including Those Concerning Methodology, Journalism, Law, and Other Starck Sources [22]
Reference here from self-censored section (redacted)...
Bibliography B: List of published writings sample on the Delano— listed by the author [21]
F. Anderton. (March 1997). Cooler than thou. Blueprint, 1337, pp. 32-4.
A. Anthony. (6 September...
Bibliography A: List of writings sample on the Delano— listed by categories Bibliographies A and B contain the same references. Bibliography B lists references by author; Bibliography A by...
Focus on form: Intertextuality. IV. The Problematic Discourse on "Philippe Starck’s" Delano Hotel (1999) - Focus on form: Intertextuality
Moving more into the texts, and towards the actual...
Focus on form: The Form of the Writings III. The Problematic Discourse on "Philippe Starck’s" Delano Hotel (1999) - Focus on form: The Form of the Writings
For this study, I’ve employed critical...
II. The Problematic Discourse on "Philippe Starck’s" Delano Hotel - From Content to Form
A. Search Procedures
Within this context a somewhat, unusual comprehensive search was undertaken to...
Philippe Starck is an international design and media superstar. Throughout the 1980s and well into the ’90s, he has produced signature designs from Paris to Tokyo to New York to Los Angeles, with a...
Philippe Starck Delano hotel - table of contents | List of illustrations
List of Illustrations
Due to copyright approval requirements for publications (See Jones 1999, and copyright law section...
The Problematic Discourse on "Philippe Starck’s" Delano Hotel by R. J. Preece
Supervisor: Dr. Pauline Madge
Table of Contents
A. Abstract
B. [2012 notes...
Philippe Starck Delano hotel - table of contents | Cover page & legal letters
The following letters are included in the hard copy version to illuminate the context of the publication for...
Review of installation When Robots Rule: The Two Minute Airplane Factory in London, England. Chris Burden at the Tate Gallery, London
Sometimes things work out, sometimes they fail miserably. The...
2012 notes | Philippe Starck Delano hotel - table of contents
N.B. 2012 In an academic context, I walked in aiming to pass, and I walked out with this study being awarded a Master’s distinction...
Mat the maverick at Coagula—and one of the Art Design Publicity spiritual leaders— interviewed a crazy collector in loonied-out Los Angeles. It is one of the world’s natural wonders how Mat Gleason...
The following is the press release of the inaugural exhibitions organized by the London gallery that soon became an international art powerhouse. Itai Doron The Immaculate Stereoscopic Conception...
The following is a copy of the original press release prepared by the Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art. This show travelled to at least 28 venues across the US and generated significant...