Alias Arts

It’s not just a flood of Damien Hirst art works…it’s the Katrina of the Art World! There are several reports out that his art dealers are already choking on having trouble “selectively placing” tons of unsold art works by Damien Hirst. 1. See bloomberg news story today….Download Damien_Hirst_floods_Market.txt 2. Art Fag City – “Disclosure of Unsold Damien Hirst….” 3. Art Observed – “Disclosure of White Cube’s unsold Hirst inventory..” 4. The Art Newspapers – “The art Damien Hirst failed to sell” 5. UK Times Online – “200 unsold Damien Hirst works….” Plus.. Let us not forget, the famous 100 million…

We at MAO just love Jeremy Kost’s new photo of Amanda Lepore which will be at the DPA re:Form Charity Auction on September 3rd.The DPA has managed to get quite an impressive list of amazing art donations. But one that stood out from the pack was Jeremy’s boobolicious photo of Amanda Lepore. Amanda is the self proclaimed Number 1 Transsexual in the world, she is a walking piece of plastic ass performance art. (Photo #1, Jeremy Kost, “Amanda de Milo”, 2008, 33″ x 24″, injket on paper, edition of 5)This work, a digital print is made from 3 collaged and…

So. we’re not sure how we missed this story.. but today we found out that our favorite rare book website..got bought by www.AMAZON.com a few weeks ago. We’ve used and loved the Victoria, British Columbia based www.abebooks.com for years. By the way.. ABE stands for “Advanced Book Exchange”, which was the initial name of the website. So it will be interesting to see how the new monster owner changes the little www.AbeBooks.com. Here’s the story from bloomberg.net Amazon.com Buys AbeBooks to Offer More Rare Books (Update2) 2008-08-01 20:13:52.340 GMT By Michael J. Moore Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., the…

Work by Ryan Humphrey at the DPA re:FORM art auction. So we’re going to continue to highlight some of the exceptional items artists donated to the DPA’s re:FORM art auction on September 3rd at Cheim and Read Gallery.. If you missed our last post on the donation by Andy Diaz Hope..check it out. Don’t forget to get your tickets now.. right here! Today’s focus is on artist Ryan Humphrey and his cool AX.. You may know his work from the hot hot hot cutting edge DCKT Contemporary Galleryon the Lower East Side.. where Ryan has his next new solo show…

Ryan James MacFarland, a young photographer worth checking out. If you like the work of Ryan McGinley or even 2008 Whitney Biennial star Melanie Schiff, you should take a look at the work of this still wet behind the lens recent NYU graduate. Ryan James MacFarland has a small solo show up at the tiny emerging MERGE gallery on west 20th street. And you can see more of his work on this website. This 2006 graduate, Ryan James MacFarland, worked briefly for photographer Ryan McGinley, and you can see he learned quite a bit from his boss. His use of…

Doug Keyes, Collective Memory is a must have for all those smart obsessed photobook collectors. It just came out a few days ago from Decode Books, and is already selling out. It’s a small book, but packs an powerful punch. We just got our copy in the mail yesterday, and it’s already one we’ve gone back to several times. Amazon was already sold out.. but you can get a copy here. It’s Doug’s first monograph with an essay by Sheryl Conkelton. Here’s the description from Amazon.. Doug Keyes’s photographs investigate the ways that knowledge stacks upon itself over time, leaving…