artlovesmoney

It’s funny what you can discover by googling the search engine terms that lead people to your website. I was intrigued by this one from today: Madoff collects Mark Kostabi paintings, which would be kind of hilarious if true (I didn’t see anything to suggest it is). Aside from possibly spawning a regular feature here, I snagged these interesting bits of info for you:

• Barbara Gladstone Listed as Bernie Madoff Client (which somehow I missed back in February).
• Mat Gleason lists the top ten reasons he is done writing reviews in the April issue of Coagula (download it here), which Jerry Saltz, who recently Facebooked–If 85% of all art shows are bad why are 85% of all reveiws in magazines, etc. positive (or only discriptive)? (all sic)–might want to take a look at.
• Back in 1987, the New York Times reported that some folks by the name of Berini had a Kostabi painting ”Sadness Because the Video Store is Closed” installed above their scalloped and quilt-inspired dining room table.
• A lot of People in the Art World Just Hate Mark Kostabi’s Guts. (According to a Q & A with the artist at the Tribeca Film Festival, which showed the Kostabi documentary Con Artist last week, it has something to do with all of our cash flowing into Kostabi’s bank account.)
• I wouldn’t trust anyone seeking early Kostabi original paintings on the web or trying to sell ones for as much as $62,500.
• A nice welcome sign for Williamsburg.
• Senior Editor Carlo McCormick, a frequent panelist on Mark Kostabi’s cable TV game show, recently invited Kostabi to be the guest artist in Paper magazine’s April issue. [Link]
• A blogger in Paris thinks that Shepard Fairey “brings together elements of the UK street artist Banksy, the factory-and self-obsessed Mark Kostabi, Russian Constructivism and propaganda to great effect.”
• Air America host and attorney Ron Kuby‘s jailhouse advice for Bernie Madoff: Hit the weights, get into the weight room, work out.