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These days, she sends valentines to her friends. She prefers Hallmark cards with “cute little animals,” and gets the post office clerk to write out her message and the recipient’s address, so that her identity remains secret. “Everyone likes to get valentines,” she said.

She ordered another vodka tonic, then affectionately recalled an e-mail that her studio had received from newlyweds who had bought a digital neon work, priced at eighty dollars, and had projected it at their wedding. (Works purchased from s[edition] can be streamed on TVs or played through apps on your phone.) “Isn’t that romantic?” Emin asked. Since artists retain the image rights to a work even after the physical object has been sold, s[edition] can offer inexpensive digital versions of art works, which in their physical forms cost much, much more. (P. Diddy reportedly paid around $95,000 for an “I Listen To The Ocean And All I Hear Is You” neon at Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2011.)

“I love art,” Emin went on. “And art loves me more than any man has ever loved me. Art has never let me down. When I’ve been my lowest of my low, art has always come and picked me up. I can’t say that about the men I’ve had relationships with. It’s about forever and ever. The last thing I do before I die will be art, definitely. Whereas people come and people go. I wish I could have a lover like art, that loved me as passionately as art loves me, or who I could give as much back to.”

She insisted that, if you read closely, you’ll find this skepticism about the permanence of love in the work; even the sweetest of the Times Square messages has a twist. “‘I Promise To Love You,’ means like, What, you’re not going to love me? Why have you got to promise?” she explained. “‘I Listen To The Ocean And All I Hear Is You’ can be, You’re alone, and you’re walking on the beach, and it sounds really beautiful, and you think of the person who loves you. Or, on the other hand, you’re trying to listen to the ocean and this person will just not stop fucking talking.”

- Tracey Emin Loves Art

BY EMMA ALLEN

FEBRUARY 2013 THE NEW YORKER 

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 Poster for Portishead for this year’s Rock En Seine

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NEW PRINTS!

This summer, Gala Bent worked with Scott Kolbo and a group of students in a residency at Seattle Pacific University that resulted in a series of prints inspired by the history of ideas about the shape of the cosmos. The prints are short-run editions of intaglio etchings and two editions were finished with hand coloring, making each print unique. The prints are now available for purchase online here or if you are in Seattle they are available for viewing and purchase at G.Gibson Gallery, along with their inventory of Gala’s previous prints and works on paper.

KEEP TUNED!  Gala will be having a solo show at G.Gibson Gallery in March of 2015 that is a further exploration of the cosmic chemical and magnetic properties that structure our world.  

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Descartes had a compelling theory that planets travel in their own vortex of matter. This image is a detail of “230 of an infinite number of possible universes.” - Gala Bent 

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Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv - Text Rain, 1999

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Images of Diebenkorn 

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Pace Chesa Büsin: A retrospective of works by Zhang Huan is now on view at Pace’s gallery space at Chesa Büsin in Zuoz, Switzerland. Encompassing the artist’s diverse career, the exhibition features paintings in oil and ash, sculpture, photography, and more.

Images: Center, right: “Spring Poppy Fields No. 28” (2013) oil on linen. Installation views at Chesa Büsin.

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Xavier Mellery (Belgian, 1845-1921), The Doors. Oil on canvas

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Jean Arp in his Studio (Atelier) with sculptures

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rough Sea (ca. 1840-45)   via Tate

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

VISION AFTER THE SERMON, 1888.

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Anthony Cudahy.

Recent paintings by Brooklyn, New York artist Anthony Cudahy.  Be sure and check out Supersonic’s studio visit with Cudahy and check out more work below:

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Anthony Cudahy

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Adrian Ghenie 27 July 1890, 2014 71 x 57 cm oil on canvas

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Art Everywhere UK: David Hockney’s “My Parents” (1977) will be displayed across 30,000 billboards and outdoor sites throughout the UK as part of Art Everywhere UK’s public art initiative. Of the 25 artists included in the project, Hockney’s work was voted the “nation’s favorite” in an online Facebook poll.

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“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” — Edward Hopper

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Peter Matyasi (b.1982), Untitled00339 (2012), acrylic and oil on canvas, 40 x 60 cm. Via Saatchi.