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		<title>Hydroponic Hot House: The Singapore Biennale 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Randy Gladman. Originally published in the Financial Times of London’s How To Spend It, March 31, 2011. Arriving a few days ago in this wealthy city-state at the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula in order to attend the third Singapore Biennale, I wondered what type of contemporary arts could thrive in a city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Street Art is Taking its Seat at the Table of High Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Randy Gladman. Originally published in the Financial Times of London’s How To Spend It, February 7, 2011. The website of the Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, recently posted a six-minute long time-lapse video of the production of an onsite mural painted by the artist Dalek (James Marshall) and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/2011/02/how-street-art-is-taking-its-seat-at-the-table-of-high-culture/</link>
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		<title>The Three Ring Miami Art Circus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Randy Gladman. Originally published in the Financial Times of London’s How To Spend It, December 7, 2010. I’ve resisted attending the annual art carnival that is Art Basel Miami Beach since my last excursion in 2003. From that trip, during the convention’s second iteration, all I remember is a blur of expensive cars, beautiful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/2010/12/the-three-ring-miami-art-circus/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Gallerist Cristin Tierney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on The Ministry of Artistic Affairs Blog INTERVIEW by Randy Gladman Some management gurus say there is no better time to start a new business than in the belly of a recessionary dip. While cautionary conservatism and fearful retreat seem to characterize conventional behavior during bad days, the contrarian view is that economic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/2010/11/interview-gallery-gal-cristin-tierney/</link>
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		<title>The Artists Who Wield Ideas Like Burning Torches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Randy Gladman. Originally published in the Financial Times of London&#8217;s How To Spend It, November 4, 2010. Contemporary culture is at its best when it is fresh and stuffed with wide-ranging and original ideas. Many of the most interesting contributors to the current arts have a fierce facility with extreme variety. While many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/2010/11/the-artists-who-wield-ideas-like-burning-torches/</link>
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		<title>Inquisition of Conrad Black</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; Introduction and Inquisition by Randy Gladman, May 16, 2010 Mexican beer company Dos Equis recently ran a wonderful advertising campaign, presenting “The Most Interesting Man in the World”. In these radio and television spots, a dignified, slightly accented, well-dressed, rough yet sophisticated man is described in impossibly exciting detail. “The police often question him, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/2010/05/inquisition-of-conrad-black/</link>
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		<title>Rewind:  Dalek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Winter 2005 Review of exhibibition at both le. gallery and Magic Pony Gallery, Toronto Dalek&#8217;s first solo exhibition in Canada introduced Toronto audiences to a Brooklyn-based member of a large underground urban art movement that is attracting attention in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Bahen at Moore Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Randy Gladman. Original Akrylic Content. Published online April 28, 2010. One of the strange and disappointing characteristics of the Toronto art scene is the way our local and national art critics have a knack of missing important exhibitions. In 2004, Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, hosted a museum quality posthumous exhibition of the work of Joseph Beuys, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/2010/04/matt-bahen-at-moore-gallery/</link>
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		<title>The Ministry of Artistic Affairs:  Social. Art. Education.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Artistic Affairs is a new initiative I&#8217;ve launched with two partners based here in Toronto. The goal of this program is to provide a unique insight into the art market by curating a series of informative and interactive events exploring multiple facets of the art scene. We had our first event on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/2010/04/the-ministry-of-artistic-affairs-social-art-education/</link>
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		<title>Artist Inquisitions!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this new section, Akrylic asks artists, dealers, consultants, curators and other creative types all sorts of random questions with the intent of shedding light on the way cool people think. Though some of the questions will deal with the art practice+work of these smart people, most of these questions are totally random and cover [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/2009/08/inquisitions-2/</link>
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