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BBC news reports that the Tate galleries are to make hundreds of audio and video downloads available for free download from iTunes.

Will this open up art to new audiences, or just redistribute the same content to the same already-switched-on audience? Discuss.

Check out this video of the Chapman brothers at work in their studio.

Filmed by none other than their Staffordshire bull terrier Kylie (ok with a bit of dad’s help!), it’s another knock at the old ‘but is it art?’ chestnut. Thoughts, barks?

Source: Guardian.co.uk

The New York Times reports on the “art-for-art’s-sake gallerists” of Bushwick, Brooklyn. These galleries are about art, community and culture, rather than business, the art ‘industry’ and big, big money.

Check out Jason Irwin’s Privateer Gallery and nonprofit arts foundation Norte Maar, Austin Thomas’s Pocket Utopia, and Garrison Buxton’s Ad Hoc Art.

“We’re not into the whole hype. We do it for ourselves.” — Austin Thomas

We note that Buxton is encouraging artists to produce smaller pieces he can sell at a lower price point. We applaud this — it creates a way in for new collectors, it makes it possible for artists to work as artists, and it keeps this most valuable and vulnerable of cultures alive. Bravo!