Lee Hendrix, the drawings curator at the Getty, was looking for art for her deparment.
If she had been looking for art — there was none to be seen on the walls of the rotunda at the time — she had found it.
Jeffrey Gonano said he had been looking for a picture to hang on his livingroom wall when he read a news article about the raffle: "I was looking for art and I thought I might as well".
She emphasizes "the wild self-dramatization that one associates with the young Tennessee Williams, or with Mailer when he gets high on excess," adding that "There's almost a swagger in the way [Toback] consciously goes beyond the rationally acceptable; he's looking for art in that beyond, wanting the unknown — the dangerous — to take over".
His collectors seem ecstatic, too: one of them told Nate Freeman, of ARTnews, that he was looking for "art where if people see it, they go 'Wow.' " Hirst even managed to single-handedly transform the Venice Biennale, the biggest event in the art-world calendar.
Whether you're looking for art to reflect a sense of outrage and despair or to deliver flashes of joy, Arthur Jafa's momentous video installation "Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death," at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, is required viewing.
"Santiago would be looking for an art form, and we would be looking for services for commuters, and also a source of revenue," says Joseph Seymour, the former Port Authority head, who retired in November, 2004.
When choosing the winner, the judges will be looking for imaginative, original, and thought-provoking arts journalism that would be suitable for publication in the Observer.
Though most of us go to a museum or gallery when we're looking for an art fix, there's actually art almost everywhere.
We are looking for queer art that tears down boundaries and push queer art beyond the limitations of identity politics.
