Biggest Contemporary Art Links at AFC New York. Again.
by Corinna Kirsch on November 15, 2012 ·
- The art market keeps on breaking records, but reporters have started becoming a bit suspicious of such grandiose figures. Last night’s contemporary art auction at Christie’s reeled in $412 million dollars, giving rise to headlines like Brian Boucher’s “Biggest Contemporary Art Auction at Christie’s New York. Again”. [Art in America]
- Will Barnet, visionary artist, passed away at 101. He made many, many works about cats, including this one. [Will Barnet's Blog]
- Kyle Chayka doesn’t like the Guggenheim’s Gabriel Orozco show. Chayka thinks Orozco’s rows and rows of collected objects look like the type of well-organized stuff you’d find in any budding designer’s blog: “It’s all more Pinterest than powerful,” he concludes. Yep. [Hyperallergic]
- When food critics attack, we notice. In this week’s New York Times, Pete Wells lambasted Guy Fieri’s new Times Square restaurant, giving it possibly the worst review in the magazine’s history. The restaurant received zero stars. “Is the entire restaurant a very expensive piece of conceptual art?” Wells asks in his piece addressed to Fieri himself. The entire review is one rhetorical question after rhetorical question, finishing with the clincher, “Why did the toasted marshmallow taste like fish?” [The New York Times]
- Now, everyone’s talking about Wells’s piece. If you need to catch up, Grub Street offers a pretty good roundup of all the Twitter reactions, while The Village Voice has a roundup of the blogs. [Grub Street, The Village Voice]
- Just days after the piece’s publication, Guy Fieri appeared on The Today Show to defend his restaurant. [Eater]
- AOL will debut its online curator program, which will be run in its first iteration by Tumblr’s Annie Werner. We’re not sure if a collab with Tumblr will make AOL cool again, but… yeah, pretty much just that. [AOL]
- You probably know by now that GIF became the “word of the year”, but that was only for the United States. In the United Kingdom, the word of the year was “omnishambles.” Stupid Americans! [Jezebel]
