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Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on Conflicts of Interest, Tribes of Shyness, and High Hopes for the New Museum — Vulture

by Art Fag City on November 12, 2010

Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on Conflicts of Interest, Tribes of Shyness, and High Hopes for the New Museum — Vulture – Although Saltz uses the word "excellent" to describe Hoptman, it's hard not to read the subtext here, as not-so-excellent, since with her departure, and Gioni's leadership the New Museum could "return to […]

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The New “Explain Me”s: Monsters and Monstahs in the House

by Paddy Johnson on October 18, 2017

The new Explain Me podcasts have dropped! This week William Powhida and I did more than we anticipated, so there are two podcasts. The first is a discussion with L.A.Times Staff Writer Carolina A. Miranda (also known as @cmonstah on Twitter) about what David Geffen’s $150 million donation to The Los Angeles County Museum of Art means to the institution. We get into the politics of architecture and discuss speculation over where Geffen’s own collection will land. Later we discuss the recent anti-gentrification protests in Boyle Heights, and how their take-no-prisoners approach has forced one gallery, PSSST to close. Long story short, when it comes to the LA art scene, Miranda is pretty much the most informed human being on the planet. So, we had her on the show. Listen to the podcast below, on Stitcher, and on iTunes.

In part two, “Making Monstrosity Visible in Three Parts”, Powhida and I get to discussing some art. We talk about the Trevor Paglen exhibition at Metro Pictures, which is creepy as fuck. (We also take issue with New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz’s review on the subject.) We look at Ellie Ga at Bureau, who sensitively touches on the horror of the Syrian refugee crisis. And finally, we take a look Omer Fast show at James Cohen gallery, which is currently at the center of controversy. Numerous protestors have taken issue with Fast’s decision to transform the gallery into a Chinese bus station, and have accused the artist of yellowface. We take a look at the protestors message, Fast’s installation and videos and try to identify where things went wrong. It’s a great discussion and one I hope you’ll tune into. Listen to this podcast below, on Stitcher and on iTunes.

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Friday Links: Museum Poo on a Slide

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 28, 2015

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Miley Cyrus will be collaborating with underground net artists and artist Jen Stark for the VMA’s this year, which she will host. Prediction: Jerry Saltz will write a think piece lauding whatever she does. Anyway, here’s an interview she gave to the Times totally stoned. Read it if you dare. [The New York Times]
Stefan Simchowitz and his dealer/partner Ellis King are suing the 28 year old Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama for deauthenticating nearly 300 signed art works. As Greg Allen tells it, the Simchowitz King position sure is rich. Simchowitz claims he made his career with a Dublin show in 2015. At that point Mahama had two shows at Saatchi, a London residency, participation in DAK’ART, the largest African biennial, an announced show at The Mistake Room in Los Angeles, and announced participation in the Venice Biennale, but sure, that Simchowitz show in Dublin made Mahama. Then there’s the art itself. Simchowitz’s 300 works are drawn from a sprawling installation of jute sacks which he purchased for approximately $138,000—he has a history of buying large works and cutting them up to make buckets of money—and he’d already sold 17 of those works for $16,000 each. So, he’s already made close to $450,000, which means the suit is merely a complaint that he didn’t make 20 times his investment. Anyway, Allen suggests that Mahama flood the market with these things and devalue the work entirely. Haha! [Greg Allen]
North Korea’s new airport in Pyongyang has all the latest technology, including an Internet room…with no Internet. It seems the room exists primarily to create the illusion of a modern airport, as the country itself allows its citizens virtually no access to the web. [Associated Press]
Why are paintings of the baby Jesus usually so creepy? Maura Callahan investigates, and highlights some especially terrifying ones in the Walters Art Museum’s collection. [City Paper]
In other “children in museums” news, Osaka students can dress up like poo and navigate a sewage-themed interactive exhibit that features a giant toilet slide. [CCTVNews]
The Times publishes its second piece this week on hydration rumors. The first put to rest the myth that drinking eight cups of water a day was a necessity, the second catalogues a few high school football students who drank too much Gatorade and died. All we need now is a piece about how dehydration has been shown to lower cancer rates and the story loop will be complete. [Well]
New York City’s taxi drivers are getting an Uber-like app to help compete with the rise of popular, more-affordable ridesharing services. [Fortune]
Yes, this is a real headline from the BBC’s health report: “Young goths ‘at risk of depression’”. [BBC News]
A new retrospective of Keith Arnatt’s work sparks old discussions over the art world’s historically cold shoulder to photography as fine art. [The Guardian]
This photo essay looks more like New Orleans than New York, but “Bungalow Brooklyn” is facing many threats from development, sea level rise, and blight. The borough’s historic bungalow districts mostly date from the early 20th century as summer homes. Today, many of the tiny houses are storm damaged, squatted, or vacant as developers sit on them. The upshot? If you’re a crafty aspiring homeowner, they’re probably the only place in the borough where you can buy a home for less than $200,000. [Curbed NY]
The mass exodus of galleries from Chelsea to cheaper digs in the Lower East Side continues. [The Real Deal]

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Thursday Links: MoMA Expands Through the Folk Museum

by Whitney Kimball on January 9, 2014

A rendering of MoMA’s new space

Morning folks. It’s official: MoMA will demolish the Folk Art Museum in order to make way for the redesign.
The new building will focus heavily on creating an illusion of accessibility. Whether that’s gonna happen through bulldozing our neighborhood Folk Art Museum to make way for a glass museum is just one of many questions critics are asking.

MoMA says that preserving the museum would be “simply impossible” for its latest redesign. (Here’s hoping this one’s the winner! Ha, ha, ha.) MoMA plans to start construction this summer. [New York Times]
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger thinks the museum is making a “fatal mistake”, and he’s appalled by MoMA’s indifference. “A city that allows such a work to disappear after barely a dozen years is a city with a flawed architectural heart,” he writes. “A large cultural institution that cannot find a suitable use for such a building is an institution with a flawed architectural imagination.” [Vanity Fair]
Justin Davidson suspects that even architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro were hesitant about the move, since they’re basically replaced the Folk Art Museum’s space with a big open hole. “The client is bent on art-world domination; the architects seem halfhearted.” [Vulture]
Jerry Saltz still doesn’t see enough space to house MoMA’s permanent collection, and in its place, a lot of vapid blue chip space and nonsense about accessibility. Time to give up on MoMA. [Vulture]
Oh my God. CBC reports that six bodies have been found in Russian bomb-rigged cars; all of the bodies had been shot ahead of time. Reporters are linking it to the Sochi Olympics but no motive’s been found yet. [CBC]
Brooklyn sales are higher than ever. [Curbed]
Russian journalist Masha Gessen has been making the rounds promoting her new book about Pussy Riot. Gessen, one of Putin’s most outspoken critics, has just fled Russia with her wife and children to avoid the anti-gay laws there. [NPR]
Creative Time Reports has published some of the most important artist essays last year, like Laurie Jo Reynolds’ piece on the Tamms Supermax Prison and David Byrne’s essay on inequality (which made its way from the mainstream media to City Council hearings). So we were surprised to read another ad for Marina Abramovic’s institute, which is trying to raise 20 million dollars. Abramovic’s written similar essays which sell the project as a public good, while linking to her kickstarter campaign. Creative Time buys this? [Creative Time Reports]

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Thursday Links: Museums, Mostly

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on April 11, 2013

So much good stuff in this slideshow. Look for the hips surrounding the woman in blue. It kills me. [Lens Blog]
Today’s big news: MoMA will demolish the old Folk Art Museum. It was an unattractive building some bemoaned as responsible for the financial ruin of of the museum; it communicated nothing about folk art. The decision isn’t a huge surprise. [The New York Times ]
A profile on the Indianapolis Museum of Art Director Charles Venable, who recently cut the museum’s staff by 11%, gets called out by Indianapolis’ NUVO as “cagey and opaque”. Yikes. This follows Tyler Green’s damning article on the director’s decision to make cuts in March. [NUVO]
The Brooklyn Museum is planning an exhibition of cat gods, “Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt.” It won’t be cute, and we fully expect cat mummies like this one to inspire some nightmares. [In The Air]
With Anthony Wiener’s mayoral run, we’re covering our ears just thinking of how many bad puns we’ll be hearing. Prime examples of the worst puns ever, found here. [Politicker]
Hoping that smaller is better, Microsoft is coming out with a 7-inch tablet. They already have plenty of competition in the tiny screen market. [The Daily Beast]
Even as an idea, this fictional museum freaks the fuck out of me: The Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History. Naturally, they have residency program. [In The Air]

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Jerry Saltz and Karl Rove Talk About George W. Bush’s Paintings on MSNBC

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 26, 2013

How absurd can this story get?

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Flamers: Schjeldahl Versus Saltz

by Corinna Kirsch on January 15, 2013

This week, we get two critics’ opinions on MoMA’s latest painting show, “Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925”. Is it a “splendid historical survey” (Schjeldahl) or “history written by the winners” (Saltz)?

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More Fire at MoCA: An Art Museum Without Artists [UPDATE]

by Whitney Kimball on July 16, 2012

MoCA’s controversial forced resignation of Paul Schimmel can officially be upgraded to SOS. In a series of open letters and public resignations, MoCA board members have spent the past week letting the museum know what they think of its decision.

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New Barnes Building Opens, Why People are Upset

by Whitney Kimball on May 16, 2012

After years of controversy and legal battles, the Philadelphia-based Barnes Collection has moved. Its initiator, pharmaceuticals mogul Albert C. Barnes, who died in 1951, clearly stipulated in his will that none of the work should leave its salon-style installation in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. Barnes left behind one of the most significant late 19th and early 20th century art collections in the world; by 2004, the Foundation reported severe financial and maintenance problems and planned its move to the new building in downtown Philadelphia, next to the Rodin Museum. A judge ordered that the arrangement be replicated in the new building, and, according to Justin Davidson and Jerry Saltz, the new museum actually allows visitors to see the work, which was difficult in the dark and crowded old house. “Owners are temporary caretakers,” Jerry Saltz points out– so if we’re much better able to view a few thousand artworks, including 181 Renoirs, 69 Cézannes, 59 Matisses, and 44 Picassos, and it’s still hung the same, then why worry about the demands of a dead rich guy?

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The Deal With Occupy Museums

by Paddy Johnson on October 24, 2011

Is Occupy Museums as naive as its critics seem to think? I talk to those behind the movement to get a better sense of what they believe and where this is going. There’s a lot less to be skeptical about than many seem to believe.

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Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on Conflicts of Interest, Tribes of Shyness, and High Hopes for the New Museum — Vulture

Jerry Saltz and Karl Rove Talk About George W. Bush’s Paintings on MSNBC

More Fire at MoCA: An Art Museum Without Artists [UPDATE]

New Barnes Building Opens, Why People are Upset

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