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by Paddy Johnson and Gabriela Vainsencher on October 1, 2013
Kurt Hentschlager's installation Zee (image credit: kurthentschlager.com)
- Hyperallergic gets a nice clip from the Times in an article about Amazon Art. “Ms. Nielsen, a Brooklyn artist, moved quite a bit of merchandise. After the Web site Hyperallergic included one of her prints in an article titled “Ten of the Cheapest Artworks on Amazon Art,” she sold eight prints the next week.” The rest of the article sums up a program most readers will already familiar with, since it’s three months old. [The New York Times]
- “It’s drug-level money, but you don’t have to kill anyone,” says Tamer Hassan, on digital ad fraud. Hassan is a co-founder and chief technology officer of White Ops, a private digital ad fraud policing company. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Sara Cochran resigned from her position as curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Phoenix Museum of Art. [Phoenix New Times]
- Mark Kermode reflects on criticism and decides that even though you can get sued and endure physical and professional threats, it’s a dream job. Agreed. [The Guardian]
- Jeffrey Shankman, an ardent art supporter in Houston, has indicted by feds for bankruptcy fraud. He was hiding art. [Glass Tire]
- The Second Avenue subway line won’t have sidewalk ventilation grates when it opens in 2016. [The New York Times]
- John Menick writes about contemporary computer viruses as zombies. [Mousse Magazine]
- In Pittsburgh, Kurt Hentschlager’s installation Zee is shutting down after three viewers had to be treated for “seizure-like symptoms”. The installation, which warns people with anxiety, epilepsy, and claustrophobia from entering, includes lots of strobes and a fog machine. [The Huffington Post]
- Felix Salmon’s reflections on an excerpt of Dave Egger’s new dystopian fantasy about social media, “The Circle”, make us very wary of the new book. [The New York Times Magazine]
- Occupy Wall Street will release a new debit card. [The New York Times]
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by Paddy Johnson and Gabriela Vainsencher on September 25, 2013
Production still from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 5, "Compassion," 2009. Segment: Carrie Mae Weems. © Art21, Inc. 2009
- The MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grant recipients have been announced. The five year, $625,000 grant, is amongst the highest accolades a professional can receive, and famously comes with “No Strings Attached”. Carrie Mae Weems is the only visual artist on the list. [The Atlantic Wire]
- Photographer Michel Roggo went swimming with bears. After ripping the heads off some fish, the bears climbed into his boat. [New Scientist]
- Andrew Russeth reviews Angel Otero at Lehmann Maupin. It’s harsh. [Gallerist]
- Santiago Calatrava is having a bad day. Suzanne Daley has collected all the projects he’s done that have run over budget or fail to respond to the needs of his clients. The list amounts to three page long feature on his fuck-ups. (An enjoyable read.) [The New York Times]
- Andy Horwitz went to a symposium about Theaster Gates’s Dorchester Projects at the New School’s Vera List center. He examines the relationship between the lecture and the work it discussed, and has some great quotes from Gates about money. [Culturebot]
- Can’t say we agree with Christian Viveros-Faune’s latest review of the Propellor Group’s Lived, Lives, Will Live at Lombard Freid Projects. The show takes on the art world’s obsession with celebrity, by creating, amongst other works, a series of paintings that weave the hair pieces worn by Hollywood Star turned art collector, Leonardo DiCaprio, onto paintings of Lenin. Mysteriously, CVF likes this. [The Village Voice]
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by Paddy Johnson and Gabriela Vainsencher on September 10, 2013
Screenshot from NASA's Instagram
- NASA has an Instagram account. So too, does the Director of the Albright-Knox, Janne Siren, and at Paddy Johnson’s prompting this weekend in Buffalo, but it’s entirely inactive so far. 🙁 [The Atlantic]
- Colin Dabkowski has a solid write up on Buffalo’s Echo Art Fair. Our only bone to pick—those red dots over sold items were easier to spot than he says! Buffalo exhibitors tend to opt for the oversized version. [Buffalo News]
- The Ontario Press Council has decided to take the Toronto Star to task for its coverage of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s alleged crack smoking caught on video. They’ve done this, according to a reported piece by the Star because they are “desperate to prove their own relevance”. When are we going to get to see that video anyway? [The Toronto Star]
- A troll sculpture by blacksmith Bill Roan has been removed from the San Francisco Bay Bridge. It is being replaced by a new troll sculpture. [The San Francisco Chronicle via BlouinArtInfo]
- Election Day in NYC = selfie opp! WNYC warns that it’s not legal to take a picture of your ballot. Everything else is kosher. [WNYC]
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