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Artspace opens its glorious building for lucky winners

by Whitney Kimball on October 1, 2015

El Barrio’s PS109 is a ginormous castle converted into a $52 million apartment building with fabulous amenities, and artists can live there for as low as $500 a month.

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The Stay in New York Program Guide

by The AFC Staff on June 24, 2015

The who, what, where, and whens of Stay in New York.

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Thursday Links: The World’s Oldest Eel has Died

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on August 14, 2014

The world’s oldest eel has died. It was 155. Eels typically live about 7 years. [The Local]
Demand Media, the company behind eHow.com and Livestrong.com has purchased Saatchi Art for 17 million. eHow and Livestrong have suffered a traffic reduction thanks to a change last year in Google’s ranking system so the company is trying to recover. We’re not sure how purchasing Saatchi Art is going to help them. [L.A.Times]
Leon Black’s Phaidon Press buys Artspace. No price has been disclosed. [Bloomberg]
Two German artists say they were the ones who planted mystery white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge last week. City Room has a list of other art pranks that have taken place over the years and is looking for more in the comment section and over twitter, with the hashtag #nytoday. Let’s help em out. [City Room]
The Delaware Art Museum is in deep trouble. They’ve sold some of their most valuable art work to fund a museum expansion that no one is visiting. Then, last year, they hired Michael Miller, who until coming to serve on the museum’s board seven years ago, ran DuPont Merck, a pharmaceutical company. The deaquistioning continues, and it’s clear Miller has no art expertise himself. When asked to name an art work he likes, he replied, “Jeez. I never thought about that. Well, I actually like Picasso, but we don’t have any Picassos.” What a leader.[The New York Times]
Technologies used by major corporations to calculate when workers should work and where helps maximize profits, but create erratic schedules that can keep employees hostage to their job. [The New York Times]
Another story of a dealer who got over his head: David LaChapelle sues former dealer and agent Fred Torres for $2.8 million in debts. These stories are becoming pretty common in New York. [artnet News]
Mayor Bloomberg really likes “Johnny Tremain”. [Twitter]
The Smithsonian Libraries has been GIFing its antique prints for its Tumblr. [Smithsonian Libraries Tumblr]

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Wednesday Links: I Want to Show That the Public Can Actually Kill You

by Paddy Johnson Henry Kaye Corinna Kirsch on June 11, 2014

Peter Doig, “Country Rock (Wing-Mirror)

It’s official! Senator Ted Cruz’s application to revoke his Canadian citizenship has been approved. [New York Magazine]
This morning, online editions vendor Artspace announced plans for hosting online auctions. For these upcoming livestream events, they’re soliciting artwork from their newsletter subscribers. Free appraisals, anyone? [Artspace]
Proof that art listicles can be done well: “Western Art History: 500 Years of Women Ignoring Men.” [The Toast]
In the world of politics: Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was unexpectedly defeated in the primaries by David Brat, a candidate to the right of him. Speculation is that Cantor’s more “moderate” position on immigration did him in. Here’s how Brat won. [Politico ]
Shootings are up in NYC by more than 10 percent this year, and by 31.6 percent when comparing a 28-day period. No cause for the increase has been cited. [The Wall Street Journal]
Yes, your RSS feed is down. Feedly has been hacked. “The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop,” wrote a Feedly representative in a blog post this morning. [BBC]
Why does Marina Abramovic make performance art? “I want to show that the public actually can kill you,” she told the BBC Radio 4’s Will Gompertz. How much punch does she drink? [The Washington Post]
Everyone on the Internet’s hedging their bets that Scottish expat Peter Doig will take over Damien Hirst’s position as the most expensive living artist at auction. His painting “Country Rock (Wing-Mirror)” goes on the auction block at Sotheby’s later this month. [The Telegraph]
New York City has been ordered to pay a $600,000 suit that accuses officers of falsely arresting Occupy Wall Street protesters who were walking on the sidewalk. [The New York Times]
Studies prove it: Internet trolls are horrible people offline too. [Slate]
What the hell is going on at The Washington Post? Here’s an editorial that talks about how married women are safer than unmarried women. Here’s an editorial that talks about the “supposed campus epidemic of rape” which, according to George Will simply makes victimhood coveted. How did this stuff get published? [The Li.st]

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Cutlog, A Glimpse of a Better Art World

by Whitney Kimball on May 9, 2014

Go to Cutlog.

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Friday Links: Everyone’s Got to Bow to Somebody

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 25, 2014

Artforum’s profile on the Greek-born American sculptor Chryssa ends on a rather strange note. “One day in her studio, I noticed a gun. She pointed to it and said she was planning to shoot [Arnold] Glimcher. Sure she was being mistreated and ignored in New York, she shut her studio on lower Broadway for good and apparently returned to Athens.” Chryssa died earlier this year in Greece. (Above: Chryssa’s “Large Bird Shape.” Courtesy Albright-Knox Art Gallery.) [Artforum via Andrew Russeth]
“If elected president, Barack Obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from prioritizing Internet content.” That was in 2007. With news this week that the F.C.C. is considering “fast lanes” for commercial providers, let’s hope that he keeps to his promise. [CNET via Reddit]
Triple Canopy announces their 2014 Commission recipients: Kieran Daly, Primavera di Filippi & Samer Hassan, Sowon Kwon, Timothy Leonido, Frank Pasquale, Jared Stanley, and Gillian Walsh. Looking forward to seeing their projects. [Triple Canopy]
Next week, the Frieze Art Fair will come to New York yet again; talks will include a keynote by UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith and a roundtable between Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot and David Remnick of the New Yorker. We’re sure these talks will fill up quickly—their lecture hall is pretty tiny. [Frieze via Artsbeat]
Bill de Blasio has not yet addressed his promise to stop the Central Library Plan, and instead he’s kept $151 million in the budget for the renovation. Very fishy. [Bloomberg News]
Artspace provides their own rankings system for “10 of the Most Influential MFA Programs in the World.” Not sure if they talked to anyone at the School of the Art Institute (where Corinna went for grad school); their excerpt focuses on their MA program in Visual and Critical Studies, not an MFA program. Thankfully, Artspace lists off the ridiculous amount you’ll pay in tuition by enrolling in any of these programs: Bard costs $55,000 per year; Columbia costs 51,676; and UCLA sounds like a bargain at $23,465 for out-of-state residents. Sigh. [Artspace]
More on the ongoing battle between hedge funder and activist shareholder Daniel Loeb and the storied auction house Sotheby’s. Loeb has nominated three director candidates and now advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that shareholders vote for two of the three board nominees he has proposed, one of them being Loeb himself. [New York Times]
Hyperallergic has partnered with London’s Lost Lectures. Tonight, The Awl co-founder and blogger Choire Sicha will talk along with Photographer Barbara Nitke, street performers Flex (is King) + Deirdre Schoo and scientist Marc Abrahams. Should be an interesting night. [Hyperallergic]
At a White House event for kids, a 10-year-old girl hands Michelle Obama her dad’s resume, and says he’s been out of work for three years. [NPR]
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum just made a pile of money. They’ve confirmed rumors that they are getting the blockbuster Alexander McQueen show. [Artnet]
Kriston Capps continues his coverage on Washington, D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design. On April 7, the museum’s board, along with the boards of the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University were supposed to vote on how the Corcoran will be absorbed into these other two institutions. That deadline was skipped. [City Paper]

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Tuesday Links: Olds Like Me

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 5, 2013

Fried chicken by Nick Kegeyan

In the Bronx rests one lonely castle without an owner. It’s for sale, awaiting a buyer. [Daily Intelligencer]
Rhizome has been on a roll lately; Michael Connor’s latest essay on “postinternet” gives us another reason to ponder the term’s potential use or uselessness. It ends with a really touching, personal note from Connor, who writes: “I wanted to write this text in a way that would appeal to olds like me.” [Rhizome]
“The biggest artistic find of the postwar era.” Now, with slideshow. [The Guardian, BBC]
How not to run an art auction, brought to you by the Jan Krugier Estate and Christie’s. Before Monday night’s auction, it was generally assumed that many of the estate’s Modernist paintings were overpriced, and suffered from overexposure; many had been circulating in the market, however unsuccessfully, for years. [The New York Times]
Artspace interviews Performa founder Roselee Goldberg. On acting like an art historian: “I’m always trying to expose the history of performance and tell the [Performa] artists about it, because, really, a lot of people don’t know the history very well.” Okay. On the Internet: “The Internet, on the other hand, is keeping people out of the galleries—I’m hearing that from different writers, and I think it’s very real.” That’s kinda not true, but fine. [Artspace]
A story of gentrification: Since its development in 1993, Philadelphia’s “Avenue of the Arts” has caused real estate prices to jump by nearly 1,300 percent. [The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Arts Journal]
Luck does not smile broadly on musician Questlove. After six months, his Chelsea Market fried chicken stand has shuttered. We blame this on location, location; Chelsea Market-goers like raw juice, not chicken buckets. [Eater]
A juicy summary of SAC’s guilty plea to all five counts of insider trading violations and pay a record 1.2 billion dollar penalty. This, in addition to $616 million in insider trading fees SAC agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a host of legal fees. According to The Times: “Guilty pleas by financial institutions are exceedingly rare, and legal specialists say the case against SAC could embolden prosecutors to bring criminal charges against other firms.” [Dealbook]

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Rumors from the Online Print Market: Will 20×200 Return?

by Paddy Johnson on September 3, 2013

Rumor has it that the mother of all online print purveyors is set for a relaunch. 20×200’s Founder and AFC friend Jen Bekman has hinted over twitter that her company may launch soon, though an exact date has not yet been given.

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Thursday Links: Nothing’s Better Than a Wizard

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on April 4, 2013

Stuart Pilkington has assembled his favorite emerged and emerging photographers. The landing page features a guy in a wizard raincoat, so naturally, we approve. [Someone I know]
Huh? Online-editions site Artspace buys VIP Art, which launched the first online-only art fair in 2011. [Gallerist NY]
apexart’s Franchise, an annual open call for curatorial projects taking place outside New York, is now online. Winning submissions will receive project funding and administrative support. [apexart]
So weird. “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” at The Met, includes mannequins dressed in turn of the century garb. Walter Robinson says it gives the show a bit of a shop quality, but the paintings are great, so it still gets the thumbs up. [ArtSpace]
Following Bard’s successful low-residency MFA model, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has announced a summer-only studio program. [The School of the Art Institute]
This was published back in January, but we just discovered it, and we love it. Advice Is Futile. [The Awl]
President Obama wants you to know that he, too, feels the pinched by the economy, and will be taking a voluntary 5% pay cut. [New York Magazine]
The International Center for Photography (ICP) was awarded $125,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a photography conference. The first session is called “What is a photograph?” Whyyyy? [ICP]
The Elephant Room is back! Nothing is better than rocker magicians. Show dates: April 4, 6, 10, 11, 13, 18, and 20. [The Elephant Room]
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1927–2013 [the Paris Review]

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