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Tuesday Links: Artist Makes Salt Circle to Trap Self Driving Cars

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 21, 2017

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Émilie Régnier photos of hairstyles from the Ivory Coast are amazing. [The Huffington Post]

Bronx Commons, an affordable housing complex coming to the Bronx along with a performance space, was supposed to include set-aside apartments for aging musicians being priced out of the borough. Now, the developers are being told that policy might violate fair housing laws. This is a bad precedent for affordable artist housing. [Curbed]

Artist James Bridle has designed a salt circle (like in witchcraft) to trap self-driving cars. This is so good. [The Creators Project]

White Mule Framing Inc. is auctioning off pretty much everything they own. This includes vouchers for future framing work. The business has decided to move out of Manhattan due to rising rents and is auctioning off their inventory to raise money for a down payment on a forever home. That’s a pretty smart move. [32 Auctions]

Looks like we’re going to have to check out Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work at Bridget Donahue. Photos from this show pique curiosity. [Contemporary Art Daily]

A.E. Benenson considers Sean Raspet’s faux-food innovations as the conceptual grandchild of the Bauhaus’s optimism—a foil to a not-so-distant, cynical Silicon Valley dystopia. Paddy and I weren’t so happy with the non-food’s texture and chemical-y taste. We tried it at Frieze last year. To quote myself, the gel in a tube had “notes of past-due seafood kimchee with a squirt of toothpaste.” [Art in America]

Pace announces it will open a second gallery in Hong Kong during the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair. [artnet News]

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Thursday Links: Storm Systems of Art and Politics

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 20, 2016

From James Bridle’s “Cloud Index” website.

Surprise, surprise. Ryder Ripps, the artist known for his Donald Trump-like vacuous chest thumping and misogynistic paintings was interviewed last night as a Donald Trump supporter. His biggest concern? The wall between Mexico and the US. “I just hope they build it high enough,” he said. “Because people climb walls.” The artist then updated his Facebook to brag about duping a reporter into believing he was a Trump supporter when he actually supports Bernie Sanders. [The Guardian]

Dezeen is a blog we enjoy for many reasons, including their weekly round up of notoriously snarky reader comments. This one might just take the cake. Responding to a reverse-vaulted pizzeria interior, reader TFO remarked “I feel violated. Cis male architecture sitting on my face.” Architecture criticism is starting to look a lot like art criticism. [Dezeen]

Thinking of funding your brilliant project through Kickstarter? Maybe reconsider… factories in China are ripping off design ideas from the internet before they even hit their own production start. [Quartz]

So, that naked statue of Donald Trump mostly elicited plenty of laughs (and one high-profile theft) but when a similar sculpture of nude Hillary Clinton was erected in Downtown Manhattan this week it caused a minor violent street brawl. A National Museum of the American Indian employee (identified only as “Nancy”) toppled the sculpture by Anthony Scioli (maybe?) and enacted a pretty comical tug-of-war with the artist that ended with Nancy sitting on top of it. Of all the borderline hilarious/cringe-worthy confrontations this trainwreck of an election has stoked, this art fight is probably the most of both. [New York Daily News]

Bethany “Sick Din” Dinsick is seeking music videos from artists for a screening at Bushwick’s Otion Front Studios on November 1st. Email her submissions at bdinsick@gmail.com. [Facebook]

Can anyone else figure out James Bridle’s “Cloud Index”? The artwork/website maps cloud patterns to potential outcomes of the Brexit vote, and talks about cloud seeding as a form of propaganda, as well as cloud computing. It’s a really pretty website, but what exactly is the relationship between the clouds and the vote? It brings Spurious Correlations to mind. [Serpentine Gallery]

Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde’s smog-eating mini-tower has come to Beijing. In tests in Rotterdam, it sucked about 60% of pollutants from a small area, which were then made into jewelry. In far more polluted Beijing, however, data on its effectiveness won’t be made public. [Forbes] According to Chinese press, the tower (which is installed in the capital’s 798 arts district) hasn’t really impressed locals. [ECNS]

Carolina Miranda reports on why memes have greater currency this election than artwork. [Culture: High & Low]

Amid investigations of corruption and money laundering, the US Justice Department has seized some pretty valuable paintings from Jho Low, an aide to the Malaysian Prime Minister. Now art dealer David Nahmad, of Monaco, is claiming a Monet in the collection actually belongs to him. Although he attempted to sell the painting to Low, and received a $2 million wire transfer, he reports that the deal fell through. This story ought to get juicier as it develops. [International Business Times]

Turns out there’s lots of poisonous heavy metals in paint. Not exactly a surprise, and the writer doesn’t seem to understand that while cobalt blue is more expensive and toxic than its cheaper cousin french ultramarine blue, there are actual differences in the color. It’s useful, though, because it does offer examples of colors made with heavy metals and their knockoffs. [The Observer]

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Thursday Links: Rape, Death, and Commerce Edition

by Paddy Johnson on June 20, 2013

Doug Aitken, "Station to Station"

Want to know what PS1 Curator Klaus Biesenbach thinks of Vilebrequin swimwear? This is your chance. T Magazine pairs the curator with Questlove the drummer for the band Roots, in a segment asking two celebrities for their opinion on a variety of new products. The juxtaposition is hilarious. [T Magazine]
A beautiful inscription on Henry Darger’s gravestone [Outsider Art]
James Gandolfini, the actor best known for his role as Tony Soprano in HBO’s The Soprano’s has died. He was 51. [Variety]
Here’s Gandolfini’s life in pictures. [Vulture]
British artist and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson [previously known as Sam Taylor-Wood] has signed on to direct the movie version of erotic best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey. No word when they aim to release the movie. [CBC]
Greg Allen has seen James Bridle’s “”A Quiet Disposition.”an exhibition and talk at the Corcoran he’s dubbed, “The New Aesthetic and Dronestagram” for its subject matter. The show sounds pretty good—the view of a drone shadow for example, is rightly noted as privileged—and Allen does a good job of fleshing out the some of the exhibition details. His only criticism? Not enough drone sounds. [Greg.org]
Doug Aitken’s latest public project will send a group of artists and musicians from New York to San Francisco on a train, with 10 stops in between for performances. It’s a three-week Amtrak trip, in which the train will serve as a studio. Participants are uberfamous and mostly men. They include Peter Coffin, Urs Fischer and Dan Deacon to name a few. [L.A. Times]
A pinterest account for an imaginary toddler named Quinoa inspired our favorite tweet of the day: “Oh Quinoa, you fashion-forward rascal.” @ashbursey [Pinterest]
Kickstarter needs to improve their project review process. Yesterday, a book project many are complaining boils down to sexual assault tips got funded. The book, “Above The Game: A Guide To Getting Awesome With Women”, includes such suggestions as: “Decide that you’re going to sit in a position where you can rub her leg and back. Physically pick her up and sit her on your lap. Don’t ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances.” And: “Make her push your hand away as you get closer to her vagina.” Also: “Pull out your cock and put her hand on it. Remember, she is letting you do this because you have established yourself as a LEADER. Don’t ask for permission, GRAB HER HAND, and put it right on your dick.” There’s now a petition asking Kickstarter not to fund the project. The organization responded, but declined the request of the petitioners. [Slate]

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Report from the New Aesthetic: The Movement Rolls On, Inward

by Whitney Kimball on November 13, 2012

Last month, I attended the New Museum panel “Stories from the New Aesthetic.” I thought we’d get to hear about how the movement has evolved since it incited a widespread art, tech, and critical dialogue; I was wrong.

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The Pictorial Intelligence of Monica Tap

by Sally McKay on June 13, 2012

In her recent exhibition, Six Ways from Sunday, at Wynick Tuck Gallery in Toronto, Monica Tap stages an aesthetic translation between digital media and oil painting. The result is a body of work that brings vision itself into awareness, without resorting to cliches about the relationship between the digital and real life.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: What New Aesthetic?

by Paddy Johnson on May 9, 2012

It's amazing how much talk an ill-thought-out concept can generate when it comes in the form of a PowerPoint lecture. That's part of the appeal of “The New Aesthetic,” a term coined by designer James Bridle and discussed by thousands of internet nerds over the last month. Ever since SXSW hosted a panel on the subject and Bruce Sterling produced a 5,000-word response for Wired, a day's hardly passed when I haven't seen mention of this so-called burgeoning movement.

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James Bridle

Report from the New Aesthetic: The Movement Rolls On, Inward

The Pictorial Intelligence of Monica Tap

Art Fag City at The L Magazine: What New Aesthetic?

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