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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Constructing Paradise or the Devil Giving Birth to the Patriarchy?

by Michael Anthony Farley on January 30, 2017

It’s a strange week in post-America, indeed, when the least dystopian art event involves Kim Kardashian ass-workout tapes.

That would be Cindy Hinant’s solo show at MuseumofAmericabooks Monday night. Tuesday, perpetual AFC fav Peter Burr is speaking at the New School, and never has the thought of retreating into one of his installations and imagining life in an underground city been so tempting. But if you’re an artist ready to join the resistance, head to ICP School on Wednesday for a discussion about the role of artists in activism during these dark days. Thursday, every opening feels timely, even Mary Beth Edelson’s 1970s feminist mythologies on view at David Lewis. Down the street, Bea Fremderman waxes apocalyptic at Shoot the Lobster, and the New School has an exhibition about the US/Mexican border that will probably break some hearts.

The weekend brings more timely events, such as David Diao exhibition about his childhood experiences as a refugee (at Postmasters) and a Sunday conference at the New Museum about bodies under duress. Come get advice from lawyers and activists about civil disobedience, the migrant crisis, environmental crises, and more.

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Thursday Links: New Use for Ground Up Mummies—Paint Pigment

by Paddy Johnson on October 13, 2016

Martin Drölling, “L’intérieur d’une cuisine” (1815), believed to have been painted with Mummy Brown (via the Louvre)

Painting/art history nerds will like this one. It’s a round-up of pigments from yesteryear that we no longer use. The weirdest one is undoubtedly “Mummy Brown,” which, as it’s name suggests, is made out of ground-up mummies. Gross? [Hyperallergic]
Jean-Michel Basquiat fans rejoice. A new, never before exhibited drawing will be on view at Brooklyn’s Bishop Gallery during Art Basel Miami. The gallery is part of the satellite fair X Contemporary. Not to sound too dismissive, but the drawing doesn’t look remarkably different or better than anything else he’s done. [ARTnews]
Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Nice to see musicians getting their due. [The New York Times]
Here’s a page that allows a user to distort an image by shrinking or enlarging it. Sometimes new images appear, but generally, I don’t get this “pixel art”. How is this any different than using the distort tool in Photoshop? [Essenmitsosse]
The Artists and Writer’s Cookbook is out. Recipes from James Franco (pb and jelly), April Gornik (salad), and Swoon (ratatouille). Those recipes are all pretty traditional compared to Marina Abramovic, though, who submits a breast milk and sperm recipe that is to be eaten on top of a volcano. That’s one place I’m not going to travel for art or dinner. [Artnet news]
And in the news world of “no shit”, Brooklyn and Queens have never been this expensive. [Curbed]

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This Week’s Must See Art Events: Dad Art, Cigarettes, and Graveyards

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on May 10, 2016

Thankfully, the next few days aren’t as stressfully-packed with events as Frieze Week was. But we’ve picked out a handful of options if you’re still hankering to see some art. Tuesday night, Matt Bolinger’s solo show opens at Zurcher Gallery, featuring cinematic paintings of Middle-American life. Wednesday, rising art-star Kour Pour opens a new exhibition at Feuer/Mesler that looks to be a new direction for the painter. Thursday is a big night for fans of drawing: David Nolan Gallery has a Jorinde Voigt show and The Drawing Center is offering a Josef Albers-inspired workshop.

The weekend is when things get weirder. Christopher K. Ho’s solo exhibition at Present Company looks at aging, “art dads”, religion, and more Friday night. At the same time, Invisible Exports is opening Frida Smoked, a group show about women artists and their cigarettes. Saturday, Rhizome’s annual Seven on Seven conference will present collaborations between tech insiders and artists and Underdonk will open an ambitious group show of tiny sculptures from dozens of artists. Borna Sammak’s solo show also opens at American Medium that night. But Sunday sounds like it will be the most fun—Hyperalleric has organized a walking tour of artist’s graves in Green-Wood cemetery, so go enjoy the partially-sunny outdoors after a rainy weekend.

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Monday Links: In a World Like This, Who Wouldn’t be a Depressed CGI?

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 5, 2015

One of the very sad, very creepy men created by video artist Ed Atkins

Joan Miró’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, celebrated the opening of the surrealist painter’s exhibition at Kunsthaus in Zurich with a performance that sounds like a scene out of a Hollywood movie where a non-art person starts dating a wacky artist and gets dragged to wild and crazy art world things that don’t make any sense. [artnet News]

Michael H. Miller reports on the latest reality show to take on the art world. This one is called “Art Breakers” which is a pun on, um, “heartbreakers”, and stars two blond girls working in this world. The girls encounter so called “hot” artists nobody has ever heard of at galleries nobody has ever heard of and nobody will ever want to hear of. Needless to say, it sounds terrible. [ARTnews]

This review isn’t great, but it makes me want to see the work. Ed Atkins produces videos populated by uncanny CGI men who seem pretty depressed and lonely. Foreshadowing the ennui of the coming AI generation? [ARTnews]

“Anyone who uses the word ‘prurient’ should never be taken seriously.” -Bucky Turco, of Animal New York, who is being sued by the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat over nude photos of the artist published last year. The photos were shot by Paige Powell, Basquiat’s ex-girlfriend, and published under the headline “And Now, Basquiat’s Actual Balls!” [Artforum]

Dear rest of humanity that are presently alive, how shitty does it feel to be the generation that’s watching Roman ruins that have stood for thousands of years get blown up by the Islamic State? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people? [The Art Newspaper]

Confession: I have not finished reading this article (it is so very long) but it’s worthwhile. Raphael Rubinstein considers the “Total Service Artists” who take on the ancillary tasks of producing, managing, distributing, curating, and historicizing their work. [Art in America]

Wow. The affordable studios in Bjarke Ingles’s insane midtown pyramid start at $565/month. Apply for that (most likely) very competitive lottery now. And in the unlikely event you do end up snagging an apartment, please invite us over for dinner. [Curbed]

Molly Crabapple reports on (and illustrates) the treatment prisoners inside the Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Dallas, specifically focusing on Carrington Keys. The whole story is heart breaking – a life lost in prison, mostly for resisting the status quo. (Whistler blowers like Keys just get beat up and given longer sentences for fictitious crimes.) Keys eventually sued the prison and he now has a video in his hands of his abuse. But that’s new evidence, so he’s stuck in jail for another six months until the prosecution has a chance to properly look at it. [Vice]

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Your Kid Did Do This: Brian Belott at 247365

by Paddy Johnson on June 12, 2015

Over at the Lower East Side gallery 247365, artist Brian Belott has opened Dr. Kid President Jr. one of the stranger shows you’ll see this summer—an exhibition comprised of 34 counterfeit paintings of found children’s art. The paintings are hung salon style on the gallery walls and the only clue that they are made by anyone other than a child is their surface. Each is painted with PolyColor on canvas. (PolyColor is a high end version of tempera.)

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SLIDESHOW: Inside the New Whitney

by Paddy Johnson on April 23, 2015

You gotta see this.

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: IRL Computer Geeks and Digital Feminists

by Katie Waddell on March 31, 2015

The art world must have speculative fiction on the brain. The week starts with a discussion of the art of 2050 and continues with art about the seen and unseen (“the unknown” is a pervasive theme this week). There’s also a lot having to do with data: the good, the bad, and the ugly—depending on how you feel about infographics.

Makes sense. The future is pretty much here.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Performa Alternatives

by The AFC Staff on November 4, 2013

And there are so many.

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Highlights from the Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report

by Corinna Kirsch on October 10, 2012

What happens to the wealthy is what happens to the rest of the art world. At least, that’s what Artprice’s annual contemporary art market report suggests. Every October, Artprice publishes The Artprice Annual Report, a whopping 140-page document about trends in the contemporary art market; they look at art auction records,then talk to dealers and anybody else managing multi-million-dollar art sales to come up with a sense of the health of the market as a whole. We disagree, knowing that what happens at the auction houses doesn’t trickle down to the rest of the art world; for all its flaws, though, we enjoy reading this thing.

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Links: Former President George W. Bush Now Paints Dogs

by Will Brand on July 18, 2012

This is all the information we have: at a hospital fundraiser in Memphis Monday night, former President George W. Bush mentioned his new hobby, oil painting. He told the crowd he’s “kinda stuck” to painting dogs. Tragically, there are no pictures. [The Daily Beast]
Relatedly, we’ll totally pay you if you find pictures of George W. Bush’s dog paintings. [Me]
Ben Davis looks at the rhetoric of the LA MOCA situation in light of both the institution’s history and our recent economic past. His appraisal is one of the best things we’ve seen this week. [ArtINFO]
The Chinese government has arrested two senior art handlers in Beijing for allegedly undervaluing works at customs, and has not yet set a trial date. The Times has the story, and it’s good. [NY Times]
Souvenir shops across London are filling up with Olympics-related junk. [Gagosian]
The walls of the academy stand firm: Alec Soth got rejected from the Minnesota State Fair. [Tumblr]

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