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We Went to Frieze, Part Two: Pussy Hat Show Flops, Anti-War Hard On Holds Up

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on May 5, 2017

Yesterday we discussed the overall look and feel of Frieze and concluded that this iteration of the fair is far superior to previous years. Lots of lively inventive work and short on the kind of soulless work in a frame that can make these events so tedious. Today we take a deep dive into a lot of the art we saw. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty.

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Wednesday Links: Faking It to Make It

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on May 11, 2016

Within a 48 hour news cycle, Los Angeles-based band/romantic duo YACHT announced a private sex tape they made was leaked, then said they were going to take ownership and release the tape on their own website, and now it appears the whole situation was just an elaborate X-Files-esque alien sex hoax to promote their new music video. We have a lot of respect for singer Claire Evans — she contributed a great reading list to our Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies show — and the band has a history of trolling clickbait journalism. But given how prevalent revenge porn is online, was it gross for them to pose as victims and prey on our sympathies? Or was this fictionalized narrative no different from what’s seen on the Kardashians? [Pitchfork, Jezebel]
Last night’s results of Christie’s contemporary auction was a reassuring one for the New York art market. The sale totalled $318 million, with over 87% of the lots sold. Reserves were kept low, gaining praise from the auctioneer for being “tight, curated and profitable.” A highlight of the auction records set for artists like Mike Kelley and Agnes Martin was a Basquiat top lot (the 1982 work, “Untitled”) selling for $57.3 million (it was originally estimated at more than $40 million). [The Baer Faxt, The Art Newspaper]
The Trustees, Massachusetts’ conservation nonprofit, has announced a two-year public art initiative that will kick off this summer with commissioned outdoor installations by Jeppe Hein and Sam Durant. [Boston Globe]
Intersectional feminist dialogues went into overload over bell hook’s gripes with Beyonce’s Lemonade. There’s a smart critique in here about Beyonce’s visual album being a commodification of the black female experience. But that’s kind of a “well, duh” point, and I [Rea] can’t help but feel as if hook is kind of Camille Paglia in her second wave dismissal of pop culture, not to mention low-key transphobic in judging black femme feminists. [bell hooks institute, Janet Mock’s Facebook]
The New Museum will be expanding its Bowery footprint. The museum announced yesterday it has raised $43 million towards a $80 capital campaign to renovate it 231 Bowery neighbor and connect it to its current building at 235 Bowery. [New York Times]
Carolina A. Miranda thinks the new Eva Hesse documentary is the full-blown biography the ambitious artist has long deserved. [Los Angeles Times]
An art loving mechanic in France has scored a Renoir for $700. [artnet News]
On the occasion of their pop-up show of cheap multiples at Printed Matter, members of Colab reflect back on their groundbreaking artist-led projects from the 1980s, including the Times Square Show. [Hyperallergic]

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Subtle Decadence at Frieze

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on May 14, 2015

Frieze Art Fair Exceeds Expectations

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Friday Links: Vibrating Benches

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 27, 2015

Nude art tours. Image courtesy of the Guardian.

No fences:This May, the European Commission will unveil its plans for a single digital market in the EU. [Courthouse News Service]
Wisconsin Governor—and presidential hopeful—Scott Walker wants to slash $300 million in funding to the University of Wisconsin schools. You know who’s not happy about this? University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross, who has announced that he will resign if the governor’s cuts stand. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
The people have spoken, and they want George Carlin. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will unveil a photographic portrait of the late comedian today. Carlin’s portrait was chosen, in a public vote, over those representing comedians Ellen DeGeneres and Groucho Marx. [Variety, National Portrait Gallery]
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos—immortalized by the YouTube hit “Hot Cheetos and Takis”—has been approved as a healthy snack in some state public schools. The revised, whole-grain version has already hit Chicago. [WBEZ]
All of the nude tours of James Turrell’s Australian retrospective are sold out! [National Gallery of Australia]
Okay, who can name book-sculpture that doesn’t ferry off cheeseball connections between text and the mind? Because these 25 “most incredibly beautiful book sculptures ever” are terrible—and the site doesn’t even name the artists. [Earthporm]
AFC fave artist Jeppe Hein will animate Brooklyn Bridge Park. Look forward to walls of rising water, a labyrinth of mirrors, and vibrating benches. [The New York Times]
Rhizome’s Seven on Seven line up this year is off the hook: Nate Silver (fivethirtyeight), Ai Weiwei (activist artist), Jacob Appelbaum (Wikileaks representative and Edward Snowden confidant), and Gina Trapani (co-founder of ThinkUp). And the ticket price is sooooo reasonable, at $40 for artists and $125 for regular admission. [Rhizome]
Technology for poo-flingers? “Have you ever wanted to pick up your poop and throw it at the wall? No? Oh, well, we have. Quite a few times actually…. Anyways, Bathroom Simulator is the game where you can do that.” Since this writing, the game’s Kickstarter campaign has raised $114. [Bathroom Simulator]
A comprehensive history of video-game dicks. [Kotaku]
“Axel Brechensbauer 3D-printed a cheerful-looking UAV that would playing loud ‘clown music’ and spray ‘terrorists’ with a cloud of Oxycontin, a pain-relief drug that also induces feelings of euphoria, relaxation and reduced anxiety.” [We Make Money Not Art]
A review of Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle’s ‘Cartographies of the Absolute’ cataloguing artists’s attempts to create ‘maps which could serve to show us where we are located, to guide us to capital’s weak points, and to indicate current and future dynamics.’ [The New Inquiry]
What a weird story: An investigator who does not know who her client is, has been making inquires about an NYU professors who criticized the university for the exploitation of migrant workers building their campus. The same investigator also sought out information for a New York Times reporter who wrote a story on the harsh conditions. Creepy. [The New York Times]

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Art Basel Miami Beach: Slideshow and Commentary

by Will Brand and Corinna Kirsch on December 6, 2012

Art Basel Miami Beach is, as always, an overwhelming experience. There is art, impossible amounts of it, shiny and glossy and kinetic. There are people, hidden within the silicone husks of slightly younger people, who all seem to be terribly important. There are many kind words but few kind looks.

Basel’s not as bad as it might be, really. This year the fish are biting, and the quality of the work overall is fairly high. There is, in the depths of its 250-odd galleries, art worth looking at. We’ll have a fuller report later today; in the meantime, here are 29 samples of what’s on show, with our comments.

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The Copenhagen Art Festival: Floundering Communities

by Paddy Johnson on August 31, 2012

“This is not a biennial” Festival Manager Lene Crone Jensen told the press gravely last week at the Copenhagen Art Festival. Coulda fooled me; the Copenhagen Art Festival already has the generic biennial-specific themes and inflated art-speak to make the transition an easy one should it so chose. “What are the implications of constituting a discourse of communities?” asks a bit of copy on the Copenhagen Art Festival website, as it describes the community minded-theme of the festival. It sounds like biennial.

Whatever it is, it’s not especially remarkable.

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The Best Work in Miami (for Perverts), Pizza, Guns, and Strip Clubs

by Will Brand on December 1, 2011

Our reader survey last month revealed just how many of our visitors self-identify as perverts. If you’re one of that sizeable minority, and you’re in Miami, there’s no excuse not to make your way over to Nicolai Wallner’s booth to catch sneaky glimpses at some 1% snatch with this floor mirror by Jeppe Hein- and yes, we’ve mentioned him three times today. Deal with it.

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Art Basel: A Strong Opening for the One Percent

by Paddy Johnson on December 1, 2011

Buoyed by Wednesday's big rally on the stock market, Art Basel opened with bang. Crowds of VIPs arrived early, and without fail every dealer AFC talked to had made sales by early afternoon. “Sometimes things sell in the afternoon or in later days,” dealer Zach Feuer told us after explaining that he had sold work immediately upon the show's opening, “You just don't know. But we're doing well and I get the feeling other people are too.”

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Recommended Shows – Plus Ratings!

by Corinna Kirsch on February 18, 2011

I like art, but sometimes I want to convey by how much, and a simple thumbs-up won’t always cut it. Art Fag City has started rating its Recommended Show Listings. We’re not exactly Pitchfork, but maybe just a little bit. Our latest reviews complete with numerical ratings after the jump.

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