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Marilyn Minter’s “RESIST” Flag Hoisted Over the Bowery Today

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 14, 2017

Look up on Bowery today (and for the rest of the month) and check out Marilyn Minter’s “RESIST FLAG”. It’s the first of many coming to Creative Time’s headquarters.

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Tuesday Links: Best Places to Cry in Public

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 6, 2017

Very useful: a map of all the best places to cry in public around the city. [Curbed]
Israel’s oldest art school, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, is moving into a new SANAA-designed campus in Jerusalem. [The Jerusalem Post]
A Takashi Murakami show opens today at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is a retrospective that spans five decades of the artist’s career, but based on nearly all of the promotion and media attention, you would think the focus of this show is Murakami’s collaborations with Kanye West. Seriously, the way people talk about this makes it seem like Murakami was some obscure unknown that West “discovered” and brought to the masses, rather than an art star he hitched his brand wagon to. Ugh. [Chicago Tribune]
Strange New York story of the day: Laura Murray, a struggling SVA grad who was surviving by drawing portraits of tourists, was mugged in 2012 and drew a sketch of her attacker. The cops caught him based on her drawing, and now she’s pursuing a career as a courtroom artist. [New York Post]
Here’s a comic about the most annoying child of hippies coming to an art opening in San Francisco. [The Bold Italic]
China Guardian is opening a combination art museum/auction house in Beijing. So much for pretending museums and the market weren’t too close for comfort! The building, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren also contains a hotel. [Dezeen]
From Banksy’s ill-conceived print giveaway to Jeremy Deller’s wheatpastes, British artists are responding in all sorts of ways to the upcoming election. Basically, everyone in the art world is hoping to oust Theresa May. Poor Grayson Perry had planned a solo show opening at the Serpentine Gallery on the 8th. Now that’s election day, and his show about post-Brexit identity and division has taken on an added gravity. [artnet News]

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Thursday Links: Protesters Demand Trump Advisor Resign from MoMA Board

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on February 23, 2017

Protesters, including Coco Fusco, at MoMA [h/t Hyperallergic]

Venice Biennale promo is like the Christmas season—every year it starts earlier. This year, in the lead up to the show, one video spotlight per participating artist will be released each day. That’s 120 days folks. [artnet News]

Protesters are demanding that MoMA drop board member Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, due to his ties to the Trump administration. Good. Make this guy’s life hell. MoMA has refused to make a statement. [Hyperallergic]

“One of the surprising things about these artists, which isn’t always apparent in the work, is how despondent, even dystopian, they are about the internet. They might fetishise PDFs and encourage open platforms and shared interfaces (Wikipedia as art), but when interviewed they describe the web as pernicious, and technology as the glossy face of human misery.” -Alice Sprawls on One & Other at The Zabludowicz Collection. [London Review of Books]

Choreographer David St-Pierre told audiences to expect a retelling of the Joan of Arc story. “Instead, the audience was treated to 95 minutes of screeching music, dogs barking and a climactic scene where a man gets his hand stuck in a vending machine.” Montreal’s Place des Arts is now allowing people to change their tickets to more conventional works. [BBC]

Ok, people say the art world does a lot of silly things, but non-art people do even dumber things for even stranger reasons. For example, people are fighting in New York subway stations over Metrocards with an ad for clothing brand Supreme on them. The Metrocard is only good for two swipes? Can someone explain to me why this isn’t just a shittier Metrocard? [The Hundreds]

MTA ridership has dropped for the first time since 2009. This may sound like a relief given all the over crowding and delays but it means less revenue for the MTA which is already looking down the barrel of 65 million budget cut thanks to governor Cuomo. I want that guy out as governor and the talk of him running for President to end. No good comes of anything Cuomo touches. [Curbed]

Can’t wait to see all the public art proposals for the highline. Here’s hoping they’re better than the Jeremy Deller lizard on a plinth they chose to release as exemplary. [The New York Times]

Desert X claims to be the Coachella of the art world. They know the Times refused to cover Coachella last year because it had become such a shit show, right? Anyway, the show responds to the desert and actually looks pretty good. Doug Aitken has made what he calls a human scale kaleidoscope and Claudia Comte basically made a building-sized Bridget Riley. Sign me up. [The Los Angeles Times]
João Doria, the new mayor of São Paulo, has launched a program to paint over the city’s famous street art with grey. This is a terrible idea. The program includes painting over even commissioned murals if they’ve been tagged. A judge is attempting to block the grey-washing with a rule that graffiti removers must consult the city’s historic preservation department. [The Guardian]

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The Best of Everything, 2016

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on December 30, 2016

We were pretty sure 2016 was a stinker until we sat down to reflect on all that was good. Going through the images on our phones and our archives, we learned there’s actually quite a bit to celebrate. So much so, in fact, it took us an entire week to assemble this post. That’s quite a bit of time, but it was worth every minute. Here’s to all the artists, curators and performers that made our days and lives better this year.

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Thursday Links: I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on April 21, 2016

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has completed an expansion project for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, increasing exhibition space by 90%. [Curbed]
Independent Brussels opened yesterday, and apparently the vibes strike a good balance between Independent circa it’s scrappy Dia building days and it’s sleeker current iteration at Spring Studios in TriBeCa. “It’s the Dia building breathing new life,” marvelled Brussels collector Alain Servais. Further, it looks like a lot of booths took risks and avoided pushing paintings, which is appropriate given the city’s collector base for conceptual art. [Artsy]
Juicy Q&A of the day: this interview with Gary Indiana, who adroitly addresses why his time in New York was omitted from his long-awaited memoir, I Can Give You Anything But Love: “all the recent necrophiliac nostalgia for the late 1970s and early 1980s New York…is so off-base that I didn’t want to engage with it at all.” [The White Review]
“When is too rich, too rich to not notice you’re missing a Picasso for 10 years?” Yes, it’s true: billionaire socialite Wilma “Billie” Tisch didn’t notice her Picasso portrait “Tete” had been missing for nearly that amount of time, and was unaware it had been offered at Sotheby’s in 2013. [New York Post]
Kimiko Nishimoto is an 87-year old photographer who takes a lot of “I’m falling and I can’t get up” self-portraits. She learned how to use a camera at 71, and then took courses in digital editing. Amazing. [Booooooom]
AFC Staffer Rea McNamara wrote a feature about the tyranny of celebrity lifestyle gurus. In it she parses the love-hate relationship many women have with Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Blake Lively, et al. — and how the distributed content age strengthens the hold celebrities have on our lives. [Globe and Mail]
Uh oh, scientists claim Damien Hirst’s 2012 Tate retrospective featuring his infamous preserved animals leaked unsafe levels of carcinogenic formaldehyde gas. [BBC News]
Jennifer Smith checks in on Anne Pasternak’s first seven months as director of the Brooklyn Museum. On top of green lighting the Jeremy Deller project that had Iggy Pop pose for a life drawing class, she’s striped away by at least over 20% objects on display in the American and European galleries, and plans to hire more curators. Her first show won’t appear until the summer of 2017. [Wall Street Journal]
Hate-read alert: Rémy Martin CEO Eric Vallat complains about how inconvenient a transfer to a cushy job in Tokyo was. Thankfully, he found peace by visiting Naoshima, the island of outdoor art installations and a boutique hotel designed by Tadao Ando. Also, cognac aged in a barrel for 100 years—apparently art appreciation on Naoshima taught Vallat to let it linger in his mouth before swallowing. [The Wall Street Journal]
Josh Baer recommends seeing Georges de La Tour 1593-1652 at the Museo Del Prado in Madrid. We took a look at the work and we wish we were there. Masterful. The image of a young rich man demanding an old woman’s last coin seems not so unfamiliar these days. [Baer Faxt]
Sarah Ann Ottens was raped and murdered on the University of Iowa campus in 1973. Her death inspired some of Ana Mendieta’s most provocative works, who attended the same college, but today Ottens’ name is rarely mentioned. Even Mendieta’s most thorough auto-biography includes no mention of Ottens. Read the whole piece tracing the two histories by Sarah Weinman. Incredible. [The Guardian]
Who in the art world donates what to which politicians? It’s pretty surprising how many collectors and dealers donate to right-wing super PACs. There’s also plenty of bet-hedging: many people donate to both a Republican candidate or PAC and the Clinton campaign. [ART News]

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Tuesday Links: Lust for Life Model

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on March 1, 2016

Today’s the press preview for the Met Breuer, but don’t worry about missing out — the Met’s tweeting from the preview. [Twitter]
OK, why didn’t we get the invite to Jeremy Deller’s life drawing class at the New York Academy of Arts last week? Iggy Pop was the model. Anyways, it’s for Deller’s upcoming show at the Brooklyn Museum, and it was invite-only. [The Guardian]
Gabrielle Moser weighs in on the “Showroom” group show at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and what it gets wrong about the Toronto arts scene: “there are condo ads on the subway that demonstrate greater diversity than this exhibition.” Of the 48 artists in this institutional survey, seven are POC artists. I would add that the curatorial focus was flimsy — how could it not be with so many artists? — and almost conflates the institution’s recent merging of its two galleries as one institution with the city’s recent urban “revitalization” history. Like Moser said, the show’s title could have been “Toronto Artists Want Things to Look Nice.” [Canadian Art]
How can digital art improve the IRL? Rianna Jade Parker asks five producers in the realm — including artist Tabita Rezaire and POWRPLNT founder Angelina Dreem — to weigh in. [FADER]
300 pounds of marijuana, worth one million, was discovered by NYPD in a crate labelled “art”. [artnet News]
Garry Neill Kennedy reflects on his time as president of the Nova Scotia College of and Design — subject of a recent major survey at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia — and the role NSCAD play in the rise of Conceptual Art. [Artforum]
“[I realized] I can’t tell your story, I can only tell mine. I can’t be you, I can only be me.” Insightful interview with painter Faith Ringgold, and her 70-year career in art and activism. It’s a shame her quilts haven’t been taken seriously by institutions though — despite owning her masterpiece, Tar Beach, since it was made in 1988, the Guggenheim has never shown the work in New York. [ARTnews]
HG Masters remembers Kikuo Saito, the Japanese artist known for his abstract color field paintings and wordless plays. He was a former assistant of Noland and Frankenthaler, worked with Jerome Robbins and Robert Wilson — who offers a tributary poem in the obituary — and taught at the Art League up until his death. [ArtAsiaPacific]
John Hofsess, director of the trippy late-’60s Canadian underground classic Palace of Pleasure, has died. Hofsess, however, eventually became a Right to Die advocate, and posthumously revealed the secret assisted suicide service he offered to eight Canadians, including poet Al Purdy. [Toronto Life]
Jan Vermeer’s paintings are now available for high res download. [Open Culture]
Crowdfunding Art Project of the Day: The Queer Japan Project, a documentary about the country’s LGBTQ2S artists and activists. [Kickstarter]

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Tuesday Links: Show Me Some Art With Soft Porn

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 17, 2015

Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on Fuck Yeah Yanis Varoufakis

Do Artist Branding and Hollywood Talent Agency Deals Kill an Artist’s Soul? AFC’s Paddy Johnson doesn’t think so. [Artnet]
Chicago-based, Cuban-born artist Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera has been living behind a wall for three weeks, in quiet protest of his U.S.-Cuban policies. [Chicago Magazine]
Márcia Oliani, 54, the finance manager of an art gallery who recently endured six days without water in her Sao Paolo apartment unleashes some crazy vitriol on the governor and the water utility company Sabesp. The city has been experiencing the worst drought they’ve had in the last century “I feel hatred, hatred of the governor and of Sabesp,” she said. “I’d like to take them out and set fire to them. They completely failed to warn us, and have just continued to lie about this throughout.” [The New York Times]
City Desk Studio has been trying to sell the skyway they purchased in 2006 for $1.2 million since 2009. Having been unsuccessful, they are now offering $5000 to anyone who will purchase it. Greg Allen has devised a cheapo shipping option, which involves removing the skyway’s floor, but we think the permits required to get it on the barge he’s proposed might blow the budget. [Greg Allen]
A new book of Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko’s writings: The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art. [Amazon]
Looks like we all need to move to Minneapolis. Some stats: “The Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area is richer by median household income than Pittsburgh or Salt Lake City (or New York, or Chicago, or Los Angeles). Among residents under 35, the Twin Cities place in the top 10 for highest college-graduation rate, highest median earnings, and lowest poverty rate, according to the most recent census figures.” Why is the city so successful? According to Myles Shaver, a professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, it’s because “its most important resource never leaves the city: educated managers of every level.” I guess that’s a resource more valuable than oil. [The Atlantic]
Nothing even remotely to do with art, but you gotta read Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in the Times opinion pages today. He talks uses game theory and Kant to explain his position on austerity and Greek’s current negotiation strategy. [The New York Times]
And for those who want to know more about Yanis Varoufakis, an apparent heart throb in Greece, here’s the “Fuck Yeah Yanis Varoufakis” Tumblr, complete with duckfaces. [Fuck Yeah, Yanis Varoufakis]
And for those who want to know more about the economics of the Greece financial crisis and how it relates to the history of World War I, there’s Paul Krugman hitting it out of the park. [The New York Times]
71-year-old artist David Hammons has announced he is opening a gallery in Yonkers, but little details are known. Here’s what Andrew Russeth found out about the gallery: “Hammons’s space, at 39 Lawrence Street, is a one-story brick building with tall ceilings, filling a lot that measures two-thirds of an acre, about 29,200 square feet. According to property records, an entity called Duchamp Realty LLC, which is registered to the artist’s home address in Brooklyn, bought it for $2.05 million in January 2014.” [ARTnews]
Congratulations, again, to Pierre Huyghe for winning the 2015 Kurt Schwitters Award! Here’s AFC’s posts on the digital-conceptual-minimal artist. (“I do not own Tate Modern or the Death Star” remains one of Corinna’s all-time favorite works of art in neon.) [Artforum]
“Show me some art with soft porn.” [Imgur]
A letter from “Artists for Palestine” was published over this weekend in The Guardian. Over 700 art-worlders have decided to disengage with Israel in the cultural sphere. This means that invitations to any cultural centers with ties to the Israeli government will be declined. The 700 includes John Berger, Brian Eno, and Jeremy Deller. [The Guardian]

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Art at Its Best 2013: A Top Ten List

by Corinna Kirsch on December 23, 2013

I’ve never been able to come up with a top ten list of exhibitions; big, lasting ideas don’t always take place in art on the wall. So, keep that in mind with my best-of list; there’re exhibitions, sure, but my main requirement was picking “art” that I keep coming back to time-and-time again.

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A Strange, Spiritual Turn at the 55th Venice Biennale

by Corinna Kirsch on June 7, 2013

I have lukewarm feelings on this year’s Venice Biennale, which contains two distinct exhibitions: The Encyclopedic Palace, a 1,000-artwork-plus exhibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni, and dozens of national, pavilion-based exhibitions organized by curators from each country. Despite the slightly confusing fact that the theme of the Biennale as a whole is The Encyclopedic Palace, historically, the two exhibitions don’t have much overlap. But something different happened this year.

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