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Wednesday Links: Do We Value Harambe or the Idea of Harambe?

by Michael Anthony Farley on August 10, 2016

The “Trolley Dilemma” is the internet’s most philosophical meme, of course able to update and mutate given a user/creator’s sensitivities. [New York Magazine]
Joseph DeLappe, Malath Abbas, Tom Demajo and Albert Elwin developed Killbox, a video game that allows players to assume the roles of drone pilot or villager. It’s pretty depressing. [AJ+]

The Walker Art Center is offering a two-year fellowship for curators focused on intermedia artworks and performance. [The Walker Art Center]

But here’s an even cooler opportunity: Lisa fucking Frank is hiring digital artists!!! Please, someone take this job and make AFC some psychedelic panda stationery for the office. [Facebook]

This is the last week for artist-run spaces and nonprofits to apply for the Satellite Art Fair in Miami Beach. We had a great time last year! This year, the format is a little different and booths are pricier, but it’s still the cheapest art fair in Miami and now has a super-central South Beach location. [Satellite]

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has a guide for advocates of architecture from our recent past—meaning modernism from civic buildings to googie diners. This is so important right now! [Saving Places]

Let’s all remember that time Clyfford Still sent Emily Genauer a pair of rubber underpants in the mail because she wrote a bad review of his work. They’re now in the Smithsonian. [Hyperallergic]

Jala Wahid’s collection of inspiring images about the body is one of my favorite short image essays I’ve seen in awhile. Ancient mythology, the Borg from Star Trek, Ripley destroying her clones in Alien Resurrection, and a photo of her parents in a refugee camp all totally make strange sense together through her associative logic. [Frieze]

Rebecca Power and Kim Upstill are throwing “dinner parties” with the beverage Soylent in an all-white room. First thoughts—I’m reminded of our own experience with the milky stuff in Sean Raspet’s installation at Frieze New York and the sterile future foods and presentation of Miriam Simun. This food piece, however, features vodka, so it builds on our zeitgeist of food anxieties and pushes it in a more fun direction. Into it. [Hoodline]

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Thursday Links: Someone Buy David Bowie’s Stereo

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 14, 2016

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David Bowie’s art and design collection is heading to Sotheby’s. This is the first time the legend’s collection has been made public, and it’s a treasure trove. Bowie collected mostly 20th century painters and designers, including Basquiat and Duchamp and a 60s stereo system from Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (above) that looks straight out of A Clockwork Orange. [BBC News]

Dennis Cooper’s blog, which he has kept since 2002 and is considered an important piece of experimental literature, has been deleted inexplicably. Google deleted both the author’s Blogger account and Gmail, erasing over a decade of work including an incomplete animated GIF novel. It’s terrifying that corporations now control the fate of so much cultural output and can erase it on a whim. [ARTnews]

“Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11” opens September 12th at The National September 11th Memorial Museum. The exhibition will be the museum’s first foray into curating art rather than historic artifacts. [The New York Times]

Ryan Mendoza purchased two more homes in Detroit for an artwork. This time, the facades are lit with LEDs in bullet-sized holes that spell out “CLINTON” and “TRUMP.” This sounds dumb. [Detroit Free Press]

The City of Miami is considering legislation that would make developers set aside a percentage of a building’s construction budget for on-site artwork or pay into a public art fund. The city of San Francisco attempted a similar program, but recent reports indicate this has just lead to a lot of artwork in building lobbies and relatively little cash in the public trust fund. When given an option, the private sector tends to put “public” art where it has the most benefit to themselves. A mandatory contribution to neighborhood public art funds is a far better idea. Besides, do we really want developers curating what our public art looks like any more than they already do? [Miami Herald]

Yale has asked the state attorney to drop charges against Corey Menafee, a dishwasher employed by the university until he was fired for shattering a historic stained glass window depicting slaves. [artnet News]

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Miami’s Art Scene Looks to Ownership for Longevity

by Michael Anthony Farley on January 27, 2016

In nearly every city, the art world is feeling the pinch from rising rents and a dwindling supply of large, affordable spaces for making or exhibiting work. But in Miami, a growing number of gallerists are opting to buy their own real estate—putting the breaks on a cycle of gentrification and the instability that comes with renting.

And they’re leaving Wynwood—until recently the undisputed center of Miami’s gallery scene—in droves. Many gallerists, studios, and artists are looking north to Little Haiti to rent or buy. I sat down with Brook Dorsch (of gallery Emmerson Dorsch), Nina Johnson-Milewski (of Gallery Diet), and the couple Annie Berkowitz and Jordan Trachtenberg, who recently opened the new &gallery in a building they bought for their own design and real estate offices. Collectively, they’re transforming a suburban-looking stretch of NW 2nd Ave into Miami’s latest—and permanent—arts neighborhood. We discussed the merits of property ownership and strategies for making it more accessible to Miami’s art community.

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We Went to No Man’s Land: Women Artists from The Rubell Family Collection

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on December 21, 2015

At the Rubell Family Collection, dozens of contemporary women artists working in every conceivable medium left us very impressed.

Michael: Here, the blue-chip market and a private collector managed to accomplish something many institutions or independent curators haven’t—presenting an all-female show that feels as if it has nothing to prove.

Paddy: I still can’t get over how many monumental art works in this show so effectively dominated the space that you’d literally feel awestruck by their presence.

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Tuesday Links: May The Funds Be With You

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on December 15, 2015

Creative Capital’s Star Wars themed fundraiser video couldn’t be better timed—the newest Star Wars will screen worldwide next Monday (and this one George Lucas hasn’t been involved with, so it’s supposed be a lot better!). We recommend donating to Creative Capital—they fund the best artists, many of whom make work that is too great a challenge for the commercial gallery system—and seeing Star Wars. We want to discuss the new movie here on the blog! [Creative Capital]

In 2005, 24 paintings and 70 pieces of silver from the Dutch Golden Age were stolen from Holland’s Westfries Museum. Years later, the collection turned up in the villa of deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Now, a nationalist militia is holding the paintings and demanding a “finders fee” for their return. No one seems to be able to agree on how much the artwork is worth. [The New York Times]

The group Historic England is calling on the British public to help locate and preserve the country’s postwar public art. It has become not-uncommon for modernist sculptures to be stolen and sold for scrap metal. [BBC News]

Woodland, North Carolina needs to invest in education. The town council just voted to reject a rezoning application that would allow a solar farm to be built by Strata Solar Company and put a moratorium on all solar development. One resident, Bobby Mann, expressed fears that the panels would “suck up all the energy up from the sun.” Retired science teacher, Jann Mann, was concerned that the panels would prevent photosynthesis from occurring. [Mashable]

London-based art critic Adrian Searle offers his top ten exhibition list. Number one on that list is the Whitney’s reopening. Woot! Number six is Juan Muñoz, whose figurative sculptures have always been a bit of a head scratcher for me. Why are a bunch of laughing footless figures in a room supposed to be beguiling? [The Guardian]

Franklin Sirmans is settling into his new role as director of the Perez Art Museum Miami. The problem? Miamians apparently don’t like giving donations—especially to an institution that was renamed in honor of another private donor. [The New York Times]

An oddly gripping stream-of-consciousness reflection on Christopher Wool by Richard Prince. [Wool735.com via @gregorg]

Jeff Koons is being sued by photographer Mitchel Gray for copyright infringement. The case stems from Koons’ 1986 painting “I Could Go For Something Gordon’s” which recreated a scene from an ad Gray shot for Gordon’s Gin earlier that year. [The Telegraph]

Huh. Upper West Siders who oppose the Museum of Natural History’s expansion plans are planning to protest the opening of Tina Fey’s new film Sisters. Apparently Fey is on the museum’s Board of Trustees and voted in favor of the expansion. [artnet News]

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GIF of the Day: How We All Feel After Art Basel Miami Beach

by Michael Anthony Farley on December 7, 2015

Here are some GIFs of a little girl throwing a tantrum and taking a nap on an overcast, damp beach. This is exactly how we all feel today, so we won’t be posting like we usually do.

Here’s a summary of just what we’ve been up to in Miami:

We brought you not one, not two, but three itineraries for ABMB week.
We launched our new project space, Fine Art Gallery, at Artist-Run at the SATELLITE Show, with F.A.G. Bar.
We were disappointed by the main fair at the convention center.
Paddy loved UNTITLED.
I liked NADA, but Paddy still had mixed feelings. We both agree that The Fontainebleau isn’t a great venue for that art fair.
Pulse’s move to the beach was welcome, but the fair still needs some work.
I noticed a lot of booths with similar looks, and picked who wore it better.
After a week of trudging around lackluster commercial fairs, Paddy expressed our undying love of Tiger Strikes Asteroid’s Artist-Run at the SATELLITE.
And yesterday, love (of the hopefully undying variety) seemed to be in the air at the Artist-Run—two of the participants decided to get married after having met each other just four days prior. Of course, we were there to document the moment in GIF.

Don’t worry, there’s more to come about our Miami adventures. And we haven’t forgotten about New York—our regular events listings will be back tomorrow.

But for now, we’ll be sleeping off our Basel weekend.

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Two Artists Just Met and Married at SATELLITE’s Artist-Run Show

by Michael Anthony Farley on December 6, 2015

The Artist-Run at SATELLITE just closed, but things stayed interesting here up until the end. While Art Basel had a stabbing, we had a wedding. James Swainbank, who was showing in Open Space’s Stupid Bar, just married Vinegar (Jennifer) Avery, who was also participating in the show through Yellow Peril Gallery. Really.

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Who Wore it Better? ABMB Edition

by Michael Anthony Farley on December 5, 2015

Inevitably, some people pack the same looks for Miami.

Remember NADA’s legendary pool parties at the Deauville? There always seemed to be at least two art-bros who showed up in the same “statement” bathing suit from American Apparel. But it’s usually more awkward when gallerists inadvertently dress their booths too similarly.

Below, we take a look at accidental twinsies and judge who wore it better:

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