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Monday Links: Eat a Waterbed

The strange world of sunburn stock photography. Ow.

How popular are different art businesses globally, according to Facebook likes? Apparently Americans like Christie’s more than Sotheby’s. [ARTnews]
Don’t do “sunburn art”! (As if this were a “real” trend….) [Standard Daily]
Australia’s art funding is facing “dark days” due to budget cuts. [The Guardian]
Also facing a budget crisis: Chicago public schools. The city is cutting the schools’ budget by $200 million. [Marketplace]
An insightful article on the former sources of performance art. The author wonders about some outsider sources as well, from Oofty Goofty, a feral man-beast covered in tar, to Mr. Eat It All, a guy who tried to eat a waterbed for a promotional event. [Glasstire]
This is not surprising: art is really popular among the mega-wealthy. JJ Charlesworth talks about the rise of the prices in relation to the new global elite and the concept of scarcity as value. [artnet News]
“Incredibly fast and easy loans against your artworks. 4% Monthly, No Fees. Money tomorrow.” The mega-wealthy can now receive low-interest loans from ArtRank by leveraging their art collection as collateral. [Observer]
The Studio Museum in Harlem has just announced that David Adjaye is designing a $122 million new home for the institution. Unfortunately, it looks like this means the current building, which dates from 1914, will be joining the list of historic structures in Harlem that have been demolished in the past few years. [The New York Times]
Horror fans and art-school students, rejoice! This Halloween, you’ll be able to feast your eyes on Art School of Horrors, a Roger Corman production, where “bad art wants revenge.” [IMDB]
Baltimore has awesome bars and creative people—who actually want to be friends with you. [The New York Times]
In China, the exhibition ban on Ai Weiwei has been lifted. The artist remains unable to travel outside the country. [The Art Newspaper]
A piece of public art in Liverpool has been destroyed by vandals. The sculpture was a brass bird with electronics that played recordings of city residents talking about their hopes and dreams. Everyone’s a critic. [Liverpool Echo]
Hello, bears! It’s bear-cam season. [Explore]

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In Protest of Unethical Treatment, USC’s MFA Students Drop Out of School

by Corinna Kirsch on May 15, 2015

Is an MFA worth it? Not when your scholarship, teaching assistantship, and benefits have been ripped out from underneath you.

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Monday Links: Smile

by The AFC Staff on April 6, 2015

$Smile, crocodile. From Math Bass's "Newz!" series, 2014.$

Smile, crocodile. From Math Bass, the “Newz!” series, 2014.

A frog with a sad smile. [Imgur]
“Karen” is an app from British art collective Blast Theory that delivers life tips and heart-to-hearts directly to your smartphone. But be careful. Karen, the persona driving the app, whose personality and responses are customized according to the user’s personality, might just get a little too friendly. She’s programmed to overshare, and call at inappropriate hours. [The New York Times]
A case for art majors: you might not make buckets of money when you graduate, but according to a new study, you will get laid. [artnet News via The Tab]
Unsurprising, but postinternet art hasn’t hit Cambodia yet. Internet usage has not swelled as it has in the west, so that type of networked artwork doesn’t fit the mold there. How useful is the term, if it only applies to certain physical locations? [Rhizome]
Art as potential fodder for money laundering. “Unlike many other real assets, such as farmland or property, art is also movable, which is handy for buyers who do not plan to tell the taxman about it. It can be a relatively discreet way of investing, too: Christie’s arranged $916m of private purchases in 2014, compared with just $266m in 2009.” [The Economist]
The Big D gets a Big Sculpture Prize. Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center announced plans for the inaugural International Nasher Prize for Sculpture, a $100,000 prize awarded to “a living artist in recognition of a significant body of work.” The winner will be announced in fall 2015. [Glasstire]
Clinton on Clinton! Hillary Clinton has leased a campaign office at 1 Pierrepoint Plaza and the corner of Clinton Street. We care because this means that Clinton’s offices and AFC’s offices will be within walking distance of each other. Maybe we’ll see her out at Shake Shack? [The New York Times via Politico]
Journalists and editors, please check your facts with utmost diligence. Yesterday, Rolling Stone officially retracted “A Rape on Campus,” a story published in fall 2014 about an alleged rape at the University of Virginia. After suspicions arose around the details of the article, the magazine requested an independent report from Steve Coll, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. What follows, in the link, is the Columbia report, whose writers find fault not just with the reporting, but with the magazine’s editors. “But the most egregious failures of transparency in ‘A Rape on Campus’ cannot be chalked up to writing style. They obfuscated important problems with the story’s reporting.” [Rolling Stone]

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Should Location Determine Artist Pay Grade?

by Corinna Kirsch on March 18, 2015

Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) and the online publication art-agenda have announced a payment tool for online commissions and digital artworks, set to debut this spring. Where you live might determine how much you should get paid.

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Friday Links: It’s Cold

by Corinna Kirsch on February 20, 2015

New York (and me) right now.

On the rise of the art fairs: “This shift in the market has been problematic for many traditional art galleries, which are going out of business at an alarmingly steady rate.” [Art Media Agency]
Hahahahaha. The New Republic claims, in one headline, “The Privileged Are Taking Over the Arts.” Oh, thank you for warning me because I had never noticed all the rich people in the art world! [The New Republic]
CCA is now publishing the online art mags Art Practical and Daily Serving. Another college/non-profit crossover: Coronograph, Texas’ newest online art magazine. The interview-only pub will be jointly published by Dallas’ Southern Methodist University and Austin’s Pastelegram. [Glasstire]
HNWI Alert: Citadel CEO Ken Griffin has gifted the Museum of Contemporary Art with $10 million. In return, he will receive an art gallery in his namesake. On February 10, Griffin purchased a very large Richter at auction. Maybe Chicago will be able to see that. [Bloomberg]
“[T]he works are porous, they leak out or into each other, and their material realities exist with or without the gaze of a person.” Artist Pierre Huyghe on his current show at LACMA. [Art in America]
Nadya and Masha of Pussy Riot have released an English-language song and music video named “I Can’t Breathe,” after Eric Garner’s chokehold death. [The Guardian]
This spring, expect to see Op-art fashion on the cool kids who can afford wearing Kenzo. [Opening Ceremony]

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Selling Women: A Very Unpopular Choice at Phillips’ “Under the Influence”

by Corinna Kirsch on February 18, 2015

Part one: We look at the spring iteration of “Under the Influence”, to be held this March at Phillips in New York.

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Wednesday Links: Non-lubed Relations With the English Language

by Corinna Kirsch on February 18, 2015

TACO BAE

Dear Artforum Editors: Can you please explain what this means in your 50 Shades of
Grey review? “James’s own voice and writing tics…suggest nothing so much as a non-lubed and nonconsensual fist fuck of the English language.” [Artforum]
Miss P, a 15-inch beagle from Canada, won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Show. [The New York Times]
What “real dogs” look like after a thorough brushing. [Imgur]
Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of Bitcoins go unused every day. Most Bitcoiners sit on their investments—like hens waiting for their money to hatch. [MIT Technology Review]
What’s wrong with “Taco Bae”? [Topical Cream]
“Why is art so expensive?” [Slate]
The Soap Factory, one of the largest non-profit spaces in Minneapolis, has been selected to create a work at this year’s Art Basel, in conjunction with Kickstarter and the Walker Art Center. That’s a quartet of names I never expected to hear mentioned together. [The Soap Factory]
I’m always amazed by the number of animals who donate works of art to auction every year. Seriously, Jett the Dolphin, Azy the orangutan, and Tomby the elephant all donated finger-paintings to benefit the Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University. [Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis]
“My work isn’t your clip art dude.” First part of this story: Mega-famous DJ Diplo used artist Rebecca Mock’s GIF without properly attributing the work to her. Then, second part: sexism ensues! [Dazed via Canvas]
Not another article that claims, in 2015, that museums and galleries are finally “starting to take digital art seriously”! [Dezeen]

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Tuesday Links: Moo! Inflatable Cows

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on January 20, 2015

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Really hoping this inflatable cow becomes a national thing. [Imgur]
An inflatable cow sitting atop a building. The Internet is filled with so many inflatable cows. Into it. [Flickr]
This is what the pandering art spectacle has come to: at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a tiny fenced-in ice area titled “Monet on Ice,” except the ice isn’t real, and there’s no Monet. [Glasstire]
This is “The Most Famous Middle Eastern Painting,” according to artnet News. [artnet News]
Name the city by its subway map. Only one city made the genius decision to create a circular line which runs through all the other lines. [Washington Post via Metafilter]
Yay! This month marks the return of the Fung Wah, the shittiest and cheapest bus company in the Northeast and possibly the world. Already they’re fucking up, not getting a permit for their pick up location. [Bowery Boogie]
London’s National Gallery will begin outsourcing its gallery assistants to a security firm. Why? Financial reasons. This also sounds like the plot of a movie: Twitter has all the #ngfanfic. [The Guardian, Twitter]
Somebody’s made a fake Faith Holland Facebook account and has been friend-requesting art world women. Watch out. [Facebook]
Guantanamo Diary, the only book released by a current prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, will be released today. [Hachette Book Group]

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Sotheby’s Shake Up: Chairman William F. Ruprecht Resigns

by Corinna Kirsch on November 21, 2014

The rise and fall of Ruprecht’s empire.

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