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AFC’s Election Year Coverage

by Corinna Kirsch on November 6, 2012
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After braving the morning chill of New York’s chaotic polling stations, we here at AFC are back at the office counting down the hours until the re-election of President Barack Obama. While we anxiously await tomorrow morning’s news, we decided to round up all our election year coverage for AFC and The L Magazine.

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Wednesday Links: #MittRomneyHatesArt

by Leighann Morris on September 26, 2012

  • If you were anywhere near Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, you would have seen graffiti artist Saber flying five planes in formation across sunny Sunday skies with messages reprimanding presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his plans to kill funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and other much needed arts organisations (which is really funny, considering the Romney plane window comments that flooded the internet today). Anti-Romney messages included “#MittRomneyHatesArt” and “#DefendTheArts”. We’re not quite sure hashtags work on clouds, but you can watch a video of the spectacle here. [HuffPo]
  • Oh no, someone is putting on an exhibition inspired by “Lost”.  ”Lost (in LA)”, curated by the former director of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, Marc-Olivier Wahler, is due to take place at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park (1 December-27 January 2013), with works by Tatiana Trouvé, Oscar Tuazon, and Thomas Hirschhorn, among others. [The Art Newspaper]
  • NADA’s released its exhibitor list for Miami Beach 2012, and ArtINFO has the breakdown. Over half are new additions. [ArtINFO]
  • The Warhol Foundation announced this month that it had settled a deal with Christie’s to liquidate all of its remaining art holdings, aiming to raise money for more grants. Christine J. Vincent assesses Warhol’s philanthropic legacy. [The Art Newspaper]
  • This week marks the beginning of the Gwangju Biennale. Overseen by six female curators from the Middle East and Asia, the Biennale explores themes of civic protest with artworks that deal with resistance campaigns from South Korea all the way to the global Occupy movement. [The Guardian]
  • Can the art world go a day without talking about Andy Warhol? I thought I’d left it all behind after reading all the reviews of Regarding Warhol at the Met, but now news is in that the British Royal Collection has bought Warhol’s screenprint portraits of the Queen. They will be in an exhibition this year. Warhol did say that one day he wanted to be as famous as the Queen of England? [Artdaily]
  • Was Expo Chicago a success? Hard to know from Julia Halperin’s mixed report, but sales don’t appear to be overwhelmingly strong. Dealer spin for this fair? “Chicagoans are a little more cautious.” [ArtInfo]
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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Romney’s War on Art

by Will Brand on August 22, 2012
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This week at The L Magazine, I take a closer look at the reasoning behind Romney’s proposed elimination of the NEA.

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Without Art21, a Soulless Hellscape?

by Whitney Kimball on April 11, 2012
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The Times has reported that the NEA, benefactor of PBS shows, is expected to make massive cuts to TV programs like American Masters, Great Performances, Independent Lens, POV, and Art21.

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Weekend Links!

by Paddy Johnson on October 30, 2011

  • NEA study finds “artists’ median wages and salaries ($43,000 in 2009) are higher than the median for the whole labor force ($39,000). Yet artists as a whole earn far less than the median wage of the “professional” category of workers ($54,000), to which they belong.” Not sure how valuable these findings are though, given that these numbers are drawn by lumping designers, architects, artists and writers into one group. [NEA]
  • Cartoonist Lynda Barry Will Make You Believe in Yourself. [NYTimes]
  • Karen Rosenberg dislikes slides, pools and anything else fun. A reasonable position on the Höller show at the New Museum, but it’s too bad she ends up sounding like a stick-in-the-mud. [NYTimes]
  • Jacob Kassay, the art world’s newest art star, describes his work as “much more boring than people are taking it for”. He makes achromatic surfaces by dipping canvases in electrified silver solution. I suspect part of the reason this work is so popular amongst collectors is that it’s impossible to document. [The New Yorker: Warning, Paywall!]
  • Recommended: Jeannette Doyle at The Warhol Museum. [Warhol.org]
  • Upcoming: The Reluctant Doctorate, A PHD program for artists at SVA. A bunch of PHDs talk about whether this is a good idea. November 3rd. [SVA]
  • Apparently Peter Schjeldahl supports Occupy Museums. [Paddy Johnson]
  • Watch Slavoj Zizek talk about Occupy Wall Street. [Youtube]
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Massive Links! Censorship Showdown | NEA Throw-Down | DC Has a Warhol Ho-down

by Reid Singer on September 15, 2011
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The National Endowment for the Arts launches an ambitious new initiative. The Met raked it in for New York this summer. A beneficiary of copyright laws applauds efforts to undermine them. Andy Warhol’s eminent star quality remains high, unexplained.

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