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A Hopeful Alternative to the Art Fairs? “Wish Meme” at the Old School

by Corinna Kirsch on May 8, 2013

For the second year running, New York will host not just one, but two major art fair seasons within months of each other. Already fatigue seems to be the byword of choice for dealers, artists, and journalists faced with seeing the same, booth-friendly work throughout the year. For that reason, we look forward to the smaller shows that crop up in alternative spaces. “Wish Meme” dashed our expectations for a hopeful alternative to the blue-chip fairs.

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The New Museum’s Ideas City Festival Gets an Upskirt Tent

by Corinna Kirsch on May 2, 2013

This weekend, “MirrorMirror” will debut at the Ideas City festival. It might be fun, but it might be hell.

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Tuesday Links: Sext Me If You Can

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 30, 2013

So, the New Museum is hosting a residency program for the NEA 4. It’s hard to pin down what, exactly, this residency will look like; from what we know so far, all four artists’ projects will be concerned with how to fund performance art. Sadly, Karen Finley’s project shows how to do that, but only by getting away from performance altogether. In “Sext Me if You Can”, Finley will ask audience members to send her sexts, which she’ll then make into paintings to sell at the New Museum. Here’s my preliminary review: Not brilliant. [New Museum]
Latvia just opened the Mark Rothko Center. Pro: This is the first time any Rothko paintings have made their way to Eastern Europe. Con: The museum only has six of them. [Financial Times]
The Saudi conceptual artist Abdulnasser Gharem plans to set up the Arab state’s first artist-run foundation in Riyadh. [The Art Newspaper]
Women: shitting at the workplace should feel empowering. It’s okay to take a dump in a stall. [New York Mag]
Richard Prince made a composite of all of Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriends. [Animal]
The planned alliance of Philadelphia’s rare-book collectors’ mecca, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, with the Free Library of Philadelphia could mean greater access to literary treasures. The editorial here suggests the merger will be less messy than the Barnes move. [Philly.com]
There’s a war brewing with literary critics, and it’s because, no surprise here, book lovers don’t always get bloggers. Literary critics are whining about The New York Times Book Review because the old school publication’s new editor Pamela Paul has “no writerly or literary credentials”. That’s not exactly true, but that doesn’t stop The Guardian’s Michael Wolff from deriding Paul for working “two years as a blogger at the Huffington Post, which, it doesn’t seem entirely churlish to point out, is not a job.” Unfortunately, that’s the best he can come up with. [The Guardian]
Canada’s National Film Board gets props from The New Yorker blog for supporting radical filmmaking. [The New Yorker]
A recent New Yorker piece on Depression journalism has an unnamed New York Times editor calling poor people losers, according to ex-Times writer Charlie LeDuff. [The New Yorker, behind the paywall]
The oil company Shell bankrolled an eight-year scientific analysis of van Gogh’s true palette. It reveals that his colors were originally more naturalistic. [The New York Times]

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Tuesday Links: We Demand a Pritzker.

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on March 26, 2013

Last week, Toyo Ito was awarded the Pritzker Prize. Ito is most famous for his 2000 Sendai Mediatheque in Japan. Ito has not yet designed a structure that’s been built in the US. His only commission got scratched. [Culture Grrl]
Somebody get this woman a Pritzker. During a speech in London last week, leading architect Denise Scott Brown demanded retrospective recognition for her longtime creative partner Robert Venturi’s 1991 Pritzer. At the time of the award, they’d been working together as Venturi Scott Brown and Associates for over twenty two years. Brown suspects that their being married has something to do with her snubbing. [archdaily] It’s not the first time the issue has been brought up. [Architect]
Speaking of late recognition, Julia Halperin’s “6 Artists Who Made It Big After Turning 70.” They’re all women. [ARTinfo]
Call 1-855-FOR-1993 from a city pay phone and hear an oral history from 1993. It’s part of the New Museum’s 1993 show, a would-be fun idea were it not for having to touch a pay phone. [Gallerist]
This is ugly: New York based artist Mertin D. Simpson has died, his collection is worth millions, but there’s too much family squabbling over the estate to even cover the cost of his burial. [NY Times]
A brownnosy profile on David Zwirner: a charmer, an odd amalgam, a boy on the playground, a Dr. Strangelove, part shrewd salesman, part cultivated European, and a self-described spring chicken. [NYT Magazine]
Horrific. Conservatives in Egypts new government say that women are inviting rape by participating in public protests. [NY Times]
Maud Newton writes a fascinating story on the unusual trend of Christian fundementalists who are now integrating Jewish traditions into their lives. The piece was sparked by the TLC reality show, “The Sisterhood”. [NY Times]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events

by Whitney Kimball on February 18, 2013

Starting tomorrow, of course.

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“1993″ at the New Museum: Slideshow and Commentary

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on February 14, 2013

A preview of the New Museum’s “1993″, in slideshow format. Get ready for some commentary!

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AFC at the L Magazine: Beat Nite’s Back! And More Must-See Art Events

by Whitney Kimball on February 12, 2013

This week, dive into Bushwick. Let the openings wash over you as you plunge into the bi-annual gallery crawl/neighborhood party that is Beat Nite.

Also, there will be an indie video game festival at the Museum of Moving Image and an exhibition about the year 1993 at the New Museum.

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This Week’s Art Events

by Whitney Kimball on January 14, 2013

This week, we’ll be attending an underground animation screening, a ton of international exhibitions, and the re-re-reopening of the Seaport Museum.

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AFC’s Top 10: Whitney Kimball

by Whitney Kimball on January 3, 2013

2012 wasn’t such a sea of shit after all. Every month or so, as the pandering museum shows and art fairs and summer group shows and art writer resignations and auction records had me losing hope, one of these came along. Thank God for that.

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Report from the New Aesthetic: The Movement Rolls On, Inward

by Whitney Kimball on November 13, 2012

Last month, I attended the New Museum panel “Stories from the New Aesthetic.” I thought we’d get to hear about how the movement has evolved since it incited a widespread art, tech, and critical dialogue; I was wrong.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events

AFC at the L Magazine: Beat Nite’s Back! And More Must-See Art Events

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AFC’s Top 10: Whitney Kimball

Report from the New Aesthetic: The Movement Rolls On, Inward

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