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Monday Links: Medieval Reactions, Alien Art Handlers

by The AFC Staff on March 23, 2015

Only the New Yorker editorial staff could get away with the line “It feels good to live like the one per cent.” Yes, after reviewing the bacon cheeseburger, chicken paillard, and the fudgy brownie, that’s exactly the emotion I would have, too. [The New Yorker]
Kids love that song from the Frozen soundtrack. One adult agrees with their passion, to the chagrin of every other parent in the world: “Whoa,” say my friends with small kids. “If ‘Let It Go’ were on an endless loop in your home, and your car, you would actually hate the song with a teeth-gnashing passion as we do.” [The Weeklings]
“When you and the squad are smashing karaoke.” There’s a meme-worthy medieval painting for everyone on Medieval Reactions [Twitter @MedievalReacts]
In light of the Hito Steyerl show at Artists Space, her essay “In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective” is worth a look. The thesis here is that the diminished importance of the horizon line in art has created a feeling of groundlessness and disorientation, but also freedom. [e-flux Journal]
Hey, Kelly Kapowski, identity politics look good on you, gurl. [Saved by the Bell Hooks]
As if you needed another reason love belting out the chorus to “Dancing On My Own” from the middle of the dance floor (you know it’s drunk o’clock when Robyn enters the rotation), the avant-pop star just announced her intent to launch a festival promoting women in technology. [Pitchfork]
Do you love mall kiosks? Candy Crush invites? Comic Sans? Republican governor and all-around terrible human Scott Walker? We didn’t think so. That’s the assumption driving the Scott Walker Loves Tumblr. It’s an aggregate for things you hate, and things so subtly annoying, you never knew you hated them until now. [Scott Walker Loves]
Here’s a looping video narrative by Jeremy Couillard in which two alien art handlers fold up a virtual painting. No idea what to make of this. [The Art Handlers]

GIFs That Made Our Year

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on January 2, 2015

At this point, 2014 is still a wash; trending words included “asphyxiation” and “misogyny”, but the most-typed phrase was an emoji heart. Naturally, we turn to GIFs. Here are the year’s “GIF of the Day” highlights, in creative standouts, minor cultural milestones, and mostly, things we couldn’t stop thinking about because they were so weird.

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Monday Links: It’s a S’more on a Stick!

by Whitney Kimball on December 1, 2014

Hans Ulrich Obrist gets a New Yorker profile, with the subheading “The curator who talked his way to the top”. In a nutshell, yep. More on this after I actually read the piece. (This was just published). [New Yorker]
OH COME ON. A video of the cronut guy now unveils his latest invention, a “frozen s’more”. “If you push yourself beyond what you know, you always end up with something unique and special.” Cue footage of the s’more on a stick. Phillip Niemeyer, you have work to do. [New Yorker]
Holy shit. Shia LaBeouf was raped in an art gallery by a crazy woman during his performance “#IAMSORRY”. [Vulture]
Holy shit. Piers Morgan calls LaBeouf “pathetic” for coming forward, and accuses him of lying, on no basis. [Twitter via The Independent]
Ben Fino-Radin is working on a “massive” JODI project in Rotterdam, two years after their retrospective at the Museum of Moving Image, curated by Michael Connor. [Twitter]
Ebola is sweeping Sierra Leone, “with the number of cases quintupling in Freetown alone in the past two months”. [The Guardian]
An ancient device used to calculate astrological motion, and created in around 60 BC, is described as a “forerunner to computers”. It had over 30 gears. [IFL Science, via Carla Gannis]
The online art seller 20×200 has a Cyber Monday sale! Patrons who spend over $100 get 30% off. [20×200, via Corinna Kirsch]
Plus, there’s our own Cyber Monday sale. Any donation over $50 earns you a panda pasties print. We’ve only got 75 of these puppies, so donate now. [Art F City]
Overworked Thai farmers are taking meth to keep working.[Al Jazeera, via Marina Galperina]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Pussy Riot Comes to Brooklyn, SculptureCenter Explores Time

by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 3, 2014

Brave the cold just a little longer, for we have so much art to see this week. Talks abound, from B. Wurtz on the history of sculpture to Winkleman Gallery’s panel on African-Americans in Soviet culture. We have openings, like a feminist sound art retrospective at CUNY and Greenpoint’s winter open studios night. Round out Sunday with a Genesis Breyer P-Orridge film-screening and book launch at PS1 and we’ll call it a week. Just grin and bear it.

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Thursday Links: The Best of Santa

by Matthew Leifheit and Whitney Kimball on December 12, 2013

TIME Magazine cover with backdrop (Image via Matthew Leifheit)

TIME’s person of the year cover looks like concept art for a Pope Francis video game. It was created by Chicago-based artist Jason Seiler, “a classically trained oil painter who recently taught himself to paint digitally on a 21-inch LCD display”. [TIME]
An investigation ensued after a drunken wedding partier stole a nude bar painting hanging over the urinal of The Citizen Bar; it turns out the painting of a nude woman riding a cigar was valuable, and the guilt was eating the thief alive. The painting will be re-attached to the wall alongside a letter from the thief “I will never again get drunk at a wedding and steal the Naked Cigar Picture above the urinal in the Citizen Hotel,” over and over. [Sactown Mag]
“Uptalk” is the name of the Valley Girl accent we all have now. [Today, via the awl]
The New Yorker’s 13 most-read blog posts of 2013 CLICK IT>> [New Yorker]
God it’s been six months since the news broke and there is still nothing I want to see less than “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic”. [WSJ]
Mother Jones’ Best Hate-Reads of 2013 includes all the latest classics, but it’s mostly adults hating on millennials for not having jobs. Boy, do we have an art component for this series. [Mother Jones]
Final Deadline is tonight for the Camera Club of New York’s 2014 Darkroom Residency applications. It’s free to apply, and winners get studio access, darkroom privileges and a stipend in addition to a show. [CCNY]
This photo and story from NPR’s photo blog is pretty damn cute. [Picture Show] [via my mom}

Santa the Hutt, via Artinfo

Hundreds of San Francisco families have been bonding over an humongous drunk and obese “Santa the Hutt” sculpture and window display at Betabrand. Ben Sutton has the full story and slideshow. [Artinfo]
After a steady series of firings and resignations of department directors, El Museo del Barrio’s chief curator Chus Martinez announced that she’s also leaving. Julia Halperin has the full story. [TAN]
Pedro Velez is not happy. [twitter]

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Week Four: Dennis Rodman at the Folk Art Museum

by Corinna Kirsch on November 26, 2013

Dream Exhibitions is a new weekly series that asks artists, writers, curators, and other creative types what as-yet unrealized exhibition they’d like to see.

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#Longreads: Understanding Owls

by Whitney Kimball on October 26, 2012

In which we send you on your weekend with our favorite long read. This week, it’s David Sedaris.

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People Had Problems With the Art Market Eighty Years Ago

by Whitney Kimball on March 1, 2012

Still think the Art Workers Coalition were the first to object publicly to the art market? Nay. Way back in the 1920s, the New Yorker’s first art critic, Murdock Pemberton, was a vocal opponent of the starving artist ideal. Many of his writings echo those of contemporary critics and, more recently, Occupy Wall Street groups. His granddaughter, Sally Pemberton, has spent the past two years mining his archives and recently published a scrapbook portrait of Pemberton and his peers. The following are pieces from the New Yorker and lecture notes which Ms. Pemberton found in her grandfather’s suitcase in 2009.

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