by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on March 1, 2016
- Today’s the press preview for the Met Breuer, but don’t worry about missing out — the Met’s tweeting from the preview. [Twitter]
- OK, why didn’t we get the invite to Jeremy Deller’s life drawing class at the New York Academy of Arts last week? Iggy Pop was the model. Anyways, it’s for Deller’s upcoming show at the Brooklyn Museum, and it was invite-only. [The Guardian]
- Gabrielle Moser weighs in on the “Showroom” group show at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and what it gets wrong about the Toronto arts scene: “there are condo ads on the subway that demonstrate greater diversity than this exhibition.” Of the 48 artists in this institutional survey, seven are POC artists. I would add that the curatorial focus was flimsy — how could it not be with so many artists? — and almost conflates the institution’s recent merging of its two galleries as one institution with the city’s recent urban “revitalization” history. Like Moser said, the show’s title could have been “Toronto Artists Want Things to Look Nice.” [Canadian Art]
- How can digital art improve the IRL? Rianna Jade Parker asks five producers in the realm — including artist Tabita Rezaire and POWRPLNT founder Angelina Dreem — to weigh in. [FADER]
- 300 pounds of marijuana, worth one million, was discovered by NYPD in a crate labelled “art”. [artnet News]
- Garry Neill Kennedy reflects on his time as president of the Nova Scotia College of and Design — subject of a recent major survey at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia — and the role NSCAD play in the rise of Conceptual Art. [Artforum]
- “[I realized] I can’t tell your story, I can only tell mine. I can’t be you, I can only be me.” Insightful interview with painter Faith Ringgold, and her 70-year career in art and activism. It’s a shame her quilts haven’t been taken seriously by institutions though — despite owning her masterpiece, Tar Beach, since it was made in 1988, the Guggenheim has never shown the work in New York. [ARTnews]
- HG Masters remembers Kikuo Saito, the Japanese artist known for his abstract color field paintings and wordless plays. He was a former assistant of Noland and Frankenthaler, worked with Jerome Robbins and Robert Wilson — who offers a tributary poem in the obituary — and taught at the Art League up until his death. [ArtAsiaPacific]
- John Hofsess, director of the trippy late-’60s Canadian underground classic Palace of Pleasure, has died. Hofsess, however, eventually became a Right to Die advocate, and posthumously revealed the secret assisted suicide service he offered to eight Canadians, including poet Al Purdy. [Toronto Life]
- Jan Vermeer’s paintings are now available for high res download. [Open Culture]
- Crowdfunding Art Project of the Day: The Queer Japan Project, a documentary about the country’s LGBTQ2S artists and activists. [Kickstarter]
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by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on March 5, 2013
- Across the country, the job market still sucks. In a cost-cutting measure the Indianapolis Museum of Art has slashed 11% of its staff positions. The blame has been placed on the museum’s dwindling endowment. [Indiana Public Media]
- Tyler Green then slammed Indianapolis Museum of Art director Charles Venable for laying off 21 people and then tweeting about his lunch at an “opulent Beijing eatery.” This is the type of targeted, meaningful criticism we like to see from Green. [ARTinfo]
- With Land Art, we think of art and dirt. Nicholas O’Brien, on the other hand, thinks of digitally produced work, and in his latest piece for Bad at Sports, he does a bang up job defining the difference between “place” and “space” on the web. [Bad at Sports]
- Yes, Studio 360, we are fully aware that teakettle-Hitler portraitist Charles Krafft is a Holocaust denier, but we doubt he was anyone’s “favorite artist”. [Studio 360]
- In Skate’s new Art Market Hangout, Artsy, Paddle8, artspace, and others discuss the “meaningful benefits” in the “value chain” of displaying and selling art online. It’s “greater liquidity.” Stick a knife in me, Sergey. [Skate. Temperamental link.]
- Oh man. The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) is being threatened with a provincially mandated amalgamation. Dalhousie, a behemoth university, well-known for its law program, is the looking like the most likely candidate. The school has a 17.4 million dollar debt. Over the last 40-some years, NSCAD has been a shaping force in the Canadian and American art scene. (My article on NSCAD faculty member Gerald Ferguson, here.) [Globe and Mail]
- Yesterday, Carolina Miranda tweeted gender disparity in the literary world, in pie charts. Nobody’s innocent. [cmonstah]
- Greg Allen wants you to drop him a line if you or anyone you know was in the Poindexter Gallery show in 1958-9, and have a checklist or installation photo. He’s trying to document the early history of Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased DeKooning drawing, which he believes may have been completed by Jasper Johns. [Greg.org]
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by Corinna Kirsch on February 10, 2012
- Two federal judges in Houston, Texas want to remove paintings from a courthouse because they depict racist imagery. [The Houston Press]
- The BBC tracks down an internet troll in public, as he’s about to get on the bus. “Why are you so racist? Why are you so offensive?” We hate trolls, too, but this is low-brow journalism. [Laughing Squid]
- Mega-billionaire Victor Pinchuk just launched the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, which accepts online submissions from any artist for a $100,000 award. The winners also get the chance to be mentored by the crème de la crème of artists; last time around, the mentors included Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and Takashi Murakami. [Future Generation Art Prize]
- Yesterday, we posted an interview between Paddy Johnson and CANADA gallery that focuses on the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design’s influence on conceptual art practice. Following in that vein, here’s a link to Rock My Religion, the best video ever made by Dan Graham, a visiting faculty member at NSCAD. [Vimeo]
- Barack Obama is now on Spotify. I can’t believe he listens to No Doubt! [New York Magazine]
- Whether you’re an artist, art historian, or museum professional, the College Art Association has an incredible careers page that provides sample CVs and job interview advice, among a handful of other links. Go get that job! [CAA]
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