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Thursday Links: FIN Secretly Films Music Video in The Met

by Michael Anthony Farley on February 16, 2017

FIN – Daughters from FIN on Vimeo.

Read how FIN (Rebecca Fin Simonetti), FlucT (Monica Mirabile & Sigrid Lauren), and Eartheater (Alexandra Drewchin) secretly filmed a singularly weird music video in The Met on phones. [DAZED]
This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: art workers are saddled with debt and are underpaid. This increasingly means only the adult children of parents with cash to spare for financial help can afford to work in the arts. [Artsy]
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is protesting Trump’s visa ban by removing or shrouding works in their collection either created or donated by immigrants. [The Art Newspaper]
Just how bad is New York’s housing shortage? When Williamsburg’s 325 Kent opened its lottery for affordable (under $1,000/month) units, 87,000 people applied for 104 apartments. [Curbed]
Related: cities from New York to New Orleans are scrambling to figure out affordable artist housing solutions, as gentrification threatens the cultural tourism industry. Good luck. [Huffington Post]
For now, the City of Edinburgh is leaving a mysterious sculpture (some have attributed it to Banksy) of a little girl reaching for a nautical mine in place. It appeared overnight in time for Valentine’s Day in the city’s Scott Monument. [BBC]
In other UK news, the South Downs Heritage Centre decided to remove a bunch of Victorian-era nude photographs from an art exhibit after a group of elderly visitors found them obscene. I literally LOLed reading this story. Depending on your coworkers, this link might be NSFW. [Daily Mail]
Uh, gross. There’s an outbreak of a rare, deadly rat-borne disease in the Bronx. It’s spread by contact with rat pee. If you live in the Bronx, don’t touch rat pee. [The New York Times]
Following Paddle8’s split from German startup Auctionata, the online auction house has been “gutted” of staff. Layoffs seem to have hit hard, and cofounder/former CEO Aditya Julka has departed. [ARTnews]
Oh dear god Bjarne Melgaard’s fashion “purge” at Red Bull Studios (in which the artist invited the public to look his half-a-million-dollar wardrobe) looks insane and I wish I could’ve been there. [artnet News]

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Thursday Links: Brexit and Broken Relationships

by Emily Colucci Rea McNamara on June 2, 2016

Fourteen artists including Tacita Dean, Anthony Gormley, Wolfgang Tillmans and Bob & Roberta Smith have created posters in support of keeping Britain in the EU. The series was commissioned by Britain Stronger In Europe. [The Guardian]
Related: what does the art market have to lose or gain in the June 23 referendum? Many agree that London artists and institutions would lose out on important EU funding and subsidies. Others believe that unnecessary EU legislation — like the artist’s resale right scheme, which was supported by artists but not the rest of the industry — has put the London art market at a severe disadvantage. [artnet News]
Participant Inc.’s founder Lia Gangitano receives a much-deserved profile, recognizing how she has, according to David Colman, “brought witty, raucous and challenging works to the art world’s attention on a modest budget.” Our favorite part of the feature is artist and performer Vaginal Davis’ comment on Gangitano’s collaboration with difficult artists: “I am VERY difficult…I have a disdain for the wealthy and privileged. I offend easily, and am ready to throw down at the slightest provocation.” [New York Times]
Yoga and controversial public sculptures don’t mix. The New York Department of Parks and Recreation is demanding the removal of the noose from Aaron Bell’s 16-foot sculpture Stand Loud, Stand Tall, which is supposed to represent, as Bell explains, “zero tolerance for any and all manifestations of hatred.” Slated to appear in Riverside Park as a part of the parks department’s partnership with the Arts Student League’s Model to Monument Program, the department became concerned because the park also holds “passive recreational activities such as yoga, pilates and senior movement.” [Artforum]
The shortlist for Canada’s Sobey Prize has been revealed. The artists include William Robinson, Jeremy Shaw, Brenda Draney, Charles Stankievech and Hajra Waheed. The winner will be announced in November, and takes home a $50,000 prize. [Canadian Art]
Following Paddle8’s merger with Auctionata, more than a dozen staffers have been laid off or left the online auction house. The departures continue with the exits of chief marketing officer Susan Cernek and Sarah Goulet, head of communications. [ARTnews]
How will they split the collection? Real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his wife of 57 years, Linda Macklowe, are ending their marriage. It appears Macklowe is leaving the former curator and current member of the board of trustees at the Guggenheim for his new girlfriend, Patricia Landeau, president of the the French Friends of the Israel Museum. The couple has a huge postwar and contemporary art collection; valued at $1 billion, it includes works by Franz Kline, Gerhard Richter and Mark Rothko. [artnet News]
Last month, the Senate Finance Committee sent a summary of their findings regarding the practices of tax-exempted private museums to the IRS. Julia Halperin obtained a copy of the report. Key findings include the fact that almost half the 11 museums surveyed — which includes the Brant Foundation, The Broad and the Rubell Family Collection — report fewer than 6,000 visitors per year, and none of them report loans of donated art back to the founders. [Art Newspaper]
Another gallery is fleeing Chelsea, however this time, they’re going to Midtown rather than the increasingly popular Lower East Side. Anton Kern Gallery, which has been in Chelsea for 15 years, will head to a new location on 55th Street, between Madison and 5th Avenue. The gallery’s Chelsea space was sold in 2014 to a condo developer for $24.25 million. [ARTnews]
What is left after a failed relationship other than a broken heart? A lot of random crap as the Museum of Broken Relationships shows in their recently opened Los Angeles location, which displays these previously adored artifacts such as a dinosaur piñata and a Betty Boop doll. The Museum was originally founded by Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić in Croatia as a way to deal with the “emotional collapse” of a breakup. [VICE]
Will artists become obsolete as technology advances further? Google’s newest project Magenta, which will attempt to create original art and music through artificial intelligence, certainly raises that question. [Hyperallergic]

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Thursday Links: The Art World’s New Favourite Collector

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on May 12, 2016

The mysterious buyer of that Basquiat top lot at Tuesday’s Christie’s contemporary has been revealed. Yusaku Maezawa is the forty year old Tokyo-based billionaire founder of online shopping mall Zozotown, and reportedly went on a shopping spree snapping up works by Nauman, Prince, Calder and Koons. But everyone’s really feeling him: dealer Barbara Bertozzi Castelli praises him as “someone with passion and an eye.” According to Maezawa, he bought the Basquiat because it was first shown in Tokyo back in 1985 and was “an art historical moment” for Japan. ARTINFO’s Judd Tully calls Maezawa “the real deal”. Emoji hearts overload! [BLOUIN ARTINFO]
Speaking of sales, Sotheby’s contemporary auction results from last night saw 95% of the lots sold with sales totalling $42.2 million. This is sure to be a boost, especially after the poor performance of Monday’s Impressionist and Modern sale. Oh, and Maezawa — the collector of the moment, it seems — was there, and bought Adrian Ghenie’s “Self-Portrait as Vincent van Gogh” (2012) for $2.6 million and Wool’s “Untitled” (1990) for $13.9 million. [Baer Faxt, The Art Newspaper]
Big news in the online art market world: leading start-ups Auctionata and Paddle8 are merging. The news comes on the heels of a Hiscox’s report last month noting both companies double their sales in 2015, bringing in a total of $3.27 billion. The report also predicted that the market will consolidate, and that eventually one large company will be the platform that everyone will use to buy or sell art online. [ARTnews]
Why was a Melbourne artist mysteriously deported from the United States? Hamishi Farah was supposed to be in town for a solo show of his work at NADA last week. But when he attempted to board his connecting flight from LAX with an electronic waiver, he was given a “SSSS” (secondary security screening selection) boarding pass. This is apparently a list that the airline then sends to Homeland Security. He was then questioned and searched, had his passport confiscated, couldn’t make any calls, and spent 12 hours in a cell. He was then sent back on a flight to Australia with no stamp on his Australian passport or explanation of what happened. Baffling. The black artist, represented by Sydney’s Minerva Gallery, believes he was racially profiled. [The Age]
Siddhartha Mitter is a big fan of the Brooklyn Museum’s African masquerade show, in particular, for its forgoing of the typical museological vitrine display of masks. [Village Voice]
Vetements, a Parisian design collective, has gotten a lot of notice in the fashion world for producing “contrarian mallgoth style collections” beloved by Kanye West and Rihanna. Think health goth soccer socks somehow transformed as a kitten heel ankle boot, or knock-off DHL uniforms. Berlin-based artist and stylist Ella Previn, however, believes the conditions of the collective’s success — in particular, its chic silhouettes that echo the street style of skinheads, rioters and police — is the “bastard attire of a broken generation”. [Spike Art Magazine]
Oh, Canadians. We really know how to take care of our own: an Edmonton strip club is offering free lap dances to fire evacuees from Fort McMurray. The city is located right at the heart of Alberta’s oil sands region, so this offer is presumably targeting its oil patch workers. [Toronto Star]

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Power Women = Power Art

by The AFC Staff on April 9, 2015

What does it mean to be a Power Woman? In this auction benefit for Art F City it means you’re bad ass: You make great art and have been doing since forever. You’re an influential powerhouse within the art community. You are deserving of recognition for the work you do. In short, you are nothing less than amazing.

In honor of AFC’s upcoming Power Women 10th Anniversary Benefit, we’re sharing ten artworks for auction by ten power women. You’ve got four days to bid. Better get to that.

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Tuesday Links: Evil Monkeys

by Katie Waddell on March 31, 2015

For one housing complex in Mumbai, monkeys are the new rats. Sounds kinda cute until you read the article and realize that it’s actually terrifying because monkeys 1) are smart enough to figure out sliding glass windows and elevator buttons, 2) have long, pointy teeth, and 3) straight-up give no fucks. Yikes. [Mid-day]
Ready for your daily dose of low self-esteem? These 40 individuals represent the most “talented, driven and dynamic” professionals under the age of 40 who are working in New York City today. @juliaxgulia and overachievers everywhere. [Crain’s New York Business]
Job interviews are tough enough. Bringing up personal stuff, like maybe wanting to start a family and needing to know that it won’t be a problem, can make it even more awkward. So now there’s a Tumblr that attempts to catalog maternity/paternity/family leave policies so job seekers know what they’re getting into when they sign on with a new company. [Having it Some]
Our very own Paddy Johnson plays the art-geekiest round of “would you rather” ever. [Paddle8 Fine Art Auctions]
Here’s a list of eleven things you probably didn’t know you can’t bring on a plane. Guess you’ll have to leave the deer antlers and human remains at home. *Sigh* [Huffington Post]
With apologies for the Dubai monkey story, here’s a video of a cat and a fennec fox being hella cute together. [YouTube]

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Announcing the Art F City 10th Anniversary Benefit Auction

by Paddy Johnson on March 30, 2015

Zoe Crosher, “Billboard No. 3 (Washington Street & I-10 Heading West).” From LA-LIKE:SHANGRI LA’d, part of the the Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, 2015. Digital c-print, 6.5 x 14 inches.

Today we announce the launch of Art F City’s 10th Anniversary Benefit Auction, which runs on Paddle8 through April 13.

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Holly House Hotel, Home to Fire Island Artist Residency, Burns Down

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 27, 2015

At 1:30 a.m. this morning, a fire broke out in Cherry Grove, burning down the Holly House Hotel, home to the Fire Island Artist Residency since 2011.

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