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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Let’s Keep Gentrifiers Out of Our Museums

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on November 16, 2015

This Tuesday, New York artists, activists and renters head out to protest the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit at The Brooklyn Museum. The summit will be where some of the city’s biggest real estate moguls convene to discuss how they can best raise rents so high that it will push working and middle class residents out of the city. It’s essential to attend this protest and will almost certainly be very, very fun. There will be a satirical performance/protest of the Brooklyn Museum’s latest “exhibition”, Double Crossing Brooklyn plus Reverend Billy Talent will perform.

Other events on the horizon: Tonight Justene Williams promises complicit spectatorship, with her installation made of cardboard and paper sets and crazy costumed performers. If you miss it tonight, not to worry: she’ll perform it every day at noon for the rest of the week. For those who love to hear about architecture, Bjarke Ingels will discuss how he and his firm B.I.G. are transforming New York at Cooper Hewitt Tuesday night. Expect to hear about ideas of play. And finally, apartment gallery shows are the rage: we’ve listed two openings this Friday, one in the Upper East Side and another in—you guessed it —Bushwick. Get out and see these shows.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Spooooky Edition

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 26, 2015

Halloween is here! The art world’s favorite holiday. If you aren’t busy working on a last minute costume, head to American Medium Tuesday night to see AFC’s friend Brenna Murphy and pick up her new book, Domain~Lattice. Wednesday night, go to the New Museum’s insanely fun Halloween party. Then on Thursday, head to Bortolami, where Tom Burr’s installations and photographs serve as a haunted house channeling the ghosts of Chelsea’s gayer, sleazier past. But really, the scariest thing in New York City this week is the NSFW flyer for Nolan Hendrickson’s Halloween, uh, opening at Ramiken Crucible.

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Friday Links: Valentine’s at White Castle

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on January 9, 2015

Image via SodaHead

White Castle is booking reservations for Valentine’s Day. The number is (718) 899-8404, ext. 311. [Gothamist]
If the battle is actually on between MoMA and the Met’s contemporary collection, then according to Roberta Smith, the Met’s playing its cards right. It takes a “salad” approach to Modernism rather than separating it regionally and by period. She credits Sheena Wagstaff with this turnaround, the director of the Met’s Contemporary and Modern section since 2012. [The New York Times]
Legendary Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger will close his space in the summer and New York based dealer and celebrity magnet Vito Schnabel will take over. [Artnet news]
Private giving sustains art museums. No surprises there, but the numbers are interesting. According to the Association of Art Museum Directors, the average museum goer spends $7.93 on their visit, while the museum spends $52.17. Philanthropy accounts for 33% of a museum’s budget. [Hyperallergic]
Lebanese artists pay tribute to #jesuischarlie. [Banana Pook]
The Canadian Harper government has started a re-election fundraising campaign in response to the Paris terrorist attacks. This is being criticized by many on twitter for being exploitive and in poor taste. [Twitter]
Bieber weiner news! Apparently, unretouched photos from Bieber’s Calvin Klein shoot were released by a source who found Bieber insufferable on set. [Gawker]
Performa is organizing a tribute to Ray Johnson in November, thus prompting Randy Kennedy’s reflection on his career. “He was making work that looked like Pop in the 1950s, years before his friend and sometime rival Andy Warhol did. He was a performance artist before there was a term for such a thing….He was the father of mail art.” And in 1995 he jumped off a bridge and killed himself. No one knows why. [The New York Times]
In Paris, several hostages have now been taken by two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo murders. We are watching. [Mother Jones]
In Russia, a proposed law would take away transgendered people’s right to drive. Also, people with gambling addictions, shoplifters, the S&M community, foot fetishists, and necrophiles. [vocativ]
The infamous Brooklyn cat-kicker will not be going to jail for a year, as he could have, according to the New York Daily News. He’s now being tried for a B misdemeanor, which calls for a maximum jail sentence of 90 days. [Animal New York, via New York Daily News]

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The Ten Best Exhibitions of 2014

by Paddy Johnson on December 31, 2014

With this job, you don’t always have a chance to write up all the exhibitions you saw and loved, so for me, the 2014 year-end review is a Godsend. It gives me a chance to give a shout out to everything I saw and loved. And this year, there was an awful lot of it. May 2015 be this bountiful and more.

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Friday Links: Best of Luck to This Rat

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on October 31, 2014

Just keep humming the Mission Impossible theme, it gets funnier pic.twitter.com/Js2wBdBoWX

— Science Cat (@DrScienceCat) October 17, 2014

Astounding shot of a death-defying rat trying to shimmy between two trash cans. [Sciencecat on twitter]
The only link that seems into Halloween this year is this photo of Taylor Swift wooking wike a sad unicorn. 🙁 [The Cut on Twitter]
Toast editor Mallory Ortberg, the brains behind such art-historical lists as “Women Having a Horrible Time at Parties,” breaks down her thought process. “You read these [classics] in high school and the big question you ask is, Is Hamlet mad? Another big question to ask is, Is Hamlet an asshole?” [The Cut]
Metal heads steal the metal head of John Denver. [SF Gate]
It’s that time of year when your inbox becomes nothing but press releases for what’s happening at next month at the Miami art fairs. Today’s tip: Ryan McNamara will enact his much-lauded 2013 Performa commission, “MEƎM: A Story Ballet About the Internet,” during Art Basel. [Art Basel]
Planning on going out tonight for Halloween? Why not memorize some of the worst jokes to tell at tonight’s parties? [Reddit]
Another year, Kelly Crow predicts another auction frenzy. Who cares. [Wall Street Journal]
The clowns must be stopped. The small French town of Vendargues has banned scary clowns “fueled by a clown craze on social media.” Are they referring to Juggalos? Or just scary clowns? [BBC]
You can do as best a job as a parent that you can do. You can still have less-than-genius kids. [DailyMail]
There is now an artist residency program on a cargo ship. Artists will have their own cabin while the ship resumes its normal commercial activities. [Smithsonian via the Paris Review]

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Why Art Doesn’t Pay

by Corinna Kirsch on April 1, 2014

Artists pay, institutions don’t. Let’s discuss.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Everything But the Art World

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on November 11, 2013

Good news for those of you who couldn’t get tickets to Performa’s blockbusters! There are still free and open Performa events (a 24-hour group performance, a screening by the Gay Cable Network archive) and non-Performa exhibitions of puppets, comics, animation, and a queer experimental film festival.

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Philippe Quesne’s Art Bus Tour: Not Really a Tour

by Corinna Kirsch on November 6, 2013

Here’s hoping I’ll see some better art during the rest of Performa.

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The Official Art F City Performa 13 Guide

by Whitney Kimball on October 31, 2013

Thanks to Performa, we’re looking forward to a month of actual art—hopefully with less of a commercial focus than we’re used to seeing around New York. Given Performa’s ability to identify great artists, its depth of historical engagement, and the independent nature of performance art, you’re bound to find some great work this month. It’s also humongous (for better or worse). You need our guide.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events Are This Season’s Must-See Art Events

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 28, 2013

There’s been a variety of fun and whimsical art events lately, but every once in a while there’s a week of substantive works which we’ll be thinking back on for years to come. Performa is one of those, and the online biennial “The Wrong” might be another. And after 41 years, this Tuesday’s event at the Clocktower Gallery may be your last opportunity to visit before it’s turned into luxury condos.

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