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Rhizome’s Seven on Seven: Cards on the Table

by Paddy Johnson on April 26, 2013

Rhizome’s Seven on Seven is, by definition, a crap shoot. The conference runs with the basic premise that by pairing seven technologists with seven artists and sticking them in a room together for 24 hours, a few creative sparks might fly. The following day, Rhizome hosts a six hour long conference in which the pairs are given 30 minutes each to present their collaborative work. The results are predictably mixed. Some projects fail, many have potential, but almost none amount to anything at all. Acknowledging this, Seven on Seven Moderator John Michael Boling quickly conceded during his opening remarks that “the main deliverable here is conversation.”

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The Best of Us, For the Rest of Us: Karen Archey

by Whitney Kimball on April 16, 2013

By now, we have a fairly good handle on New York art stars, but we hear less about the people who love them. In two years of writing for AFC, I’ve owed my art-viewing as much to artists as I have to devoted curators, gallerists, and writers working diligently behind the scenes, knee-deep with the rest of us.

Who are these unsung heroes of the art world? I asked leaders of various emerging art communities for their recommendations, and gathered a series of interviews. Today, the Best of Us for the Rest of Us begins with critic and curator Karen Archey.

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Thursday Links! Doing X Will Get You Y

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 28, 2013

Rhizome's new Editor and Curator Michael Connor

The Bruces will have their first museum retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. It opens this June, with touring dates to be announced. Yay! [Brooklyn Museum]
Here comes a new timewaster! Chris Schier’s GIFmelter, a new tool to make your GIFs look weird and watery. [Today and Tomorrow]
Rhizome announces that Michael Connor will be their new Editor and Curator. Connor has been a cornerstone in the net art community for years, so we can’t wait to see what he does. He starts in April. [Rhizome]
Care to learn about what’s at the Vatican? Jonathan Jones lists off the wonders. [The Guardian]
Looks like writing your name on a Rothko can get you more than just jail time. There’s now a mini-documentary on featuring Yellowists Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets. [Animal New York]
Photographer Leslie Williamson is working on a new book called “Handcrafted Modern Europe: At Home with Midcentury Designers”. Apparently, a lot of the interiors she’s photographing disappear when their owners die or move, so she describes her work as “a race against time”. Donate to this Kickstarter, so we can preserve a little bit more of this history. [Kickstarter]
Fashion publicist Phivos Istavrioglou pled guilty in court on Tuesday to stealing a Salvador Dali painting from Upper East Side gallery Venus Over Manhattan. He’s the guy who fled with the painting to Milan, then felt bad about stealing it and mailed it back to New York. [Art Hostage]

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Tuesday Links: Cannibal Edition

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on February 26, 2013

Fork over your cash to The New York Times. The publication has finally closed loopholes to the paywall. We are not happy. [New York Magazine]
After a fire destroyed the sixth floor of Pratt’s Brooklyn studios, the school has sought out donated supplies to help students who have lost everything. A distribution center opened Friday and includes canvases, tools and more than 3,000 brushes. [In the Air]
Rhizome’s Seven on Seven is getting bigger. The conference will take place in the New School’s Tishman auditorium this year, a move from the New Museum’s basement auditorium. Let the live tweeting begin. [Rhizome]
Fantasy cannibal’s wife testifies. She discovered chats containing gruesome fantasies in which she is tied up by the feet, and her throat slit. The tears flow. [The New York Times]
Oh, this is GREAT. ARTnews recaps its visits to the Armory Show, running back 100 years. James B. Townsend’s 1913 review kicks off the recap. Longest sentence we’ve ever read, but we think he liked it. [ARTnews]
The Moving Image fair releases its list of thirty-three artists and respective galleries. Two new participants we’re happy to see on the list: Anne Spalter, courtesy of toomer labzda and Rbt. Sps. courtesy of Interstate Projects. [Moving Image]
People care about Julian Schnabel again? He hasn’t had a museum exhibition since 1987, but Gagosian will show his paintings this fall and the Brant Art Foundation will, too. [Art in America]

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Monday Links! Sexism and Other Wrongs

by Paddy Johnson on February 25, 2013

What the hell is going on over at El Museo Del Barrio? The former Director, Margarita Aguilar, filed a claim with New York State human rights officials last week, citing gender discrimination. The Museum’s Board Chairman Tony Bechara and Board President Yaz Hernández have refused to comment. [NYTimes]
It seems the Oscars were a disaster last night: The Onion calls a nine year old girl a cunt over twitter, and host Seth MacFarlane spent the night making sexist jokes. But Charlize Theron looked good, so I guess there’s that. [The Internet]
Carolina Miranda wrote a longish feature on Richard Jackson’s survey show at The Orange County Museum. According to Miranda, Jackson has used a Ford Pinto as a painting tool, so that sculpture of a dog pissing over the museum some of you have seen bouncing around the web may be the tip of the iceberg. [kcet]
A Queer History of Computing. [Rhizome]
Oh God. Jen Graves has written a piece on the art of Charles Krafft, a holocaust denier. His work is in the collections of several museums. [The Stranger]
Those Peter Williams paintings we liked so much at NADA have gotten him another show at Foxy. John Yau gives it the thumbs up. [Hyperallergic]

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Friday Links: Boon Edition

by Paddy Johnson on January 4, 2013

Sigur Rós: Varúð from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo.

Bad news for the American Folk Art Museum. The Wall Street Journal reports they will have to give up more than 200 artworks promised to their collection. The works were promised gifts from Ralph Esmerian, owner of the high-end jewelry business Fred Leighton, who is now facing bankruptcy and a six-year jail term for wire fraud. The collection was used as collateral in a loan he’s now defaulted on. [Wall Street Journal]
The Seaport Museum received a half million dollars in the mail through an anonymous donation. The museum suffered 22 million in damages thanks to Hurricane Sandy, so the money is much needed. [NYCReconnects]
Editor Joanne McNeil is no longer working at Rhizome. The organization has not yet put out a call to fill the position. [auto-reply]
Terrible art will be in New York taxi cabs soon. Starting Wednesday and running through February 5th, the Art Production Fund will sponsor a 30 second clip from the Sigur Ros video made by Ryan McGinley. The piece features his friend Jessica Tang, wearing only a gold wig and a t-shirt, skipping barefoot amidst the streets of New York. Can’t wait. [NYTimes]
Buzzfeed Founder Jonah Peretti is by far the most successful ex-art worlder we have to brag about. (He was a former R&D Director at Eyebeam.) The company now has a 34 million cash hoard thanks to VC funding and Peretti promises to spend it on growing his company. This article mentions all this, by means of framing a conversation about how both Buzzfeed and Tumblr believe in ads that behave more like content. That wraps icky self promotion and thinly labeled ads in a very attractive package, but let’s face it: targeted advertising is a way better experience than being subjected to the random crap TV throws at us. [Paid Content]

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Monday Links: Will MoCA Critics Weigh in on Baby That Looks Like Margaret Thatcher?

by Leighann Morris on July 23, 2012

MOCA update 1: Mary McNamara claims Deitch is “not the specific problem” and muses on what kind of museum can exist in a world where Kim Kardashian rules all. [LA Times]
MOCA update 2: Looking back, Roberta Smith half-admits she was wrong about Jeffrey Deitch’s appointment, and calls for him to “become a real museum director” in the wake of recent happenings. [NY Times]
MOCA update 3: Lee Rosenbaum wants everyone to know that SHE was right, over two years ago, about Jeffrey Deitch’s appointment. Noted. [artsjournal]
MOCA update 4: Jason Edward Kaufman goes to town on Deitch, asking him to step down from directing an “intellectually vacant party palace”.[ArtINFO]
MOCA update 5: “”I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious,” says Deitch. Hmmm. [LA Times]
The baby that looks like Margaret Thatcher. (Nope, we don’t see it either) [The Sun]
Everyone’s favourite cat blog Ca$h Cats presents: Ca$h Cats the exhibition! Submit your paintings of cats with money here. [tumblr]
4 days to the Olympics and everyone’s excited! Alternative Olympic logos cropping up over Britain say otherwise. [ArtINFO]
Stirling Prize Shortlist announced. [RIBA]
The Guardian’s Oliver Basciano files a “What’s up with Net Art?” piece. It’s written for too wide an audience to say much of anything interesting, but the comments get heated. [The Guardian]
New Museum Curator Eungie Joo, who put together their Ungovernables triennial this year, has accepted a position as Director of Art and Cultural Programs at Xanadu of Inhotim, a site 200 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro where industrialist Bernardo Paz shows off his art. Huh. [GalleristNY]
Hate to say we told you so: Heather Corcoran is Rhizome’s new executive director. [Artforum]

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Okay, So Who’s Gonna Run Rhizome?

by Will Brand on May 7, 2012

C’mon, who’s it gonna be? Rhizome has posted a job listing to replace Lauren Cornell as Executive Director, but nobody seems to have any idea who could replace her. The applicant would need to be familiar with net art and new media, have curatorial and/or grant-writing experience, and have the ability to bring in cash money from donors and collectors. Who fits that profile? We have no idea.

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