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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Kara Walker Strikes Back

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 17, 2014

Just when you thought it was okay to take tasteless selfies, Kara Walker will exhibit the videos she made to spy on you. Oh, my!

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Monday Links: Make Way for Duckling

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on September 22, 2014

Allora & Calzadilla’s “Fault Lines” at Gladstone. Courtesy the gallery.

Here’s your Monday morning duckling! [Imgur]
Tips on how to keep your art-filled marriage hot, and tips on what to do after the divorce: “‘The love of art grows exponentially after the appraiser’s report comes in,’ especially if items have grown in value, says Dallas-based lawyer Ike Vanden Eykel.” [Wall Street Journal]
Inappropriate use of “post-internet” art alert! [The Daily Beast]
Roberta Smith discusses Emma Sulkowicz’s “Carry That Weight.” Sulkowicz was raped in her Columbia dorm room in 2012, and until the man who attacked her leaves the school, she will carry a mattress with her everywhere she goes on campus. [The New York Times]
Jerry Saltz believes that Tino Sehgal has a monopoly on child actors in an art piece, claiming that Allora and Calzadilla’s new exhibition at Gladstone “borders on plagiarism.” The article reaches a crescendo of ridiculousness in its final lines, as Saltz decries the work “not art”, but someone’s idea of other people’s art. Labeling a work derivative should only require one line—if it’s a problem it is simply evidence of a common or weak idea—it would have been good to have read a critique of the work on its own terms. [Vulture]
The High Line’s final leg of construction comes to an end, and lo, Michael Kimmelman praises its view as a “heartbreaker,” a tour de force spanning more than just the Hudson River. Kimmelman doesn’t just revel in aesthetics; he brings up the entire bumpy past of the High Line, from corporate funding to a boom in condominium development along the High Line. [The New York Times]
The People’s Climate March drew an estimated 311,000 demonstrators in New York yesterday. The climax of the march is described as a moment of silence that occurred early afternoon pierced by a whistle followed by hundreds of thousands of marchers whooping and yelling. [The New York Times]
Yes, many people waiting in line for the new iPhone 6 were not buying it for themselves. Filmmaker Casey Neistat focuses on the “Chinese mafia” who were grabbing up the phones this weekend. [Gothamist]

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Friday Links: A Wall of Dicks and Some Internet Bickering

by Paddy Johnson on May 23, 2014

Claudia Hart at Bitforms

Claudia Hart’s show at Bitforms is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. I take a look at the exhibition on Artnet; conceptually, Hart’s work is very weak. [Artnet]
Speaking of Bitforms, it seems the gallery cancelled Postfeminism, a show that was slated to open three weeks from now and was curated artist and curator Marisa Olson. Irate about the cancellation, Olson took her complaints to Facebook. [Facebook]
A 3D wall of dicks rising. [The Huffington Post]
Bad news in San Francisco. Intersection for the Arts has suspended its programs and laid off curators. Their fiscal sponsorship program will remain in tact. [Kqed.Org]
Bad news for the Glasgow School of Art. A massive fire broke out at the school earlier today. [BBC]
Amazon is not making any friends in the literary community for actively discouraging people from buying books from the publisher Hatchett. Now, they have escalated that battle buy refusing orders. [The New York Times]
Roberta Smith says the New Museum is alive with music thanks to Ragnar Kjartansson. This is a review that makes you want to see the show. [The New York Times]
Tom Moody thinks the New Romantics exhibition at Eyebeam would have been better without the New Romantics lens. [Tom Moody]

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Wednesday Links: Doomsday Scenarios

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 23, 2014

All this week, the Art Market Monitor has been churning out doomsday scenarios for the collectoratti. The Italian art market is dying, and “Sadly, The Picasso Ceramics Market Isn’t For the Entry-Level Collector Anymore.” [The Art Market Monitor]
This week at artnet Paddy Johnson interviews Nicholas O’Brien, a co-curator of the exhibition The New Romantics, currently on view at Eyebeam. [artnet news]
More horrific news of bodies piling up in Chicago, aka, Chiraq. [The Daily Beast]
The broken down World’s Fair towers in Flushing Meadows now have National Treasure status. There’s even talk of fixing them up! [New York Times]
New York Magazine features a whole bunch of Internet celebrities, and that’s gotta be a boon for their site. We only knew a couple of them, but Eckhaus Latta got a shoutout from Mike the Ruler. [New York Magazine]
100 new emojis on Vine. The only way you can see any of them is to pause the video. Nicely done! [Vine]
Looks like Paddle8 is doing well.

Alex Gilkes of @Paddle8 made winning $900k bid 4 Koons’ Fabergé egg wearing a 1966 @GirardPerregaux rose gold chrono. pic.twitter.com/KjXZ4p7ccz

— Jim Shi (@jimshi809) April 23, 2014

Peter Schjeldahl, with his tender prose and passionate research, is hard to leave, but it’s finally time to walk away. Enough with the MoMA and Guggenheim retrospectives! [The New Yorker]
For whatever reason, Roberta Smith ended up reviewing James Franco’s exhibition at Pace. She’s written about the actor-artist a lot. Thankfully, with this exhibition, she shows no mercy. Franco, she writes, seems informed by “confused desperation” and an “entitled narcissism.” She ends her piece with a death knell: “It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for him, while also wishing that someone or something would make him stop.” This is what we’ve all been thinking—that he needs to stop—and now she should never write about him again! [The New York Times]
Start-ups beware of the Red Herring Award. The company informs nominees of their opportunity and then charges them $3,820 for the privilege. This article was written in 2013, but as the awards are coming up again, it seemed a good time to issue the reminder that this resembles a scheme. [TechCrunch]
Judy Chicago is celebrating her 75th birthday with an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. During the press preview, she tells Village Voice reporter Lilly Lampe about her first meeting with critic Harold Rosenberg. “She brought her slides; he brought a hard-on.” [The Village Voice]
A quiz to end all Buzzfeed quizzes: the New Inquiry’s darkly sarcastic “What briefcase full of money are you?” [New Inquiry]

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Monday Links: Fuck Room Details Emerge

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 7, 2014

Mike Kelley, Image via: c-monster.

If you also smell smoke in Brooklyn, it’s from a “mysterious fire,” a forest fire, that’s taking over a New Jersey park. [The L Magazine]
Thanks to Marina Galperina and Carolina Miranda, more Fuck Room details have emerged! Galperina’s found Mike Kelley’s own description of his hidden “crawl space/fuck room,” from the book Mike Kelley: Minor Histories. It is real. [ANIMAL New York]
“The post-internet art object looks good online in the way that laundry detergent looks good in a commercial.” Brian Droitcour continues to make observations on “post-internet art.” [Culture Two]
Bridget Riley, 82, has designed a colorful mural for St. Mary’s Hospital in London. [The Guardian]
Former Gawker writer Emily Gould writes about all the debt she incurred while writing her first book. It’s brave in its honesty, so you want to like Gould, but the story itself makes that incredibly difficult. [The Medium]
According to Scott Stringer, 20 percent of New York City public schools have no art teachers, even though arts instruction is required by law for middle and high schools. [New York Times]
Roberta Smith has seen the show of George W. Bush’s paintings. “[H]e has painted a world of smiles and friendship that can rarely be taken as the whole story,” she writes, and predicts that because of the conflicted mix of skill and historical whitewashing, they’re not going away. Oh well. [New York Times]
S&P’s Global Luxury Index tells us what those of us in the art world already know. Rich people are spending their money on luxury goods. Great to see all that money trickling down to those who need it. [Business Insider]
“[Social practice art] is a reaction against the excesses of individualism,” Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Museum, and now Cultural Commissioner for the city of New York tells Carolina Miranda. Furthering that definition, artist and author Pablo Helguera says the art form is “about how to listen”. [Artnews]
When it’s cold outside and the G train is fucked, take comfort in the fact that the old animated Deitch Projects website is still up and running. [Deitch Projects]
T.GIF contest now has two GIF finalists. Go vote, give the winner $100! [T.GIF]
If the next generation of superrich is coming from Silicon Valley, then art needs to be there. This week, the new Silicon Valley Contemporary (SVC) Fair will be sending out some Chelsea and the Lower East Side’s biggest galleries. Because, in the words of Hamptons Expo Group President Rick Friedman, “You can only buy so many Teslas.” [Artnet News]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Newscasters Make Art

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on March 24, 2014

This week leaves us with very little time: Roberta and Jerry do a rare public joint interview, professional newscasters perform a Liz Magic Laser piece, and artists do stand-up. More stars emerge from the Whitney Biennial, a Greenpoint horror film premieres, and Abrons Art Center hosts a day for disabilities.

But make sure to clear your schedule for the most important event of all, our co-hosted panel on studio affordability.

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Surviving Rent: Why Artists Can’t Afford Critical Neutrality

by William Powhida on December 16, 2013

William Powhida responds to rave reviews of “Coming Together: Surviving Sandy” in the midst of artist evictions at Industry City.

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Friday Links: Kunstfag City

by Paddy Johnson Matthew Leifheit Hannah Garner and Whitney Kimball on September 27, 2013

The Oslo National Academy of the Arts’ visual arts department is named Kunstfag. Can we be their media department? [Khio.no via Anthony Antonellis]
Goodbye Hennessy Youngman, hello Bob Ross. Yesterday Jayson Musson launched a new series “Painting toward Happiness,” where he teaches us to find the profound beauty in the everyday, through painting a photograph. [YouTube]
The French painter Balthus gets a mixed review from Roberta Smith for his show at The Met. “It proceeds in fits and starts; many of the paintings are interesting in one way or another but not especially original or even very convincing as totalities. The show is, in some ways, a study in kinds and degrees of failure.” [The New York Times]
Tumblr is wooing the art industry with Readymade, a new theme with a white cube aesthetic that LACMA and MoMA PS1 are already using. [BlouinArtInfo]
The Robert Indiana show at the Whitney was a pleasant surprise for Ken Johnson, who praised the work’s prophetic social commentary and rich ambiguity. “Beyond Love,” whose title makes clear the Whitney’s intent to transform Indiana’s reputation as a one-hit-wonder, is a vindication of the artist’s complex body of work. [The New York Times]
Today Mass MoCA officially opens its “Anselm Kiefer Hall Art Foundation” building. The exhibition will be open seasonally for the next 15 years, and it is housed in a specially constructed galvanized steel warehouse on the museum’s grounds. [North Adams Transcript]
Andy Adams of FlakPhoto.com talks about photography’s relationship to the internet, as well as recent curatorial projects on Wisconsin NPR. [WNPR]
In case you missed it last week, Carolina Miranda previewed Eli Broad’s new LA museum The Broad, an elaborate $140 million structure which is still under construction. Renderings promise a circular glass elevator, swooping ceilings, and enormous honeycomb windows. [ARCHITECT]

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Must-See Art Events: Jog Your Way to Art Butter

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on September 23, 2013

After a busy September, with weeks of mega-openings, there’s still plenty to do. Like make butter by working out with art duo PopSoda.

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Friday Links: Chicago in the News

by Paddy Johnson on September 20, 2013

Chicago's Navy Pier and site for Art Expo

Collector Cari Sacks on how to approach Chicago’s Art Expo. [Crains]
Chicago’s Visual Vanguard: 50 movers and shakers. We linked this up yesterday too, but it’s a useful list for those looking to get acquainted with the scene, so it’s getting a second nod from us. [New City]
Good God. 13 people were shot, including a 3-year-old boy, yesterday in Chicago. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Paula Cooper is expanding. She already has two locations, but she’ll now be manning two pop-ups as well. [The New York Times]
Bravo is hosting a ten-year reunion for Queer Eye for The Straight Guy. Don’t get too excited—it’s just slated to be a show re-inescing about the good old episodes—but the nostalgia might make this worth a watch regardless. [Vulture]
T.J. Wilcox’s panoramic film installation gets the thumbs up from Roberta Smith. [The New York Times]
Tracey Emin designed towels, tees and flip flops will be sold during ABMB thanks to North Miami’s MoCA. Her solo show will at the museum will open December 4th. [In the Air]

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