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Friday Links: Punk Enough

by Paddy Johnson on May 17, 2013

Reviews of the Met’s Punk show seem unilaterally negative so far. The Times, Gallerist, ArtInfo and Hyperallergic don’t like it (an understatement for Hyperallergic’s Geraldine Visco). My review comes out in the L Magazine next week.
Gawker reporter John Cook has seen a video of a man he’s told is smoking crack cocaine. He believes that man is Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Toronto Star reporters are claiming to have seen the video too. Ford’s denies the allegations and has had his lawyers send Gawker an email threatening legal action. Gawker has responded by posting the request. [Gawker]
Relatedly, Rob Ford is the worst mayor Toronto ever. [Wikipedia]
Tom Moody isolates the 180-degree rule as important in an essay about GIFs as micro-cinema. “Both [Bruce Conner's] A MOVIE and these animated gifs employ some common cinematic principles. The cuts create an eyeline match, which make it appear as though the characters are looking at one another, and obey the 180-degree rule (meaning that if you draw a straight line between their eyes, our perspective stays to one side of it).” [Indiwire: warning, there’s a 15 minute static ad that pops up before the article can be read!]
Yahoo is considering buying tumblr. [The Verge]
AFC Alumn Julia Halperin will be moderating an ArtsTech meetup on the Art Market. If you live in New York and aren’t in Venice, you should go to this. [ArtsTech]
Roberta Smith isn’t thrilled with the dick measuring contests going on in Chelsea between David Zwirner/Jeff Koons, Gagosian/Jeff Koons, and Hauser & Wirth/Paul McCarthy. Nonetheless, she measures, and concludes that Hauser & Wirth/Paul McCarthy has the biggest dick of them all. [NYTimes]

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Thursday Links: Absurdity Is Happening

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 25, 2013

Alanna Martinez asks if Fab.com is selling an actual Carroll Dunham print at a 75 percent discount. [In The Air]
The Turner Prize shortlist is out. Tino Seghal (meh), David Shrigley (heh), Laure Prouvost (blah), and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (huh?). [The Guardian]
Peter Brant is more than just an art collector; he’s been a pal to artists. After Brant bought his first Warhol when he was just 21, Andy and Peter ended up taking trips together: to Aspen, Europe, and closer to home, Montauk. [Wall Street Journal]
This summer, the Met is coming out with yet another blockbuster fashion exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture. (That title probably sounds better when said aloud in a death metal growl.) We kid you not, there will be a CBGB bathroom installed in the Met. [New York Magazine]
Developers are currently digging up a few more blocks of High Line, north of 30th street, now to be added to the the existing park. [Curbed ; Crain’s]
Gross. Julia Halperin reports more museum woes, thanks to shoddy leadership. After this week’s news that MoMA plans to demolish the old Folk Art Museum building, the US Bankruptcy Court has ordered around 200 works seized from its collection. The works had been promised to the museum in 2005 by its former chairman, collector and jewelry merchant Ralph Esmerian, who later used the same work “as collateral to secure multi-million-dollar loans from Sotheby’s and Christie’s.” Esmerian never repaid his debts, and he’s currently in prison for wire fraud, so Sotheby’s will be selling them off this winter. Christie’s is upset because the work isn’t getting sold at Christie’s. Just drag it right through the mud. [The Art Newspaper]
Shoddy leadership is a plague. Felix Salmon explains how Cooper Union’s board mismanaged funds they were charged with overseeing, and must now, in direct violation of founder Peter Cooper’s vision, charge tuition. No one has been held accountable. [Felix Salmon]

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Tuesday Links: We Demand a Pritzker.

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on March 26, 2013

Last week, Toyo Ito was awarded the Pritzker Prize. Ito is most famous for his 2000 Sendai Mediatheque in Japan. Ito has not yet designed a structure that’s been built in the US. His only commission got scratched. [Culture Grrl]
Somebody get this woman a Pritzker. During a speech in London last week, leading architect Denise Scott Brown demanded retrospective recognition for her longtime creative partner Robert Venturi’s 1991 Pritzer. At the time of the award, they’d been working together as Venturi Scott Brown and Associates for over twenty two years. Brown suspects that their being married has something to do with her snubbing. [archdaily] It’s not the first time the issue has been brought up. [Architect]
Speaking of late recognition, Julia Halperin’s “6 Artists Who Made It Big After Turning 70.” They’re all women. [ARTinfo]
Call 1-855-FOR-1993 from a city pay phone and hear an oral history from 1993. It’s part of the New Museum’s 1993 show, a would-be fun idea were it not for having to touch a pay phone. [Gallerist]
This is ugly: New York based artist Mertin D. Simpson has died, his collection is worth millions, but there’s too much family squabbling over the estate to even cover the cost of his burial. [NY Times]
A brownnosy profile on David Zwirner: a charmer, an odd amalgam, a boy on the playground, a Dr. Strangelove, part shrewd salesman, part cultivated European, and a self-described spring chicken. [NYT Magazine]
Horrific. Conservatives in Egypts new government say that women are inviting rape by participating in public protests. [NY Times]
Maud Newton writes a fascinating story on the unusual trend of Christian fundementalists who are now integrating Jewish traditions into their lives. The piece was sparked by the TLC reality show, “The Sisterhood”. [NY Times]

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Today Over Twitter: Richter Rules

by Whitney Kimball on October 16, 2012

In which we tell you what’s trending over Twitter today: Richter.

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The Complete Coverage of The Complete Coverage of the Rothko Vandalism

by Whitney Kimball on October 8, 2012

If art writers can’t have Columbus Day off, then at least we can have the second best thing to an art world snow day: an Art Vandalism Day! That means everybody in the art world can drop whatever they’re doing and spend two full days disputing the exact nature and aftermath of an art vandalism. Let’s see if we can push it to three.

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Wednesday Links: #MittRomneyHatesArt

by Leighann Morris on September 26, 2012

If you were anywhere near Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, you would have seen graffiti artist Saber flying five planes in formation across sunny Sunday skies with messages reprimanding presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his plans to kill funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and other much needed arts organisations (which is really funny, considering the Romney plane window comments that flooded the internet today). Anti-Romney messages included “#MittRomneyHatesArt” and “#DefendTheArts”. We’re not quite sure hashtags work on clouds, but you can watch a video of the spectacle here. [HuffPo]
Oh no, someone is putting on an exhibition inspired by “Lost”. ”Lost (in LA)”, curated by the former director of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, Marc-Olivier Wahler, is due to take place at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park (1 December-27 January 2013), with works by Tatiana Trouvé, Oscar Tuazon, and Thomas Hirschhorn, among others. [The Art Newspaper]
NADA’s released its exhibitor list for Miami Beach 2012, and ArtINFO has the breakdown. Over half are new additions. [ArtINFO]
The Warhol Foundation announced this month that it had settled a deal with Christie’s to liquidate all of its remaining art holdings, aiming to raise money for more grants. Christine J. Vincent assesses Warhol’s philanthropic legacy. [The Art Newspaper]
This week marks the beginning of the Gwangju Biennale. Overseen by six female curators from the Middle East and Asia, the Biennale explores themes of civic protest with artworks that deal with resistance campaigns from South Korea all the way to the global Occupy movement. [The Guardian]
Can the art world go a day without talking about Andy Warhol? I thought I’d left it all behind after reading all the reviews of Regarding Warhol at the Met, but now news is in that the British Royal Collection has bought Warhol’s screenprint portraits of the Queen. They will be in an exhibition this year. Warhol did say that one day he wanted to be as famous as the Queen of England? [Artdaily]
Was Expo Chicago a success? Hard to know from Julia Halperin’s mixed report, but sales don’t appear to be overwhelmingly strong. Dealer spin for this fair? “Chicagoans are a little more cautious.” [ArtInfo]

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Massive Links: The Most Important School Ever

by Will Brand on June 18, 2012

We love Julia Halperin’s piece on Avenues, a new K-12 private school opening in Chelsea this fall, even though the content scares us slightly. The school will have a focus on contemporary art; among the amenities are a private, growing art collection, visits from working artists, printmaking facilities at Pace Prints and, most importantly, iPads for all. In the words of its founder, ”This is going to be the most important new school ever opened, anywhere in the world.” [BLOUIN BLOUIN, OH NO, ME GOTTA GO, AYE-YI-YI-YI]
Netartnet.net is artnet for net art, and that’s a fantastic thing to have. We liked it so much we bookmarked it twice. [Netartnet.net]
Sam Taylor-Wood and Yoko Ono met thanks to a film Taylor-Wood directed about the adolescent John Lennon, and found they had a lot in common. Taylor-Wood tells a story of an American gallerist who questioned the merit of her work based on the fact that she has four children. Everyone is rightly aghast. [The Guardian]
We just came across this recording of LBJ requesting more room in his pants “down where the nuts hang”. It’s in excruciating detail. [Wonkette]
Hat-tip to Patrick Gantert for directing us to this Flash explosion of Christianity. Best worst website ever. [E vangel Cathedral]

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