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Pussy Riot’s Bizarre Photo Shoot With a Creepy Rich Hobbyist

by Marina Galperina on November 26, 2014

“You have never seen the women behind the masks quite like this!”

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Pussy Riot Comes to Brooklyn, SculptureCenter Explores Time

by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 3, 2014

Brave the cold just a little longer, for we have so much art to see this week. Talks abound, from B. Wurtz on the history of sculpture to Winkleman Gallery’s panel on African-Americans in Soviet culture. We have openings, like a feminist sound art retrospective at CUNY and Greenpoint’s winter open studios night. Round out Sunday with a Genesis Breyer P-Orridge film-screening and book launch at PS1 and we’ll call it a week. Just grin and bear it.

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Friday Links: Pussy Riot’s Free, and The Picasso Winner Is…

by Whitney Kimball on December 20, 2013

Jeffrey Gonano, the Picasso raffle winner (Image courtesy of the Daily Mail)

Pussy Riot will definitely soon be free, along with 30 Greenpeace activists who’ve attracted a lot of media attention lately for trying to board a Russian oil rig. Good, but nothing’s fixed. [Reuters, Corey Flintoff]
Looks like Hyperallergic had a more successful trip to Miami’s new Perez Art Museum than AFC did. (They like). The opening was so packed that AFC’s Paddy Johnson couldn’t get a clear view of anything but the bathroom. [Hyperallergic]
More momentum for The Contemporary! After reopening recently and appointing a new director, the Baltimore museum has appointed artist and curator Ginevra Shay as its program manager. It has a lot of young leadership, a nomadic format, and a very flexible program. Keep an eye on these guys. [twitter]
“Why the art world is so loathsome”: a listicle for our times. Simon Doonan primarily lists Art Basel, money, dick art, poop art, and art that looks like a window display at Barney’s. That criticism comes with a little cache since Doonan himself spent years making Barneys window displays. [Slate]
Pei-Shen Qian, the artist accused of making Knoedler Gallery’s fake paintings, claims he’s innocent. He says he made similar works to Abstract Expressionists but never intended to pass them off as authentic. [Bloomberg]
Al Goldstein, creator of “Screw” Magazine, has died. His contribution to sex culture, was, according to his lawyer, “utterly tasteless.” [PleaseKillMe]
The winner of the Picasso raffle is: Jeffrey Gonano, a 25 year old project manager for a fire sprinkler company in Pennsylvania. Also, the war-battered city of Tyre, for which the raffle raised more than $6.8 million. [Artsbeat]
Come February you can write on the New Museum’s walls, thanks to Pawel Altheimer’s show. Get a sharpie or whatever, and go nuts, but definitely limit that to the temporary walls. [Animal New York]

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Thursday Links: Amnesty For Pussy Riot

by Whitney Kimball on December 19, 2013

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina, at the Avtozavodsky District Court in Nizhny Novgorod hearing her motion to mitigate penalty (RIA Novosti / Oleg Zoloto) (via http://rt.com)

Christie’s will release its appraisal of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection today, which means that people will start fixating on a number value on the future of the museum. Randy Kennedy reports that the museum has promised to go to court to stop a sale. It also recently entered discussions about raising $500 million in private funds to give the city, in exchange for becoming an independent (and not city-owned) non-profit. [New York Times]
If you need a primer on how the museum’s collection got to the center of Detroit’s bankruptcy, the Detroit Free Press wrote an in-depth history. [Freep]
Pussy Riot may soon be free! In response to criticism leading up to the Winter Olympics, Russia’s parliament has passed an amnesty bill which would apply to Pussy Riot, as well as detained Greenpeace activists. The bill goes into effect today. [AP]
Painter, photographer, and sculptor Günther Förg has died. [New York Times]
Painter George Rodrigue has also passed away. [New York Times]
Alicia Eler names her top 5 Chicago shows of the year. [Hyperallergic]
The Marines have officially banned “faddish” hairstyles. [PleaseKillMe]
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave has predictably topped nominations at the London Critics Circle Film Awards. Having seen this film, we agree it’s well deserved, and everybody should go see it. [ArtINFO]
In case you missed it, AFC’s former development executive Rhett Jones wrote a great piece about selfie artist Mary Bond and the hatred she’s inspired on 4chan. It’s like Laurel Nakadate, but a free-for-all, in the bottom of the Internet. (Please don’t troll me). [AnimalNewYork]
Is Jerry Saltz a Mary Bond, baiting outrage in order to expose us all? I wondered this yesterday when he went on CNN to talk about George Zimmerman’s painting. Saltz makes the case that Zimmerman is a maniac, and we shouldn’t take him seriously as an artist. This is true, but then why go on TV to talk about him? There’s a bigger cultural problem here, and it’s not getting solved by focusing more attention on a racist icon. [Vulture]
The Internet is really really really pissed. Saltz couldn’t see this, because he unfollowed us all. Not good. Saltz sets a standard for accessibility, and he’s an excellent spokesperson. We need him.

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After Sustained Abuse and a Joke of a Trial, Pussy Riot’s Verdict TBA August 17th

by Whitney Kimball on August 15, 2012

After an insanely fraudulent trial, artists Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich await their verdict. Despite attempts to vilify the women as enemies of the church, their closing statements should count them among the world’s most important civil rights activists.

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Pussy Riot’s Trial Has Begun

by Whitney Kimball on August 2, 2012

Russian art collective and punk band Pussy Riot is this week’s target in Putin’s general, persistent crackdown on everything. Three of the collective’s ten members defended themselves against state charges of “hooliganism” when the case went on trial Monday, July 30th.

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