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Archive of Corinna Kirsch

AFC Senior Editor Corinna Kirsch received her MA in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she published a thesis on 1960s and 1970s video art. From 2009 - 2010, she worked at the Weisman Art Museum where she curated exhibitions for the drawing and photography galleries. In 2010, she received the C Magazine New Critics Prize. She also contributes to the L Magazine’s blog The Measure.

Corinna has written 187 article(s) for AFC.

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Doug Aitken Goes On Tour

by Corinna Kirsch on May 23, 2013
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Doug Aitken knows celebrities. Musicians. Filmmakers. People with money. Sometimes their ideas fall down on him like fruit from a tree—he once found inspiration by overhearing discussions at a dinner party. Now, with “Station to Station,” a three-week-long project set to debut this September, Aitken will host a road trip-party on a train, and it might involve art.

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Revisiting “10 Myths of Internet Art”

by Corinna Kirsch on May 22, 2013
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Late-night Googling takes you places. Who knows what I was searching for originally, but I ended up finding it with Jon Ippolito’s “10 Myths of Internet Art”. More than ten years later, some of the myths Ippolito brings up—it’s difficult to sell a website as art, internet art must be online, and net art tends to be about splashy tech—are still in place.

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The Vatican Releases Artist List for the Venice Biennale

by Corinna Kirsch on May 16, 2013
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With the release of the Vatican’s artist list for the Venice Biennale, we finally know which artists are endorsed by God. Turns out, there’s only three.

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Barbara Bloom, An Artist-Curator at the Jewish Museum

by Corinna Kirsch on May 14, 2013
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Why are artist-curators being recruited by New York museums? With all the artist-curated shows currently on view, the artist’s viewpoint may never have been represented so strongly.

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Frieze New York: Either Way, We’re Drinking Champagne

by Corinna Kirsch on May 10, 2013
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“Greetings from Captain John. There will be no swimming and no diving.” Sailing on the Frieze ferry to Randall’s Island, the driver told us that we were on our way to vacation, but cautioned against letting loose with freewheeling abandon. Once we landed, that ethos seemed to be in effect at the fair itself: dealers and collectors were having fun, and the fair was certainly crowded, but nobody was breaking out champagne in the early afternoon over skyrocketing sales.

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AFC’s Annotated Frieze Map

by Corinna Kirsch on May 10, 2013
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We made you a map and a slideshow.

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Knoedler Gallery Pressed With Racketeering Charges

by Corinna Kirsch on May 9, 2013
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Soap operas have nothing on the platinum card members of the art world.

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A Hopeful Alternative to the Art Fairs? “Wish Meme” at the Old School

by Corinna Kirsch on May 8, 2013
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For the second year running, New York will host not just one, but two major art fair seasons within months of each other. Already fatigue seems to be the byword of choice for dealers, artists, and journalists faced with seeing the same, booth-friendly work throughout the year. For that reason, we look forward to the smaller shows that crop up in alternative spaces. “Wish Meme” dashed our expectations for a hopeful alternative to the blue-chip fairs.

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The New Museum’s Ideas City Festival Gets an Upskirt Tent

by Corinna Kirsch on May 2, 2013
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This weekend, “MirrorMirror” will debut at the Ideas City festival. It might be fun, but it might be hell.

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