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Monday Links: Colossal Reads

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on May 6, 2013

Jeff Koons stands in front of his masterpiece, the BMW.

  • New York Mag has a colossal profile on Jeff Koons, his fame, and his lack of respect. [NY Mag]
  • The Parsons Festival of talks, workshops, and openings is in full swing. We’re most likely to see the MFA Design and Technology Exhibition, which opens Wednesday night. [Parsons]
  • William Gibson was interviewed at New York Public Library (NYPL) by Paul Holdengraber. About half of artforum’s write up is dedicated to discussing Neuromancer. My favorite part of the interview though, comes at the end, when Gibson notes that the main brach’s basement looks like a “Difference Engine”. In a different time in my life I worked in the Exhibitions Department at the NYPL, which was located in said basement. We used to call it, “The Indiana Jones Wing” of the library, as you always had the feeling a giant ball of stone was about to chase you down the corridors. – PJ [ArtForum]
  • Vanity Fair has a colossal piece on the details of Facebook’s purchase of Instagram, which is so long that we’re reserving for next weekend. [Vanity Fair]
  • An infographic of common names in Great Britain. [Uncertainty of Identity]
  • We’reAboutToGetSwarmedWithAGiantHordeofCicadas aieee! [Gothamist]
  • Chicago Magazine has produced a version of Art F City’s STUFF for Contemporary Art Daily’s Forrest Nash. [Chicago Magazine]
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Gallerist Takes a Look At Instagram, Finds the Art World

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on May 1, 2013
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You’d think a post about Instagram would lead one beyond a handful of top art advisers. For Gallerist, this is not the case. Gallerist believes “the art world” has an Instagram obsession and seeks to prove this point by investigating whether deals occur thanks to the service. The whole feature hinges on dealer Dick Richter’s Dick Richter Gallery, an art gallery that sells secondary market art on an iphone, and collector and advisor Nino Mier, who has commented on Richter’s Instagram page.

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Friday Links: There Goes the Neighborhood

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on April 12, 2013

  • As post offices disappear, so too do Depression era murals. The Bronx General Post Office may be sold, threatening this mural by Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson. [Hyperallergic]
  • Torontonians: AFC’s Paddy Johnson will participate on a critic’s round table modeled after David Cohen’s “Review Panel” tomorrow at LUFF with Sky Gooden, Earl Miller, and Amy Lam. They’ll be discussing the Cardiff and Bures Miller show at the AGO, Paul Sietsema at Mercer Union, and Niall Macclelland at Clint Roenisch. [LUFF art + dialogue]
  • Mega dealer Larry Gagosian is giving Pratt students who lost their studios in a fire earlier this year a show. He said he’d been moved by the story, citing his own losses in a fire that occurred in his house in the Hamptons in 2011. [NYTimes]
  • It’s a bad day for the people. The Hopis of Arizona have failed in their efforts to block an auction of sacred masks, or “friends”. The Hopis claim that outsiders who photograph, collect, and sell the objects are committing sacrilege; the Néret-Minet auction house estimates that today’s auction auction will be one of the largest Hopi artifact sales ever, netting around $1 million. [NY Times]
  • Wired has some news for us: GIFs can be used as art! [Wired]

Image courtesy of bronxbohemian.wordpress.com

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Monday Links: New Developments

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on March 18, 2013

  • “His career as a New York City taxi driver began with a graveyard shift, a creative itch, and a brazen interpretation of privacy laws.” The New York Times’ Matt Flegenheimer follows up our story on artist Daniel Wilson’s cabby project. Described briefly: Wilson secretly recorded the conversations of his passengers and played the audio collage he made in the cab while he drove people to The Armory last week. Flegenheimer’s account includes a minor fender bender. [NY Times]
  • Guns sound like flutes, as we heard this morning from artist Pedro Reyes’ gun orchestra. “It’s a spread that would make a cartel boss blush,” remarks Kurt Anderson on Studio360. [Studio360]
  • A profile on Mike Kelley that includes his last days before committing suicide. Tragic. [WSJ] h/t [c-monstah]
  • Christopher Knight dubs the LA-MOCA-National Gallery of Art deal a “big, fat nothing-burger.” All this deal making is a result of MoCA being cash-strapped, a mind-boggling issue for an institution whose board includes some of the richest men in the world. [L.A.Times]
  • Tina Roth Eisenberg (AKA Swiss-Miss) gave a talk last week at #SXSW on her many projects, one of which includes Teux Deux, a to-do app. Roth Eisenberg expressed some frustration today over twitter about push back from users who were accustomed to using the app for free and now have to pay for it.  We want her to know that her talk convinced us not only to use the app, but the importance of charging for projects you want to maintain. [Teux Deux]
  • In internet freedom news, the WSJ’s L. Gordon Crovitz is offending people with his piece “Aiding the Enemy Isn’t Journalism.” In it, he claims that both Bradley Manning and Julian Assange should be charged for aiding the enemy with wikileaks. What? The Freedom of the Press Foundation has run a piece correcting factual errors in Crovitz’s piece. [FoPF]
  • If you’re behind on the Wikileaks story, “Captives of the Cloud,” part 1 and 2, is a lengthy but essential primer. [e-flux]
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Thursday Links: Spring Cleaning

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on March 14, 2013
  • The Venice Biennale artist list is out. Really heavy on dudes. [Venice Biennale]
  • Google announced yesterday it will discontinue Google Reader July 1st. Guess we gotta go back to bloglines]. [Google blog]
  • The Cy Twombly Foundation is embroiled in lawsuits. There’s some real ugly stuff here: The foundation’s Director, Thomas H. Saliba, is accused of taking more than $300,000 in unauthorized fees with the assistance of the well known art world lawyer, Ralph E. Lerner. [NYTimes]
  • Ed Winkleman writes that historically significant video artists are being overlooked because of a resistant market. It’s not the first time we’ve heard this; Joe Amrhein of Pierogi told us at The Armory Fair last week that it seemed like collector resistance to the medium went up every year. Meanwhile, we see its use increasing in art schools. [Winkleman]
  • MoMA PS1 and MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design’s call for ideas to create a sustainable waterfront in the Rockaways closes Friday. Submit! [MoMA PS1]
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