Judy Rey Wasserman changed her twitter profile picture from Rembrandt (Psalm 22) to Vincent Van Gogh (Psalm 133) five minutes after the Wall Street stock market closed and labeled the action “Twitter’s First Post Conceptual Performance Art Event”. Personally I prefer web artists investigating mediocrity and boringness on the web to dull performance art with smart sounding titles but at least the press release is well put together. Also Wasserman is also the first artist to send me a direct twitter about an art event, so she gets points for that.
How to Publish Without Perishing - NYTimes.com
Books are the new hammers.
Good idea. “Art Menu seeks aspiring artists, fresh from Arts School or self-taught, to promote and help sell their works of art in restaurants, bars, clubs and boutique hotels across London.”
tom moody » New Media vs Artists with Computers
Compares two movements: “art photography” and “artists with cameras” with “New Media” vs “Artists with Computers”. A great post. Update: The above link seems to direct AFC for some unknown reason.
ArtCal - Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick - the journal Gallery - Peanut Gallery
Curated by Joe Bradley. Recommended
Miami and Miami Beach Art Fairs - December 2008
Directory of contemporary art fairs that will be in Miami and Miami Beach in December 2008. Each listing includes brief description, location, hours and admission price.
NSCAD University employment opportunities
Photographers, designers, and ceramicists who teach. This listing is for you.
Rhizome Screensaver (2008) - Mark Essen
I want to see this installed in corporate offices everywhere!
ArtCal - East Village / Lower East Side - SUNDAY - Keltie Ferris, Dear Sir or Madam
I’m basically evaluating jpgs here, but this show looks quite good.
Gallery Massacres Begin: Pace Wildenstein Cuts Workforce By 12% - BlackBook
Blackbook picks up our story on Pace Wildenstein cuts.
double happiness » Blog Archive » Fwd: Fw: Re: DANGEROUS CHOCOLATE CAKE~IN~A~MUG
Hipster art deer mug/dangerous chocolate-cake-in-a-mug email forward at Double Happiness. Via: Wizard is Hungry.
Freight + Volume - Contemporary Art
An unexpected match: Former Derek Eller, Perry Rubenstein, and Greenberg Van Doren artist Andrew Guenther now at Freight and Volume.
The 20×200 20% More Ridiculous Sale
All print sizes on sale til tomorrow Midnight! A total steal (if you ask me).
Facebook’s valuation (in Whoppers)
“Burger King recently introduced a Facebook app called Whopper Sacrifice that allows users to delete ten of their friends in exchange for a Whopper sandwich. Watch the app in action. What BK has unwittingly done here is provide a way to determine the valuation of Facebook.” When all’s said and done, Kottke determines BK’s valuation of Facebook at $3.6 billion; considerably less than the $15 billion valuation assigned to Facebook by Microsoft in 2007 “but in the same ballpark as the lower valuations being tossed about in recent months.”
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2009 | Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh
This exhibition opens January 21st and looks VERY promising “…an ongoing series that will bring performance documentation, original performance pieces, and live reenactments of historic performances to various locations throughout the Museum. The first artist to be spotlighted is Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950, Taiwan), who is best known for his five One Year Performances…”
ArtCal - Chelsea - Bortolami Gallery - Richard Aldrich
Over all this painting show is excellent, though it does beg the question: Is it possible to make a successful painting with an exposed stretcher? Based on this show I’m going to go with, No.
2009_creativecapitalprojectdescriptions.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Creative Capital Emerging Field winners announced. Artists include Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation;
Beatriz da Costa; eteam: Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, Catherine Herdlick; and more.
The Big Bend Sentinel - Guest Commentary
More on the Marfa hotel rezoning: The Planning and Zoning commission voted 3-2 to approve the rezoning. The issue now goes before the City Council for review. I wish The Big Bend Sentinel listed easily viewable publishing dates. If it’s listed on that site I can’t find it.
Cityfile: Richard Prince and Larry Gagosian Slapped with Suit
Photographer Patrick Cariou filed a lawsuit against Prince, Gagosian, and Rizzoli last week for using a number of his photographs in Prince’s “Canal Zone” exhibition without his consent, pics that Cariou alleges first appeared in his 2000 book, Yes Rasta. Ironically the artist’s personal friend and disgraced author James Frey wrote the introduction. He is not named in the suit.
ArtCal - Chelsea - Schroeder Romero - Michael Waugh, The More I See of Men
Waugh was working on this show through the holidays while also at Momenta helping me with the fundraiser. I’m looking forward to seeing the new drawings! Opens Friday January 16th.
ArtCal Zine - Events - The Concept of Time at the Guggenheim
“Rirkrit Tiravanija and Douglas Gordon’s Cinema Liberté presents an epic program of previously banned films to be comfortably watched on beanbag cushions.” Not necessarily a bad idea, but who hasn’t seen screened films like The Last Temptation of Christ before? How valuable is the gesture if the films have already been absorbed into the culture?
Mysterious Sweet Smell From 2005 Returns to Manhattan - NYTimes.com
Labeled “Headline of the Day” by one facebook friend. It’s a little early yet to know, but he may be right.
Op-Ed Columnist - Fighting Off Depression - NYTimes.com
“Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.” Hello scary.
If it were anyone else I’d think promising to review 1,000 new releases in 2009 over Twitter was a little Internet hokie but I bet music critic Christopher Weingarten can pull it off. Note that the use of dashes does not indicate a minus number rating.
As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.
Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
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