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Wednesday Links: Badass Witches

by The AFC Staff on April 22, 2015

An example of chart brut showing a demonic face in the 9/11 towers

The best art critics working today don’t identify as such. They are Internet culture critics and work at places like The Awl, Gawker, Gizmodo, et cetera. In December of 2014, Sam Biddle discussed what he calls “Chart Brut,” the markup documents of conspiracy theorists. These markup docs are all over the web right now. [Gawker]
Have you ever heard of anything more badass than a pair of witchy, gender-bending, surrealist lesbian artists (who lived next to a graveyard!!!) donning disguises to fight the Nazis? Neither have we. Meet Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. And please, someone, make a movie about their lives. [The Daily Beast via Saint Lucy]
James Rojas on the value of including artists in urban planning: “For us, the building blocks of a city comprised more than simply structures, streets, and sidewalks but equally encompassed personal experience, collective memory and narratives. We felt these were the less-tangible, but no-less-integral, elements of a city that transform mere infrastructure into place.” [KCET]
Myopia is on the rise. [The Wall Street Journal]
Donald Judd furniture is ripe for knockoffs. Calvin Klein’s furniture designs have been inspired by Judd. A reflection on what the original and the reproduction means, and to whom. Warning: It’s bit dense. [Triple Canopy]
Democrats in Congress are proposing legislation that would grant artists resale royalties, a policy known as droit de suite. We’ve discussed this before. Twice. Let’s hope this round of legislation is a little more fruitful. New York representative Jerrold Nadler: “At a time when more than 70 other countries properly compensate visual artists for their work, it is time for the United States to do the same.” Coming as a shock to no one, auction houses were pissed about last year’s similar attempt. [The Art Newspaper]
More good news from Washington: the National Endowment for the Arts is seeking an accessibility specialist whose job it would be to “assist with advocacy and technical assistance efforts for making the arts available to individuals with disabilities, older adults, and people living in institutions.” We’re not sure what the job entails, but it’s definitely a worthy endeavor. And the benefits are great. [USA Jobs]
Art collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson have given the Art Institute of Chicago $400 million in art. The Art Institute’s donation comes with a crucial caveat: the museum will display the collection of 42 works for 50 years. That’s rare, for collectors to exert that type of influence. [Chicago Tribune]
Very excited about Net Art Hell, a new podcast launched by writer Gene McHugh. In each episode, he spends several minutes discussing a single work (like Faith Holland’s “Shaving Cream on RedTube”), and McHugh’s slow, monotone voice has the air of performance. [Net Art Hell]
Apparently Apple’s incursion into the Milan design fair to promote their new iWatch has been distasteful all around. Welcome to our new favorite term: iBotch. Also, why is the comments section of Dezeen the crankiest place on the internet outside of Fox News? [Dezeen]
More on Apple Land: we’re living for how much that actual Apple pavilion looks like one of the knockoff Apple Stores that have cropped up all over China in recent years. [The Guardian]

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Tuesday Links: Dr. Kanye

by Katie Waddell on March 17, 2015

Ten years after the debut of College Dropout, Kanye West announced that he will receive an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on May 5. While rumors of organized student protest abound, most SAIC students hope to interrupt the ceremony and insist that Beyonce was the one who really deserved the award. [Editor’s note: As an alum of SAIC, I am offended that tuition will go towards this nonsense. [Consequence of Sound via Clique]
Happy drunkest day of the year, friends! A Chicago resident live-blogged snippets from a local police scanner over the weekend, documenting the horrors of St. Patty’s Day revelry. The result? A laundry list of gun threats, McDonald’s brawls, and arrests before the end of brunch. [BroBible via Crime in Boystown]
Check out 0p3nr3p0, an open-source, open-ended database specifically for hackers, glitch, and digital-media artists. It’s a part of NetArtizens Open Online Exhibition, an evolving online exhibition spanning three platforms. Take a look, or submit work before April 2 to participate. [Netartizens]
Underappreciated folk critic? Attention-seeking provocateur? Sell-out? Capital offers this meditation on the controversial career (and antics) of Jerry Saltz. [Capital]
For those of you who just can’t fingerpaint or nap without permission, fear not! Brooklynite Michelle Joni Lapidos will gladly charge you $333 or more for the privilege. Her adult pre-school encourages hardened New Yorkers to re-discover their inner children through dress-ups and sleepovers. So, it’s pretty much a standard Saturday night, but with crayons. [Gothamist]
The female:pressure Tumblr offers a visual survey of women in the music business working the other end of the mic. Much credit is due to Bjork—the Tumblr responds to her call for more documentation of women working the production side of the music industry. [Flavorwire via female:pressure]
Threewalls announced the release of The Tabletop Collection. This edition of the Community Supported Art Chicago program features five limited-edition artworks by Chicago-based artists Sabina Ott, Julia Klein, Laura Davis, Stephen Reber, and Assaff Evron. Their small apartment-friendly works re-imagine the sculpture garden, if sculpture gardens were the size of a bookshelf or tabletop. [Threewalls]

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Tuesday Links: What’s the Deal With These Trading Cards?

by Corinna Kirsch on March 18, 2014

Now you can buy trading cards of female net artists. But cheerleading, really? Sorry, but I would’ve preferred a deck that shows actual stats where artists get HP and special attacks, not “cheer highlights.” [Etsy, via Anthony Antonellis]
The International Center for Photography will close its Midtown museum in January 2015. [Artnet]
Greenpoint is about to get real. Real smelly. [Gothamist]
Cat want chocolate. [Imgur]
Jews on dogs, the complete history. [Tablet]
This weekend, activists put up fake 20-mile-per-hour signs in Brooklyn neighborhoods. [The Brooklyn Paper]
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has chosen the architectural firm of Annabelle Selldorf to head up the museum’s multi-million dollar expansion. [Culture Monster]
“[I]t was abysmal to be a black artist in Dallas over the last fifteen months,” writes Darryl Ratcliff, who breaks down the city’s exhibition ratio within the last year. [Glasstire]
Longreads: A personal history of how China’s Ministry of Propaganda has become Americanized. [n + 1]
In case you didn’t know, the New York Post has an archive of all their covers going back to 2002. So Photoshop. [New York Post]

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Wednesday Links: Let’s Define Post-Internet!

by Paddy Johnson on October 30, 2013

Jon Rafman, A Man Digging, 2013

This profile of Queens Museum director Tom Finkelpearl makes me love him. He hired a community organizer, Naila Rosario, to do outreach for the museum in 2006. She went to local PTA meetings and even went door to door. [Gallerist]
This year’s NURTUREart benefit was so well attended the fire marshall was called. [BlouinArtInfo]
Is Australia the newest art hub? Isabella Rossellini, John Zorn and Matthew Barney are on the 2014 Adelaide Festival’s program guide. It’s the country’s largest cultural event and runs from February 28th to March 16th. Get your tickets now. [Artsbeat]
Tumblr Art will take over the billboards inside La Galleries Lafayette, an enormous Paris Boutique. Merry Christmas. [The Telegraph, via: Net Artist Daily]
Jon Rafman’s video, “A Man Digging” which uses the video game “Max Payne 3” as its source material inspires Nicholas O’Brien to contemplate the role of secondary storylines in video games (think checkpoints, achievements, etc.). [Rhizome]
Direct from the pseudo-science department at the New York Times; Kissing is complicated. A list of reasons why we kiss mates, in paragraph form. [The New York Times]
Frieze asks a few people in the know how to define Post-Internet. Look for thoughts by Tyler Coburn, Hanne Mugas, Lauren Cornell, and Karen Archey amongst others. [Frieze Magazine, behind paywall]

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Net Artist Daily: Gossip Gurl!

by Paddy Johnson on October 29, 2013

Ever feel like the net art community isn’t insular enough? Consider those woes cured with Net Artist Daily, an insider net art link blog with the tone of Gawker and the humor of the Onion. They’ve dubbed themselves The Huffington Post-Internet, a fitting title because like the writers at the Huffington Post, net artists never get paid.

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Book Review: Speculative Scenarios, or what will happen to digital art in the (near) future

by Corinna Kirsch on September 11, 2013

“Curating digital artworks in physical spaces and online exhibitions is becoming more widespread, but such exhibitions mostly take place outside the world of traditional art.” This present-day dilemma posed by Independent Curator Annet Dekker forms the basis of Speculative Scenarios, or what will happen to digital art in the (near) future, a new publication that gathers responses on how to tackle digital art’s conflicted relationship to museums and more traditional, offline exhibition sites. The point is: Digital art is being shown, but museums aren’t playing a large enough role in its collection, exhibition, or conservation.

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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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