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Tuesday Links: It’s Only Proper

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on April 16, 2013

Dealer Daniel Reich passed away at an early age. Gallerist NY’s Michael Miller wrote a rousing commemoration of him last week, and now The New York Times’ Randy Kennedy has done just the same. [Gallerist NY, The New York Times]
For those of you jetsetting to Art Basel this year, we suggest keeping an eye out for for Martin Creed’s moving installation; he’s hired runners to sprint throughout the exhibition hall, and we imagine they’ll knock into more than a few idle bystanders. [Art Basel]
A great read for digital arts people and beyond. Caitlin Jones looks at conceptual art and how conceptual art hinders our understanding of what it produces. [Mousse]
Art critic Tyler Green has criticized the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for charging admission after yesterday’s bombing. We agree. The museum should be free for the rest of the week, as the city recovers. [Tyler Green, Twitter]
Mark your calendars: Hunter MFA open studios run April 26th and 27th! [Facebook]
The Santa Barbara police chief wants to remove a public sculpture on the grounds “it’s become a popular spot for younger, more aggressive street people to congregate.” [Santa Barbara Independent via @shaneferro]

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The 2012 Boyd Level Art Miami Guide is Here

by The AFC Staff on November 29, 2012

Get ready for Miami!

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Thursday Links! When is a Cigar Not a Cigar?

by Corinna Kirsch on April 19, 2012

Art Basel gets a new corporate sponsor: Davidoff. In return for sponsorship, the cigar manufacturer will create two outdoor cigar lounges “to offer fair visitors a relaxed venue for discussion, reflection and enjoyment of a fine cigar.” Grossss. I bet the only people in those lounges will be aging dealers who think they’re really cool. And younger hipsters who want to be like Alec Baldwin. [The Sacramento Bee]
Even The Atlantic has hopped aboard the “New Aesthetic” train. I don’t like the vagueness of the term, but I especially don’t like how Ian Bogost constantly compares the New Aesthetic with Futurism and its talk about violence and war. I don’t know many artists interested in how the internet is like a battlefield. [The Atlantic]
Book publisher Project Webster takes sleaze and greed to a new level: they’ve created a line of books with saucy titles like Celebrities with Big Dicks and Doomsday Cults: Getting Ready for the Rapture composed almost entirely from Wikipedia articles. That’s a way to avoid paying writers! [Gawker]
Occupy Museums and Occupy Wall Street will team up with the New York City & Vicinity District Council of Carpenters to protest the Frieze Art Fair on Randall’s Island. [The Art Newspaper]
Filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s piano is up for sale on Craigslist. Cash and carry, but it’s only $250! [Craigslist]
“If you can’t draw, I’m not interested!!!” Some people on Craigslist just don’t know how art or threesomes work. This girl wants two male artists to draw her in the nude before the three of them get it on. [Craigslist]

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Tuesday Links! Basel Economics, Minimalism, and Fun With Food

by Christopher Schreck on December 6, 2011

Former AFC curatorial fellow David Harper takes an insightful look at Basel's satellite events, which he sees as a study in contrasts. Choice quote: “With a heavy cloud of steam rising off the pool, the band droned on as two exotic dancers emerged and submerged themselves into the water, both bearing an unfortunate resemblance to Nomi Malone in a Deitch-directed version of Showgirls.” [Art Agenda]
Jonathan Gold's the only restaurant critic ever to win a Pulitzer, and it's articles like this one that remind us why. His tour of Spain's thriving modernist restaurant scene is fascinating — and there's even some art thrown in the mix. [Wall Street Journal]
A number of writers have pointed out the disconnect between our Occupy-inspiring economic mess and the decadence on display at Basel, but this piece by Chris Vroom stands out for identifying this gap as symptomatic of deeper issues within the art market. Vroom does a nice job here of explaining how the 1% “hijacked culture” through the dominance of high-end collectors and offers some interesting ideas on how to change things. [Huffington Post]
Along the same lines: The Daily Beast's Blake Gopnik looks at how the art market has flourished despite the economic downturn, offering five reasons why art prices defy conventional economics. According to one collector, it might have something to do with the “robust glow of prosperity.” [The Daily Beast]
In anticipation of his 2013 retrospective at Dia:Beacon, the New Yorker profiles minimalist sculptor and suspected wife-killer Carl Andre. [New Yorker]
Verge Center for the Arts is currently raising funds for their programming and expansion campaign, which includes residency studios, exhibition spaces, a classroom, and a print lab. They're halfway to their goal with 14 days to go – help them out! [VCA]
The video's titled “How Not To Make Bread,” but I just don’t know any other way. [Youtube]

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An AFC Guide to the 2011 Miami Fairs

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on November 29, 2011

The perennial advice from seasoned art fair-goers is: plan ahead. There's far too much to see in five days, and chances are, even if you have a good idea of what to see, you'll miss something you wish you hadn't. This is why you’ll want to download the Boyd Level guide and map; if you’ve never been Hyperallergic will tell you how the fair works, and oddly enough, the New York Times has the party covered. As always, we’ve got commentary. Here’s a little of that.

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Wednesday Links!

by Paddy Johnson on October 19, 2011

This is amazing. Art Basel posts the transcripts for all exchanges that take place in their “Conversation” series. This one includes a conversation with Ai WeiWei and Philip Tinari from 2009, and a discussion on the future of museums with directors Marc Mayer, Timothy Rub, Osvaldo SÃ¡nchez, Philippe Vergne, Lynn Zelevansky. These documents need to be made into a book. [Art Basel]
Triple Candie produced an exhibition positing that the Arte Povera movement never existed, approved by its art fair venue at Artissima, and then cancelled after some collectors raised an eyebrow or two. Artissima claims the exhibition wasn’t intellectually rigorous enough in a statement published on Artforum, a rationale I never see museums or galleries offer up for cancellation let alone an art fair! [Triple Candie]
Occupy Museums starts tomorrow. I’m totally going. [Noah Fischer]
“The modern artist must invent new mediums, taking on new supports for his or her work.” Andrew Russeth paraphrasing Rosalind Krauss. Must. Read. [GalleristNY]
Hrag Vartanian reports on the latest wave of protests directed at the Sotheby’s Art Handler lock out. Sotheby’s needs to do the right thing already and pay their art handlers more money. [Hyperallergic]

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