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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Gaze and Gayze

by The AFC Staff on May 18, 2015

A week in which to see Deborah Kass’s series of curators under arrest and attend some of New York’s museums for free.

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Eat Turkey, See Art

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on November 24, 2014

With family-friendly events like movies and a NSFW (and NSFF) events with butt coins.

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Barbara London, Champion of Video and Sound Art, Is Leaving MOMA

by Hannah Garner on September 19, 2013

After 43 years, Barbara London is leaving MoMA on October first. Over the course of her career as associate curator of Media and Performance Art, she has guided us over the expanding landscape of new media.

Her career began in the 70s when she founded the museum’s video collection, introducing works by Nam June Paik, Laurie Anderson, and Lynda Benglis. Over the years, she has consistently exhibited new work by Chinese and Japanese artists and pioneered Internet art at MoMA: in 2001 she produced the museum’s first website art commission, Tony Oursler’s Timestream, and in 1997 created Stir-Fry, a multimedia site mapping emerging media art in China. London has made a career of championing media and sound art, forms that continue to pose institutional challenges.

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Monday Links: Manly Men Are We

by Whitney Kimball and Gabriela Vainsencher on September 16, 2013

Install shot from Matthew Day Jackson's current exhibition at Hauser & Wirth (Image courtesy of the gallery)

The all-American macho artist is alive and well in Matthew Day Jackson. Times Magazine has a profile of racecars, blood lust, and sculptures to hold the ages. [The New York Times Magazine]
For art worlders seeking to bone up on dirty Danish, dirty Arabic, dirty Russian, or dirty Hindi before fair season, Animal New York presents “Lewd Linguist”: a semi-autobiographical language guide to navigating gay sex, round-the-world. Handy! [Animal]
Today is the chance to catch some of the La Di Da film festival, the popular indie film festival headed by New York Times critic Miriam Bale, at Anthology Film Archives. [The New Yorker]
The Art Newspaper’s Julia Halperin reports that around 15 up-and-coming galleries from China will be the next Armory fair’s international highlight. [The Art Newspaper]
Now we can all litter in space! This new company sells DIY kits, to send stuff into space. [The New Scientist]
Rhizome’s Charles Eppley interviewed Barbara London, the co-curator of the “Soundings” show at MoMa. The interview ends with the two agreeing that yes, sound is here to stay. [Rhizome]
NYC cultural heavyweights tell WSJ what they’ll be getting into this fall. Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem will read Hilton Als’ new book “White Girls” and watch the new season of “Girls” on HBO. [The Wall Street Journal, behind the paywall]

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Friday Links: Mummies and Water Sommeliers

by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on August 9, 2013

Dylan Neuwirth

LACMA hires a water sommelier, and launches a 45 page menu. Isn’t this a little like hiring a vodka sommelier? Water probably has a broad flavor profile. [Hyperallergic]
An honest interview with twitter maverick and Seattle-based artist Dylan Neuwirth. [Culture Catch]
Now that the five million features about curator Barbara London and her new Sound Art show “Soundings” have run, the show’s opened and the reviews are coming out. Holland Cotter seems very unimpressed. It’s not a major sound art show. [The New York Times]
Carolina Miranda talks to artist Adriana Salazar about what’s left us after we die. Salazar’s making arrangements on tables from various implants that remain after cremation. [KCRW]
The Washington Post gets called out for insulting the New Testament scholar Reza Aslan while reporting on Fox News’ recent controversial interview. [New Republic]
3D printers can be used to construct replicas of mummies without disturbing the original artifact. The future is now. [ArtInfo]
Funny story: the entire US newspaper industry is making about as much on advertising as the revenue of one toilet paper company. The author admits he wasn’t trying to make a serious comparison, but that’s still a pretty insane statistic. [Forbes]
Doug Aitken’s Station to Station tickets go on sale today. This Levi’s ad is supposed to promote the concert. [Vimeo]

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Okay, So Who’s Gonna Run Rhizome?

by Will Brand on May 7, 2012

C’mon, who’s it gonna be? Rhizome has posted a job listing to replace Lauren Cornell as Executive Director, but nobody seems to have any idea who could replace her. The applicant would need to be familiar with net art and new media, have curatorial and/or grant-writing experience, and have the ability to bring in cash money from donors and collectors. Who fits that profile? We have no idea.

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