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Monday Links: Eat a Waterbed

The strange world of sunburn stock photography. Ow.

How popular are different art businesses globally, according to Facebook likes? Apparently Americans like Christie’s more than Sotheby’s. [ARTnews]
Don’t do “sunburn art”! (As if this were a “real” trend….) [Standard Daily]
Australia’s art funding is facing “dark days” due to budget cuts. [The Guardian]
Also facing a budget crisis: Chicago public schools. The city is cutting the schools’ budget by $200 million. [Marketplace]
An insightful article on the former sources of performance art. The author wonders about some outsider sources as well, from Oofty Goofty, a feral man-beast covered in tar, to Mr. Eat It All, a guy who tried to eat a waterbed for a promotional event. [Glasstire]
This is not surprising: art is really popular among the mega-wealthy. JJ Charlesworth talks about the rise of the prices in relation to the new global elite and the concept of scarcity as value. [artnet News]
“Incredibly fast and easy loans against your artworks. 4% Monthly, No Fees. Money tomorrow.” The mega-wealthy can now receive low-interest loans from ArtRank by leveraging their art collection as collateral. [Observer]
The Studio Museum in Harlem has just announced that David Adjaye is designing a $122 million new home for the institution. Unfortunately, it looks like this means the current building, which dates from 1914, will be joining the list of historic structures in Harlem that have been demolished in the past few years. [The New York Times]
Horror fans and art-school students, rejoice! This Halloween, you’ll be able to feast your eyes on Art School of Horrors, a Roger Corman production, where “bad art wants revenge.” [IMDB]
Baltimore has awesome bars and creative people—who actually want to be friends with you. [The New York Times]
In China, the exhibition ban on Ai Weiwei has been lifted. The artist remains unable to travel outside the country. [The Art Newspaper]
A piece of public art in Liverpool has been destroyed by vandals. The sculpture was a brass bird with electronics that played recordings of city residents talking about their hopes and dreams. Everyone’s a critic. [Liverpool Echo]
Hello, bears! It’s bear-cam season. [Explore]

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Friday Links: If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late

by The AFC Staff on May 1, 2015

So Drake is curating a show at Sotheby’s, but did you also know he’s curating the show’s soundtrack? Each work gets paired with a song. For instance, a Nick Cave soundsuit with pink flowers gets paired with Kendrick Lamar’s “Fuck Your Ethnicity.” [Buzzfeed]
“Don’t fall victim to the senseless IAE lingo—sign up for BURNAWAY’s Emerging Art Writers Mentorship Program.” [BURNAWAY]
The city council is asking New Yorkers to turn off the lights. Proposed legislation is intended to help curb energy consumption, but will likely result in a very different nighttime view for millions of New Yorkers. One interesting prospect is exemptions for iconic buildings, meaning a government agency could be “curating” what the skyline looks like. [The New York Times]
The Guerrilla Girls talk about the benefits of anonymity, the new Whitney, and how hard it is to find a decent gorilla mask. [The Guardian]
And, in news that should make the Guerilla Girls happy, artnet News reports that many of the strongest exhibitions at Gallery Weekend Berlin are by women artists. Here’s their breakdown of the top ten. [artnet News]
Finally, a birth control advertisement from Amy Schumer that goes beyond “ask your doctor if….” We were literally laughing so hard we cried. Unfortunately, it’s funny because it’s true. [Alswrite’s Tumblr via Carolina A. Miranda]
The new Center for Art on Migration Politics in Copenhagen (CAMP) is dedicated to artwork and discourse surrounding displacement and immigration. Their first exhibition features a refugee-camp-inspired fashion show by the Rwandan artist Dady de Maximo. [The Art Newspaper]
Worth checking out: Newcity’s annual list of up-and-coming artists from the Chicago area. [Newcity]
The new Internet time-waster, and source of new memes, How Old Do I Look? [How Old Do I Look?]
Your dumb friend Garrett knows nothing about Russian models riding bears. [Deadspin]

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Monday Links: Four Men Wrestle a Bear

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on October 27, 2014

Image courtesy PetalDee via DeviantART

Four men attempt to wrestle a bear. Lesson learned? Bears are great wrestlers. [YouTube]
Just what we needed—another art fair. Independent Projects opens November 6, in just over a week. It’s held in the old Dia building, site of the Independent fair held in the spring. Expect solo booths from a motley bunch of dealers ranging from Bushwick’s’ finest to Upper East Side mainstays like Gagosian. [Independent Projects]
If you care about other people’s personal lives, the Internet has a story for you! Famous CBC host Jian Ghomeshi claims he was fired because of his private BDSM lifestyle. Is this the next level of discrimination? Add a vengeful ex-girlfriend to the mix and we have 50 Shades of Grey meets Gone Girl. [Facebook]
Look, we don’t know what happened, really. However, according to the Toronto Star, three women 20 years his junior have come forward over the last few months claiming that Ghomeshi forced them to engage in nonconsensual, violent sex. [Toronto Star]
A lesson in public shaming (and one of our favorite reads from over the weekend): Monica Lewinsky pens an insightful essay that brings up an important question. Where were all the feminists when she was dragged out in front of the press? [Vanity Fair]
According to OkCupid, people in Montana, Oregon, and Wisconsin take fewer showers than anyone else using the dating site. [Slate]
The sexy ebola nurse costume. Happy Halloween! [brandsonsale]
Can video games fend off mental decline? The research is unclear. [The New York Times]
What is hipster photography? Marco Bohr provides a fascinating and detailed description. Typically, the genre depicts people who look happy and carefree and are often joined by others who look the same. These people are young, good looking, and often white. They are almost never in suits. Perhaps most interesting, though, is that Bohr observes a lack of class identifiers in these pictures, positing that what these images really project is class mobility through the knowledge of what’s “cool.” Naturally, these images are meant to be shared. [Visual Culture Blog]
The University of Texas at Dallas is investing in a $17 million art history institute emphasizing data analysis. [Dallas Morning News]
In Sweden, artists who exhibit in state-run museums must be paid a stipend. That’s the rule, but plenty of institutions have been evading payment. [The Art Newspaper]
The Conscientious photo portfolio competition 2014 deadline closes October 31st. This is a competition aimed at emerging photographers and offers an interview on the site. [CPH]

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Bear Cam Takes Over the Internet

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on July 7, 2014

Welcome back to the workweek with the most beautiful gift of all: bears! This week the Katami National Park in Alaska has started streaming videos of brown bears in their natural habitat. The first one’s live at Brooks Falls; so far, we’ve watched brown bears looking for salmon, brown bears catching salmon, and brown bears eating salmon. Adorable. There’s also this cam on the lower river but it’s basically a bunch of water right now. We expect more bear action to start anytime now.

GIF by Paddy Johnson; hat tip from The Awl

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Tuesday Links: Finding Happiness in Jolly Bears

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 4, 2014

Good Morning, Readers!

Like you, we can’t wait for this slush to melt away. Until then, we found a way to stay sane: bears.

A Tumblr full of bears in art. We send this with good wishes to the Awl. [House of Rats via Heart as Arena]
More on Carnegie Mellon University’s dismissal of curator Astria Suparak. The CMU student paper The Tartan, has come out with their report, and they found one art history professor who admits that Suparak was too focused on “social critique” and a student who thinks she had a good “work ethic.” [The Tartan]
U.K. copyright law will change April 6th. A new exception will allow artists to use copyrighted material for the purpose of parody. [The Art Newspaper]
The 67th wealthiest billionaire in the world is suing Larry Gagosian and Gagosian Gallery for fraud. That billionaire, Ronald Perelman, is claiming fraud over a Jeff Koons “Popeye” sculpture he purchased for $4 million. He’s an unhappy customer to say the least; the plaintiffs allege that Gagosian manipulates prices for the artists he represents. “The court has affirmed that we have a valid fraud claim against Mr. Gagosian based on his unfair dominance of the art market,” Christine Taylor, a spokeswoman for Perelman, said in an e-mail. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
It’s official: Our nation’s capital will get a new museum, the Institute for Contemporary Expression. Let’s hope someone decides to brainstorm a few more names before the museum actually opens. [Washington City Paper]
A Qing Dynasty temple in ruins has been transformed into a luxury hotel filled with art. This includes eight luxury rooms, a gallery, a restaurant, a courtyard with sculptures, and a James Turrell Skyspace. Rich people, you have a new destination. [The Wall Street Journal]
Sharks are coming to Brooklyn! Over 45 different types of them, in fact. They’re part of a $157 million aquarium exhibition in Coney Island set to debut in 2016. [Gowanus Lounge]

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Pierre Huyghe’s Third Memory and a Bear Rocking Out

by Will Brand on December 7, 2011

In 1975, convicted bank robber John Wojtowicz sent a prospective article to The New York Times. It sheds fascinating light on his crime, the resulting movie (Dog Day Afternoon), and Pierre Huyghe’s seminal The Third Memory (1999). Also, a certain bear likes Fitty.

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Pierre Huyghe’s Third Memory and a Bear Rocking Out

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