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Wednesday Links: People Don’t Get “Au Naturel”

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on July 23, 2015

Close-up with Sarah Lucas’s “Au Naturel.” Image courtesy of the Guardian.

Oh, dear. Artist Sarah Lucas’s “Au Naturel” was chosen for Dlisted’s caption contest. Don’t worry: you, too, still have time to submit your own snarky caption about the mattress. [Dlisted]
It seems like those $90 Suicide Girls prints are sold out on the SG website. We were too late! [Suicide Girls]
But you can always see one of the Suicide Girls prints in person at Postmasters’ new exhibition, #wcw (@Womencrushwednesday). [Postmasters]
Nominate your favorite net-artist for the second annual Prix Net Art, with the winner receiving a $10,000 grant. Your favorite net artists already know how much you care, but hugs do not pay the bills. [Rhizome]
In Tampa, the tenth-known violent death of a transgender person to occur this year. No. [Political Animal]
Book-lovers, you may want to prepare yourself before clicking on this link. People are “defiling” vintage books in the name of stencil-art. [Town and Country Living]
A.I.R. Gallery launches their annual studio visit lottery. $15 bucks per ticket, or a pair of them for $20. The list of visitors this year is impressive: Martha Wilson, Mira Schor, Kat Griefen, Lesley Heller, Judith Brodsky, and Paddy Johnson, among others. [A.I.R Gallery]
The history of cybernetics and management techniques, with a focus on Chile. The country tried out cybernetics as a means of economic control in the 1970s, but then the U.S. came in and led a coup against the country, thereby ending the cybernetic-management experiments. [AVANT]
On why the Marvel cinematic universe lacks the X-Men and Spider-Man, who are very much a part of Marvel comics. [A.V. Club]
Verisart, a new art-and-tech start-up, seeks to catalogue every new work of art and record it with blockchain technology. [Bloomberg]
China Through the Looking Glass is on track to become the most popular exhibition at the Met ever. So far, the exhibition has been seen by 500,000 and is on view through Labor Day. The Alexander McQueen show remains the most attended, attracting 661,509 in its 15-week run. [ARTnews]
The EXPO CHICAGO art fair announces its 2015 fair programming, which will include talks on the state of design criticism, global biennials, and the Chicago Imagists. [EXPO CHICAGO]

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In the Studio: An Excerpt From Roger White’s New Book The Contemporaries

by Paddy Johnson on March 4, 2015

I’m only a few pages into Roger White’s The Contemporaries, and I’ve already decided it’s incredible.

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Pussy Riot’s Bizarre Photo Shoot With a Creepy Rich Hobbyist

by Marina Galperina on November 26, 2014

“You have never seen the women behind the masks quite like this!”

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The NY Art Book Fair Might Take Over Your Weekend

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on September 22, 2014

Take your pick of performances and fairs taking place this week because there is no scarcity in that realm.

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AFC’s Critically-Acclaimed Summer Reading List Returns

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on June 26, 2014

It’s almost July, which means it’s time for our critically-acclaimed summer reading list, a list of books that, quite simply, we critics acclaim. Last summer, we gave you a list of novels artists love, just in time for your beach reading. This time around, we’ve provided our own mix, ranging from fiction on chatrooms and psychosis, and histories on New York and Elizabethan London.

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AFC’s Stocking Stuffers: Art Profs Pick Their Favorite Books

by Corinna Kirsch on December 19, 2013

What the smart people are reading.

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The New Museum Relaunches Documentary Sources In Contemporary Art

by Corinna Kirsch on November 13, 2013

In 2014, the New Museum will gift the world with one book. Just one? Yes, but it should be an important one.

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Back To School: Art Profs Pick Their Favorite Books

by Corinna Kirsch on August 28, 2013

Say goodbye to your last week of freedom—next week students and professors head back to college. We miss drooling over the books we used to buy at the beginning of the semester, so we asked several friends of AFC to share us in on their personal favorites from their fall syllabi. From the list of options below, it looks like we’ll have plenty to read.

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Tuesday Links: Sext Me If You Can

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 30, 2013

So, the New Museum is hosting a residency program for the NEA 4. It’s hard to pin down what, exactly, this residency will look like; from what we know so far, all four artists’ projects will be concerned with how to fund performance art. Sadly, Karen Finley’s project shows how to do that, but only by getting away from performance altogether. In “Sext Me if You Can”, Finley will ask audience members to send her sexts, which she’ll then make into paintings to sell at the New Museum. Here’s my preliminary review: Not brilliant. [New Museum]
Latvia just opened the Mark Rothko Center. Pro: This is the first time any Rothko paintings have made their way to Eastern Europe. Con: The museum only has six of them. [Financial Times]
The Saudi conceptual artist Abdulnasser Gharem plans to set up the Arab state’s first artist-run foundation in Riyadh. [The Art Newspaper]
Women: shitting at the workplace should feel empowering. It’s okay to take a dump in a stall. [New York Mag]
Richard Prince made a composite of all of Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriends. [Animal]
The planned alliance of Philadelphia’s rare-book collectors’ mecca, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, with the Free Library of Philadelphia could mean greater access to literary treasures. The editorial here suggests the merger will be less messy than the Barnes move. [Philly.com]
There’s a war brewing with literary critics, and it’s because, no surprise here, book lovers don’t always get bloggers. Literary critics are whining about The New York Times Book Review because the old school publication’s new editor Pamela Paul has “no writerly or literary credentials”. That’s not exactly true, but that doesn’t stop The Guardian’s Michael Wolff from deriding Paul for working “two years as a blogger at the Huffington Post, which, it doesn’t seem entirely churlish to point out, is not a job.” Unfortunately, that’s the best he can come up with. [The Guardian]
Canada’s National Film Board gets props from The New Yorker blog for supporting radical filmmaking. [The New Yorker]
A recent New Yorker piece on Depression journalism has an unnamed New York Times editor calling poor people losers, according to ex-Times writer Charlie LeDuff. [The New Yorker, behind the paywall]
The oil company Shell bankrolled an eight-year scientific analysis of van Gogh’s true palette. It reveals that his colors were originally more naturalistic. [The New York Times]

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