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HIV/AIDS Goes Art History In “Art AIDS America” At The Bronx Museum

by Emily Colucci on July 29, 2016

What is lost when HIV/AIDS becomes art history? A lot, as it seems.

As HIV/AIDS gets revisited by a slew of recent exhibitions, books and films, the real continued emotional impact of the disease is in danger of being replaced by a distant historical interest. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Bronx Museum’s current exhibition Art AIDS America.

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Thursday Links: Selfie Statue Backlash

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on June 9, 2016

selfie statue backlash

John Seed has a tongue-in-cheek idea to boost museum attendance: advertise the value of the artwork on display. [The Huffington Post]

Biogenic tattoos are apparently a thing now. Also known as morbid ink, the originally fringe practice of mixing tattoo ink with biogenic materials like cremated ash and even carbonized hair is going mainstream, and has been embraced by biotech startups. [Motherboard]

Our friends at Platform Arts Center in Baltimore have had a break-in, where power tools and exhibition materials such as display monitors were stolen. Please consider donating to their Paypal! [Platform Arts Center]

Houston’s planned mega-suburbs have some weird public art, as Corinna Kirsch discovered in The Woodlands. Now rival enclave Sugar Land has installed a bronze sculpture of two girls taking a selfie. Predictably, the internet is losing its shit about it. [CNET]

The sacrilege of it all: conservators will likely shudder over the recent discovery that a 14th century Italian altarpiece in the collection of London’s National Gallery fell from an easel and broke in half… 27 years ago. [Art Newspaper]

Moscow’s Garage Museum just announced it will be organizing the first Russian art triennial in March 2017. [Artforum]

After seven months behind bars, Russian dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky is free. Found guilty of setting fire to the door of Russia’s Federal Security Service headquarters as part of a conceptual art piece, the artist avoided jail time but has been fined almost 1 million rubles for damages. He’s refusing to pay the fines, and has asked his supporters not to pay either. [Observer]

Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has stopped loans to the United States over fears that Cuban expats could sue to have the state-owned artworks seized as retribution for the country’s wealth re-distribution in 1959. Until this situation is resolved, the Bronx Museum’s forthcoming exhibition of contemporary Cuban artists, Wild Noise, will be postponed. [Art Newspaper]

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Thursday Links: Cigarettes for Kids

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on January 22, 2015

Are the Met and MoMA at war? The Lauder’s cubist collection went to the Met instead of MoMA, leading some to believe that, with shared interests, these institutions will need to fight over donors. It’s a juicy read, five pages full of quotes from the rich and art-famous. Met Director Thomas Campbell on MoMA: “sometimes we’re frenemies.” Larry Gagosian, being himself: “I love expansion!” [Vanity Fair]
Marketing whiz and artist Ryder Ripps has a show of Instagram paintings opening at Postmasters. It’s not even up, and it’s already received one bad review. [Jezebel]
Microsoft vaults itself into the future with the creation of HoloLens, a hologram headset yet-to-be released to the general public. Brian Crecente was able to demo one of the models, which comes with virtual reality, Skype, 3D gaming, and a 3D image-building capabilities. The future is now, though it feels like fiction: “The effect of wearing the glasses also doesn’t feel real. But not because it seems fake, rather because it is initially a bit unbelievable.” [Polygon]
Every month I await the Netflix death watch on Gothamist. It answers many a serial TV-watcher’s needs: which shows will go away forever over the next two weeks, and which will take their place. Only days remain to watch Jem and the Holograms (Seasons 1-3), Red Dwarf (Seasons 1-9), or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Seasons 1-4). [Gothamist]
Linda Yablonsky reports that the Chelsea and Lower East Side art world seemed largely unphased by the Paris shooting. Mary Boone continues to wear ridiculous hats. [Artforum]
Wuuuuuttt. Places where dumb cashiers have been selling cigarettes to kids. Apparently this is the culture at Food Lion. [Vocativ]
Footbinding, a history. Apparently the 13th century Chinese trend was “inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon.” GROSS. “The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a ‘golden lotus.’” [Smithsonian]
On Tuesday, a Belgian court found painter Luc Tuymans guilty of plagiarism. Or is it copyright infringement? Copy activist Joy Garnett has taken to Twitter to dispute the use of the term plagiarism. [The Guardian, @joygarnett]
Just a month after Obama re-opened travel to Cuba, the Bronx Museum and Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts plan the first Cuban-American art exchange. [New York Times]
Craig Anthony Miller is suing the Toll Brothers development company for using his murals to advertise for their condos. Ironically, the mural was torn down and replaced by townhouses, but he’d copyrighted the mural with permission from the wall’s owner. Smart move. [ANIMAL New York]
Houston, Texas’s Flower Man House, an “ever-evolving masterpiece of African-American yard show art” kept by the late Cleveland Turner, will be demolished. (Scattered throughout Houston are incredible homes full of “yard show art,” for lack of a better term.) The Project Row Houses organization is planning a commemorative billboard near the site of one of Turner’s former homes. [Texas Monthly]

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At the Bronx Museum: Another Biennial Sets Out With Heart, But Leads With Resumes

by Whitney Kimball on August 8, 2013

In its thirty-three year run, the Bronx Museum’s AIM (Artists in the Marketplace) Program has touched a surprising extent of the New York art world. It’s rare to go on a gallery tour in this city without coming across one of its alumni, who range from establishment members like Glenn Ligon and Anton Vidokle, to rising stars like LaToya Ruby Frazier and David Gilbert. And now, AIM’s second Biennial “Bronx Calling”–a recent development for program alums–adds 73 new members to the roster. It’s a truly diverse showing of New York City-based talent getting its first leg-up into the art market. As far as the commercial art world is concerned, AIM is the Bronx Museum’s most significant contribution to New York art. So why aren’t people talking about this?

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Museums Are Cool, Too: 16 Shows to See This Summer

by Julia Wolkoff on July 18, 2013

Summer is here, and it’s hot. If going to the beach sounds painful, we’ve got a suggestion: museums. Thankfully, the air conditioned galleries of New York’s museums have plenty of worthwhile shows to check out. (Just don’t try to go to the rooftop gallery at the Met; they’ve closed that today due to the heat.) Below, we’ve rounded up a whopping list of 16 fantastic museum shows we’re going to check out.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Independence Edition

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Clara Olshansky on July 1, 2013

Happy Fourth of July, art people. There’s not much going on thanks to the holidays, but for the art die-hards in the crowd, we’ve managed to scrounge up a few openings. We’d also like to remind you all about the great summer shows we posted about in June. For better or worse, in New York, you’ll never be want for shows to see and places to go.

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Proof: Bronx Museum’s Anniversary Party Was a Smash Hit

by Whitney Kimball on October 18, 2012

If there was one takeaway from the Bronx Museum’s 40th Anniversary, it’s that museums should have more music. You don’t hear this level of noise at MoMA.

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Massive Links: What Didn’t Happen at ArtsTech Last Night?

by Whitney Kimball on June 14, 2012

The VLA (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts) is having a benefit tonight, from 6-8PM, at 62 Greene Street. Be there. A lawsuit would otherwise cripple most artists, and volunteer services are a boon to the community. God knows we’ll need ’em. [VLA]
Support the Seaport Museum! After financial woes forced the museum to temporarily shut down last year, it looks like a shaky recovery can be made possible by support from the city and local community. On Saturday, June 30th, Amanda Palmer will give a benefit concert. General admission is $55, $40 for members. [Concert]
Twitter blew up last night with live coverage of ArtsTech, which sounded like the most comprehensive art talk ever endeavored. Paddy Johnson reported an overall success, with insight on digital archiving from Christiane Paul, Ben Fino-Radin, and Doug Reside. It looks like we won’t be disappointed: on Fino-Radin’s archive of ArtsTech tweets, there is literally a photo of digital curator Doug Reside revealing an original version of the Declaration of Independence. [ArtsTech video/ArtsTech Tweets/Hyperallergic]
Amongst the ArtsTech tweets on digital archiving, Ellen Knuti linked to the website for the movie Space Jam, which is still live. [@knutini]
Your work could be on a water tank! According to Kickstarter, famous artists and New York locals will decorate three hundred water tanks around NYC next summer. In the next few weeks, 15 of the designs will be chosen from public submissions. [Curbed/Kickstarter]
Marina Galperina’s essay on Russian driving is insane. From the looks of it, getting behind the wheel in Russia is like running blindfolded into a mine field; if you’ve seen Apocalypse Now, that’s basically what this is. Of course, it comes complete with video mash-up of the horror. [AnimalNY]
This morning’s first office debate: is there such a thing as not-assless chaps? Ass chaps? [Village Voice]
Tumblr of the day, via @annie_werner: [Cloaque.org]
Today’s TED talk is titled “Archaeology from Space.” [TED]
In case you missed it yesterday, the Bronx Museum received a $500,000 gift from the Ford Foundation to its acquisitions fund. This is good for the museum and the community. It plans to collect work by living artists with strong ties to the neighborhood. [NYTimes]

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Bronx Calling, The First AIM Biennial: Profit and Loss

by Whitney Kimball on July 21, 2011

If you're beginning an art career in the face of imminent economic meltdown, then clearly you've got something to say. Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial is now introducing a new generation of emerging artists who participated in the 2011 AIM (Artists in the Marketplace) Program. Often, perhaps unsurprisingly, the work is a little too reflective of a marketplace that tends to muddle passion and bastardize ideas.

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