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Monday Links: Failed Banks and More at the Museum of Capitalism

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 12, 2017

Superflex, Bankrupt Banks (2012).

Art duo FICTILIS has opened the Museum of Capitalism in a former industrial space in Oakland. The museum contains works from artists, theorists, and economists that try to imagine the legacy of capitalism from the perspective of its end. Interesting stuff. [artnet News]
Hurricane season is upon us. This news report might be of interest to anyone else who has wondered how the bayfront Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is designed to hold up in a hurricane. The Herzog & de Meuron designed structure is built from a totally luxurious palette of materials, sits just next to the water, and has huge windows facing the bay. Supposedly everything about the building is super storm-proof. The confidence with which this is repeatedly expressed feels a lot like famous last words. [CBS Miami]
Apartment seeking? Here’s a map and guide to all the affordable housing lotteries one can enter in New York City right now. [Curbed]
Karen Green, Columbia University’s first-ever curator for comics. is now the subject of a comic book herself. The biography comes from Nick Sousanis, the guy who submitted his dissertation in comics form while a doctoral candidate in 2015. [boingboing]
Every 10 years, the Venice Biennale, Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and Art Basel align to create one jam-packed art summer for Europe. This year the brave writers at ARTnews are trying to do it all, as a contemporary version of “The Grand Tour”. [ARTnews]
Fisun Güner considers the way artists’ dark personal lives affect the way their work is contextualized or received (the protests that accompany Carl Andre’s exhibitions, for example, because he’s accused of murdering his wife Ana Mendieta). There are some good lesser-known stories in here, such as Kenneth Halliwell’s murder of his gay lover, playwright Joe Orton, and how that story is framed at Tate Britain’s show Queer British Art. [BBC]
Delta Airlines has pulled its sponsorship of New York’s Public Theater popular Shakespeare in the Park program because a production of Julius Caesar has a scene that alludes to the assassination of Donald Trump (yes, really). This was a nontroversy until Fox News (of course) criticized the production, which subsequently got the president’s attention and inspired more anti-art funding tweets. Ugh. [Inc.]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Spend Valentine’s Day Grabbing Bjarne Melgaard’s Sloppy Seconds

by Michael Anthony Farley on February 13, 2017

Bjarne Melgaard is going through a reinvention phase, which means he’s giving away his entire $500K wardrobe for free on Valentine’s Day at Red Bull Studios. Then he’s launching his new project: a streetwear line with ~~an installation~~ a department store at the same spot Thursday night. Then two painters offer unique takes on domesticity through still lives—Sydney Licht at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts and Crys Yin at Amy Li Projects.

Friday night, things get weirder with a dystopian video game from Jeremy Couillard at yours mine & ours, artwork lost in translation at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and a late-night performance from Actually Huizenga and one-time-AFC-contributor SSION (video above). The weekend brings two more all-women shows conceived in response to Trump’s sexism: BODY/HEAD Saturday night at Be Fluent NYC and BEAT at On Stellar Rays Sunday afternoon. Lookin’ good, NYC.

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Wednesday Links: Before Orlando, There was UpStairs Lounge

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on June 15, 2016

“So, we’re American. And when the enemies of the US want to strike at US symbols, they now strike at us! LGBT equality would seem to be another American export than can be resented and attacked as American. For anyone used to being an pariah, this will take some getting used to.” In 2008, Skylar Fein’s “Remember the UpStairs Lounge” showed at New Orleans’ Prospect.1 biennial. The installation recreated aspects of the popular 1970s gay bar that was tragically set fire by an arsonist and killed 32 people. In light of Orlando, Hrag Vartanian revisits the work, and talks with the artist about the US’s complicated history of anti-LGBTQ violence. [Hyperallergic]
A change of guard: Barbara M. Vogelstein will succeed Elizabeth A. Sackler as chair of of the Brooklyn Museum’s board of trustees. Vogelstein has three decades experience in private equity investing, and served on the institution’s board from 2001-2010 and then again since 3015. Vogelstein was involved in the search for the museum’s new director, and she and her husband endowed the museum’s contemporary art curator position in 2005. [Artforum]
Adrian Searle glowingly reviews the Switchhouse, the Tate Modern’s new extension. The off kilter pyramid matches Herzog & de Meuron’s original conversion of Bankside power station into contemporary art gallery in 2000. And the show’s pretty good! Actual conversations between art works occur. [The Guardian]
Rose Eveleth just launched a new column exploring design bias in medical research and products. First up, artificial hearts. Even though women are more likely to die on transplant lists, artificial hearts aren’t designed for them — in fact, an artificial heart typically fits 80% of men and only 20% of women. [Motherboard]
London’s public transportation system has a new screen-friendly typeface. The new typeface, a revamp of the original 100 year old Johnson typeface, has a lighter weight made for mobile reading, while retaining certain idiosyncrasies like the “bulbous ‘U’”. [The Verge]
Yes, this happened today: UK Independent Party leader Nigel Farage and Bob Geldof had a boat war on the Thames. The Brexit debate just got real. [Telegraph]
Merray Gerges chats with Montreal’s GothShakira, who has been getting a lot of media traction for her intersectional feminist image macros on Instagram. [Canadian Art]
By 2020, the New York skyline will look f-ugly. Get ready for skyscrapers—a rendering by CityReality. [Curbed]
The International Association of Art Critics has announced that this year’s winner of AICA Incentive Award for Young Critics, will receive a trip to Havana, Cuba, to attend the AICA Congress this October. Submit a review by July 29th. [AICA via: ARTnews]
At the VIP opening of the new Tate Modern opening, over 150 feminist activists protested the institution’s decision to show work by Carl Andre, chanting “oi Tate, we’ve got a vendetta, where the fuck is Ana Mendieta?”. Organized by the WHEREISANAMENDIETA movement, the protesters are decrying the exhibition of Andre’s work — not to mention the failure to show Mendieta’s work in the same space, even though the Tate has five works in storage — as a glorification of violent men within the art institution. [Dazed]
Talk about exploitation: Jenny Lorenzo and Brittany Ashley, both popular producers/personalities for Buzzfeed’s Motion Pictures company, were fired for appearing in “Gente-Fied”, a web series produced by actor America Ferrera. Why? Because Lorenzo and Ashley apparently breached the non-compete clause in their contracts. Even though non-compete agreements are fairly common in tech and engineering jobs, digital media companies like Buzzfeed are now adopting them. It’s a backwards revival of the old Hollywood studio system, back when stars signed ironclad 7-year contracts. [Politico]
Breaking: Bloomberg’s art market reporter Katya Kazakina confirms billionaire Leon Black has won ownership of Picasso’s “Bust of a Woman” plaster sculpture. At the center of an international legal drama between Gagosian and the Qatari royal family, the dispute stemmed from Picasso’s daughter, Maya Widmaeier-Picasso, selling the work not once but twice to both parties. [@artdetective]
Art Basel reports are coming in: Dealers are bringing their best work to counter-act the narrative that says the market is down. [ARTnews]

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Monday Links: Get Your Pumpkin Lovin’ On

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on September 8, 2014

Winter is coming. pic.twitter.com/kYUECkJ2HP

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 7, 2014

Not impressive: The “chola” look has made it onto the runways, supposedly. The first image in this profile looks like the model has a granddad’s greasy combover. [BlackBook]
Soon Twitter will be for shopping. Today, the company announced a “buy” button for its mobile users. [TechCrunch]
Ball point pen drawings of the Speaker of the House, John Boehner. [Speaker of the House]
Political debate continues to be moronic. Last week, the hosts of a web show called “PolitiChicks” appeared on Fox and Friends to encourage women to free themselves from the shackles of old feminism. Old feminism did little more than sexualize women, whereas this new feminism, they claim, allows women to be feminine. As God intended. Apparently that means “less government in their lives” and the love of “real men.” Most of what gets said makes little to no sense. [Talking Points Memo]
Another critic praises the Carl Andre show at DIA: Beacon. This happens to be exceptional because Andre has been “relatively undersung” and his entire output has been “repressed in American museums.” Compared to Donald Judd, maybe, but most other artists? Nah. [Artforum]
In 1988 German musician Holger Hiller produced different sounds from every item in a room, and collaged them together to make the song Ohi Ho Bang Bang. This is the video. [YouTube]
Cao Fei’s latest film “La Town” channels film noir, Mattel toys, Tim Burton, and features a Santa Claus with a full set of reindeer. Watch the trailer: it looks bizarrely splendid. [Lombard Freid]
Lady Gaga and Jeff Koons are friends. [Page Six]
Martine Rothblatt is the highest paid female CEO in America. She is the 59-year-old founder of United Therapeutics, a transexual, and the subject of a New York Magazine profile. [New York Magazine]
This cat is not a fan of strawberries. [@9GAG Gifs]

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Monday Links: Taxidermy and Fresh Nudes

by The AFC Staff on July 7, 2014

To commemorate a hundred years since the first World War, the Liverpool Biennial has commissioned artists to paint warships. The ships pay homage to the geometric “dazzle” camouflage which was used to confused German U-Boats. [The Art Newspaper]
“The wealthiest of the wealthy now view art as an alternative currency.” That’s former Christie’s chairman and current art advisor Amy Cappellazzo, on the seemingly-unstoppable auction boom. Last week, Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips raised a total of $340 million in London– up 26% from last year. The piece suggests that more people aren’t collecting, but the small pool of blue chip collectors is getting bolder. [The New York Times]
Leslie Hewitt addresses those protesting her decision to talk on Carl Andre at Dia. Noting that her “position was assumed powerless, and [her] voice was registered inert or lacking a critical stance,” she said: “I reject this premise, and have the audacity to go off script — as a woman who does not render patriarchy invisible in my daily life, as a woman of color who has the long view, with pragmatism in mind, and as an artist who utilizes historical distance strategically as a way to address art history through a personal, social, and political lens.” [Hyperallergic]
A listing for a two-bedroom apartment in The Beresford on the Upper West Side is going for $3.395 million, which sounds normal except for the fact that every square foot of the apartment is covered in taxidermy. Is this beautiful, cruel, or just plain unsettling? [Curbed NY]
Art world sexism, by the numbers: in percentages of male artists, Sperone Westwater comes in at 91, Team at 85, and Matthew Marks at 84. All these stats and more were collected by the open source internet project Gallery Tally, with posters visualizing the disparity. Gallery Tally needs to connect with Brainstormers. [The Art Newspaper]
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced they will use $23 million for arts education in this year’s budget to hire 120 new arts teachers at under-served middle and high schools. [WNYC]
Seems like India is no exception to the recent increase in counterfeit art. Indian dealers and gallerists are proposing to set up a regulatory body to comb all art sales for forgeries. Could this be a solution to the increased circulation of expensive forgeries in the art market? [Business Standard]
A slide show of some of the world’s most outsized animals. Creepy. [Trends Addict]
In Brave New World-like science news: a birth control pill that can be ingested and then release contraceptive drugs by remote control for as long as sixteen years. Hacking is a foreseeable problem. [The Verge]
Michael Anthony Farley has praise for a show of fresh nudes, so gushing that we want to go down to Baltimore to see it in person. His use of this quote in particular, by Willem de Kooning: “Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented.” [Bmore Art]

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Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s New Do It Video Tells You to Do It With Social Media

by Corinna Kirsch on April 29, 2014

But why should we do it?

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Free Art: Download and Print Your Own Conceptual Art

by Corinna Kirsch on March 5, 2012

Now you can xerox your own Xerox Book. In collaboration with the non-profit Primary Information, Seth Siegelaub, the do-it-all curator, writer, and art dealer, just released half a dozen of his essays and art projects from the late 60's and 70's for free download. It's all part of Primary Information's new Seth Siegelaub Online Archive and it will be expanding in the months to come. Siegelaub's interest in conceptual artists and how they can make a living from ephemeral and reproducible materials remains incredibly fresh, particularly in light of the Occupy Movement.

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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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