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Monday Links: When Crochet Sets Off Gentrification Tensions

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on September 21, 2015

Chanel Von Habsburg Lothringen’s “Grannyboo” currently on view at Boyfriends in Chicago.

In this interview, Katherine Bernhardt essentially dispels any conjecture that her paintings have any conceptual intent beyond looking pretty and fun. She also wants us all to move to San Juan, for which she makes a more convincing argument. [Artspace]
“Why would the Royal Academy and Versailles share their space and prestige with practitioners who can only construct artistic identity through the leverage of their political correctnesss achieved through public controversy.” -Rodrigo Cañete writes a pretty biting review of art stars Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor, claiming the two have developed a politicized cult of personality that’s used to promote otherwise mediocre artwork.”…predictability is misunderstood by Ai as democracy and accessibility. But looking at his stuff you’re often confronted by a misfit between concept and making that causes created objects to be visually dull or lacking an intrinsic visual reason to exist.” [LOVEARTNOTPEOPLE]
A pretty awful crochet mural inspired by a Wes Anderson character has stoked gentrification tensions in Bushwick. Basically, recent transplant London Kaye asked the director of Brooklyn Flea if she could erect the piece on a wall abutting the market. He agreed, but neither he nor Kaye consulted the building’s owner—a longtime latino resident. The owner’s nephew has since taken to Facebook to complain, and a minor drama is now playing out over major anxieties about the neighborhood. [Gothamist]
Submit to Platform Gallery’s second annual juried exhibition. I (Michael) am on the jury this year. Submissions are open until October 17th. [Platform]
Art Handler Magazine has launched a Kickstarter to raise funds to support the publication. They need $30,000 to keep producing the project. Help them out! There aren’t enough sustainable independent publications out there, and this one is very thoughtful. [Kickstarter]
Postcommodity, a collective made up of artists Raven Chacon and Cristobal Martine will create a two mile installation made up of scare-eye balloons that bi-sect the American Mexico border. I (Paddy) have been following this project for a while, so I’m glad to see that it’s not only happening, but getting a little love from Carolina Miranda at the L.A. Times. [Culture: High & Low]
Missouri Republican party vice chairman Valinda Freed leaned on a historic Thomas Hart Benton mural to write down a phone number during a “right to work” rally. The internet got mad. [artnet News]
Jack Griffin, the Chief Executive of the Tribune Publishing Company sounds like he’s terrible at his job. First he ran Time Magazine into the ground by firing anyone of talent, and now he’s doing the same at The Los Angeles Times. Recently, he fired their new publisher, Austin Beutner, who held the belief that the way to save the newspaper was not by eliminating the people who produce the product they sell—content. [The New York Times]

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Superscript: Two Days in an Auditorium with Art Critics

by Paddy Johnson on June 4, 2015

Let me tell you about what I learned.

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Tuesday Links: Unleashing the Army of Me

by The AFC Staff on March 3, 2015

No. No. No. Artist Dustin Yellin announces he has shred $10,000 in cash to create eight paintings, each priced at $10,000. Proceeds will go towards the creation of scholarships for high-school seniors interested in pursuing a career in art. This is such an obvious marketing play. The intended spectacle barely seems visible. [Observer]
Sotheby’s isn’t doing so well. After a year of public battles with activist investor Dan Loeb, the publicly traded auction house admits to spending $21.4 million to cover costs related to the Loeb debacle. [Bloomberg]
Oh, so this is how Reddit plans to make money: reality TV. Along with Wired, the community board will produce the show Cyborg Nation which will focus on real people who use cybernetic devices. [Tube Filter]
Björk preview at MoMA today. All eyes on Twitter. [Gregorg]
Currently tearing up the internet: A woodpecker carrying a weasel on its back. [BBC via: @nutblack1]
Some Sacramento residents are pissed that New York-based Jeff Koons has been commissioned to produce a public artwork rather than a local artist. In response, city spokesperson Linda Tucker told local news station Fox 40 that neither the panel that selected Koons nor the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission “are obligated to review multiple proposals. Their mission is to choose the very best, not discriminate by region.” Doesn’t this sound like a familiar argument? See: “I don’t see race or gender, only quality!” [Artnet News]
The Wu-Tang Clan released a never-to-be-heard-again work of art at PS1 last night. The album’s producer Cilvaringz noted how its inspiration came partially from a night he and RZA spent riding on horseback around the pyramids of Giza. Like all music, it’ll probably get leaked once it’s bought at online auction. [ARTnews]
Spice up your rooftop with a lighthouse. [Untapped Cities]
A massive interview with Rhizome’s conservator Dragon Espenschied and artist Amalia Ulman. #nerdsonly [Hopes and Fears]
A tree called Prometheus took root more than 5,000 years ago. It weathered unknown adversity throughout those years, before finally being cut down in 1964 so a scientist could study its rings. Its longevity, no small miracle, was ultimately the cause of its death. In 2011, artist Jeffrey Weiss took up the task of recreating the tree through drawings, digital renderings, and 3D models. This story, which has nothing to do with the market, a mega-gallerist, or collector, graced the front page of the Los Angeles Times this weekend. That’s another miracle, courtesy of Carolina A. Miranda. [The Los Angeles Times]
If you haven’t been to a poetry reading recently, or ever, here’s one you can attend without leaving the Internet. Co-presented by the New Museum and Rhizome, “Poetry as Practice” features six Mondays of poems by Melissa Broder, Tan Lin, as well as someone named ‘not_I.’ [Rhizome]

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Friday Links: Batman at the Mercy of City Council

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 21, 2014

The best picture in the New York Times Yesterday.

This link’s for Carolina Miranda: “Hello Kitty, the Big Apple, the Penguin, the Joker and several other heroes, villains and pop culture icons appeared before the New York City Council on Wednesday to testify against a proposed bill that would regulate the ubiquitous and, occasionally, aggressive presence of costumed characters in Times Square.” [The New York Times]
To be healthy, try eating clay, drinking fossilized plants, or washing your hair with bull semen. Oh, please. [The Coveteur]
Paddy Johnson was interviewed by Matthew Leifheit for VICE. “That’s the whole reason you go and see art—because someone has some way of visually expressing something in a way that you never would have thought of, or expressed that way yourself. Expression is the most powerful and interesting thing you can do with your life, I think.” [VICE]
Meredith Monk once composed music for Star Trek—and other little-known facts about the Monk. [The Lab]
A Nazi-era art collection has been bequeathed to the Kunstmuseum Bern, a small museum in Switzerland. The museum has to evaluate more than 1000 works of art to determine whether the works were acquired legally. [The New York Times]
On the fiftieth anniversary of the term gentrification, Curbed comes up with a quite revealing history of how word has come into use. To note: the New York Times use of “gentrification” dipped in the mid-1990s and skyrocketed in mid-2000s. [Curbed NY]
Yet another think piece decrying feminism. With the headline “Feminism Has Gone Too Far,” writer Lizzie Crocker has herself gone too far. She claims that feminists “certainfeminists to argue that certain subjects and certain arguments are either off limits or simply not up for debate,” referring to feminists protesting a pro-life abortion talk at Oxford given by two men. However, protesters themselves wrote that they were not aiming to stifle free speech.[The Daily Beast]
The Tate recruits the makers of Minecraft to transform two of its paintings into Minecraft. Downloads will be available on Monday. [BBC News]
Paul Chan wins the Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Award. Winners of this prize tend to skew male; only three of the ten recipients have been women. [The Guggenheim]

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Monday Links: Best Marching Band Ever

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on November 3, 2014

The Ohio State Marching Band performs tributes to sci-fi films. Visually the band resembles ASCII Star Wars, but with references to every instance of sci fi in culture represented by tubas, trumpets, cannons, and fireworks. This is the kind of discipline and spirit I like to see representing America. [Laughing Squid]
On this week’s episode of Hello Kitty Cribs, watch a middle-age interior designer give a tour of his multi-room Hello Kitty shrine. [BBC]
Los Angeles Times art critic Carolina A. Miranda, who brought the statement “Hello Kitty is not a cat” to the Internet’s attention, gets a Hello Kitty tattoo. [Instagram]
“The abiding cliché of online sociality holds that one’s identity online is made up not of character traits…but of one’s likes and dislikes and the friends and acquaintances one is connected to.” Melissa Gronlund on how Rosalind Krauss’s theory of video art and narcissism stacks up with today’s Internet-inspired video. [Afterall]
London report: after a week-long protest in front of Parliament Square this past October, Occupy protesters are set to return in late November. For that next iteration, they’ve set up an open call for artwork. [Samia Gallery]
If you’re living in London, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter, expect heightened security checks at airports. Starting today. Fun! [The Washington Post]
Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man, is (very likely) responsible for inflating the Richter market. [The Telegraph]
“We’re pooping all wrong. And the toilets are to blame.” On the poor design of toilets. [Pacific Standard]
N00dies of us all over the internet this weekend. It has to do with art criticism. We’ll explain later. [Facebook]
Now there are lasers to shoot down drones. Where does it end? [The Verge]
For the journos: New York Magazine’s Vulture is looking for a senior editor. 2+ years experience editing online, and a deep love of television are required. [Mediabistro via Gabrielle Gantz on Twitter]
OH COME ON, ARTNET. These misleading titles, like the latest “Duane Michaels Shot Warhol, and Took Off,” are getting ridiculous. Click through to read a blurb about two fairly banal snapshots. [artnet News]

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Thursday Links: Richard Prince Must be the Luckiest Man on the Planet

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on September 18, 2014

An artist’s view of M60-UCD1 black hole. Via: NASA, ESA, STScI-RCC14-41a

This artist rendering of a black hole in a dwarf galaxy is amazing. [NASA Instagram via: @fredbenenson]
And, on that note, for the science nerds, here’s the best astronomy related video we’ve seen lately. Dizzying. [Youtube]
WTF? Richard Prince’s 48-inch by 56-inch″ inkjet prints of celebrity Instagram accounts are reportedly selling for $100,000. [The New York Post]
Chicago’s art paper Newcity made its own power list again, because fuuuckk youuu Artinfo. Here are the artists’ artists. [Newcity]
Jennifer Rubell is making food for the Performa benefit. This year Performa is honoring every rich woman under the sun. [In the Air]
The People’s Climate March preparations have started. They are expecting 100,000 people to show up this Sunday for the event. [The New York Times]
In further evidence, Environmentalist Bill McKibben is tweeting about 20 busloads of people headed to New York for the march already booked from Vermont. That seems like it would cover UVM and Middlebury alone. More! [Twitter]
The New Yorker does a video feature on the history of the Vocoder, a speech distortion tool popularized by Laurie Anderson and Kraftwerk, but was apparently invented as a top-secret military voice encoder. There is such thing as a “Vocoder historian”. [The New Yorker]
Philadelphia-based video artists: SUBMIT. The ICA has assembled a great jury for its open call video show, including Dirty Looks assistant director Karl McCool, PMA Associate Curator Erica Battle, and artist Beth Heinly, whom we featured in a Philly round-up last month. Based on McCool and Heinly in particular, we suspect this means creative risk taking and fearlessness will be rewarded. Submit to this. [ICA]
Carolina Miranda discusses Santa Monica Museum of Art’s “Citizen Culture: Artists and Architects Shape Policy” and the show looks great. It’s an exhibition that looks at social practice that sparks social change. In one example, Miranda discusses Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus, who was forced to wear a bullet-proof vest after receiving death threats. As a sign of trust, he cut the shape of a heart from the vest. [Culture: High & Low]
Iggy Pop plays ping pong with David Bowie. This is what happened. (aw). [BowieSongs Extras]

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Thursday Links: Ways of Something, Part One

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on September 11, 2014

Ways of Something – Episode 1 from Lorna Mills on Vimeo.

“Ways of Something, Part One” made its online premiere last night. Watch above.
Videos: the new hip offering for young billionaires. [Artnet News]
Artist-activists should apply right now to the Rauschenberg Foundation’s “Artist as Activist” program. They’re giving away piles and piles of money to artists committed to working with the public. Applications are due October 13th. Following grants will be awarded to help combat climate change. [The Rauschenberg Foundation]
One Amazon-published pulp novelist writes that Amazon has enabled him to produce more than he ever would have through traditional publishers, and the same is true for crime novelists, fan fiction writers, and niche writers the world over. “It’s been the most enjoyable creative burst of my career, a gleeful hack’s sprint toward nowhere in particular,” Neal Pollack writes. [Slate]
More points for Amazon: back in May, the company joined a coalition of big companies in favor of net neutrality. Sign this net neutrality petition for this blog, and all blogs. [Battle for the Net]
Just announced: Hyperplace Harlem is a three day festival featuring media and visual artists, readings, performances, workshops, and discussions that runs from October 4-6. There should be lots of tech projects here; get your nerd on. [Hyperplace]
What do you even do with 71 paintings after they’re all reported stolen? [Artnet News]
Watch-nerds review the Apple Watch. The verdict? It will disrupt the low-end watch market. “It offers so much more functionality than other digitals it’s almost embarrassing.” Read the section on the straps. Rarely have I seen such fawning. And in the “not so great” section of the review a favorite heading: Market Leader in a Category No One Really Asked For. The question posed by the author in this part of the review is whether the Apple Watch is Google’s Glass? I can answer that one right away: No. Google Glass is for assholes. [Hodinkee]
Performance artist and recently featured AFC Rising Star Rebecca Patek is featured in Animal’s notebook. [Animal New York]
Carolina Miranda talks to artist Lisa Anne Auerbach about her zines, paintings, knitting, and why cats show up in her work so much. [Culture: High & Low]
Like New York, Miami housing has also become a piggybank for the foreign rich. Is displacement potentially endless? Will every city turn into a giant empty condo? [vocativ]
Maybe not! Brooklyn’s median rent has decreased for the first time in 15 months. We’ll hold our excitement, though, since we heard similars about Manhattan last year, and little has come of those. [Curbed]
The Camera Club of New York has been around since 1884. They’re moving to 126 Baxter Street in Chinatown. [Bowery Boogie]
“Sharks are like swimming noses,” says Danielle Dixon, an assistant professor in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Shark noses suffer when carbon levels rise. Sharks will die. [Treehugger]

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Thursday Links: A Morning Medley of Tastelessness

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on July 24, 2014

Image courtesy of Bloomberg Businessweek

Lay’s new cappuccino-flavored potato chips sound like a serious candidate for grossest food ever. [Bloomberg Businessweek, h/t @chaykak]
Weird Al Yankovic, with recent spoofs like “Tacky” (to the tune of “Happy”), remains more popular than ever. Weird. [Flavorwire]
Take a deep breath. Try to stay calm. Then see if you can manage to read this tasteless listicle on the Top 10 Artists Who Died During the First World War. [The Guardian]
Carolina A. Miranda begins her Comic Con coverage by chatting with writer Douglas Wolk who’s responsible for “Judge Dredd: Mega City Two – City of Courts,” the L.A. update on the Judge Dredd comic series. [Los Angeles Times]
Because there’s no art news today: This year, the cops reign in the open-air drug market at the Gathering of the Juggalos, just a little bit. [Village Voice]
Rhizome is giving away money to artists (again)! If you apply for a $500 Internet Art Microgrant, all you need to do is submit a 150-word proposal and a sketch, even a doodle, of your project. [Rhizome]
Rhizome continues its series of artist interviews, this time featuring Genevieve Belleveau. These are extensive. [Rhizome]
Will daily newspaper publishing soon be relegated only to giants like New York Times? David Boardman, ex-executive editor of the Seattle Times, hopes so. He thinks newspapers should publish only once a week, making for “superb, in-depth, last-all-week Sunday (or better yet, Saturday) paper, a publication so big and rich and engaging that readers will devour it piece by piece over many days, and pay a good price for that pleasure.” People should make magazines. [Slog]
An Air Algerie flight crashes.

I’m mad at planes.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) July 24, 2014

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Friday Links: Salvador Dali’s Cookbook

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on June 6, 2014

Hauser Wirth + Schimmel, the Sterling Cooper Draper Price of the art world, descends upon LA with a 100,000 square foot building in a gut renovated former flour factory. Is the art world shifting its center? [Artnet]
We’ll be following Carolina Miranda’s new culture blog at the LA Times for the answer. [LA Times]
The above Mad Men comparison was ripped off from Christian Viveros-Fauné’s review of Lucien Smith, whose show he believes smacks of calculated career moves. As usual, there’s no shortage of quotables, but here’s a line that made me laugh so hard I snorted tea out of my nose: “Smith, along with a singularly opportunistic generation of twenty- and thirtysomethings — call them the Opportunists — produce paintings tailor-made for the market.” [Village Voice]
After the news that Jamestown, VA is probably going to sink this century, it looks like Massachusetts might divest from fossil fuels. [Treehugger]
Web layout, taken to new extremes. [GQ]
“The worst cases require the worst tools,” says Dragan Espenschied, Rhizome’s digital archivist, when referring to the problem of preserving art criticism on Facebook. Espenschied has come up with a way to archive your actions in a browser which requires an individual to access Facebook through a proxy server that would record data from their interactions. As Tom Moody brought up in the comment thread to this post, it doesn’t solve the problem of privacy settings, which affect what a user sees, but Kaplan says Rhizome is working on it. [Rhizome]
Salvador Dali wrote a cookbook! The book costs $350 on Amazon, but Brainpickings has published a few of the recipes, such as Conger Eel and “Thousand Year Old Eggs”. This of course comes with grotesquely exaggerated faces and self cannibalizing food. [Brainpickings]
Jorge Daniel Veneciano took over as director at El Museo del Barrio in March, and in the three months he’s been there he’s closed the half million dollar budget deficit that had plagued the museum. Now to avoid the dull drums. Holland Cotter discusses the new programming noting that it’s a solid but conservative lineup. [The New York Times]

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