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Monday Link: All The Single Ladies!

by Paddy Johnson on February 13, 2017

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Rozalia Jovanovic has left artnet news due to a difference in vision with Jacob Pabst, the CEO of artnet. It’s rumored Andrew Goldstein, former editor of artinfo and Artspace will take over. [BlouinArtInfo]
The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow has released the artist names for its first triennial, slated to open March 10th. [ARTnews]
This David Hockney show at the Tate looks fantastic. A glowing review. [The Guardian]
This review of the Raymond Pettibon show at the New Museum is absolutely gushing. I worry I’ve spent too much time reading Pettibon’s twitter feed to fully appreciate the show any more—he sends out a lot of strange tweets—but we’ll see. Between this and the Holland Cotter review, it’s hard to make an argument that the show can be skipped. [Hyperallergic]
Speed dating at el Segundo Museum of Art attracts tons of women…and no men. A report. [The Los Angeles Times]

Wednesday Links: Watch this Dog Eat Goldfish

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 23, 2016

This slow-motion video of a pug eating a Goldfish cracker is the most captivating thing you can watch this morning. [Facebook]

Uh, architect Moon Hoon has completed one of the strangest/creepiest museums we’ve ever seen, located outside Seoul. The museum comprises a series of lumpy silver buildings for a collector of Pinocchio dolls and memorabilia. [Dezeen]

Congratulations to Piper Shepard, a MICA fibers professor who was just awarded a $50,000 United States Artists prize. The nomination was anonymous, and she still has no idea who entered her name. [The Baltimore Sun]

Artists respond to the stand-off in Standing Rock, where Native Americans are fighting to protect their lands from the horribly ill-conceived Dakota Access Pipeline. [Hyperallergic]

Capitalist irony: a recently discovered East German stained glass window completed in 1982 for the Stasi secret police will go on sale in Miami for upwards of $20 million. The piece is the work of Otfried Wilhelm, chief master of glass for public works in the German Democratic Republic. The motif features Lenin, doves, and a hammer and sickle. [The New York Times]

A Salem State University exhibition has been censored after students complained that it featured a digital painting of Klansmen by Garry Harley. [necn]

David Hockney has been tapped to design a new stained glass window for Westminster Abbey in honor of Queen Elizabeth II. [Blouin Artinfo]

Because none of us are tired of being lectured to or told what to do these past few weeks, read “28 Ways to Change the Art World”. [artnet News]

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Monday Links: Calgary Didn’t Like It, Shouldn’t Have Put a Ring on It

by Michael Anthony Farley on September 26, 2016

Inges Idee, “Travelling Light”

Residents of Calgary really hate “Travelling Light,” a public sculpture by art collective Inges Idee. It’s actually pretty confusing as to why anyone is vehemently offended by the piece—which simply comprises a street light atop a giant wheel—but apparently people think it’s a waste of taxpayer money in “economically distressed” times. [Calgary Herald]

Swansea Museum in Wales believed they had an 18th century copy of a Flemish master sitting in their storage room. Then historian Bendor Grosvenor “discovered” the piece and authenticated it as an original Jacob Jordaens, valued at almost $4 million. The painting is now going on display, which begs the question, is it solely the authorship of an artwork that makes it worthy of exhibition? What was wrong with the painting before it had a name attached? [artnet News]

NASA hasn’t had an artist in residence since Laurie Anderson’s position was terminated by Congress in the Culture Wars more than a decade ago. But now, the agency is using private grants to work with artists, including Justin Guariglia, who is photographing our disappearing ice sheets from NASA flights. [The New York Times]

David Hockney and Martin Gayford discuss their favorite art historical works. These guys really love a good painting. [The Guardian]

Unfortunately (but unsurprisingly) it looks like the Second Avenue Subway’s opening date might get pushed back yet again. [Curbed]

The Turner Prize has opened to the public. Look forward to lots of sensationalized “BUT IS IT ART?” headlines from the British tabloids in the coming days. [BBC News]

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The Art Market Is Not a Unicorn

by Paddy Johnson on February 12, 2016

Looks like people are getting more visibly worried about the market crashing. They are probably right.

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Tuesday Links: Squirrel Goes for a Swim

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on September 30, 2014

A squirrel at sea. Watch the whole thing. It’s cleansing. [Youtube, h/t Metafilter]
It reminds us of this depressed penguin from Werner Herzog’s “Encounters at the End of the World”. [Youtube]
Fergus McCaffrey has announced that he’s opening a second gallery location on the island of St. Barthélemy this November. The gallery notes that the island has held an artist colony since the sixties, hosting artists like Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and Francesco Clemente. In that tradition McCaffrey had already co-established an artist residency and gallery there from 2005-2008. The next logical step, we think, would be to fly some writers down for the tour. [Our inboxes]
Strange. The lede to this article makes artist David Hockney sounds like a grumpy old man complaining that art has become “less” through conceptual art, as it “gave up on images.” Watch the 4-minute video, though, and he sounds a lot cheerier and doesn’t talk so much about conceptual art. [BBC]
Laure Provost on art and life: “I know I’m never going to fully grasp life in my art. It’s never as good as having the sun on your face. Even if you film someone with the sun on their face it feels as if you’ve lost something. ” [Frieze, behind the paywall]
Prepare to die inside when reading “Blouin Lifestyle Picks” on ArtInfo. “Picks” include Burmese rubies, Colombian emeralds, and a diamond ring with “baguette-cut diamond shoulders” (whatever that means). Maybe their readership is made up of lords, ladies, and the richest Kardashians?[ArtInfo]
In Hong Kong, thousands of students are occupying the streets in a very orderly fashion. They are calling for democratic reforms by sitting outside, cleaning up after themselves, recycling, and doing their homework in public. Amazing. [The Independent]
And of course the city’s art fairs will go on in the face of protests, reports Kelly Crow. [Twitter]
Roberto Cuoghi joins the Lehmann Maupin stable. [artnet News]
Today in design crapola: Disney characters’ butts make phone chargers. [Gizmodo]

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Friday Links: Famous and Not-So-Famous Artists

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on October 25, 2013

Creative Time Summit begins today. Twitter hashtag #ctsummit and livestream feed here: [Creative Time]
Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim gets a lukewarm review from Roberta Smith. Yawn. Christopher Wool. [The New York Times]
Four shows to see in Philadelphia. The Barnes, Kaws @PAFA, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Mario Ybarra, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. [Hyperallergic]
All’s been quiet on the Jori Finkel front. Months after the Los Angeles Times laid off Finkel, the publication’s last reporter dedicated to the visual arts, it appears she’s started covering the California museum beat for The New York Times. This week, she discusses the de Young Museum’s new VIP rate for the upcoming Hockney exhibition. [The New York Times]
“Right now, Whiteread is the most famous artist in Britain.” [Frieze Magazine]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has renegotiated its building’s lease with the city of New York, with one potentially divisive amendment: the museum now has the ability to change their admission rates without the city’s approval. [In the Air]
Second year Central St. Martin’s art student Clayton Pettet is giving up his anal virginity on stage for an art exhibition. “The key thing about performance art is that it should only be performed once, and this is the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime performance,” he told reporters. Not sure who told him that performance is a one-time gig. [Gawker]

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AFC’s Guide to the Little Guys at the New York Film Fest

by Rhett Jones on September 28, 2013

New York art types with a penchant for film have a lot on their plate this weekend with the launch of the New York Film Festival. There’s Tom Hanks fighting pirates in the premier of Captain Phillips if you want the mainstream. There’s James Franco’s latest bizarre literary adaptation “Child of God,” if you want what Manohla Dargis refers to as “a scene of on-screen defecation that’s so aggressively up close and personal that it approaches 3-D.” Yes, pirates and poop are very exciting. But those movies will be released across the nation, so it’ll be easy to check them out. This is a listing of the smaller and better offerings that don’t come around everyday.

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Friday Links: The Friendly Mega-Gallery

by Paddy Johnson and Hannah Garner on August 30, 2013

The installation of Matthew Day Jackson's 'Burghers of Calais' at Swiss Gallery Hauser & Wirth

My favorite quote in The Wall Street Journal’s article on mega-sized galleries and mega-sized art projects is Hauser & Wirth’s Director Mark Payot on the gallery’s decision to give away free coffee on the weekends. “We don’t need to sell coffee.” The other bit of news: Matthew Day Jackson is gonna open a new nonprofit gallery called Bunker 259. Can. Not. Wait. [Hauser & Wirth]
Certified copy or authenticated original? A Caravaggio painting of two boys playing cards was sold by Sotheby’s in 2006 for 42,000. The auction house is now being sued by a collector who claims it’s a Caravaggio–and worth 10 million. [Insurance Journal]
Director Marc Glimcher says Pace is just as friendly and approachable as when it began. “It’s really the same family it always was—just a bit bigger.” [ArtInfo]
Detroit has been delivered its new hero. A Robocop statue whose birth can be traced to a suggestion tweeted to Mayor Bing in 2011 has finally arrived to its hometown and is projected to be unveiled by August of next year. “Yeah, it’s silly,” Walley admits. “But is there no place for 10 feet of silliness within 139 square miles of our expansive city?” [Mother Jones]
Alexander Augustus’ installation “A Dangerous Fire” at London’s Sommerset House used crowdsourced selfies to create a digitized portrait of the UK’s young unemployed. [Frieze]
David Hockney’s assistant went on drink and drugs binge then jumped off balcony before killing himself by drinking concentrated sulphuric acid at artist’s home. That’s just the headline. [Daily Mail]
American income equality is less now in absolute terms now than it was in 1774. Lindert and Williamson write, “Among all American households, slaves included, the richest 1 percent had only 7.1 percent of total income . . . . [In] the United States today . . . almost 20 percent of total income accrues to the top 1 percent.” [The Berkley Blog via: Shane Ferro]
New Zealand sort of bans software patents. [Techdirt, Techdirt]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: More Openings Than Creative Time Has Staff

by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch and Ian Marshall on June 24, 2013

With Independence Day on the horizon, it’s no surprise that every New York gallery and museum seems to be opening a new show, hosting a workshop, or putting on an art event. Next week, the art world retreats to the Hamptons. A focus on the collective seems to be the theme of choice this summer, be it collective practice at Klaus Von Nichtssagend, collective movement at the EFA, or simply an art collective at the Brooklyn Museum.

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NSFW: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Wish In One Hand

by Whitney Kimball on May 20, 2013

A will to change is in the air, but it’s against a backdrop of the same-old. At the New Museum, Karen Finley’s live sext paintings challenge an institutional denial of boundary-pushing work, while the Whitney has more shows of Hopper and Hockney. Klaus Biensenbach and The Jogging talk about rising waters (in their own ways), at Hyperallergic and Still House respectively. Plus, a group show of some of art’s most vocal activists addresses failure.

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