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Thursday Links: Everyone Loves Frieze, Hates Henry David Thoreau

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 15, 2015

Still from Toshio Matsumoto’s “For the Damaged Right Eye,” 1968, now on view at the Japan Society.

For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979 is on view at the Japan Society through January 10th. This looks like it will be a good show. [Blouin Artinfo]

Frieze week is being described as a test for the art market following a record-breaking spring but a tumultuous summer. The verdict? Sales seem to be off to a pretty good start. [Bloomberg]

In related news, Phillips’s auction sold out on the first day of London’s art-buying week, signifying that the art market is still strong and that the auction house might be a challenger to the supremacy of Christie’s and Sotheby’s. [Art Market Monitor]

But the best part of Frieze week is probably Misako & Rosen’s booth, where Ken Kagami is drawing personalized caricatures of fair attendees’ penises and breasts. [artnet News]

Flux Factory’s Fall Benefit Banquet has arrived. It’s a five course vegetarian meal and open bar for $85 on November 6th. Pick your tickets up. [Eventbrite]

Submissions close on Saturday for Platform Gallery’s second annual juried exhibition. I (Michael) am on the jury along with Alex Ebstein and Wickerham & Lomax. You should apply! Prizes! [Platform]

Wow. Here’s 5,000 words on how American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister,development critic, surveyor, and historian Henry David Thoreau was the biggest dick ever. [The New Yorker]

Galleria Continua, the Italian gallery that represents Anish Kapoor, is opening a location in Havana, Cuba with an exhibition by Kapoor. I wonder if other galleries are going to follow as the country’s relationship with the global community improves. [The Art Newspaper]

Today, the Detroit Institute of Arts is hosting an event to unveil a new government website that catalogs all of the art in the federal U.S. General Services Administration’s Fine Arts Collection. [ABC News]

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Monday Links: The Most Relevant Art Publication in the History of Ever

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on November 10, 2014

Joan Jonas, “After Mirage” at The Independent

Martha Schwendener calls the Independent, an art fair, exhibition hybrid a welcome mutation. [The New York Times]
Jerry Saltz gives the Independent fair a reserved thumbs up. A few picks from him (though as of today the fair is an exhibition only.) [Vulture]
Perhaps a more kid-friendly Snapchat, Boop is a new app which allows you to send self-destructing animated messages. They’re basically a slideshow of animated emojis. Sponsored Boops are also possible. Still, fun! [Tech Crunch]
Obama calls for net neutrality. He wants the Internet to be classified as a basic utility, which service providers can’t block and filter at will. “The Internet has been one of the greatest gifts our economy — and our society — has ever known,” he writes. [The White House, via Tech Crunch]
In Denmark, Jihadists are offered counseling and jobs. [The Toronto Star]
Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani of Qatar, one of the world’s top collectors, has died suddenly at the age of 48 of natural causes. [The Art Newspaper]
Judge Steven W. Rhodes approved Detroit’s bankruptcy plan, now known as “the grand bargain”, thus saving the Detroit Institute of Art from certain pillage. The bargain will provide money to save public workers’ pensions, and the museum will now be owned and protected by an independent charitable trust (as opposed to being owned by the city). [The New York Times]
Phong Bui sucks off Walter Robinson on the Brooklyn Rail. (We like Robinson too, but this interview is absurd.) In the 1970s, Robinson was the co-editor and publisher of Art-Rite, a newsprint magazine distributed by Soho galleries. We’d never heard of it, but it was possibly the most relevant art publication ever printed. Congratulations, Walter! [The Brooklyn Rail]

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Thursday Links: Bankruptcy and Philanthropy Edition

by The AFC Staff on October 3, 2013

Image via The New York Times

New York City has just given the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum $5 million towards its $79 million renovation. [ArtsBeat]
Former Executive Director of Rhizome and New Museum triennial co-curator Lauren Cornell interviews Laura Poitras, the filmmaker behind The Guardian interview in which Edward Snowden revealed himself to the public. Poitras, who was described as the “Keyser Soze of the [Snowden] story” by The New York Times earlier this year, expresses her commitment to fighting against the “Orwellian nightmare” of government surveillance. She also uses the interview to speak about storytelling and the artistic choice to put Snowden behind the camera. Poitiers is currently making a documentary about government surveillance in America which will serve as the finale in a trilogy of films about the post-9/11 world. [Mousse Magazine]
The Silk Road, a website operated via Bitcoin exchange and subject of various artworks, has been shut down by the FBI. Approximately $3.6 million in Bitcoin currency was seized in conjunction with the shutdown. [The Washington Post]
Today’s must-read: Randy Kennedy’s report on Detroit, and the looming possibility of the sale of DIA’s art collection. Kennedy gives readers a very clear sense of the damage that would be done to the institution should the City attempt to do this; basically, it would be destroyed. [The New York Times]
Chicago art dealer Alan Kass was convicted of fraud. Due to health issues, he was sentenced to six months in prison, followed by six months home confinement, in addition to paying $350,000 in restitution to the gallery’s former clients. [The Art Market Monitor]
Cities unfriendly to artists based on soaring housing prices: Washington, San Diego and Los Angeles. The chart also maps cities where housing costs have declined. Looks like Chicago is a winner here, behind the obvious city, Detroit. [The Washington Post]
Sometimes art and horses don’t mix. Teenage girl buys horse named Señor Pablo Picasso. Finding that a dopey name, she fields suggestions for new names on a message board. Once “Guernica” gets tabled, the infighting begins. [The Chronicle of the Horse]
319 Scholes opens up a co-working space with desk space, meeting rooms, and an in-person fabrication studio. [Deskmag]
You’ve got a month to enter the 2013 Conscientious portfolio competition. Aimed at emerging photographers, it’s free to submit, and all you have to do is send a link to your website and tell them what pictures to consider. Deadline is Halloween. [Conscientious]
On Wednesday, Sotheby’s largest shareholder Dan Loeb, fired off a letter to the auction house accusing CEO William Ruprecht of failing to offer up “enough modern masterpieces to woo potential bidders and compete with rival Christie’s International.” That same day, Sotheby’s announced the upcoming sale of two major modern works by Picasso and Giacometti, worth a combined $80 million. [The Wall Street Journal]

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Thursday Links: As Seen on TV

by Corinna Kirsch on July 25, 2013

On last week’s Monday Night Raw, the Irish wrestler Sheamus kicks the hiccups out of an unsuspecting nerd. Why do we care? There’s a Rothko painting in the background. From what we can tell, this Rothko tends to show up in WWE spots from time to time. [YouTube]
Oh, Detroit. You went bankrupt, and now, some people think you might be saved by selling off the Detroit Institute of Art’s reportedly $1 billion collection. We’ve got stories detailing how Christie’s staff has landed like vultures, ready to begin evaluating the Detroit Institute of Art’s reportedly $1 billion collection. Then, we’ve got critics wrestling over whether it’s okay to sell off the collection. We sure are stuck on this hypothetical; nobody has okay’ed this idea in the first place. [Bloomberg, Hyperallergic]
With all its oil riches, Qatar is buying itself power in the art market. [The New York Times]
Within hours of its release, Google Chromecast, a $35 dongle, sold out on Google’s Play store. It’s a dongle that allows you to stream any web content to a TV by using a mobile device as a remote. [Forbes]
Rhizome announced the winners of their 2013 Commissions. Money for art—yay! [Rhizome]
Kenneth Goldsmith talks about the value being a dumb artist at The Awl and The Colbert Report. [The Awl, Complex via The Colbert Report]

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