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Tuesday Links: Anish Kapoor Gives “Exclusive” Pigment the Finger

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on December 27, 2016

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After Anish Kapoor secured the exclusive rights to light-absorbing pigment Vantablack, artist Stuart Semple created “The World’s Pinkest Pink,” which is available to everyone except Kapoor. Kapoor responded to this dig with the above Instagram photo, wherein his middle finger is dipped in Semple’s pigment. This seems like the kind of drama one wouldn’t expect Kapoor to have time for. [artnet News]

Beginning with David Bowie, J. Kelly Nestruck looks back at artists who died in 2016 and the ways in which they “performed” their deaths. [The Globe and Mail]

George Michael died this weekend. Here’s a look at why he mattered beyond the music. Think making gayness more interesting and less threatening, and erasing the barrier between who should and should not sing a soul song. [The New York Times]

Last week we previewed the new artworks in the Second Avenue Subway. It didn’t occur to me though, that Vik Muniz’s “Perfect Strangers” mosaic features what appears to be New York City’s first depiction of a gay couple in a permanent, non-political piece of public art. [AP]

Photographer Wing Shya’s aesthetic emerged about two decades ago, while working as an on-set photographer for filmmaker Wong Kar Wai during Hong Kong cinema’s golden age. Today, his gorgeous photos maintain a cinematic quality, even as the city’s culture and economy stagnate under mainland Chinese rule. [CNN]

Famed minimalist and art critic Donald Judd amassed a tomb of writing over his life, but never used a typewriter. This news comes in a profile by Randy Kennedy on a new collection of the artist’s writings and his children’s role in shepherding the project. [The New York Times]

Best new architecture in NYC. In a surprise to no one, Santiago Calatrava’s Oculus makes the list, but not without some heavy caveating. (Late opening, political tomfoolery, shopping mall effect, etc.) [Curbed]

The Denver Art Museum’s upcoming renovation proclaims to be fairly sensitive to the existing facilities. Nevertheless, there’s apparently some controversy over relocating Edgar Heap of Birds’ outdoor sculpture “Wheel”. This editorial doesn’t really explain what that controversy is, though. [Denver Post]

Great. The GOP is connecting Democratic senate candidates in New York to Mayor de Blasio and corruption wherever possible. And of course, it’s an easy attack to launch because the administration has been plagued by corruption. [Politico]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Gallery Armageddon

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 4, 2016

Those who thought they’d ease into the work week after the holiday break will be sorely disappointed. Nearly every gallery in the city has an opening. Between the Abrons Art Center’s American Realness Festival opening this week and a rash of Chelsea and Lower East Side shows, your calendar will be full. And not just with the usual crap. Painter Jane Corrigan will debut fresh new figurative paintings at Feuer/Mesler—it’s her first solo show in two years. Grids, systems and minimalism take over The Kitchen, Cheim & Read and Lesley Heller, all in unrelated shows. And for those following all the climate change stories, Dana Sherwood’s exhibition at Denny Gallery focuses on our destruction of the earth. Assuming we survive long enough to see the show, it should be illuminating.

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Wednesday Links: Badass Witches

by The AFC Staff on April 22, 2015

An example of chart brut showing a demonic face in the 9/11 towers

The best art critics working today don’t identify as such. They are Internet culture critics and work at places like The Awl, Gawker, Gizmodo, et cetera. In December of 2014, Sam Biddle discussed what he calls “Chart Brut,” the markup documents of conspiracy theorists. These markup docs are all over the web right now. [Gawker]
Have you ever heard of anything more badass than a pair of witchy, gender-bending, surrealist lesbian artists (who lived next to a graveyard!!!) donning disguises to fight the Nazis? Neither have we. Meet Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. And please, someone, make a movie about their lives. [The Daily Beast via Saint Lucy]
James Rojas on the value of including artists in urban planning: “For us, the building blocks of a city comprised more than simply structures, streets, and sidewalks but equally encompassed personal experience, collective memory and narratives. We felt these were the less-tangible, but no-less-integral, elements of a city that transform mere infrastructure into place.” [KCET]
Myopia is on the rise. [The Wall Street Journal]
Donald Judd furniture is ripe for knockoffs. Calvin Klein’s furniture designs have been inspired by Judd. A reflection on what the original and the reproduction means, and to whom. Warning: It’s bit dense. [Triple Canopy]
Democrats in Congress are proposing legislation that would grant artists resale royalties, a policy known as droit de suite. We’ve discussed this before. Twice. Let’s hope this round of legislation is a little more fruitful. New York representative Jerrold Nadler: “At a time when more than 70 other countries properly compensate visual artists for their work, it is time for the United States to do the same.” Coming as a shock to no one, auction houses were pissed about last year’s similar attempt. [The Art Newspaper]
More good news from Washington: the National Endowment for the Arts is seeking an accessibility specialist whose job it would be to “assist with advocacy and technical assistance efforts for making the arts available to individuals with disabilities, older adults, and people living in institutions.” We’re not sure what the job entails, but it’s definitely a worthy endeavor. And the benefits are great. [USA Jobs]
Art collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson have given the Art Institute of Chicago $400 million in art. The Art Institute’s donation comes with a crucial caveat: the museum will display the collection of 42 works for 50 years. That’s rare, for collectors to exert that type of influence. [Chicago Tribune]
Very excited about Net Art Hell, a new podcast launched by writer Gene McHugh. In each episode, he spends several minutes discussing a single work (like Faith Holland’s “Shaving Cream on RedTube”), and McHugh’s slow, monotone voice has the air of performance. [Net Art Hell]
Apparently Apple’s incursion into the Milan design fair to promote their new iWatch has been distasteful all around. Welcome to our new favorite term: iBotch. Also, why is the comments section of Dezeen the crankiest place on the internet outside of Fox News? [Dezeen]
More on Apple Land: we’re living for how much that actual Apple pavilion looks like one of the knockoff Apple Stores that have cropped up all over China in recent years. [The Guardian]

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A Look at Art Basel Miami Beach 2014

by Paddy Johnson on December 4, 2014

“When I look down these halls, it doesn’t make me think about anything”

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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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We Went to Dumbo

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on January 31, 2014

Between Mira Schor’s group exhibition “A ‘Womanhouse’ or a Roaming House?” at A.I.R. Gallery and two solo shows at Smack Mellon, we found some interesting works in Dumbo this week.

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Friday Links: Guys, Get a Grip

by Paddy Johnson Anthony Hicks and Whitney Kimball on January 31, 2014

Dave Hickey, by Dr. J Caldwell (Image courtesy of http://nasher.duke.edu)

Last Sunday, Stephanie Theodore tweeted a photo of a child resting on one of Donald Judd’s shelves at the Tate Modern, prompting a string of miffed tweets. The family has come forward to defend the child: “Their only crime was to be seduced by a ladder of jewel-coloured shelving. Sissi has always been anti-establishment but she would never hurt anybody.” The Tate attests that “[t]he situation was dealt with immediately.” [Evening Standard via ArtUpdate]
Paris art dealer Maurice Garnier has died. [TAN]
Aw shit. The music venue 285 Kent, one of Williamsburg’s last true hovels, closed last week. Maybe that was due to its rent, which is now listed on craigslist at $8K/month. [Free Williamsburg]
Carolina Miranda writes an account of Dave Hickey’s talk Wednesday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He claimed there are no critics…to a room full of critics. He also bemoaned art school as a place where most teachers are “big fucking failures” and complained that identity politics has done little more for the art world than tribalize it. [C-Monster]
Triple Canopy’s membership drive ends today. Do it. Also submit a proposal for their 2014 program. [Triple Canopy]
Art in General’s curator Courtenay Finn has been appointed curator of the Aspen Art Museum. [Artforum]
President Obama told folks on the floor of a General Electric plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that they can potentially make more with skilled manufacturing than you can with an art history degree. Now the CAA is upset, saying, “Humanities graduates play leading roles in corporations.” Guys, get a grip. We spend a lot of our days complaining about the slim prospects for arts majors. Obama’s not that far out of line. [CAA via: Hyperallergic]
“Just do the things that need doing”. [Gotham Girl]

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