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Friday Links: Leo DiCaprio Saves Art Market, No Icebergs On Horizon

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 4, 2016

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“If we accept that fairs are a necessary evil, then we should at least try to make them more interesting,” Matthew Higgs, creative adviser to the Independent art fair. [Vogue]
So, how is Armory Week weathering the art market “correction” we’ve been warned about? Apparently, by reassuring ourselves that it isn’t actually happening. Although there’s little talk of actual sales, everyone at the ADAA seems to think everything is just peachy. [Artsy]
Meanwhile at The Armory Show, we’re told that the appearance of celebrities at the opening is an indicator that the market is alive and thriving. I don’t know much about economics, but apparently name-dropping Leonardo DiCaprio is a sign of prosperity. [Observer]
Eli Broad thinks there’s a slowdown, at least in middle-tier sales. And here’s an article with some observations to back that opinion up. [Bloomberg]
“To me, it looks like a super hairy vagina that has pants on —hairy vagina pants!” Kathleen Hanna on her favorite piece of artwork, a feminist sculpture rescued from Ebay. [The New York Times]
Jose Mugrabi opens up about his legal troubles with Christie’s. Mugrabi owes $32 million on a $37-million Basquiat bought on behalf of a client. That client hasn’t ponied up the cash, leaving Mugrabi responsible for the winning bid’s price. [artnet News via Baer Faxt]
Should Charlottesville, Virginia remove a 1921 Charles Keck sculpture depicting Sacagawea cowering behind Lewis and Clark? Or is this a good “teachable moment” public artwork? [C-Ville]

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Friday Links: Kunstfag City

by Paddy Johnson Matthew Leifheit Hannah Garner and Whitney Kimball on September 27, 2013

The Oslo National Academy of the Arts’ visual arts department is named Kunstfag. Can we be their media department? [Khio.no via Anthony Antonellis]
Goodbye Hennessy Youngman, hello Bob Ross. Yesterday Jayson Musson launched a new series “Painting toward Happiness,” where he teaches us to find the profound beauty in the everyday, through painting a photograph. [YouTube]
The French painter Balthus gets a mixed review from Roberta Smith for his show at The Met. “It proceeds in fits and starts; many of the paintings are interesting in one way or another but not especially original or even very convincing as totalities. The show is, in some ways, a study in kinds and degrees of failure.” [The New York Times]
Tumblr is wooing the art industry with Readymade, a new theme with a white cube aesthetic that LACMA and MoMA PS1 are already using. [BlouinArtInfo]
The Robert Indiana show at the Whitney was a pleasant surprise for Ken Johnson, who praised the work’s prophetic social commentary and rich ambiguity. “Beyond Love,” whose title makes clear the Whitney’s intent to transform Indiana’s reputation as a one-hit-wonder, is a vindication of the artist’s complex body of work. [The New York Times]
Today Mass MoCA officially opens its “Anselm Kiefer Hall Art Foundation” building. The exhibition will be open seasonally for the next 15 years, and it is housed in a specially constructed galvanized steel warehouse on the museum’s grounds. [North Adams Transcript]
Andy Adams of FlakPhoto.com talks about photography’s relationship to the internet, as well as recent curatorial projects on Wisconsin NPR. [WNPR]
In case you missed it last week, Carolina Miranda previewed Eli Broad’s new LA museum The Broad, an elaborate $140 million structure which is still under construction. Renderings promise a circular glass elevator, swooping ceilings, and enormous honeycomb windows. [ARCHITECT]

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MOCA Claims It Will Triple Its Endowment

by Corinna Kirsch on March 27, 2013

But where will this money come from? And when? And from whom?

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Art Fairs: The View From The Top

by Whitney Kimball on December 10, 2012

What a turd. Reporting from Art Basel Miami Beach, New York Times writer Patricia Cohen gets the exclusively super-rich take on class war. Unsuprisingly, they don’t get what the big deal is.

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The Zell Family Foundation Gifts $10 Million to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

by Corinna Kirsch on November 1, 2012

Publishing and real estate baron Sam Zell just boosted his rank in the Billionaire Boys Club. Yesterday, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced that Zell plans to donate $10 million to the museum.

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MOCA Will Create an Endowed Chief Curator Position

by Corinna Kirsch on August 8, 2012

In a letter to trustees, MOCA’s executive committee announced it would steer its curatorial department in a new direction by hiring a chief curator to replace Paul Schimmel. According to the letter first published on Bloomberg, MOCA will form a search committee once “the necessary financial commitments [are] in place for a special curatorial fund to endow the position.” The change follows public outcry against MOCA’s prior decision to leave the chief curator position unfilled, thereby consolidating curatorial duties to Jeffrey Deitch, the museum’s director.

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Former MOCA Chief Executive Charles Young Tells Eli Broad to Fire Jeffrey Deitch

by Corinna Kirsch on July 27, 2012

Is this the beginning of the end for the Deitchstag?

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More Fire at MoCA: An Art Museum Without Artists [UPDATE]

by Whitney Kimball on July 16, 2012

MoCA’s controversial forced resignation of Paul Schimmel can officially be upgraded to SOS. In a series of open letters and public resignations, MoCA board members have spent the past week letting the museum know what they think of its decision.

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An Essay About Nothing by Eli Broad

by Paddy Johnson on July 11, 2012

That Sunday L.A. Times op-ed by MoCA Trustee Eli Broad does not sit well with me. The whole piece is supposed to explain Chief Curator Schimmel’s departure, but how it does so is up to the reader to piece together. Broad lays out exactly ten paragraphs of history, none of which have anything to do with Schimmel. Mostly, the piece serves to tell us that Broad wasn’t around when the financial crisis started in the 90’s, though he has been around to oversee its rebound. Broad points to the great progress MoCA’s made; It has built its endowment back up and increased its attendance numbers. He fails to mention that this year MoCA put nothing towards its endowment, and offers no context for the shows he tells us lost money.

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Eli Broad

MOCA Claims It Will Triple Its Endowment

Art Fairs: The View From The Top

MOCA Will Create an Endowed Chief Curator Position

Former MOCA Chief Executive Charles Young Tells Eli Broad to Fire Jeffrey Deitch

More Fire at MoCA: An Art Museum Without Artists [UPDATE]

An Essay About Nothing by Eli Broad

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