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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Winter is Coming

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 13, 2017

The week is of course dominated by two news items: The Whitney Biennial and The Wintery Downfall.

After the blizzard, Wednesday is a great opportunity to get yourself in the snowy mood, art-wise. Enjoy doses of culture from freezing, windswept regions, including Marsden Hartley’s Maine at The Met Breuer (if you’re missing the Whitney’s old digs) and Berlin-based Danish/Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset in conversation with Dan Cameron at The Flag Art Foundation. Later, catch the Icelandic thriller Hevn at Scandinavia House’s New Nordic Cinema screening series.

Other highlights include Fort Gansevoort’s female-perspective sports show March Madness Thursday night and TRANSFER’s four year birthday party, which will feature affordable editions from some of our favorite digital artists.

Oh yeah, and make time to check out the Biennial. I’m told it’s good, but “traumatic”. An appropriately bleak show to match our physical and political climate?

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This Week’s Must See Events: Crack Some Nuts

by Paddy Johnson on December 7, 2016

This week starts off slow, presumably to give those of us who were at the Miami fairs a bit of time to recover. Today we’ve listed Ballet at the Brooklyn Museum and Faith Ringgold at MoMA and that’s it. Thursday, look out. Chelsea will be a zoo. We’ve listed Michelle Grabner and Andrew Kuo as picks, but there’s plenty more to see. Friday head to Bushwick. Every gallery and their dog is hosting an opening, including Parlour and Interstate. We recommend picking up a few Christmas presents at some of these galleries. Emerging art is very affordable, and your parents will either love it or give it back to you. Either way, that’s a win-win scenario.

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Tuesday Links: Lust for Life Model

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on March 1, 2016

Today’s the press preview for the Met Breuer, but don’t worry about missing out — the Met’s tweeting from the preview. [Twitter]
OK, why didn’t we get the invite to Jeremy Deller’s life drawing class at the New York Academy of Arts last week? Iggy Pop was the model. Anyways, it’s for Deller’s upcoming show at the Brooklyn Museum, and it was invite-only. [The Guardian]
Gabrielle Moser weighs in on the “Showroom” group show at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and what it gets wrong about the Toronto arts scene: “there are condo ads on the subway that demonstrate greater diversity than this exhibition.” Of the 48 artists in this institutional survey, seven are POC artists. I would add that the curatorial focus was flimsy — how could it not be with so many artists? — and almost conflates the institution’s recent merging of its two galleries as one institution with the city’s recent urban “revitalization” history. Like Moser said, the show’s title could have been “Toronto Artists Want Things to Look Nice.” [Canadian Art]
How can digital art improve the IRL? Rianna Jade Parker asks five producers in the realm — including artist Tabita Rezaire and POWRPLNT founder Angelina Dreem — to weigh in. [FADER]
300 pounds of marijuana, worth one million, was discovered by NYPD in a crate labelled “art”. [artnet News]
Garry Neill Kennedy reflects on his time as president of the Nova Scotia College of and Design — subject of a recent major survey at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia — and the role NSCAD play in the rise of Conceptual Art. [Artforum]
“[I realized] I can’t tell your story, I can only tell mine. I can’t be you, I can only be me.” Insightful interview with painter Faith Ringgold, and her 70-year career in art and activism. It’s a shame her quilts haven’t been taken seriously by institutions though — despite owning her masterpiece, Tar Beach, since it was made in 1988, the Guggenheim has never shown the work in New York. [ARTnews]
HG Masters remembers Kikuo Saito, the Japanese artist known for his abstract color field paintings and wordless plays. He was a former assistant of Noland and Frankenthaler, worked with Jerome Robbins and Robert Wilson — who offers a tributary poem in the obituary — and taught at the Art League up until his death. [ArtAsiaPacific]
John Hofsess, director of the trippy late-’60s Canadian underground classic Palace of Pleasure, has died. Hofsess, however, eventually became a Right to Die advocate, and posthumously revealed the secret assisted suicide service he offered to eight Canadians, including poet Al Purdy. [Toronto Life]
Jan Vermeer’s paintings are now available for high res download. [Open Culture]
Crowdfunding Art Project of the Day: The Queer Japan Project, a documentary about the country’s LGBTQ2S artists and activists. [Kickstarter]

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Family Time: 8 Artists Who Use Their Parents In Their Work

by Whitney Kimball on November 29, 2013

A holiday listicle for the whole family.

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