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Gallery Girls Episode 1: I’m Just Going to Let Her Rot

by Ben Macaulay on August 13, 2012

Tonight’s episode of Gallery Girls, recapped in excruciating detail.

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Art Fag City at the L Magazine: Gallery Girls is Terrible, and That’s Amazing

by Will Brand on August 10, 2012

After watching the first episode of “Gallery Girls,” I can promise you that Bravo’s kept up its end on vile. You’ll love it.

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Thursday Links! Meaningless Gossip Edition

by The AFC Staff on August 9, 2012

Everyone’s gone Olympics mad, including British artists Gillian Wearing and Susan Philipsz. This week, Philipsz recorded herself tediously humming the national anthems from Grenada, Ethiopia, Russia, Bahrain, USA, Great Britain, Nigeria and Jamaica simultaneously, and Wearing took this crappy photograph of Usain Bolt after his 100m win, to which Guardian readers responded: “Don’t give up the day job, Gillian.” Yeah, we agree. [Guardian]
Is Bravo doing something icky again? The anonymous gallery girl behind the Gallery Talk NY Tumblr claims she’s not affiliated with the show, but we think her Gallery Girls-friendly blog is a marketing ploy. (Gallery Talk NY)
The MOCA crisis has taken to battling in the Facebook arena: board member Daniel Loeb commented on Paul Schimmel’s Facebook page, saying that “it might have been time for him to move on.” Schimmel responded with a vague status update. (via @TylerGreenDC)
Michigan might be the worst state for arts funding in the country—that’s why the Detroit Institute of Arts proposed a property tax to prevent the museum from falling into financial mud. ArtServe Michigan just came out with an infographic on how the arts fund job growth. Isn’t this just common sense? Well, I guess Michigan politicans aren’t easily convinced. (Hyperallergic)
e-flux just came out with a new website to promote the .art domain! You have until August 12th to tell ICANN why e-flux should be able to administer the future of art-related internet real-estate. (e-flux)
Seems like Pussy Riot has gained support from a few famous faces. Madonna performed in Moscow on Tuesday, and dedicated a few encouraging words to the Pussy Riot case, aided by flashcards. “I’m blessed to be from a country where I have the right to express my own opinion!”, she shouted to her applauding audience. Long live Madonna! German singer Peaches is currently writing a song called “Free Pussy Riot”. Can’t wait to hear it. We really hope it’s better than this one. [YouTube, The Independent]
Light Industry will pay tribute to the life and films of Chris Marker by mounting an all-day screening of his films on August 26th. The event will close with a midnight screening of his 2004 film, The Case of the Grinning Cat. As we know, he sure did like cats. (Light Industry)
If you’ve ever thought art speak sounds like Esperanto, then you’ll be in good company with Alix Rule and David Levine. For their “International Art English” (IAE) project at Triple Canopy the duo scoured e-flux press release archives to analyze that messy thing we call art talk. Oh, then they did something smart by feeding those press releases through Sketch Engine software to find patterns and trends. Over at ARTINFO, Kyle Chayka offers an insightful take on how IAE applies to my nomination for 2012’s most overused noun: “curator.” (ARTINFO, Triple Canopy)

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Weekend Links: The $ 440 Million Glitch

by Paddy Johnson on August 3, 2012

Jeff Koons was on Stephen Colbert Wednesday talking about his art. Koons says the art happens inside the viewer. Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian says there’s a touch of Ayn Rand to that sentiment, which I guess we’ll have to apply to artist Kevin Bewersdorf‘s work, too, now. Personally, I think Colbert missed an opportunity with this interview. Koons has spent years talking about how “methods of display reveal our ‘sense of self’ and how his choice of subject matter is often an attempt to assist us with ‘self acceptance’,” and that could have offered some real fodder. Instead he focused on how expensive Koons’ work is, a topic the artist is used to evading by now. [Hyperallergic]
This folk art show at The Seaport Museum looks great. We hope this means there’ll be more Folk Art/Seaport Museum collaborations in the future. [NYTimes]
I lost 2,000 words this week thanks to Wordpress, but it could be worse. Knight Capital says it lost $440 million thanks to a trading glitch. That’s 10 million a minute. [Dealbook]
Bad news for The Observer. Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director Elizabeth Spiers is leaving. So, too, is Observer Media Group president Christopher Barnes. [Man About Town]
Greg.org has a great post on Chris Marker’s transformation of some appropriated GNTV/Dubai State Media footage. [Greg.org]
Dramatic readings of Yelp reviews. [Gawker]
Corinna Kirsch put together list of a zillion (okay 12) art projects that involved food in some way. There are probably a few more that could be added, so let us know in the comment section. [The L Magazine]
Scott Macaulay’s recap of the Creative Capital retreat, in full. Love it. [FilmmakerMag]
Paul Bremer (yes that Paul Bremer) has retired to Vermont to paint watercolors. [Foreign Policy]
AFC’s Whitney Kimball is talking to actual New York interns in the weeks leading up to Bravo’s new reality show Gallery Girls. The show will highlight the careers of young women who will take internships in the art world. We’ve heard some rumors from people who’ve watched the first pilot that this show is actually embarrassing to watch. We’re worried. [The L Magazine]

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Nina Katchadourian’s Book-Spine Poetry

by Leighann Morris on August 1, 2012

Artist Nina Katchadourian has mastered the art of Book-Spine Poetry. A relatively simple exercise, it works like this: take a titled book, place another titled book underneath it, and continue to do so until you make a verse that can be read from top to bottom. The result is a series of art dork in-jokes, subtle social commentaries, and witty one-liners.

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Gallery Girls to Premiere August 13th

by Paddy Johnson on July 5, 2012

This summer just got a whole lot more fun more fun thanks to Bravo. The company announced last week that their new reality show “docu-drama”, Gallery Girls, will premiere August 13th, and it’s looks like it’s going to be hi-larious!

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