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Wednesday Links: AI Bob Ross, SNL Does Art Criticism

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 12, 2017

Will we ever get tired of how weird AI “deep dream” is? Alexander Reben has been feeding episodes of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross into the neural net. Predictably, his hair gets even stranger. [IFL Science]
Art Cologne is in talks to absorb abc fair, launching Art Berlin in its place. How many art fairs can Germany possibly sustain? [The Art Newspaper]
More “Fearless Girl” controversy. Sculptor Arturo Di Modica, who created the original “Charging Bull” claims the promotional stunt distorts the intent of his work, and will be holding a press conference about it today. [The Washington Post]
Kate McKinnon as Cecilia Giménez, the abuelita who famously repainted “Ecce Homo” in Borja, is the best art critic SNL has ever had: “The first great question any sculptor must ask about the subject: what would he look like if he had a stroke? But he had the stroke while saying ‘cheeeeeese!’?” She’s talking, of course, about Emanuel Santos’s much-mocked bust of hunky soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. This whole debacle reminds me of the I Love Lucy/Faces of Meth story from last year. Should we just give up on bronze busts of celebrities? Probably. [Mashable]
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art will be free for teenagers starting this June. Unfortunately, admission is going up to $15 for adults. Youth is wasted on the young. [Chicago Tribune]
Jeffrey Deitch is heading back to LA, this time to open a gallery in Hollywood. [artnet News]
Ian Macfarlane has won Dezeen’s competition for a post-Brexit passport design. His proposal features the dark blue of old British passports in a gradient, erasing the familiar burgundy EU passport cover. I still can’t believe this is really happening. [Dezeen]
There are too many highlights from the NYT Style Magazine profile of Sophie Calle… let’s just say the artist’s meet with the journalist begins(ish) by explaining that seemingly-fake-pregnant Calle is using the opportunity to enact giving birth to her dead cat. [The New York Times]

Highlights From the Armory

by Molly Rhinestones on March 4, 2017

The Armory Show opened this week, creating a theme park for art collectors and lovers from across the globe. Over 200 galleries and site specific installations are on view at Pier 92 and 94 on the Hudson River. This year features a welcome overhaul of the fair’s floor plan, spearheaded by the new director, Benjamin Genocchio. The delineation of a “Modern” section, usually on view at Pier 92, has been phased out, relocating 17 dealers from the “Galleries” section and the “Focus” artists upstairs. In past iterations of the fair it seemed highlights were positioned in high traffic areas near the entrance and by the time the fair fatigue hit you found yourself stuck at a dead end inside labyrinth of the dullest booths. The new design features wider aisles and better traffic management, making for a vastly more pleasant experience. This year’s a hit folks—at least in terms of visitor experience.

In particular, the Armory’s special “Focus” section, curated by Jarret Gregory, stood out. The section culled 10 artists from around the world together to examine a question taken from 19th Century Russian Socialist Writer Nikolai “Chernyshevsky, “What Is To Be Done?” (a breath of fresh air when at times the theme of the fair seems to be “How Many Yayoi Kusama and Marina Abramovic Works Can We Fit Into This Pier.”).

My highlights and commentary below.

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Tuesday Links: Imelda Marcos Collected More than Just Shoes, Chinese Artists Arrested

by Michael Anthony Farley on December 13, 2016

McDonald’s daring homage to contemporary art. pic.twitter.com/wjNrAz9rI8

— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) December 11, 2016

The Philippines has spent three decades trying to track down the illegally-purchased art collection of late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife Imelda. Now they’re taking to the web, using the hashtag #ShowMeTheMonet. [The New York Times]
The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 is designed to make it easier for rightful heirs to claim Nazi-looted artwork in the United States. [Smithsonian]
The New York Times has retired its weekly “Inside Art” column, to be replaced by a new series, “Show Us Your Wall,” which will profile different collectors in their homes. This is supposed to target a broad audience. The “Arts, Briefly” column will now run six days a week. [ARTnews]
Has anyone else seen Walter Robinson: A Retrospective at Jeffrey Deitch? David Ebony seems to like the show, claiming Robinson infused some heart into pop subject matter. The review makes me want to see the work for myself, which is always a good thing. [Art in America]
A group of artists in Chengdu, China have been arrested for a performance protesting out-of-control air pollution. Their criminal act? Walking around the city center en masse wearing filtration masks. [BBC News]
“Ghost Ship is our Fields Triangle factory fire.” Eva Wingren attributes the tragedy in Oakland to gentrification and housing injustice. She relates this to the recent eviction of the Bell Foundry artists in Baltimore, and a model of collective ownership that’s been a successful alternative. [Rooflines]

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Thursday Links: Fingering the Douchebag

by The AFC Staff on April 30, 2015

Submission to Red Bull, Art of Can

Two headlines presented without comment:

Jeffrey Deitch Will Bring Street-Art Show to Coney Island. [The New York Times]
Jeffrey Deitch Has Sunk So Low He’s Curating for Douchebag Property Developers on Coney Island. [artnet News]

Now for the rest of the news.

Let Red Bull be your inspiration. Now through June 15 they are accepting art that uses their can in some way. A panel of judges will select the best pieces for show at Dilworth Park in Center City Philadelphia. First prize winners in each category receive $2,500. [Red Bull]
“Vanity Capital is the social differentiation that one gets by owning enduring luxury objects.” Marion Maneker. [Art Market Monitor]
Own your studio and put it on wheels. [Hyperallergic]
This is a big deal: New York’s city council approved an amendment to the municipal charter to create a comprehensive, citywide cultural plan. The goals of said plan include addressing issues of affordability—in terms of housing and studio spaces for artists living in New York—and increasing the distribution and availability of cultural events and facilities in all parts of the city. [Hyperallergic]
Nik Kosmas of the now defunct artmaking duo AIDS 3D has given up art entirely. Now he’s weightlifting and has a business selling supplement powders. [Spike]
This week in museum PR stunts, the Brooklyn Museum will award Miss Piggy the Sackler Center First Awards. Other awardees have included Julie Taymor and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. [Associated Press]
Architecture gossip: Word has it that Danish firm BIG is in talks to redesign the final tower at the World Trade Center site. This could oust Norman Foster’s studio—and hopefully infuse a bit of life into the project. It’s hard to imagine a duller design than the current one, which touts a slanted roof as its big selling point. [dezeen via The Wall Street Journal]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Best Events of 2015 So Far

by Whitney Kimball on January 5, 2015

Already, a couple art events have potential for our 2015 “Best of”s. The American Realness Festival returns with some of the best performers in town; Jayson Musson debuts a new web series; Angela Washko keeps pushing for feminism in gaming; some of our favorite Internet artists are on a new press release.

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Thursday Links: Invisible Graves and Empty Culture

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on December 4, 2014

James Franco, Seth Rogen and Kim Jong Un in “The Interview”

Carol Vogel, the Times lead art reporter is leaving her position. She took a voluntary buyout. Vogel had been the source of some negative press recently—a report she wrote this summer borrowed liberally from a wikipedia entry—but most reporters who leave won’t have that background. Artnews can barely contain their glee about Vogel’s departure. (No link.) Meanwhile, The Times shrinking paper should be a cause of concern. [The Baer Faxt]
Last night, New Yorkers took to the streets again to protest the police officer who killed Eric Garner. The horrifying video couldn’t make the crime clearer. [Animal New York, @RhettJones, @kainazamaria, @dianabhaktul, New York Times, the whole Internet]
Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will go ahead with its civil rights investigation of Eric Garner’s death. [NPR]
Private jet pilots picket Art Basel, Hyperallergic reports. [Hyperallergic]
Minutes after Art Basel opened, a tweeter claimed that protesters shut down Art Basel. Wishful thinking. [@okamax]
Thanks to Jeffrey Deitch, Miley Cyrus performed last night at the Raleigh Hotel in South Beach. Cyrus wore a silver metallic Cleopatra wig and bright turquoise eye-shadow, sang duet of Super Freak with a topless woman, and a bunch of covers. [AP]
Deborah Solomon’s Rockwell biography makes the New York Times’s notable book list. It appears to be the only art book. [New York Times]
“The Interview”, a movie about James Franco and Seth Rogen partying with Kim Jong Un, looks like the most tone-deaf bullshit ever. People are starving. [LA Times]

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Friday Links: Unhappy Mothers in Western Art History

by Paddy Johnson on October 3, 2014

Don’t say a word! don’t say a fucking word
i wasn’t even saying anything
great
just keep on doing that then

Unhappy mothers in western art history. You’re welcome. [The Toast]
A visual history of typewriter art from 1893-today. [Brainpickings]
Roberta Smith says the Robert Gober show at MoMA is as American as Apple Pie, but with the sugar left out. Smith needs to avoid the food metaphors. But the review does the job of letting the reader know what’s good about the show—it clarifies his development, isn’t too repetitive (a danger with Gober), and even includes two galleries with artists he’s curated into his shows. Go see it. [The New York Times]
Can’t wait to see SculptureCenter’s (modest) expansion this Sunday. Randy Kennedy has the background on that. [The New York Times]
Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven is using the gay and bi-sexual app Grindr to conduct banal exchanges. He will meet users to play chess with them, make pancakes, trim nails. Eyeroll. [artnet]
Women who are abused are often sentenced to jail time themselves for failing to adequately protect themselves and their children, finds a Buzzfeed investigative news piece. [Buzzfeed]
Jeffrey Deitch gets a profile in the Times. His thoughts on what an art critic does confirm that he left the job for good reason (“It’s not about being critical”). He’s now a private dealer because he can save money on real estate overhead. [The New York Times]
Jen Graves writes an extensive feature on how artists living in urban areas can fight the forces of gentrification. One tip: By joining forces with people artists might not have considered natural allies before—community activists working on non-art issues like civil rights, police brutality, affordable housing. [The Stranger]
After years of debate within the community, Metafilter updated their website design. It’s the first update in over ten years. [Metafilter]

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Tuesday Links: Are Photo Bans Elitist?

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on September 23, 2014

Image of the “Digital Sugar Baby”, courtesy of Creative Time and Makeable

“[P]hoto bans reek of cultural snobbery and outdated thinking,” argues Business Insider’s Ben Winsor– citing an Lower East Side show (“Red Hot”, about hot redheads) that comes with Instagram tags and its own twitter account. Magda Sawon agrees; Tyler Green thinks yes, except at MoMA. If you want a look at this policy in action, go to the next Creative Time event. Every single person seemed to be looking at Kara Walker’s sugar sphynx through a cell phone. (They arranged them into 360 degree digital gallery of it). It’s democracy, but it also feels like a tourist trap when you’re there. As we linked last week, Arts Council England is discussing the idea of making a special “no photos” hour in museums, like a quiet car on a train. [Business Insider]
The New York Times Public Editor comes down hard on the Shonda Rhimes article written by TV critic Alessandra Stanley that’s been accused of racism. “Intended to be in praise of Ms. Rhimes, it delivered that message in a condescending way that was – at best – astonishingly tone-deaf and out of touch.” [The New York Times]
Click on the square that is the lighter color. It’s an easy game until it’s not—it’s certainly harder than 2048. [Color Lang via Metafilter]
Speaking of which, this Pantone color vision test is also strangely addicting. Try to arrange the boxes in a perfect spectrum. [X-Rite]
Incredible: Hyperallergic went to #FloodWallStreet, a protest that according to its press release aims to “Stop Capitalism. End the Climate Crisis”, and provided live coverage from morning til night. They even have an interview with Martha Rosler. [Hyperallergic]
What it looks like to not have a care in the world. [Guggenheim on Twitter]
And in front page news, America and five Arab allies strike ISIS targets in Syria. [The New York Times]
Blondie’s 40th anniversary will be celebrated in a week long exhibition curated by Jeffrey Deitch at the Chelsea Hotel’s Storefront Gallery and will include photographs taken by the band’s co-founder Chris Stein and band memorabilia. [T Magazine]
On spanking. [The Week]
ARGGHGHHhghghghrghghgh. There will be no global climate agreement at the UN Summit, now, or possibly, ever. Instead, humanity must hope for bilateral agreements between the US and China, or the US and Brazil. “[W]e might be able to put Humpty Dumpty back together with that kind of a plan B,” says Michael Jenkins of Forest Trends. Fuck. [NPR]
Finally, a review of State of the Art, the massive survey show of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges in Arkansas. It’s generally positive and remarks on how nice it is to see a show that isn’t full of bets on the market. Read the comment section for a bit of fun—it’s full of praise in one turn, and provincial complaints on the other. [Glasstire]
Celebrities continue to come up with dumb performance art ideas, and museums seem to have no choice but to cater to their every whim. [artnet News]
Actor John Malkovich and photographer Sandro Miller have teamed up to recreate famous photographs, each now starring Malkovich. The new photographs are mildly disturbing and say what exactly? [Peta Pixel]
Who wants to puke and shit in a bucket and watch all of your life’s most traumatic experiences unfold before your eyes for what feels like days on end? This is what Ayahuasca did to VICE’s Conor Creighton, who would do it all again. [VICE]

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Week Ten: Oprah Winfrey Is the New Curator at the Palais de Tokyo

by Corinna Kirsch on January 14, 2014

Because why not?

This week’s dream exhibitions brought to you by Joshua Weibley, Jessica MacCormack, Angela Washko, and Laura Swanson.

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