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Wednesday Links: News Is For Monkey Kings

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on May 8, 2013

From Alex Bag & Patterson Beckwith's "Unicorns & Rainbows"

  • “Long may the monkey king ride the seas of commerce on his dolphin, and long may Gagosian attend him.” Jonathan Jones on why Jeff Koons is a better artist than Damien Hirst. [The Guardian]
  • There is at least one performance artist in the world who is bankrolling it, and now she has bought a $2.65 million apartment in SoHo. Dayum, Marina. [Curbed NY]
  • Postmasters has moved across the street from Kansas in Tribeca. They’ve got a 4500 square foot space. [Postmasters]
  • The saga that never ends: Eugenia and Nicholas Taubman are suing the Knoedler Gallery, Michael Hammer, Ann Freedman, Glafira Rosales and Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz alleging they were sold a fake Clyfford Still for $4.3 million. This is one suit of many that have been lodged recently against Knoedler. [Justia Court Dockets and Filings. Via: Baer Faxt]
  • Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith have released a series of clips from their late-night mid-nineties public access show “Unicorns & Rainbows.” There’s not exactly one stand-out here, but if you like the grunge over cute baby animals, then this is your program. [Sex Magazine] Also, Petland’s sign hasn’t changed in 20 years.
  • Sotheby’s held its Impressionist and Modern Art sale last night and Paul Cezanne took home the top-selling lot with his 1889 still-life Les Pommes. Those are some $37 million dollar apples. Also to note: LL Cool J was there.  [Artnet Tumblr]
  • Stranger danger! If left unattended, your house painter just might steal your Picasso. [The Wall Street Journal]
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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Are Video Games Art?

by Will Brand on December 5, 2012
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This week at The L Magazine, I finally end the discussion of whether video games are art by declaring: “Yeah, sure, okay.” Have something to add? Too late. But more importantly: why’s it such a big deal?

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[Sponsor] The Avant/Garde Diaries: “Jonathan Jones & Cockatoo Island – Dialogue for the Future”

by Sponsors on July 9, 2012
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The Avant/Garde Diaries is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film.

The Avant/Garde Diaries’s most recent entry, ”Jonathan Jones & Cockatoo Island – Dialogue for the Future” follows the contemporary site specific installation artist, Jonathan Jones, as he explores his native Sydney Harbor’s largest landmass, Cockatoo Island.

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Wednesday Links! Everybody’s Losing It

by Will Brand on December 7, 2011

  • Jerry Saltz tees off on the New Museum’s Carsten Holler show and the last five years of museum-friendly relational aesthetics. Highlight: “It would be impossible to imagine anyone getting anything from these works, except briefly distracted.” [NYMag]
  • Jonathan Jones tees off on the Turner Prize judges for not picking George Shaw, and particularly for accusing Shaw of conservatism. For reference, Shaw paints naturalistic, depopulated scenes from around his hometown. Highlight: “Art is now judged by criteria that are fundamentally pretentious and empty. I suppose it has to be, or all the pretentious and empty art that sells in galleries would lose its value.” [The Guardian]
  • In case you missed it, here’s an interview with Shaw that ran in the same paper back in February. Highlight: “I look at [my] work and its innate conservatism shocks me. When I was growing up, I thought I was going to be a really contemporary artist doing video and installation work, capturing the zeitgeist and all that, but”¦ Then, I realised I was just lying to myself.”" [The Guardian]
  • James Panero tees off on the Brooklyn Museum for bringing that veritable antichrist David Wojnarowicz (or the other billion artists in the show) to town. It’s three weeks old, but in our defense nobody we know reads the Post. Highlight: ‘Why wait for Black Friday to begin the tedious “War on Christmas”?’ [NY Post]
  • Apparently, some opera houses and theaters are now offering “tweet seats”, special marked-off areas where audience members are allowed to use their phones for the purpose of livetweeting. Ewwwwww. [LA Times]
  • The latest advance in cat memes is the Procatinator. Fear it.
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Massive Links! Arrest for Spray Painting on Oil Painting | Law to Prevent Painting Over Spray Painting

by Whitney Kimball on July 21, 2011
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Don’t spraypaint over Poussin, unless you do it with your eyes and the government decides it’s valuable. Also, a photographer takes pictures of skinny beautiful people, MIT comes up with some crazy shit, and a leopard takes out the fear and anxiety of modern life on someone’s head.

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Massive Links! Matthew Collins’ Fuck-You to Art Writers | Jerry Saltz Tweet Watch | Will Trade Iguana For 360 Games

by Paddy Johnson on June 23, 2011
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This week on the Jerry Saltz watch, the critic complains about artists making work that looks like other artists. He also doesn’t like that Michael Fried doesn’t write about any women artists in his new book Four Honest Outlaws. To quote the critic, “WTF”. Also, Matthew Collins hates the art world, facebook ads are icky and um, who wants to trade some video games for an Iguana? We’ve got a Craigslist ad for you!

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