by Paddy Johnson on October 21, 2016
Understanding is a rotating neon sculpture on the Brooklyn Bridge Waterfront, which reads “Understanding” in red. It’s nice enough, but relies on the viewer for any interpretation. For a better understanding of “Understanding” here’s the Creed’s music video. Critic Terence Trouillot rightly complained at this week’s Review Panel that the video, which promotes Creeds new album, made the public sculpture seem like an ad. [Purple.FR]
NSFW abstraction! [Gitlab]
Bizarrely photographed architecture. [Dezeen]
Selldorf Architects have been contracted for the Frick’s expansion. Selldorf promises not to touch the Frick’s garden. [The New York Times]
Rhizome’s symposium, “Net Art Anthology” will launch October 27th and there’s already a lot of build up to it. The non-profit will be preserving 100 important net art works from yesteryear. The article mentions that Youtube deleted Petra Cortright’s “VVEBCAM” for what reason I can’t possibly fathom. What it doesn’t mention are the online bloggers who talked about this work when other critics could not. Tom Moody was the first to discuss this work critically, and that important work should be archived too. [The New York Times]
Why video games are art—a surprisingly thoughtful article given the publisher—and accompanied by some incredible looping videos. [CNN]
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by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 17, 2016
There’s plenty of heady discourse this week—future bodies, hypothetical architectures, theories of curation and criticism—and of course plenty of election-related hand-wringing.
Kick it off Monday night at Jersey City’s Word Bookstore, where the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research is inaugurating a lecture series about cyborgs. Or head to Manhattan’s Red Bull Studios for an event celebrating Grand Arts, the Kansas City project space that launched dozens of conceptual art projects and, now, a catalogue. Tuesday night, Paddy Johnson joins other art critics to talk shop at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Cultural Center, and Tyler Coburn talks genetic engineering and body mods as the future of humanity at e-flux. If you’re looking for something more hands-on (or a chance to move your feet), there’s a survey of handmade prints at Site:Brooklyn and an epic-looking disco fundraiser for El Museo del Bario Wednesday night. Thursday, White Box is opening a jam-packed group show (with some impressive names!) all about political angst. Friday we’ve got a talk from Maura Riley at Stony Brook Manhattan and Underdonk opening a class-conscious solo show by Patrice Renee Washington.
But the weekend brings us back to what we like the most: artwork that investigates the weird. Selena Gallery’s two person show from Dalia Amara and Florencia Escudero looks for uncanny surrogate female bodies in consumer goods on Saturday night. Sunday, Sascha Braunig’s work at MoMA will likely strike a similar chord. And MARC STRAUS opens a solo show by Chris Joneswho builds fantastical dioramas (pictured) from mundane images.
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