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A Brief Look at the North Korean Art Market With Jane Portal of the Boston MFA

by Corinna Kirsch on May 2, 2014

On collecting and purchasing North Korean art.

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Friday Links: Everyone’s Got to Bow to Somebody

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 25, 2014

Artforum’s profile on the Greek-born American sculptor Chryssa ends on a rather strange note. “One day in her studio, I noticed a gun. She pointed to it and said she was planning to shoot [Arnold] Glimcher. Sure she was being mistreated and ignored in New York, she shut her studio on lower Broadway for good and apparently returned to Athens.” Chryssa died earlier this year in Greece. (Above: Chryssa’s “Large Bird Shape.” Courtesy Albright-Knox Art Gallery.) [Artforum via Andrew Russeth]
“If elected president, Barack Obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from prioritizing Internet content.” That was in 2007. With news this week that the F.C.C. is considering “fast lanes” for commercial providers, let’s hope that he keeps to his promise. [CNET via Reddit]
Triple Canopy announces their 2014 Commission recipients: Kieran Daly, Primavera di Filippi & Samer Hassan, Sowon Kwon, Timothy Leonido, Frank Pasquale, Jared Stanley, and Gillian Walsh. Looking forward to seeing their projects. [Triple Canopy]
Next week, the Frieze Art Fair will come to New York yet again; talks will include a keynote by UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith and a roundtable between Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot and David Remnick of the New Yorker. We’re sure these talks will fill up quickly—their lecture hall is pretty tiny. [Frieze via Artsbeat]
Bill de Blasio has not yet addressed his promise to stop the Central Library Plan, and instead he’s kept $151 million in the budget for the renovation. Very fishy. [Bloomberg News]
Artspace provides their own rankings system for “10 of the Most Influential MFA Programs in the World.” Not sure if they talked to anyone at the School of the Art Institute (where Corinna went for grad school); their excerpt focuses on their MA program in Visual and Critical Studies, not an MFA program. Thankfully, Artspace lists off the ridiculous amount you’ll pay in tuition by enrolling in any of these programs: Bard costs $55,000 per year; Columbia costs 51,676; and UCLA sounds like a bargain at $23,465 for out-of-state residents. Sigh. [Artspace]
More on the ongoing battle between hedge funder and activist shareholder Daniel Loeb and the storied auction house Sotheby’s. Loeb has nominated three director candidates and now advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that shareholders vote for two of the three board nominees he has proposed, one of them being Loeb himself. [New York Times]
Hyperallergic has partnered with London’s Lost Lectures. Tonight, The Awl co-founder and blogger Choire Sicha will talk along with Photographer Barbara Nitke, street performers Flex (is King) + Deirdre Schoo and scientist Marc Abrahams. Should be an interesting night. [Hyperallergic]
At a White House event for kids, a 10-year-old girl hands Michelle Obama her dad’s resume, and says he’s been out of work for three years. [NPR]
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum just made a pile of money. They’ve confirmed rumors that they are getting the blockbuster Alexander McQueen show. [Artnet]
Kriston Capps continues his coverage on Washington, D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design. On April 7, the museum’s board, along with the boards of the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University were supposed to vote on how the Corcoran will be absorbed into these other two institutions. That deadline was skipped. [City Paper]

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Wednesday Links: Crowdcurating and Selfie Culture

by Whitney Kimball on January 29, 2014

“Artsy’s honeymoon may be nearing its conclusion,” writes Dan Duray in a comprehensive piece on the online art market. Art market gurus like Sergey Skaterschikov predict that 2014 will be a moment of truth for online art sellers, as mainstream businesses close in on the territory. [Gallerist NY]
You have one more day to vote on the MFA’s crowd-curated museum show of Impressionism. People really like Monet. [Boston MFA]
Andrew Russeth gives a taster for David Levine’s new digital-lipsynched-improvised opera at BRIC. If you can, absolutely go see this. [Gallerist NY]
The age of 3D printed novelty items may be coming to an end. A 3D printer which could build a whole house in 24 hours is currently being tested at the University of Southern California. [GOOD]
Jerry Saltz finally, inevitably, writes the full history of selfies. He doesn’t like the term. [Vulture]
It’s another sad day for New York’s folk art lovers. Art from the collection of Ralph Esmerian, most of which was promised to the Folk Art Museum, has been sold for almost $13 million at auction to cover his debts. [TAN]

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Thursday Links: Nothing’s Better Than a Wizard

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on April 4, 2013

Stuart Pilkington has assembled his favorite emerged and emerging photographers. The landing page features a guy in a wizard raincoat, so naturally, we approve. [Someone I know]
Huh? Online-editions site Artspace buys VIP Art, which launched the first online-only art fair in 2011. [Gallerist NY]
apexart’s Franchise, an annual open call for curatorial projects taking place outside New York, is now online. Winning submissions will receive project funding and administrative support. [apexart]
So weird. “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” at The Met, includes mannequins dressed in turn of the century garb. Walter Robinson says it gives the show a bit of a shop quality, but the paintings are great, so it still gets the thumbs up. [ArtSpace]
Following Bard’s successful low-residency MFA model, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has announced a summer-only studio program. [The School of the Art Institute]
This was published back in January, but we just discovered it, and we love it. Advice Is Futile. [The Awl]
President Obama wants you to know that he, too, feels the pinched by the economy, and will be taking a voluntary 5% pay cut. [New York Magazine]
The International Center for Photography (ICP) was awarded $125,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a photography conference. The first session is called “What is a photograph?” Whyyyy? [ICP]
The Elephant Room is back! Nothing is better than rocker magicians. Show dates: April 4, 6, 10, 11, 13, 18, and 20. [The Elephant Room]
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1927–2013 [the Paris Review]

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We're Going to Open Studios!

by Art Fag City on April 25, 2012

This week, AFC staff will be scouring the city for undiscovered masters thanks to the plethora of open studios. Who knows what we'll find, but here's a heads-up as to where we'll be and why.

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A Year-End Review: AFC’s Top Rated Posts

by Paddy Johnson on December 28, 2011

A look back at AFC’s most popular posts reveals good news and bad news. On the one hand, our second most popular page of the year proves that, yes, intelligent reviews do have a place on the web: readers can’t get enough of our Recommended Shows. On the other, this page was trumped only in numbers by Whitney Kimball’s post Streaming Hot Sex Video Games. Clearly, porn and video games remain an enduring interest on the web.

As we embark on our year end fundraising campaign, I urge you to page through these posts below and take a look at some of the discussion here. We spend a lot of time producing posts we think are valuable, and we want to do more of that. Your donations help make that happen.

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