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Thursday Links: Art Chicken News Has Legs

by Paddy Johnson on October 27, 2016

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More art chicken news. Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen is taking his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project to Detroit. Vanmechelen has spent the last 20 years breeding chickens with other chickens to create a super breed. Now that he’s in Detroit, which is plagued by poverty, he’s breeding his 20th-generation cosmopolitan chicken with an industrial hen so it can produce eggs at Avenue Urban Farm. [The New York Times]
Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday that designer Shigetaka Kurita’s original 176 emojis will be added to its collection. [Hyperallergic]
An interview with David Kordansky of David Kordansky Gallery. TL;DR version: Loves his job. Conceptual art was a hangover. Collectors are less willing to take risks. L.A. is special, though, because the people are more open. [artnet News]
Josh Baer sure thinks highly of the TEFAF fair. From his latest newsletter, “How about the ambience of TEFAF at the Park Avenue Armory – if the ADAA doesnt step up their game this winter before TEFAF’s cont/modern fair in the spring they may look a bit silly?” [Baer Faxt]
In honor of Halloween Michael Jackson in a dance rehearsal for Thriller is making the rounds on Facebook and YouTube. [YouTube]
James Franco has endorsed Hillary Clinton. Taylor Swift’s endorsement, however, remains illusive. [LAist]

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IMG MGMT: Freddie and St. Cosmas

by Jaimie Warren on July 14, 2016

These images are pulled from my personal database of thousands of saved jpgs, gifs and video clips from Internet memes, pop culture, and art history, collected over a ten-year period. Deceased saints and celebrities, horror movie victims and victims of plague, pop culture monsters and cartoon characters form a cast of silly and somber subjects who cameo in my large-scale community reenactments of art history.

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Wednesday Links: #PLANTS

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 22, 2016

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Yesterday, almost immediately after we published a piece in which Whitney Kimball states “I think it’s safe to say by now that plants are no longer a trend; they are a medium (except for potted palms)” the Mexico City art center/residency Casa Maauad posted the above image on Facebook. It’s titled “They are these or they may be others/ ‪#‎PLANTS‬ (2015) Meme digital” from Cristina Garrido, whose exhibition “Un acuerdo tácito” opens there later this month. The plant invasion is real. Even potted palms. [Facebook]

Continuing their “Making it in New York” series, WNYC asks “Are Artists Abandoning NYC?” The answer: yes. And also, no. Plenty of artists are decamping for cheaper places, but the city’s artist population just keeps growing as new waves of debt-saddled art school grads arrive to pay more and more, replacing the disenfranchised who leave. What a depressing cycle. [WNYC]

Yesterday, revelations leaked from an investigation into Michael Jackson’s child molestation charges included the discovery of animal sacrifice photos, weird porn, and drugs started trending across social media. And also art books. Apparently the police were concerned that MJ was using images from artists including Jake and Dino Chapman, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley, Elizabeth Peyton, Takashi Murakami, Larry Clark, Rineke Dijkstra, Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince, Gilbert & George, and others to “groom” young boys by exposing them to explicit material. [Hyperallergic]

Tomorrow, Terence Koh will be broadcasting the names of Orlando shooting victims into space, as part of a performance at Andrew Edlin Gallery. What if this is the first evidence of life on Earth an alien civilization receives? [Observer]

Okay, this blog post is from 3 years ago, but I’m reposting it because I just saw it and I wish it had been required reading in art school. It’s a pronunciation guide to artists’ names. For example: “Ugo Rondinone – OO-go Ron-di-NO-nay”. God, this is so useful I’m surprised there’s not an app for that. [Artspace]

The man who made Ashlee and Jessica Simpson has a new creative endeavor: photography. Meet Joe Simpson, the pop stars’ father who picked up his old hobby after his divorce and now has a terrible-looking show in a Los Angeles gallery. Dear LA: things like this are the reason it’s taken so long for the East Coast to take you seriously. [Format]

Washington art incubator CulturalDC sold its downtown office space, including the home of Flashpoint art gallery. That means there will no longer be a single gallery left in “Gallery Place”. Oops. [Washington City Paper]

I’ve mentioned before that I really love the new Tate Modern addition by Herzog & De Meuron. Now, you can watch a time-lapse video of its construction, which is insanely hypnotic. [Dezeen]

Le Consortium, a nonprofit art space I’d never heard of in Dijon, France is apparently the secret carreer-making venue for tons of famous artists. [The New York Times]

HaeAhn Kwon, the lone holdout student still enrolled in the trainwreck MFA program at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design, has withdrawn. That means the school successfully alienated and lost an entire year of students. [Los Angeles Times]

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Wednesday Links: Science and Computers Rule the Roost

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on February 17, 2016

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— Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) February 12, 2016

Good morning! Let’s talk about computers and science for a moment:

70 years ago, six Philly women became the world’s first digital computer programmers.[Philly Voice]

A hospital in Los Angeles has been operating without access to email or electronic health records for more than a week. Hackers have taken over its computer systems and are demanding 3.6 million in bitcoin for the return of their systems. [The Atlantic]

A profile on Manfred Mohr, the German artist who wrote computer algorithms to generate what he calls “programed expression”. He talks about his work with the Paris Institute of Meterology’s computer in the 60’s, and his generation of a hypercube, which can only be perceived by a computer and only partially represented in 2D space. [The Guardian]

Listen to the sound of two black holes colliding. [Motherboard]

Crap. 3D printing is really not good for your health. [Dezeen]

How cat hair felled a pair of art forgers. [Science Magazine]

And in other news:

Disillusioned Museum Admissions Employee Doesn’t Even Believe Own Annual Membership Pitch Anymore. [The Onion]

Michael Jackson’s pet chimp, Bubbles, is living out his twilight years in Florida. His early life was not ideal for a chimp. [Miami New Times]

Seriously? Jeb Bush forgot to renew the rights to his domain name. Donald Trump bought it, and now jebbush.com redirects to Donaldtrump.com. [Facebook]

Jo Broughton’s photographs of empty porn sets are making the rounds. This is a well-established genre. Let’s recall, Laura Carton’s porn locations minus the porn and Christodoulos Panayiotou gay orgy sets after the orgy. [Vantage]

The roof of Belgium’s historic Cinquantenaire Museum is in such poor condition that the staff has resorted to wrapping artworks in a type of cling wrap to protect them. [The Telegraph]

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Thursday Links: Quality, Not Quaaludes

by Michael Anthony Farley and Corinna Kirsch on July 30, 2015

There’s a new investment firm that allows clients to purchase shares in an art collection “at a fraction of the cost” of actually buying art. The minimum investment? $10,000. Here’s our free advice: if you want to “invest” $10,000 in art, spend it buying a dozen works from emerging artists. [Small Business News]
This incredibly sexist but still kind-of-adorably-local-news article out of Utah has a headline straight out of the Onion: “Pinterest says nude photos could be considered art; mom disagrees.” [KSL]
International Sailor Moon Day is coming to New York on August 15. [Facebook]
The best explanation of the ARTnews/Art in America merger comes from—no surprise—Julia Halperin at The Art Newspaper. She’s one of the few who’s recognized that Peter Brant may come out as the real winner. [The Art Newspaper]
Investigative journalism performs at its best when it looks at a commonplace situation, then digs really hard at the surface, finding out its problems. Here, that problem involves quaaludes, McDonald’s, and a lenient bathroom policy. [The New York Times]
Follow the #hillaryinnh (Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire) for plenty of feminist shrugging. Like this one, that praises her for being not just a mother, but also a daughter and a grandmother. Did I just say feminist shrugging? I meant feminist ugggh-ing. [Twitter]
Robert Wilson looks back on performance art’s early days as a fringe medium to its emergence as a major component of the contemporary art canon. [The Observer]
Many universities have art collections that date back from their early days. But what do they do with them? ” Are they like the contents of an upmarket car boot sale, an irrelevant, even embarrassing inheritance that many universities don’t quite know how to handle?” [Times Higher Education]
Michael Jackson’s sequined white glove goes up to auction. If you have 20k, jump on it! [The Guardian]
RoboCup 2015 just ended. Here’s some highlights of little robots playing soccer. [International Business Times]
Take it from Christian Viveros-Faune: art can be stupid. Not to mention, jis closing line in this review is near-perfect. [The Village Voice]

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Friday Links: Expansion Is in the Air

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on June 19, 2015

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Gavin Brown’s Enterprise is moving to Harlem. Wow! What changes will this art gallery’s move signal for the neighborhood? Perhaps not too many as Gavin Brown already lives in Harlem—now he’s moving his business closer to home. The location of the move will be 461 W. 126th Street, a building listed on Chashama’s website as being home to 42 artist workspaces. What will happen to those studios when GBE moves in? [The New York Times]
Here’s a reason to visit Northridge, California: a 10-story-tall Michael Jackson mural from the early 90s will soon go on view at the Museum of the San Fernando Valley. [Los Angeles Times]
Andrea K. Scott finds enchantment in a fashion-art show in the Lower East Side. Fashion-art hybrid Susan Cianciolo has a retrospective at Bridget Donahue in the form of 30 cardboard box “kits” installed on the floor. That’s pretty minimal for a fashion designer, but for those who want glamour there’s a wall lined with costumes Cianciolo recently designed for a German production of Hamlet. [The New Yorker]
Space law from 1966. [The British Library]
There are so many factual inaccuracies in this Bloomberg feature on how dealers, collectors, and artists use Instagram it’s hard to know where to begin. But surely the most hilariously blooper of the whole segment is the running slideshow of Instagrams taken by “Kadar Radar,” artist Kadar Brock, which includes images of art and his gaming miniatures from a D&D knockoff game called Pathfinder. [Bloomberg Business via Timothy Hutchings]
New York City’s expired rent regulations have been given a five-day extension, until Tuesday. [Crain’s New York Business]
Free dance in the summer! A list of recommendations and interviews with the artists behind those works. [The New York Times]
The Alamo has a new official kitty. Meow! [My San Antonio]
Sony stopped making replacement parts for Aibo pet robots, which leaves many Japanese owners anxious. This video documenting the connection between the owners and these pets is so worth eight minutes of your time. [The New York Times]
David Liss, the executive director and curator of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA), has finally found his institution a new home. It’s a doozy! They’ll occupy the first two-and-a-half floors of a renovated Tower Automotive Building in late 2016 or early 2017 at 158 Sterling Rd. [The Globe and Mail]

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Must Like Loud: Neal Medlyn’s Explosive Seven Part Opus

by Paddy Johnson on February 2, 2015

When a performer spends several nights grinding his dick in your face for art, you want to find something good to say about the performance. It takes a lot of guts to put your junk out there, let alone create a seven part opus. That’s especially true in the case Neal Medlyn’s uneven performance marathon “Pop Star Series: The 2015 Emerald Edition,” which ran over the course of three days at the American Realness festival. Throughout the course of his pop-star based series, I watched Medlyn’s dick fly out of beaded candy briefs, hump a staircase, and air grind through saggy white underwear.

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Lorraine O’Grady: Unnatural Attitudes

by Alana Chloe Esposito on May 8, 2012

Lorraine O'Grady is engaging audiences across the spectrum of Manhattan cultural institutions these days, sharing her insights as a conceptual artist and cultural critic. She’s at MoMA, at Performa, at the Whitney Biennial, at the Studio Museum, and at Alexander Gray. We spent some time looking—and listening—to find out what why she’s having such a moment.

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