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Wednesday Links: #MittRomneyHatesArt

by Leighann Morris on September 26, 2012

  • If you were anywhere near Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, you would have seen graffiti artist Saber flying five planes in formation across sunny Sunday skies with messages reprimanding presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his plans to kill funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and other much needed arts organisations (which is really funny, considering the Romney plane window comments that flooded the internet today). Anti-Romney messages included “#MittRomneyHatesArt” and “#DefendTheArts”. We’re not quite sure hashtags work on clouds, but you can watch a video of the spectacle here. [HuffPo]
  • Oh no, someone is putting on an exhibition inspired by “Lost”.  ”Lost (in LA)”, curated by the former director of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, Marc-Olivier Wahler, is due to take place at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park (1 December-27 January 2013), with works by Tatiana Trouvé, Oscar Tuazon, and Thomas Hirschhorn, among others. [The Art Newspaper]
  • NADA’s released its exhibitor list for Miami Beach 2012, and ArtINFO has the breakdown. Over half are new additions. [ArtINFO]
  • The Warhol Foundation announced this month that it had settled a deal with Christie’s to liquidate all of its remaining art holdings, aiming to raise money for more grants. Christine J. Vincent assesses Warhol’s philanthropic legacy. [The Art Newspaper]
  • This week marks the beginning of the Gwangju Biennale. Overseen by six female curators from the Middle East and Asia, the Biennale explores themes of civic protest with artworks that deal with resistance campaigns from South Korea all the way to the global Occupy movement. [The Guardian]
  • Can the art world go a day without talking about Andy Warhol? I thought I’d left it all behind after reading all the reviews of Regarding Warhol at the Met, but now news is in that the British Royal Collection has bought Warhol’s screenprint portraits of the Queen. They will be in an exhibition this year. Warhol did say that one day he wanted to be as famous as the Queen of England? [Artdaily]
  • Was Expo Chicago a success? Hard to know from Julia Halperin’s mixed report, but sales don’t appear to be overwhelmingly strong. Dealer spin for this fair? “Chicagoans are a little more cautious.” [ArtInfo]
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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Romney’s War on Art

by Will Brand on August 22, 2012
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This week at The L Magazine, I take a closer look at the reasoning behind Romney’s proposed elimination of the NEA.

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Monday Links: Sotheby’s Chairman Apparently Not A Grouse

by Will Brand on August 20, 2012

  • Henry Wyndham, the European Chairman of Sotheby’s, was shot in the face last Monday in a grouse-hunting accident. As has been established, that’s a funny thing to happen to a person. Fortunately, he’s been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. [Daily Mail]
  • Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw, who you may remember from the AFCRPAAaA*, won Creative Time’s sandcastle-building competition last Friday. In keeping with their longstanding interest in needlessly elevating people, they created a multi-tiered human fountain and spit on each other. Ryan McNamara, meanwhile, buried people in polygons. [NY Times]
  • Read Hyperallergic’s Jillian Steinhauer on Mitt Romney’s plans to cut art funding. Her words: “Romney is simply following in a long line of Republicans who have used claims of cutting arts funding as a diversionary tactic, a way to appeal to conservative voters without having to talk about what a smaller government would actually look like.” [Hyperallergic]
  • AFC likes Randy Kennedy’s survey of art bookshops and art-book shops. [NY Times]
  • Tony Scott, the director and producer who created “Top Gun”, “The Good Wife”, and “Enemy of the State”, jumped off a bridge Sunday. Many people wish he hadn’t. [L.A. Times]
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Friday Links

by Reid Singer on October 14, 2011

  • Didn’t recognize an overbearingly handsome Republican presidential candidate in the above photo? Look again. [Young Manhattanite]
  • Still under close watch by the Chinese government since his release in June, Ai Weiwei has nevertheless managed to co-produce a photo shoot for W Magazine at Rikers Island, Skyping notes as he watched from his laptop. [NYT]
  • An eminently recognizable portrait of Charlie Lumley, neighbor and friend of Lucian Freud, sold for £3 million at Sotheby’s yesterday, several clicks shy of the £4 million pre-auction estimate. [The Independent]
  • Did Van Gogh really kill himself? Biographers Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have their doubts. More on the story from Morley Safer on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. [Culture Monster]
  • “The G-strings have to stay on until daylight goes out,” said the lawyer of Andy Golub, who was granted permission by a Manhattan criminal court to body paint nude models in Times Square — but only after dusk. [Reuters]
  • A painting by Jules Breton stolen during World War I from a museum Douai, France, has been returned to French authorities. Entitled “Une Fille de Pecheur” (A Fisherman’s Daughter), the painting had been missing since 1918. It was accompanied by a pair of keys and several unmatched socks. “Thanks. We’d been looking for those,” a spokesman from French customs said Thursday. [Art Daily]
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