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Wednesday Links: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Never

by Corinna Kirsch on April 1, 2015

Put on your common-sense hat today because it’s April Fools Day. Play it safe, read the date. [Internet]
Google has gifted us with a Pac-Man game. Just head on over to Google Maps. [Google]
An oldie but goodie: Slate’s archive of media hoaxes. [Slate]
April 1 isn’t just for jokesters; it marks the beginning of National Poetry Month. To celebrate, @nypl, the New York Public Library Twitter account, is throwing a ~~party~~ Twitter Poetry Contest. [The Paris Review]
Believe it: Today Sotheby’s launches its first online auction with eBay. You’ll need to head over to the eBay/Sotheby’s landing page, which is separate from ebay.com. [Yahoo! Finance]
Page 218 in the April issue of Artforum will go down in history as the moment when female digital artists were accepted by the art-world mainstream. (We hope.)Writer Johanna Fateman surveys the digital scene, from Amalia Ulman to Ann Hirsch, and thankfully, finds that they’re not all the same. In all honesty, you should read this to understand why there’s so much work happening exclusively online—and there’s some telling interview snippets with some very smart artists. [Artforum]
Andrew Getty, one of the heirs to the J. Paul Getty fortune and part of the Getty trust, passed away at the age of 47. [Los Angeles Times]
When real and imaginary cultural figures collide, we get Andy Warhol/Where’s Waldo wallpaper. “Several of the people in the image reminded Flavor Paper creative director Jon Sherman of Warhol himself and, in similar style to Andy’s plays on pop culture, he decided to add an image of Andy shot on set of Chelsea Girls where he was wearing a striped shirt similar to Waldo of Where’s Waldo fame.” For $300. [Art Markit]
You really shouldn’t try to get pregnant in space. No, really. Don’t do it.[Motherboard]
Back here on earth, Arizona lawmakers passed a bill stating that doctors will need to tell their patients that chemically induced abortions might be reversible. Most doctors disagree. [The New York Times]

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Monday Links: Gold Poo

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on June 2, 2014

Discovery Times Square’s newest tourist-bait exhibit: Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. [amNewYork]
“Corporate spiritualism” artist Kevin Bewersdorf who once erased all his artwork from the Internet, returns with a new website full of very zen GIFs. [Rhizome]
“Do you think he had any idea how much and how many people loved him?” Artist B. Wurtz remembers Feature Inc.’s Hudson, “an almost impossibly pure form of art dealer.” [Artforum]
New Orleans shutters the last of its public schools, switching over to an independently operated charter school system. [Washington Post]
Um, so there’s a street artist that’s spraypainting dog poop. He goes by the moniker “Gold Poo,” referring to the gold spray paint he uses. [The Brooklyn Paper]
Here’s a solution to inequality: let’s run around the city on a treasure hunt for hidden money! A San Francisco real estate developer felt sorry for profiting off out-of-control rents and has been tweeting clues to envelopes with $100 in them. A copycat has come to New York @HiddenCash_NYC; maps and clues will be posted once a week and we will be following. [SF Gate]
Does The NYPL’s storage plan make sense to anybody? The Library President Anthony Marx says that books will remain in storage because “bringing the stacks up to code” would be much too costly, at $46 million. And yet, the original plan was estimated to run at around $500 million with potential to rise much higher. Nobody suing the Library understood why the stacks needed to be updated in the first place, as they were built with Carnegie Steel and are a cornerstone of the building. Did the Library throw books away? [New York Times]
Adult Magazine’s roundtable discussion on vulgarity features artist Marilyn Minter. [Adult Magazine]
Drew Daniel, an electronic multi-instrumentalist, Matmos member, and avowed metalhead talks about queerness and The Soft Pink Truth in Pitchfork. It’s a very smart interview. [Pitchfork via @heartasarena]
Cute baby puffins are dying! [Mother Jones]
Andrea K. Scott reviews the latest High Line exhibition, Archeo, which, in typical High Line fashion, includes sculpture you’ll have to search for amid the well-manicured green. She mentions that some works resemble plop art—they are “guilty of plopping.” [The New Yorker]
If you’re an artist walking around Paris with a rooster tied to your penis, you will be charged with a crime. [Radio France Internationale]

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Library Lawsuit Tomorrow; Here Are the Affidavits

by Whitney Kimball on December 16, 2013

Tomorrow, scholars make a case against the Central Library Plan.

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Monday Links: Making Human Circles

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on December 16, 2013

The European Crystal Chandelier Store (Image courtesy of Bowery Boogie)

Woot! W.A.G.E. (Working Artists for the Greater Economy) is throwing a symposium to brainstorm and write policy for getting artists paid by non-profits. [W.A.G.E.]
Departing Mayor Michael Bloomberg will take his administration’s policies on the road with a new global consulting corporation; he’s recruited more than a dozen aides from the current administration, including Kate Levin, the Department of Cultural Affairs commissioner to advise other cities on how to be like New York [The New York Times]
Squirrels: Why are they here in our parks, staring at us, seeing right into our hardened city hearts? Escaped pets. [Gizmodo]
The Boston Globe comes out with its five-month-long report on the Boston Marathon bombings. What results is an engrossing peek into the lives of the Tsarnev brothers, though I say that with reservation; the piece frames the family’s problems as some epic tragedy, with the pressure-cooker bomb being like Chekov’s loaded gun that finally, inevitably goes off. Then there’s a problematic series of sentimental watercolor portraits based on photographs from the suspects’ lives. [Boston Globe]
Asher Penn: Curator, artist, Sex-publisher, and now entrepreneur! Available Works is the latest website for selling art over the Interwebs; artists, galleries, and “sellers of all kinds” can sell art online, and there’s a social media function to it, too. Sounds like some mix of Saatchi, ArtStack, and even eBay. [Available Works]
Real estate prices have not peaked, though the climb has officially reached the Lighting District. The Crystal Chandelier store has closed, and the landlord is now charging $18,000/month for the storefront space. What’s next? The Bowery Boogie thinks nightlife. [Bowery Boogie]
It looks like Holland Cotter got around this year. His year-end roundup spans Shanghai, Venice, Philadelphia, and New York. Detroit gets a mention, with some actual advice: “If it proves that the worst seems about to happen, the art world should get itself out to Detroit en masse and put its communal spirit to good use: Form a human circle around the building and, in one voice, just say no.” We’ll take that suggestion literally. [New York Times]
Here’s another human circle opportunity, and it’s happening in just a few hours! A group of scholars include Pulitzer Prize winner Edmund Morris, and music critic and arts editor Annalyn Swan, filed a second lawsuit against the New York Public Library to prevent it from ripping out the stacks and replacing them with Internet access. Edmund Morris’s affidavit makes an especially good case for why this is a threat to our intellectual future (he’s a historical writer, and has researched a large portion of his books there). “[I]f the current administration goes ahead with its announced intent to replace the solid stacks with the vacuousness of public space, we will sadly a depository with a greater sense of historical responsibility.” Go to cheer him on today at noon at the 42nd street library, or tomorrow at 11 AM at 60 Centre Street, Room 341. [Save NYPL, via @savenypl]

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Wednesday Links: A Good Day For Mavericks

by The AFC Staff on July 17, 2013

From Japan's Art Aquarium, image courtesy http://designyoutrust.com

Japan’s annual “art aquarium” is back with 5,000 fish in 70 aquariums. We gotta say, the art aquarium world is producing some pretty impressive work. [CNN]
“It’s like a huge electric nose.” Artist Amy Radcliffe has invented a camera for scents. [Huffington Post]
People are selling things like lizards and removed babydoll faces on Instagram– it’s like Etsy with a dash of Craigslist. [Wired]
Looks like the art world conversation about climate change won’t end with Expo. The Rauschenberg Foundation is teaming up with Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation for “Marfa Dialogues,” a series of exhibitions and events this fall. [The New York Times]
Very happy about this news: Health plan costs for New Yorkers is set to drop by 50 percent (and much more if you qualify for federal subsidy) [The New York Times]
More concerns raised about the plan to gut the historic Fifth Avenue library, met with the usual brush-off. We’ll hear more about it from the lawsuit. [The New York Times]
Famed figurative Maritime painter Alex Colville has died at the age of 92. Colville had a tremendous influence on many schools in the region, including Mount Allison University, where AFC’s Paddy Johnson went to school. [National Post]
The Smithsonian does not sound like a fun enterprise to work for. After unrelated worker protests at two museums last week, the Hirschhorn’s hemorrhaging board members. Constance Caplan becomes the seventh to leave over the past year, blaming a contentious work environment. [Washington Post]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Very Professional Art Blogging

by Whitney Kimball on May 28, 2013

Once again, the art world hums with very important people keeping up-to-date with highly relevant art. Our editors Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch are packing their bags to bring you international, onsite Venice Biennale coverage. I prepare for my up-to-the-minute reportage of Bushwick Open Studios. We’ll be answering your most burning questions, like what art does God like? Where’s the best sandwich? What’s that duck doing under that bus? Busy, busy, busy!

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Wednesday Links: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Never

Monday Links: Gold Poo

Tomorrow There’s a Big Rally to Save the Libraries (Rain or Shine)

Library Lawsuit Tomorrow; Here Are the Affidavits

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Wednesday Links: A Good Day For Mavericks

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