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Wednesday Links: Eggplant Emoji Forever

Will any of the above new emojis replace the eggplant as the definitive dick symbol? According to a mobile keyboard expert, probably not. [Motherboard]
Carey Dunne delves into the Smithsonian Archive’s collection of artists’ hand-written letters, and the insights it reveals into their lives and work. Ray Johnson’s letter to gallerist Eva Lee is child-like and to the point: “EVA — HELLO / RAY”, and ends with his signature bunny head. Meanwhile architect Eero Saarinen, who designed JFK Airport, had dyslexia, and while precise, his writing was sometimes reversed. [Hyperallergic]
Norway’s not in hot diplomatic waters when it was discovered that a drive from its Royal Embassy to Israel was arrested last week for attempting to smuggle a stash of ancient artifacts. The car was travelling from Jordan and was stopped along a checkpoint to Jerusalem. Worst is that due to protocol, diplomatic vehicles are typically not searched, making this a huge security breach. [The Art Newspaper]
Francesco Bonami on the changing role of the curator in the past ten years: “we became self-delusional main characters and at the same time totally irrelevant in relation to the market and the artists’ career.” [artnet News]
Buffalo’s Albright-Knox has announced it’ll go with Rem Koolhaas’s firm, OMA, to oversee its $80 million expansion. [New York Times]
One of Zaha Hadid’s final buildings will be built at 220 11th Avenue. [Curbed]
Book Marks, dubbed the “Rotten Tomatoes for books”, launched this week, and it seems like none of the books have a letter grade rating below B-. So why does Book Marks have such a hard time separating the good from the mediocre? According to Alex Shephard, this simply reflects the current state of literary criticism, and its problem with grade inflation. [New Republic]
In primary news, as expected, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to claim a major party’s presidential nomination last night. [The New York Times]
A bipartisan Senate bill could help make it easier for Holocaust victims to reclaim art looted from them. The bill would allow claims made within six years of when the families discover the art and has been tabled by two senators we never thought would agree on anything—Ted Cruz, the gun-slinging Republican from Texas and Charles Schumer, the popular New York state Senator. [The New York Times]

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Thursday Links: Recessionary Skyscrapers You’ll Never See

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on November 19, 2015

111 First Street, an OMA lower Manhattan building that will never be built. Image credit: Arch Daily

One of the worst casualties of the recession? Architecture. Here’s a look at 15 Rem Koolhaas/OMA designs that were never completed. Many of them are located in the NYC area, and certainly would’ve injected some of the classy eccentricism the city’s architecture was once known for back into the streetscape and skyline. [ArchDaily]
After losing thousands of works in Hurricane Sandy, Printed Matter has relocated to a bigger, flood-resistant space with the help of volunteers and donations from artists. [The New York Times]
This is totally click-baity, but this Toronto subway map from the future — 2021, to be precise, when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT finally opens — is pretty exciting. The new transit line will finally replace the bus service for a huge swath of the city’s uptown with rail transit, and hopefully bring Toronto’s public transport into the 21st century. [NOW Magazine]
More coverage of Tuesday’s protests at the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit. [Gothamist, Artsy]
Best reaction ever to Minneapolis rebranding its west downtown as “WeDo” (yup, “Wee-Doo”): “Honestly I love this city but naming your arts district “WeDo” is begging for poop and/or pot jokes.” [@AnaMarieCox]
Curators, according to Michael Govan, are cheap dates. At a contemporary art collecting panel this week at the Frick, the LACMA director advised collectors that they were more likely to get free advice from curators than art advisors. Take a curator for a lunch, collectors, and even buy them a piece for their museum’s collection, and “they’ll tell you their life story—they’ll tell you everything.” [Art Newspaper]
Why do conversations about censorship and “appropriateness” always center on other people’s children? An Illinois woman who sounds insane (she once tried to feed her husband to birds) has started a petition to remove a mural depicting a naked woman tied to a tree and a penis in a hot dog bun. Of course, her argument is “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!” But really, what kid wouldn’t think a cartoon dick-in-a-bun was hilarious? [WISH-TV]
Saskatoon’s Remai Modern recently hosted “Supercommunity Live”, a two-day conference extending E-flux Journal’s Venice Biennale publishing project. But according to this recap by critic Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, it was just a bunch of people reading their papers, and seemed to only appeal to its visiting international crowd. [Canadian Art]
Alec Baldwin “accidentally” spent $95,000 on a Pat Steir painting at a charity auction. [ART news]
The Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) just announced the winners of its annual OAAG awards, recognizing leading exhibitions by the province’s public art galleries. Winners include the Art Gallery of Ontario for its Suzy Lake retrospective, and the Art Gallery of York University’s historical archive-driven Is Toronto Burning? exhibition curated by Philip Monk. [OOAG]
Matthew Klos interviews Peter Drake, Dean at the New York Academy of Art, on the challenges and rewards of being a young artist in New York, art education, and contemporary painting. [Bmore Art]

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Monday Links: New York City is Probably Not Getting a New Island Anytime Soon

by Michael Anthony Farley on August 17, 2015

Is it possible to build a sixth borough in the middle of New York Harbor? Yes, but it would be extremely difficult and also, why? [The Awl]

68-year-old sculptor Gabriel Koren has had a studio in DUMBO for 28 years. Her rent just doubled to a whopping $3,000/month. Now, she’s facing eviction and an uncertain future for her large works—bronze sculptures of African American historical figures. It’s a pretty heartbreaking and all-too-common Brooklyn gentrification story. [The New York Times]

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is accepting applications for The Satellite Show Miami Beach. They’re offering a pretty affordable opportunity for artist-run spaces to exhibit during Art Basel Miami Beach week. [Tiger Strikes Asteroid]

Artist Amy Wilson remembers the time Republican presidential candidate George Pataki publicly accused her of “denigrating America”. It’s an insane story that began with a right-wing journalist digging around for an excuse to complain about the Drawing Center’s potential move to the WTC site in the mid 2000s. [Hyperallergic]

Museum attendance is booming. People seem to really like art, or at least art institutions. But Art History professor Michael Lewis claims contemporary Americans are indifferent to art and refuse to critique it. What? Has Lewis used social media lately? It seems to me that nearly all minutiae of visual culture (let alone artwork) is picked-over with a fine-tooth comb and subjected to the “think piece” treatment. [NPR]

The glorious history of the 1980s magazine Spy‘s attacks on Donald Trump and his threats of legal retaliations. [Vanity Fair]

A look at why art theft—estimated to exceed $6 billion annually—is so hard to investigate. [Slate]

John Chiaverina reviews Jaimie Warren’s Somebody to Love at American Medium. [ARTnews]

Fashion houses sure have a lot of money to spend on art exhibitions. The Fondazione Prada in Milan recently opened in a gorgeous campus designed by Rem Koolhaas. In Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton opened a museum by Frank Gehry that’s ….designed by Frank Gehry. Read how else the two institutions measure up. [The Art Newspaper]

Nominations for the Prix Net Art Award close today just before midnight! [Prix Net Art]

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Monday Links: White on the Outside, Disputed on the Inside: Rachel Dolezal and the Hirshhorn Museum

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on June 15, 2015

The NAACP’s Rachel Dolezal may be meme-orialized for copying Tina Turner’s hairstyles, but she’s drawn inspiration from J.M.W. Turner as well. Her oil painting The Shape of Our Kind is remarkably similar to Turner’s [groan] The Slave Ship. I’m sure there’s a joke to be made about old white dudes dominating even this singularly bizarre, unfolding chapter of art history. [@jolieishere]
Dolezal, who has an MFA from Howard University, actually works in a broad variety of media. Apparently those oil painting skills really do translate to being a better makeup artist. [Dolezal’s Portfolio]
Europe has gained two new Rem-Koolhaas-designed contemporary art spaces. Both are funded by wealthy private backers and both are adaptive reuse projects. [The Guardian]
How many windows does the the Hirschhorn Museum have? Is it correct to call the museum near windowless? Does it have four windows only or 331? Will somebody please call a fact checker in here to get this answer right. According to the Washington City Paper debate raged on this subject after New York TImes staffer Graham Bowle paraphrased Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chui in describing the museum as near windowless. But there’s a question of interior windows, of which there are many, (do they count if they are not exterior?) and whether a circle 96 panes should be considered a single window. I dunno the answer to this question, but if I were the Times I’d feel silly running a correction that said this building isn’t near windowless. Relatedly when I googled “Johnson house, glass house, windows” I got no results. Seems like once windows get really big people stop calling them windows. [Washington City Paper]
Nek Chand, the self-taught artist who constructed Chandigarh’s Rock Garden, has died at age 90. [The New York Times]
How a forgotten Harry Bertoia sculpture funded University of Virginia’s School of Architecture doctoral program. [The Washington Post]
A Milwaukee artist who lives under the flightpath for that city’s airport painted “Welcome to Cleveland” on his roof. [GQ]

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The Anarchist Flâneur: Graham Coreil-Allen’s Critical Urbanism

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 11, 2015

Graham Coreil-Allen is a multidisciplinary artist, activist, and resolute pedestrian. He’s an anarchist who wears a chipper pastel uniform and knows his way around Adobe CS. His works range in scope from redesigning crosswalks with hopscotch patterns to showing in the US pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. His current project with the Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore SiteLines features a series of walking tours and an installation that’s transformed Current Gallery into something resembling an alternative tourist information center. We sat down to discuss the perils of cycling, the Situationist International, and the challenges of making work in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death in police custody.

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BLNK: Inside Casa da MÃºsica

by Art Fag City on May 24, 2011

This Sunday I visited Casa da MÃºsica, the famed Rem Koolhaas designed music hall in Porto, Portugal. Conceived to look as if it were dropped from space like a meteor, the building rarely lets one forget where they are: The inside is made to feel integrated with the outside. In other words, there are a lot of windows. A few photos with commentary from my tour below.

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Forget in Ten Parts, Part 3: The Aesthetics of Permanence

by Guy Forget on February 25, 2011

Forget in Ten Parts is a ten-part weekly series by AFC's Curatorial Fellow, Guy Forget, focusing on the aesthetics of impermanence. This week, the topic shifts to the aesthetics of permanence. The post is in three parts: one utopian project (stalled), one ongoing construction and one effortless success.

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BLNK: Inside Casa da MÃºsica

Forget in Ten Parts, Part 3: The Aesthetics of Permanence

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