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Frieze New York: Either Way, We’re Drinking Champagne

by Corinna Kirsch on May 10, 2013

“Greetings from Captain John. There will be no swimming and no diving.” Sailing on the Frieze ferry to Randall’s Island, the driver told us that we were on our way to vacation, but cautioned against letting loose with freewheeling abandon. Once we landed, that ethos seemed to be in effect at the fair itself: dealers and collectors were having fun, and the fair was certainly crowded, but nobody was breaking out champagne in the early afternoon over skyrocketing sales.

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Tuesday Links: Sext Me If You Can

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 30, 2013

So, the New Museum is hosting a residency program for the NEA 4. It’s hard to pin down what, exactly, this residency will look like; from what we know so far, all four artists’ projects will be concerned with how to fund performance art. Sadly, Karen Finley’s project shows how to do that, but only by getting away from performance altogether. In “Sext Me if You Can”, Finley will ask audience members to send her sexts, which she’ll then make into paintings to sell at the New Museum. Here’s my preliminary review: Not brilliant. [New Museum]
Latvia just opened the Mark Rothko Center. Pro: This is the first time any Rothko paintings have made their way to Eastern Europe. Con: The museum only has six of them. [Financial Times]
The Saudi conceptual artist Abdulnasser Gharem plans to set up the Arab state’s first artist-run foundation in Riyadh. [The Art Newspaper]
Women: shitting at the workplace should feel empowering. It’s okay to take a dump in a stall. [New York Mag]
Richard Prince made a composite of all of Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriends. [Animal]
The planned alliance of Philadelphia’s rare-book collectors’ mecca, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, with the Free Library of Philadelphia could mean greater access to literary treasures. The editorial here suggests the merger will be less messy than the Barnes move. [Philly.com]
There’s a war brewing with literary critics, and it’s because, no surprise here, book lovers don’t always get bloggers. Literary critics are whining about The New York Times Book Review because the old school publication’s new editor Pamela Paul has “no writerly or literary credentials”. That’s not exactly true, but that doesn’t stop The Guardian’s Michael Wolff from deriding Paul for working “two years as a blogger at the Huffington Post, which, it doesn’t seem entirely churlish to point out, is not a job.” Unfortunately, that’s the best he can come up with. [The Guardian]
Canada’s National Film Board gets props from The New Yorker blog for supporting radical filmmaking. [The New Yorker]
A recent New Yorker piece on Depression journalism has an unnamed New York Times editor calling poor people losers, according to ex-Times writer Charlie LeDuff. [The New Yorker, behind the paywall]
The oil company Shell bankrolled an eight-year scientific analysis of van Gogh’s true palette. It reveals that his colors were originally more naturalistic. [The New York Times]

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Highlights from the Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report

by Corinna Kirsch on October 10, 2012

What happens to the wealthy is what happens to the rest of the art world. At least, that’s what Artprice’s annual contemporary art market report suggests. Every October, Artprice publishes The Artprice Annual Report, a whopping 140-page document about trends in the contemporary art market; they look at art auction records,then talk to dealers and anybody else managing multi-million-dollar art sales to come up with a sense of the health of the market as a whole. We disagree, knowing that what happens at the auction houses doesn’t trickle down to the rest of the art world; for all its flaws, though, we enjoy reading this thing.

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Watch a Fat Man Die: MTV Premieres Art Breaks 2.0

by Corinna Kirsch on April 3, 2012

If watching MTV programs like Jersey Shore and Sixteen and Pregnant makes you feel dirty, MTV has a pill to relieve your pain. MTV Art Breaks, a collaboration with Creative Time and MoMA PS1, debuts short video clips made by artists including Rashaad Newsome, Mads Lynnerup, and Mickalene Thomas, with more artists to be announced soon. Starting this week, these clips will play during MTV's commercial programming, both online and on cable TV.

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Two Possibilities for the Sold-Out Cover Art from Bill Powers’ Book.

by Will Brand on March 6, 2012

The Richard Prince-designed cover to Bill Powers’ new book went on sale at noon today as an edition of 100. Thirty minutes later, it had sold out. We’re suspicious.

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Announcing The Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards Auction List

by Paddy Johnson on February 20, 2012

I’ve been trying to keep the Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction updates from completely taking over the blog, but benefits are such an enormous undertaking that at some point you just give up and hope people will find them as fascinating as you do. I’m not exactly an unbiased source, but with the auction items we release today, I can’t imagine there being any question over whether you should attend. As greg.org tweeted yesterday evening, “A live staging of Richard Prince’s deposition is only in the like 80th pctile of crazy in @artfagcity’s benefit auction”. That’s an exaggeration of course — I’d give that re-enactment a far more generous crazy ranking — but the point is well made. You simply won’t find more unique experiences and objects anywhere else.

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Arbitrary Arbitration in Art Review’s Power 100

by Reid Singer on October 13, 2011

It’s very hard to comment on a list ranking anything — beer, Star Wars movies, or art world figures — without negotiating some serious sass fallout. When reading comments to the 2011 Power 100, published today by Art Review, I thought of tuning my ear by spending a few minutes listening to the trash talk that follows a competition on Drag Race. What would people have to say if Dasha Zhukova gave RuPaul a “bad girl” makeover? Or if Takashi Murakami could talk about how funky his chicken is? And who wouldn’t want to see Damien Hirst lip-sync to the Stacy Q song “Two of Hearts?”

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Peter Nadin is an Art Press Magnet

by Paddy Johnson on July 5, 2011

Gavin Brown seems to attract compelling narratives. Last fall, no one could shut up about Rob Pruitt’s come back. This summer, we’re all talking about the gallery’s Peter Nadin show (on view through July 30), another artist with a come back story for the ages. As the story goes, Nadin ran a gallery with Christopher D'Arcangelo in the 80′s until disputes over management dissolved the partnership. Following this, the artist suffered a nervous breakdown which according to the Times, “caused Nadin to begin seeing the world in a fundamentally different way.”

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Parsing Patrick Cariou v. Richard Prince: The Copyright Infringement Ruling

by Paddy Johnson on March 23, 2011

Bad news for appropriation artists and anyone else who’s ever produced a collage. Last Friday, Judge Deborah Batts ruled against famed artist Richard Prince in the Patrick Cariou v. Richard Prince, Gagosian Gallery, et al 08 CV 11327 (S.D.N.Y. March 18, 2011)(Batts, J.), finding the artworks to be copyright infringements. According to the ruling, Prince’s appropriation of Cariou's work failed to meet standards of fair use on four specific grounds. Those headings and notes below.

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Highlights from the Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report

Watch a Fat Man Die: MTV Premieres Art Breaks 2.0

Two Possibilities for the Sold-Out Cover Art from Bill Powers’ Book.

Announcing The Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards Auction List

Peter Nadin is an Art Press Magnet

Parsing Patrick Cariou v. Richard Prince: The Copyright Infringement Ruling

Intro to The Art World: A Beginners Reading List

Revisiting “10 Myths of Internet Art”

What’s the Plan for “Untapped Capital”?

NSFW: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Wish In One Hand

The Met Does Punk, Bleached and Ironed

This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Carry Us?

Pulse Draws More Visitors

Pentagram Ecology: Frieze Art Fair, 2013

Michael Mahalchick Will Be Stripping Today at NADA

AFC’s Annotated Frieze Map

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