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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The Roving Eye

Yes, this is a Lorna Mills GIF.

Legacies, transitions and milestones loom largely in this week’s slate of events. Black History Month kicks off in Harlem tonight at the Schomburg Center with a panel featuring Juliana Huxtable and Kimberly Drew among others dwelling on Basquiat’s life and legacy. Further on the BHM-related tip, decolonial knowledge is dropped by Tabita Rezaire at MoCADA’s Window Gallery, and the representation of black and queer personhood is re-assessed in Sondra Perry’s selection of video works for MoMA PS1’s Sunday Session.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: None of Them are Poverty-Themed Raves

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on November 2, 2015

Don’t get us started on that “Bronx is Burning” rave. (That’s for another post.) This week, as many of us are still cleaning off the paint and glitter from last weekend’s Halloween costume, there’s thankfully a mix of screenings, openings and performances to help ease you back into your regular schedule. Tonight, Ben Coonley organizes a group screening of artists’ first “hard-fought” 3D works at Brooklyn’s Microscope. Then there’s the opportunity to shake the spirits of the past, whether it be Tuesday’s Duane Linklater CUNY talk on museum’s colonialist legacies or Wednesday’s opening at Robert Blumenthal of an ambitious installation from Derek Fordjour evoking childhood-era psychic spaces.

Meanwhile, the rest of the week offers heavy fluxus drone (Thursday, Yoshi Wada) and an online journal launch (Friday, Bard’s aCCeSSions). The weekend promises new directions (Saturday, MoMa’s New Photography opening) and guilty pleasures (Michael’s, specifically, with Sunday’s Jessica Stockholder opening at a Greenpoint storefront space).

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Thursday Links: Hand Gestures of the Occult

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on June 4, 2015

baby elephant

TIL: Baby elephants suck on their trunks like baby humans suck on their thumbs. And sometimes little pachyderms don pink blankets. [Reddit]
Wishing we were in Houston to see the Contemporary Art Museum Houston’s exhibition’s Marilyn Minter retrospective. Beth Secor’s review pins down her work pretty succinctly with this line: “These are beautiful paintings; some people in fact have complained that they are too beautiful, but there is something underlying their glitzy glamour that puts the stink of death on them, which balances things out.” [Glasstire]
Menswear dog is creepy. [Menswear Dog]
Great artist illustrates for a great author: Sara Cwynar for Zadie Smith in the New Yorker’s “Summer Fiction” issue. [The New Yorker]
The Universe Within, an interactive documentary that shows the digital lives of high-rise residents around the world. [The National Film Board of Canada]
You can’t get a BA or MA in Gallery Studies, but the closest training you can receive for becoming an art dealer might be the nine-month Gallerist Program at the de Appel arts centre in the Netherlands…if you have the means to front $8,000 Euro. Applications are due July 11. [de Appel arts centre]
SculptureCenter curator Ruba Katrib on why machines and art can produce slapstick: “Slapstick makes us laugh because machines are foreign. Their proximity to—or confusion with—the body seems humorously perverse…When bodies and machines clash, slapstick lets us blunder with a smile.” [Art in America]
Everything about this semiotic scandal is LOLworthy. Fans of the Christian rapper Lecrae are concerned that his hand gestures might be symbols of an occult allegiance. [The Christian Post]
Former Art F City intern Clara Olshansky, now in Chicago, is writing some grade-A snark. She sure does know her stuff about lame coffee and lame men. We <3 you, Clara. [Food and Wine]
“A sort of Facebook for the dead.” [The Guardian]
Protesting Facebook’s real-name policy. [Rhizome]
Hamilton Nolan gets to the root of the worst Kickstarter ever. [Gawker]

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Kara Walker Strikes Back

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 17, 2014

Just when you thought it was okay to take tasteless selfies, Kara Walker will exhibit the videos she made to spy on you. Oh, my!

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Recommended Shows: Robert Gober at MoMA and Cartoons at the SculptureCenter

by Corinna Kirsch on October 8, 2014

Decades after their making, Gober’s room-size installations can still fill viewers with pangs of rage. At the SculptureCenter, Camille Henrot and Ruba Katrib have put together a drippy, rubbery, slithery show themed around silliness.

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Friday Links: Unhappy Mothers in Western Art History

by Paddy Johnson on October 3, 2014

Don’t say a word! don’t say a fucking word
i wasn’t even saying anything
great
just keep on doing that then

Unhappy mothers in western art history. You’re welcome. [The Toast]
A visual history of typewriter art from 1893-today. [Brainpickings]
Roberta Smith says the Robert Gober show at MoMA is as American as Apple Pie, but with the sugar left out. Smith needs to avoid the food metaphors. But the review does the job of letting the reader know what’s good about the show—it clarifies his development, isn’t too repetitive (a danger with Gober), and even includes two galleries with artists he’s curated into his shows. Go see it. [The New York Times]
Can’t wait to see SculptureCenter’s (modest) expansion this Sunday. Randy Kennedy has the background on that. [The New York Times]
Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven is using the gay and bi-sexual app Grindr to conduct banal exchanges. He will meet users to play chess with them, make pancakes, trim nails. Eyeroll. [artnet]
Women who are abused are often sentenced to jail time themselves for failing to adequately protect themselves and their children, finds a Buzzfeed investigative news piece. [Buzzfeed]
Jeffrey Deitch gets a profile in the Times. His thoughts on what an art critic does confirm that he left the job for good reason (“It’s not about being critical”). He’s now a private dealer because he can save money on real estate overhead. [The New York Times]
Jen Graves writes an extensive feature on how artists living in urban areas can fight the forces of gentrification. One tip: By joining forces with people artists might not have considered natural allies before—community activists working on non-art issues like civil rights, police brutality, affordable housing. [The Stranger]
After years of debate within the community, Metafilter updated their website design. It’s the first update in over ten years. [Metafilter]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Sculpture!

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on September 29, 2014

If your preferred form of sculpture is a little weirder than the Richard Serra variety—you’re in luck.

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NADA New York: Still the City’s Best Art Fair

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on May 9, 2014

Dealers and artists were having a blast. And people were talking about the art.

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Red, White, and Blue: Conrad Ventur’s Montezland

by Corinna Kirsch on February 3, 2014

This week we’re going to play good patriots and explore red, white, and blue.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Pussy Riot Comes to Brooklyn, SculptureCenter Explores Time

by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 3, 2014

Brave the cold just a little longer, for we have so much art to see this week. Talks abound, from B. Wurtz on the history of sculpture to Winkleman Gallery’s panel on African-Americans in Soviet culture. We have openings, like a feminist sound art retrospective at CUNY and Greenpoint’s winter open studios night. Round out Sunday with a Genesis Breyer P-Orridge film-screening and book launch at PS1 and we’ll call it a week. Just grin and bear it.

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