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Wednesday Links: Cave, Hands, Reptile, Not Human

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Sans context, arguably the day’s creepiest-sounding headline: “Cave Art Hands Made by Reptile, Not Human”. [Discovery News]
When it’s cold, I like to compare airline tickets on Flight Scanner — somewhere, anywhere, warm. Right now, I’m looking at the Bahamas, solely because I want to visit Pig Beach! It’s actually called Big Major Cay, and is a mysterious island where dozens of feral pigs live. Wouldn’t it be fun to swim with pigs? They’re highly social and smarter than dogs, dolphins and three year olds. They like to play and relax in the sun—I’ll take hanging with a pig over a parrothead at a surf bar any day. [National Geographic]
Hrag Vartanian was at yesterday’s Met Breuer press preview, and wasn’t impressed, especially by its main exhibition of the so-called “unfinished”, “an almost exclusively Eurocentric stroll through Western art history.” Ouch. [Hyperallergic]
Phillips CEO Ed Dolman says the art market is in a period of consolidation. Apparently only 51% of lots at their “New Now” auction of emerging art on Monday reached buyers. [Bloomberg]
On the mainstreaming of selfie feminism, it’s uncomplicated relationship with narcissism (largely shaped by the baggage of “basic bitch” white feminism), and how artists — specifically, black women, femmes, and gender-nonconforming — can potentially “demolish the gaze”. [The New Inquiry]
Miri Regev is Israel’s new Minister for culture and sport and she sounds horrible. She’s threatened to defund “disloyal” artists, punish theater troupes who refuse to perform in the occupied territories, and banned a book about an Israeli-Palestinian couple from schools. [The Guardian]
OK, this is pretty great: a UK firm has created an official “period policy” for female staffers. [The Guardian]
Instagram of the Day: Veteranas and Rucas, an archive of photos from the 1990s Chicano underground. [KCET]
Silvia Killingsworth, currently managing editor of the New Yorker, has become the editor of The Awl and The Hairpin. She starts in April, and will be overseeing a revival of both sites. [The Awl]

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We Went to the Yayoi Kusama Selfie Chamber

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on May 19, 2015

In which we go into a ton of detail over all three parts of “Give Me Love,” Yayoi Kusama’s latest exhibition at David Zwirner.

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Real Life Versus Instagram Life at the Armory Week Fairs

by Greg Allen on March 6, 2015

Greg Allen looks at the Armory week fairs through the lens of Instagram.

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Baby Artists and Big-Name Artists: BHQFU Announces New Residencies

by Corinna Kirsch on February 4, 2015

Artists, do any of the following statements describe you?

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Bring Back the Nerdocracy

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on January 8, 2015

The tide has changed for blog nerds. Tech is cool, but text is not.

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Friday Links: Go to the March

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on December 12, 2014

An August march protesting the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner (Image courtesy of NPR)

On Saturday, in protest of Eric Garner’s death, there will be a million man march starting in Washington Square Park in New York City at 2 PM. There will also be one in Washington. [Twitter; Newsday]
News rolls in about rats’ sexual preferences. Guy rats prefer girl rats wearing bras– ie, a kind of velcro Band-Aid wrapped around their chests. [Daily Mail]
Speaking of rats, Conde Nast battles infestation; looses. Particularly titillating is the image of Anna Wintour refusing to enter the building for fear of rats, and their feces. [New York Magazine]
Speaking of animals, Pope Francis opened up the gates of heaven yesterday when told a little boy that his dog will go to heaven. [The New York Times]
Fuck it: after a lifetime of shitty photos, I’m finally going to follow clickbait’s advice on selfie guidelines. As it turns out, natural smiling has been a major pitfall. NO NATURAL SMILES. [Answers.com]
Timeout London lists best new art. Yeah that pretty much looks like Chelsea. [Timeout]
A much-needed trip down memory lane: ANIMAL New York reminds us of George W. Bush’s torture legacy by commissioning a series of paintings, in the style of Bush’s dog paintings which helped to whitewash his administration’s atrocities. Bush passively allowed the CIA to commit horrendous acts of torture. Remember? [ANIMAL New York]
Thieves broke into a commercial gallery near Museo del Prado and stole 50 paintings overnight. The loot is worth approximately €400,000. They did so by punching through the adjacent wall of a former bar. [artnet News]
Roberta Smith watches HBO. [Twitter]
The Brits know how to protest. Outraged by new restrictions on online porn content, which forbid “face-sitting” people have come out to sit on each others’ faces and sing the Monty Python song “Sit on My Face”. This is wonderful. [Guardian]
Canadian Heritage Minister Shelly Glover and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada’s National Art Center will get $110 million for renovations. Glover praised Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his commitment to the arts, which is the biggest load of horseshit we’ve ever heard. This is the guy who complained government sponsored art events were all shrimp platters and limos. The reason the museum is getting money is because it’s been lumped into a larger program that provides renovations for defense buildings. Who ever it was who managed to arts organizations on that funding package needs to be thanked. [The Globe and Mail]
The damage from Sony Pictures hacked email just keeps going. The latest revaluation reveals Maureen Dowd showed her column to a Sony Exec prior to publishing. In many publications this is cause for firing – let’s hope that finally happens. Did Thomas Friedman and Mark Bittman send any incriminating emails too? Anything to force a little house cleaning on The Times abysmal op ed section. [Buzzfeed]
Benjamin Sutton writes a news story about a stolen Kinkade bronze bust of Jesus using the structure of “It Was The Night Before Christmas”. <3. [Hyperallergic]
Marina Galperina writes about what artists are doing with Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset. [Baku]

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Carrie Mae Weems at the Guggenheim: Could Be Better

by Corinna Kirsch on April 2, 2014

The Guggenheim’s current retrospective is only half great.

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Wednesday Links: Crowdcurating and Selfie Culture

by Whitney Kimball on January 29, 2014

“Artsy’s honeymoon may be nearing its conclusion,” writes Dan Duray in a comprehensive piece on the online art market. Art market gurus like Sergey Skaterschikov predict that 2014 will be a moment of truth for online art sellers, as mainstream businesses close in on the territory. [Gallerist NY]
You have one more day to vote on the MFA’s crowd-curated museum show of Impressionism. People really like Monet. [Boston MFA]
Andrew Russeth gives a taster for David Levine’s new digital-lipsynched-improvised opera at BRIC. If you can, absolutely go see this. [Gallerist NY]
The age of 3D printed novelty items may be coming to an end. A 3D printer which could build a whole house in 24 hours is currently being tested at the University of Southern California. [GOOD]
Jerry Saltz finally, inevitably, writes the full history of selfies. He doesn’t like the term. [Vulture]
It’s another sad day for New York’s folk art lovers. Art from the collection of Ralph Esmerian, most of which was promised to the Folk Art Museum, has been sold for almost $13 million at auction to cover his debts. [TAN]

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Monday Links: The Most Fluffy Bunny in the World, and Frieze

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 21, 2013

Today’s title. [Ritemail]
Our events posts just got a whole lot easier, thanks to founder Barry Hoggard’s new service Filterizer: a one-page list of the season’s best art shows in the New York City area. [Filterizer]
Marina Galperina and Kyle Chayka’s National Selfie Portait Gallery has been getting tons of press from Yahoo News, TIME, and The Atlantic. (We’ll note that Galperina’s first selfie post was written for AFC back in 2010.) Yahoo News doesn’t waste any time getting to the real question; is this art? That’s the second sentence. PS1 Curator and Director Klaus Biesenbach isn’t having any of this. This morning he indirectly acknowledged the exhibition tweeting, “everybody seems obsessed with talking about selfies…..it is nothing else than looking into a mirror and spreading what you vainly see.” Well, I guess that’s settled. [The Internet]
Looks like Animal and Metro New York have a new partnership. Read Bucky Turco and Andy Cush on how landlords may cash in on Banksy’s graffiti. [Metro]
Anyone else remember when Jerry Saltz said he and his wife had an agreement not to cover the same shows? That pact’s obviously gone out the window now that he’s at New York Magazine and it’s too bad, because they often share the same opinions. Anyway, Saltz follows up Smith’s Chris Burden show at The Times. He likes the show too. [New York Magazine]
The Art Newspaper covered the shit out of The Frieze Art Fair this year (as they always do). Collector Alain Servais rounds up his favorites on twitter our favorite of which is Julia Halperin’s piece asking why so many artists are attracted to abstract painting. Digital backlash? [The Art Newspaper]
National Academy School offers free classes to displaced 3rd Ward members. [In the Air]
Companies involved in synthetic biology can make yeast taste nearly identical to vanilla, saffron, and a host of other flavors. [The New York Times]
The James Turrell show at The Guggenheim was the highest attended of all time, with 470,000 visitors. [Real Clear Arts]
In response to pressures to boost profits, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are getting in on the gallery business, with Sotheby’s S|2 and Christie’s Mayfair Gallery. The Wall Street Journal speculates that they’ll “shake up the clubby international art scene” with “trendy new artists”; Christies’ Haunch of Venison has been on this for a while now, and based on the S|2 and Mayfair lineups, we’re not as worried. [Wall Street Journal]

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Tuesday Links: Selfies are for Everyone

by Corinna Kirsch on July 30, 2013

Selfies are for everyone, even cops. So, the next time you read an article about teenage girls and selfies, you’ll know that the crop of available selfie content extends far beyond teenagers. [Cop Selfies]
The Fairmont Hotel out of Dallas, Texas, is seeking artists-in-residence to live in their hotel for three months—for free. Pool included. [D Magazine]
If you are not sick of Marina Abramović yet (why not?), then go to Reddit at 12:30 PM EST. She’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything. [ANIMAL]
Bradley Manning’s verdict will be announced today at 1 PM EST. Until then, there’s always the RT Live Updates. [RT]
BRAVO will not renew Gallery Girls. However, the reality TV channel will continue airing programs with catfights. For reality TV with girls who actually fight, there’s E!; that channel expanded its fall programming to include a show following the lives of female wrestlers, the WWE Divas. [Gallerist, E!]
“I have a fatalistic idea that the computer will be made stupid anyway.” In this video interview, Nicholas O’Brien speaks with Harm Van Den Dorpel about Dissociations, an online project he’s been working on for about two years. It’s pleasant to peek into their conversation; it’s simply a good studio visit. [Bad at Sports]
The fossilized skeletons of two dinosaurs caught in claw-to-claw mortal combat will go to auction. In November, Bonham’s will auction this “sculpture” for an estimated $7 million to $9 million. It is expected that these fossils will garner the highest-ever auction prices for dinosaur fossils, ever. [The New York Times]

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