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Wednesday Links: Owl in a Towel

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on January 14, 2015

Owl in a towel! [Imgur]
On why ramen is dead: “The country’s noodle scene is currently awash in deeply porky broths and stifling homogeneity…which is the antithesis of ramen.” Sadly, no mention of instant ramen. [Grub Street]
Brooklyn’s waterfront has been invaded by Chinese developers. (Okay, that’s an exaggeration.) The Oosten, set to open in Williamsburg next year, will become the first solely Chinese-owned building to be erected in the United States. [WNYC]
Astronauts: stop littering. There are 96 bags of urine on the moon. [The Takeaway]
Expansion Notice: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) has raised $330 for its $450 million capital campaign. Houstonians should be happy about some of the planned renovations which plan on making the campus more pedestrian-friendly. This from a city where people look at you funny if you’re walking instead of driving. [Glasstire]
Everyone is planning for motherfucking Valentine’s Day already. If you like boobies, and you live in Chicago, you can pay to go on a “Naked at the Art Institute Scavenger Hunt” tour. $41 will give you and a date all the boobs, balls, and buttholes on view in the museum. [Fleshbot]
El Museo del Barrio curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado responds to our reporting last year on the Gramsci Monument. She advocates for a less cynical outlook on art in general, and views the monument as a community-based experience which goes “beyond the self”– “turning regular capital into social capital.” (At the time, skepticism about funding, colonialism, and the artist’s intentions surrounded the monument.) This, and other responses will continue on A Blade of Grass. [A Blade of Grass]
Here’s the supplement to the modern love story in the Times we linked to yesterday: It’s the set of questions you ask your partner to fall in love. [The New York Times]
Art critic Rodrigo Cañete has noticed that MoMA plans to sell a Monet to benefit its acquisitions fund. This is justified by a spokesperson who notes that Impressionism doesn’t fit the museum’s modern painting collection. [Taboofart]
Tom Moody has some thoughts on our blogroll and our recent statements on Ryder Ripps. Generally speaking, I think he gives critics a little too much power, but it’s good to hear the perspective regardless.[Tom Moody]
Moody also argues that Ripps’ “Art Whore” is “no more offensive” than Andrew Norman Wilson’s “Virtual Assistance Project,” a year-long mutual collaboration with a presumably low-paid overseas assistant, for art. This is unfair to Wilson, who worked extensively with his assistant Akhil and returned the favor by building a mini-plane and making a video, which Akhil requested. While this does not forward the assistant’s career, Wilson doesn’t align his own creative work with his assistant’s. He also doesn’t view him as a whore. [Tom Moody]
Margarine consumption happens to correlate almost perfectly with the divorce rate in Maine, and other random trends that correlate. This site is amazing. [Spurious Correlations]

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Friday Links: Valentine’s at White Castle

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on January 9, 2015

Image via SodaHead

White Castle is booking reservations for Valentine’s Day. The number is (718) 899-8404, ext. 311. [Gothamist]
If the battle is actually on between MoMA and the Met’s contemporary collection, then according to Roberta Smith, the Met’s playing its cards right. It takes a “salad” approach to Modernism rather than separating it regionally and by period. She credits Sheena Wagstaff with this turnaround, the director of the Met’s Contemporary and Modern section since 2012. [The New York Times]
Legendary Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger will close his space in the summer and New York based dealer and celebrity magnet Vito Schnabel will take over. [Artnet news]
Private giving sustains art museums. No surprises there, but the numbers are interesting. According to the Association of Art Museum Directors, the average museum goer spends $7.93 on their visit, while the museum spends $52.17. Philanthropy accounts for 33% of a museum’s budget. [Hyperallergic]
Lebanese artists pay tribute to #jesuischarlie. [Banana Pook]
The Canadian Harper government has started a re-election fundraising campaign in response to the Paris terrorist attacks. This is being criticized by many on twitter for being exploitive and in poor taste. [Twitter]
Bieber weiner news! Apparently, unretouched photos from Bieber’s Calvin Klein shoot were released by a source who found Bieber insufferable on set. [Gawker]
Performa is organizing a tribute to Ray Johnson in November, thus prompting Randy Kennedy’s reflection on his career. “He was making work that looked like Pop in the 1950s, years before his friend and sometime rival Andy Warhol did. He was a performance artist before there was a term for such a thing….He was the father of mail art.” And in 1995 he jumped off a bridge and killed himself. No one knows why. [The New York Times]
In Paris, several hostages have now been taken by two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo murders. We are watching. [Mother Jones]
In Russia, a proposed law would take away transgendered people’s right to drive. Also, people with gambling addictions, shoplifters, the S&M community, foot fetishists, and necrophiles. [vocativ]
The infamous Brooklyn cat-kicker will not be going to jail for a year, as he could have, according to the New York Daily News. He’s now being tried for a B misdemeanor, which calls for a maximum jail sentence of 90 days. [Animal New York, via New York Daily News]

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Tracey Emin Will Bring Valentines to Times Square

by Corinna Kirsch on January 29, 2013

Beginning this Friday, February 1st, Times Square will bask in a new type of radiant, neon glory. Tracey Emin, hot off the heels of her appointment as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), will now bring digital versions of her “love neons” to Times Square throughout the entire month of February.

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