Friday Links: Five Art Stars You’ve Never Heard of (For a Reason)

Scene from Natacha Ivanova's "Brothers," 2010.

• Jerry Saltz calls for an end of what he calls Neo-Mannerism. You know all those tropes that make art look like art? Saltz is tired of all of them. The offenders aren’t named though, which is a bit of a disappointment. [New York Magazine]
• We use Google Docs all the time to edit on the blog, but we’ve been noticing a bunch of bugs lately. There’s no better alternative to working in the cloud with all your other editors—yet, but Draft’s one alternative we’re curious about, especially since it doesn’t immediately let other collaborators delete your original copy. [Draft, via @Choire]
• Having trouble figuring out whether we liked your show? Try plugging the text into Stanford University’s live demo for predicting the sentiment of movie reviews. It creates a diagram to reflect how positive or negative the review actually was. [Stanford]
• Mike Kelley opens on Sunday. In anticipation of the show, The New York Times has a profile on the artist which talks about his position to education (he thinks he’s been brainwashed), pop culture (he thinks it’s garbage), and mud wrestling (he’s fascinated by it). [The New York Times]
• On NPR this morning, we got to hear some fluff about “3-D Printing a Masterwork for your Living Room.” From the sounds of it, 3-D printed sculptures might be an affordable way for art to reach the masses—and maybe a way for museums to make a buck. [NPR]
• The Walker Art Center’s Internet Cat Video Film Festival is hitting the road, and stopping in Brooklyn. Surprisingly, the museum’s fest isn’t going to be at an art spot; rather, on October 25th, you can grab seats at the Warsaw, one of Greenpoint’s largest music venues. [The Walker Art Center]
• Update on 3rd Ward’s closing: tenants are trying to stay in the building. [DNAinfo]
• Only the Wall Street Journal would name Natacha Ivanova, Hugo Wilson, Denis Darzacq, and Luka Fineisen “rising art stars.” Those are four of the five names cited in an article that profiles terrible art by artists you’ve probably never heard of for a reason. Nina Beier, the fifth artist chosen, looks like a reasonable pick. [The Wall Street Journal]
• MoMA has purchased Occupy Wall Street’s print portfolio, a series of 31 screenprints organized by the Brooklyn Artists Alliance. [ArtInfo]

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