Arabelle Sicardi and Tayler Smith, Cheeks (2014), and Zak Arctander’s Cheeks (2015).
Photo: Arabelle Sicardi and Tayler Smith/Zak Arctander.
- A new exhibition looks back on the history of Black Mountain College. The legendary, unaccredited art school only existed from 1933 to 1957 in the middle of nowhere, but managed to have a lasting impact on art history. [Forbes]
- Surprisingly, we agree with Forbes on a variety of issues today. The financial magazine’s art contributor Jonathon Keats asks “Is Yoko Ono too Good for MoMA?”. Last month, we answered yes. [Forbes]
- How many Confederate flags were taken down this weekend? So far, we count two. Bree Newsome took down THE flag in South Carolina. But then someone in Boston put up a confederate flag on a memorial for African-American soldiers, and a woman took it down after an hour. Do what you gotta do. [The Internet and The Boston Globe]
- The Milwaukee Art Museum is at the center of a “culture-wars” style controversy that makes us nostalgic for the 80s/early 90s. A portrait of the Pope composed of colored condoms by the artist Niki Johnson is causing quite the scandal. Docents have quit, donors have threatened to withhold funding, and the local bishop is angry. Milwaukee is lucky Giuliani isn’t their mayor, or else he’d probably have gotten involved too. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
- Have you noticed how the past few years have looked and felt an awful lot like a sci-fi movie from several decades ago? Apparently that is not a coincidence. [PRI]
- On Twitter, @gregorg called this piece about “Cady Noland Goes Bananas” “offensive, mocking her mental health & artist’s desire to not have her work altered/remade w/o consent.” IMO, it also calls up some unhealthy stereotypes about women, with references to her being a control freak and having erratic and paranoid behavior. (Corinna) [artnet News]
- Then, @gregorg wrote up a response, that, among other things, notes that the image used for the artnet (and Artforum, Art Market, and Courthouse News) piece is incorrect. [Greg.org]
- Former BuzzFeed beauty editor and Rookie contributor Arabelle Sicardi and photographer Tayler Smith have had their 2014 photograph, Cheeks, appropriated by artist and student Zak Arctander. The new photograph is considerably altered but Sicardi and Smith are pissed regardless. Sicardi says “we’re going to be written out of the authorship in Arctander’s Yale MFA gallery exhibition and accompanying New Yorker piece—like many women before us.” Oh, please. This isn’t a feminist issue. More than enough alterations on this photograph have occurred, but also—nobody’s going to remember Arctander’s manipulation. This image seems like an outlier in his larger body of work. Let it go. [artnet News]
- Keith Haring’s largest artwork EVER is now on view at the NOMO SOHO hotel. [Broadway World]
- With the Fourth of July right around the corner, have you ever wondered what could make hot dogs better? Curl-A-Dog, an as-seen-on-TV masterpiece, suggests that hot dogs would be better if they were curly. Beware: the video’s jingle might worm its way into your brain. [YouTube]
- Did blowing in Nintendo cartridges help them work? Probably not. [Mental Floss]
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who wrote this headline? (was it farley?) personally I think this story is the very DEFINITION of a feminist issue. here we have a portrait of a young trans youth brave enough to put xyr “body on the line”, a sort of “portrait of the artist as a young trecartin”, something we should all be SUPPORTING. and then along comes this overeducated dildo who literally smears BIRD SHIT all over it, and he’s supposed to get a free pass because he’s got a STUDENT LOAN? face it ladies, this moron is engaging in brazen UNDERGRADUATE theft of “found online content”, betting he could appropriate BOTH genders and get DOUBLE the hit count. well nice job, whiffenpoof. we all know how YOU spend those lazy afternoons up there in connecticut — rubbing out fingerpaint with the grayscale tool, as it were..? and i thought i’d seen it all. you know what else is a feminist issue? MARFAN SYNDROME. give me a break, AFC. M.F.A.? no bich, M.F.U.
P.S. THANKS FOR HELPING ME FORGET ABOUT THE EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CRISIS FOR FIVE MINUTES
My headline.
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