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Can You Feel the Zeitgeist? Michael Jackson’s Funeral Breaks the Internet

by Karen Archey on July 8, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Photo AFC What may have been the most poignant day in recent history depressed the shit out of us here at AFC. But our melancholy was due less to Michael Jackson's televised funeral than the weirdly banal status updates via CNN's live video feed and Facebook status plugin. The memorial service […]

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Many Crowns of Michael Jackson To Be Auctioned This April

by Art Fag City on February 23, 2009

This stunning “geniuses in sunglasses” recalls Loshadka’s dog breeds in sunglasses How many crowns does one King of Pop need? According to The Guardian’s Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch foreclosure and auction highlights profile last week, at least two, coupled by one painting depicting the star as King, a velvet cape, and the royal ready-to-wear jacket […]

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I Wanted A Vacuum Cleaner and Google Gave Me Michael Jackson

by Art Fag City on May 7, 2008

Screengrab AFC Bloggy types will have already read about Google’s new artist themes, a nifty background image that renders links and virtually any other type in the igoogle masthead unreadable. Also, thank God there’s a Jeff Koons theme, because he’s really been low on publicity lately. To be honest, if I used igoogle, I would […]

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Monday Links: Stranger Things Season 2 Trailer is Out!

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on July 24, 2017

Season 2 of Stranger Things starts in October and the trailer is out. Holy. Crap. I don’t know if my post-internet self is designed to wait this long for anything. Related: Strange Genitals. [The Internet]

Bubbles the chimpanzee, famous for having belonged to Michael Jackson and immortalized in a Jeff Koons sculpture, is now an artist in his own right. The 34 year old primate has taken up painting, and his pieces can fetch up to $1,500. [New York Post]

The stories the internet brought—The truck nut wars. For those who don’t know, Truck Nuts are the testicals truck drivers will hang from the hitch on their back bumpers. There is now a turf war between the two dudes who both claim to have invented the nutz. [VICE]

Here’s an opinion column advocating for painter Yulia Kuznetsova, a recent SAIC graduate trying to get a visa to remain in the United States after school. Kuznetsova is from Russia, which is bleak as fuck and a terrible place to be an artist, apparently, thanks to Putin’s draconian censorship laws. [Chicago Sun Times]

Following up on the Salvador Dali paternity dispute story that lead to his exhumation, the embalmer charged with the task reports that the dead artist’s mustache is still in tact. The results of the DNA test, which would prove once and for all whether the 61-year-old fortune teller, Maria Pilar Abel, is the lone daughter of Dali will take 1-2 months to come back. In the meantime, we’ll be waiting. [The Guardian]

More than 100 of Crocket Johnson’s mathematically based paintings made between 1965-1975, now online at The National Museum of American History. [American History]

Here’s the latest, most ridiculous skirmish from the culture wars: makeup artist Gypsy Freeman has lost her spot as the winner of an Instagram contest because reality television star Kat Von D found out she was a Trump supporter. Is that unfair to Freeman? Probably. But so is being deported/dying from climate disasters. It’s hard to feel that sorry for Freeman here, particularly given that this is a prize sponsored by an individual. Something tells me we’ll be dealing with bitterness like this for years to come. [New York Daily News]

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Friday Links: RIP Leonard Cohen, America

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on November 11, 2016

The Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. Let’s pay our respects to the man by listening to “There Is a War”. It seems appropriate right now. [YouTube]
A topical discussion between journalist Christopher Borrelli and Coya Paz, Director of Free Street Theater in Chicago, “If art can’t fix problems, what good is it?” Art is still important. Keep making it and we’ll keep paying attention. [Chicago Tribune]
Roberta Smith affectionately calls Marilyn Minter “A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art” in a great review of her exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. [The New York Times]
A rogue artist therapist set up shop in the 14th Street subway tunnel between Sixth and Seventh Avenues this Wednesday and asked people to share their thoughts on the election via sticky note. About 1500 people participated and those notes were stuck to the subway wall. [Gothamist]
Lise Ragbir, director of the Warfield Center Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin, writes about the importance of exhibition space devoted to art and stories about struggle. Concerning The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, “true, there is something disconcerting about housing a Michael Jackson costume and 10 shards of stained glass from the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in the same space.” [TIME]
A new Tumblr, “why we’re afraid”, tracks the surge of hate crimes that have escalated since Trump was elected. I (Michael) personally know two people who have been attacked by Trump supporters in the past 24 hours. This is terrifying. [why we’re afraid]
Critics are complaining that the lede in this auction report describes a shockingly insulated and privileged group. “There were no signs of a post-Brexit or Donald Trump election victory backlash in the art market tonight as, fairly predictably, every lot found a buyer in the first of Sotheby’s three-part, two-day sale of the David Bowie collection.” I’m going to save my outrage for other matters. [artnet News]
Steve Jansen theorizes that arts and culture flourish when a Republican is in the oval office, because artists and musicians are inspired by hardship and a rebellious spirit. It’s a compelling argument. But, like, not if we’re all dead. [Houston Press]

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Thursday Links: Art Chicken News Has Legs

by Paddy Johnson on October 27, 2016

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More art chicken news. Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen is taking his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project to Detroit. Vanmechelen has spent the last 20 years breeding chickens with other chickens to create a super breed. Now that he’s in Detroit, which is plagued by poverty, he’s breeding his 20th-generation cosmopolitan chicken with an industrial hen so it can produce eggs at Avenue Urban Farm. [The New York Times]
Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday that designer Shigetaka Kurita’s original 176 emojis will be added to its collection. [Hyperallergic]
An interview with David Kordansky of David Kordansky Gallery. TL;DR version: Loves his job. Conceptual art was a hangover. Collectors are less willing to take risks. L.A. is special, though, because the people are more open. [artnet News]
Josh Baer sure thinks highly of the TEFAF fair. From his latest newsletter, “How about the ambience of TEFAF at the Park Avenue Armory – if the ADAA doesnt step up their game this winter before TEFAF’s cont/modern fair in the spring they may look a bit silly?” [Baer Faxt]
In honor of Halloween Michael Jackson in a dance rehearsal for Thriller is making the rounds on Facebook and YouTube. [YouTube]
James Franco has endorsed Hillary Clinton. Taylor Swift’s endorsement, however, remains illusive. [LAist]

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Wednesday Links: #PLANTS

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 22, 2016

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Yesterday, almost immediately after we published a piece in which Whitney Kimball states “I think it’s safe to say by now that plants are no longer a trend; they are a medium (except for potted palms)” the Mexico City art center/residency Casa Maauad posted the above image on Facebook. It’s titled “They are these or they may be others/ ‪#‎PLANTS‬ (2015) Meme digital” from Cristina Garrido, whose exhibition “Un acuerdo tácito” opens there later this month. The plant invasion is real. Even potted palms. [Facebook]

Continuing their “Making it in New York” series, WNYC asks “Are Artists Abandoning NYC?” The answer: yes. And also, no. Plenty of artists are decamping for cheaper places, but the city’s artist population just keeps growing as new waves of debt-saddled art school grads arrive to pay more and more, replacing the disenfranchised who leave. What a depressing cycle. [WNYC]

Yesterday, revelations leaked from an investigation into Michael Jackson’s child molestation charges included the discovery of animal sacrifice photos, weird porn, and drugs started trending across social media. And also art books. Apparently the police were concerned that MJ was using images from artists including Jake and Dino Chapman, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley, Elizabeth Peyton, Takashi Murakami, Larry Clark, Rineke Dijkstra, Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince, Gilbert & George, and others to “groom” young boys by exposing them to explicit material. [Hyperallergic]

Tomorrow, Terence Koh will be broadcasting the names of Orlando shooting victims into space, as part of a performance at Andrew Edlin Gallery. What if this is the first evidence of life on Earth an alien civilization receives? [Observer]

Okay, this blog post is from 3 years ago, but I’m reposting it because I just saw it and I wish it had been required reading in art school. It’s a pronunciation guide to artists’ names. For example: “Ugo Rondinone – OO-go Ron-di-NO-nay”. God, this is so useful I’m surprised there’s not an app for that. [Artspace]

The man who made Ashlee and Jessica Simpson has a new creative endeavor: photography. Meet Joe Simpson, the pop stars’ father who picked up his old hobby after his divorce and now has a terrible-looking show in a Los Angeles gallery. Dear LA: things like this are the reason it’s taken so long for the East Coast to take you seriously. [Format]

Washington art incubator CulturalDC sold its downtown office space, including the home of Flashpoint art gallery. That means there will no longer be a single gallery left in “Gallery Place”. Oops. [Washington City Paper]

I’ve mentioned before that I really love the new Tate Modern addition by Herzog & De Meuron. Now, you can watch a time-lapse video of its construction, which is insanely hypnotic. [Dezeen]

Le Consortium, a nonprofit art space I’d never heard of in Dijon, France is apparently the secret carreer-making venue for tons of famous artists. [The New York Times]

HaeAhn Kwon, the lone holdout student still enrolled in the trainwreck MFA program at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design, has withdrawn. That means the school successfully alienated and lost an entire year of students. [Los Angeles Times]

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Wednesday Links: Science and Computers Rule the Roost

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on February 17, 2016

beautiful video of windows 95's launch pic.twitter.com/ETeR0JQK2d

— Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) February 12, 2016

Good morning! Let’s talk about computers and science for a moment:

70 years ago, six Philly women became the world’s first digital computer programmers.[Philly Voice]

A hospital in Los Angeles has been operating without access to email or electronic health records for more than a week. Hackers have taken over its computer systems and are demanding 3.6 million in bitcoin for the return of their systems. [The Atlantic]

A profile on Manfred Mohr, the German artist who wrote computer algorithms to generate what he calls “programed expression”. He talks about his work with the Paris Institute of Meterology’s computer in the 60’s, and his generation of a hypercube, which can only be perceived by a computer and only partially represented in 2D space. [The Guardian]

Listen to the sound of two black holes colliding. [Motherboard]

Crap. 3D printing is really not good for your health. [Dezeen]

How cat hair felled a pair of art forgers. [Science Magazine]

And in other news:

Disillusioned Museum Admissions Employee Doesn’t Even Believe Own Annual Membership Pitch Anymore. [The Onion]

Michael Jackson’s pet chimp, Bubbles, is living out his twilight years in Florida. His early life was not ideal for a chimp. [Miami New Times]

Seriously? Jeb Bush forgot to renew the rights to his domain name. Donald Trump bought it, and now jebbush.com redirects to Donaldtrump.com. [Facebook]

Jo Broughton’s photographs of empty porn sets are making the rounds. This is a well-established genre. Let’s recall, Laura Carton’s porn locations minus the porn and Christodoulos Panayiotou gay orgy sets after the orgy. [Vantage]

The roof of Belgium’s historic Cinquantenaire Museum is in such poor condition that the staff has resorted to wrapping artworks in a type of cling wrap to protect them. [The Telegraph]

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Tuesday Links: Hot-Dog Tree

by Rea McNamara on December 22, 2015

The Wildenstein tax-evasion trial—exploring how several family members reshuffled over $250 million worth of art to tax-free Switzerland after the death of their father, Daniel—is expected to put the spotlight on the secretive dealings of the art business. Cue Michael Jackson munching on popcorn GIF. [New York Times]
Why are celebrity profiles getting worse and worse each year? Jezebel’s Clover Hope posits that 2015’s litany of “fanboy profiles” — from Lili Anolik’s summer Elle profile on Taylor Kitsch to Ernest Baker’s dude-bro Coachella love-in with Drake with Four Pins — owes much to these publications clickbait gaming celebrities’ huge fan-bases on the social web. And it looks like 2016 is going the Interview route—Miranda July’s T Magazine Rihanna profile suggests we might see more star-meet-star navel-gazing. [Jezebel]
I agree with Vulture’s Halle Kiefer that the image of a “sweaty, long-haired, tank-top-wearing, Con Air-area” Nicolas Cage is the right one to have when thinking about his return of a stolen tyrannosaurus mask to Mongolia. [Vulture]
Related: Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo has returned three 19th-century masks back to Angola’s Dundo Museum. The masks went missing during the country’s civil war, and ended up in Europe. Through his foundation, Dokolo finds stolen African art and then repatriates them. [The Art Newspaper]
The Venice Biennale announcements keep on coming: Susanne Pfeffer, who curated Pamela Rosenkranz’s work for the Swiss Pavilion this year, will be curating the German Pavilion in 2017. [Artforum]
All that time selecting the month’s best art essays has paid off for Ben Davis: behold, the year’s best art essays. [artnet News]
Staten Island’s St George Library Center has a “Wuseum” display for their Wu-Tang holdings. [New York Public Library]
CBGB will soon be a Newark Airport restaurant selling “disco fries” for $9. [Rolling Stone Magazine]

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Thursday Links: Quality, Not Quaaludes

by Michael Anthony Farley and Corinna Kirsch on July 30, 2015

There’s a new investment firm that allows clients to purchase shares in an art collection “at a fraction of the cost” of actually buying art. The minimum investment? $10,000. Here’s our free advice: if you want to “invest” $10,000 in art, spend it buying a dozen works from emerging artists. [Small Business News]
This incredibly sexist but still kind-of-adorably-local-news article out of Utah has a headline straight out of the Onion: “Pinterest says nude photos could be considered art; mom disagrees.” [KSL]
International Sailor Moon Day is coming to New York on August 15. [Facebook]
The best explanation of the ARTnews/Art in America merger comes from—no surprise—Julia Halperin at The Art Newspaper. She’s one of the few who’s recognized that Peter Brant may come out as the real winner. [The Art Newspaper]
Investigative journalism performs at its best when it looks at a commonplace situation, then digs really hard at the surface, finding out its problems. Here, that problem involves quaaludes, McDonald’s, and a lenient bathroom policy. [The New York Times]
Follow the #hillaryinnh (Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire) for plenty of feminist shrugging. Like this one, that praises her for being not just a mother, but also a daughter and a grandmother. Did I just say feminist shrugging? I meant feminist ugggh-ing. [Twitter]
Robert Wilson looks back on performance art’s early days as a fringe medium to its emergence as a major component of the contemporary art canon. [The Observer]
Many universities have art collections that date back from their early days. But what do they do with them? ” Are they like the contents of an upmarket car boot sale, an irrelevant, even embarrassing inheritance that many universities don’t quite know how to handle?” [Times Higher Education]
Michael Jackson’s sequined white glove goes up to auction. If you have 20k, jump on it! [The Guardian]
RoboCup 2015 just ended. Here’s some highlights of little robots playing soccer. [International Business Times]
Take it from Christian Viveros-Faune: art can be stupid. Not to mention, jis closing line in this review is near-perfect. [The Village Voice]

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