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Monday Links: Donald Trump is a Terrible Artist

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on July 31, 2017

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Donald Trump, who has the drawing ability of a seven year old, produced a drawing of the New York City Skyline that sold for close to $30,000. It was originally made for a charity event in 2005. The drawing is without a doubt the worst presidential drawing we’ve ever seen, and possibly the worst drawing by an adult. And that’s an evaluation that comes completely independent of his incompetence as a president. The line drawing doesn’t reach the edges of the page, doesn’t indicate that Trump has any awareness of what Manhattan even looks like, and includes two swooshy lines at the bottom that maybe indicate water or are perhaps just needless flourishes. It appears Trump signed the piece in gold marker and of course the only recognizable building on the skyline is Trump Tower. [artnet News]

Rhizome is offering 4-6 “microgrants” for web-based artworks, ranging from $500-$1,500. Applications are due August 14th. [Rhizome]

Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield has come up with a reinvention plan that includes raising 60 million dollars to help it refocus its mission to include science and history as well as art. The details of this plan, however, are making The American Alliance of Museums and the Association of Art Museum Directors—of which it is a member— very uncomfortable.The Berkshire wants to deaccession works to fund this new mission. This breaks with the association’s code of ethics, which dictates that Museums not deaccession works unless the funds are used for acquisition and direct care of the collection. Seems unlikely the museum will be able to remain a member of the association if it continues along this path. [NPR]

Non-art neon is making a big comeback in New York, from signs to restaurant interiors. [Eater]

Brace yourselves, New York, Miley Cyrus wants to return to the Big Apple to have another art exhibition. [Just Jared]

Why are auction prices so high for Mark Grotjahn works? An abstract painting by the 49 year old fetched $16.9 million at Christie’s and his primary market works can sell for $20 million. In a profile in the NYT, it’s revealed that Grotjahn has a rare amount of control over his career, working in with multiple galleries in multiple cities, often bypassing dealers completely, and having the final say over who his works sell to. This power shows up in the piece, as pretty much every quote comes off as an entry in a competition to offer the most ass-kissy complement to the artist. Notably Grotjahn didn’t respond to requests for comment. We weren’t asked, but we’re a bit confused about how even the best business management could push the value of these patterned paintings up so high. It’s not that they’re bad—but only a few feel truly distinctive. [The New York Times]

Danielle Directo-Meston considers the gentrification issue in her family’s house hunt. Not a lot of new information here, but it has plenty of Los Angeles-specific details and conversations about strategies for preventing displacement. Possible suggested legislation includes a ban on house flipping within a year and another that incentivizes owners to live in their properties for ten years. [Curbed]

Into the Unknown is a science fiction show at the Barbican Centre in London that should get the sci-fi nerd in us pretty excited. There are 800 works, going all the way back to the 19th century, and Hyperallergic has a review and photos to show off the exhibition. The review, though, doesn’t seem very excited about any of it. It’s a flat description, that complains that Octavia Butler and other African American artists didn’t get their due, but it’s still a significant show regardless because who else is doing this? I say, give us a few more photos and let us decide. [Hyperallergic]

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Wednesday Links: Basel Begins in Earnest

by Paddy Johnson on December 2, 2015

Miley Cyrus at Terminal 5 last Sunday in New York

Art Basel begins today. We’re on it! [The Internet]
The Dutch collector Bert Kreuk, artist Danh Vo, and Berlin gallerist Isabella Bortolozzi have resolved their two-year legal dispute over a site-specific installation at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. Given the details of the dispute, though, my hope is that people will stop collecting Vo all together. (Haha. Like that will ever happen.) After a judge ruled that the artist and dealer had indeed entered an agreement, the judge ordered Vo to produce a “large and impressive” artwork for Kreuk within a year. Vo proposed that his father fill the walls of a gallery with the text, “SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS, YOU FAGGOT.” Needless to say Kreuk rejected that proposal and they came to some other undisclosed agreement yesterday. [ARTnews]
The Senate Finance Committee is reviewing the non-profit status of 11 private art museums. Honestly, this is a good thing. The Brant Foundation, for example, is open to just about nobody most times of the year, putting into question the public good the museum serves. [Hyperallergic]
There is a Dean & Deluca mirrored cheese room at Design Miami. Some highlights from that fair? [artnet News]
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced that they will give away 99 percent of their fortune. [USA Today]
Our favorite photoshop job of the week comes from Gawker, which asks which presidential candidates have suffered brain damage. Their x-ray reveals a dead brain inside the skull of Donald Trump. [Gawker]
Last night I met Paddle8’s Dave Harper, who told us the Miley Cyrus performance he saw last week in New York was amongst the best art he’d seen this decade. I wanted to know more, so I looked up the show. Here’s a descriptive, but favorable review from the Times. She dressed up like a stick of butter and disco ball. [The New York Times]

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Tuesday Links: In Anticipation of Tom’s New Winterlog Flavor

by Paddy Johnson on September 1, 2015

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So, the Temple of Baal in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, is now official kaput thanks to ISIS extremists. That’s the second ancient temple they’ve destroyed in a two weeks. [The New York Times]
I dunno about this project: This October a series of “Black Lives Matter” street signs will appear around New York City thanks to the artist group Ghana Think Tank. Signs will contain messages like, “WHITE GUILT IS COMPLACENCY,” and “YOUR PRIVILEGE DOESN’T NEED CONSENT.” Thanks for the moralizing. [Hyperallergic]
Not another reality TV show about art. This one is about blonde art advisors breaking into the art world and will air on Ovation. Brian Boucher has seen the pilot and based on his reports, I hope they cancel the show quickly. It’s called Art Breakers and it sounds terrible. [Artnet news]
LiarTownUSA is just about the best Tumblr around. There’s a post of poorly drawn animal drawings—so many different perspectives all on one cat face—and of course, our favorite manipulation: Tom’s of Findland toothpaste; winterlog flavor. [LiarTownUSA]
Will this Hillary Clinton email business never end? We’ve been reading headlines since March about this—we know. Everyone sends work email from their personal account. Sometimes we even delete them. Anyone else remember when the Bush White House lost and deleted five million emails in 2007? This seems like a larger problem than the news that approximately 150 emails submitted by Clinton were upgraded to “classified”. This is a witch hunt. [The Slot]
This one’s for photo nerds: The differences between the human eye and the camera. Here’s a sample: In reality, our eyes are somewhat like a video camera in program or shutter priority mode with auto-ISO: we maintain smooth motion and increase the impression of detail by continuous scanning; to do that, the exposure time must remain relatively constant. [Ming Thein]
I guess it’s time to get an opinion on Miley Cyrus’s new album, “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz”. [Miley Cyrus]
Another Facebook user calls it quits. Rainey Knudson, Glasstire’s founder and publisher finds mortality and our wish to be remembered especially creepy on the site. [Glasstire]

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Friday Links: Museum Poo on a Slide

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 28, 2015

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Miley Cyrus will be collaborating with underground net artists and artist Jen Stark for the VMA’s this year, which she will host. Prediction: Jerry Saltz will write a think piece lauding whatever she does. Anyway, here’s an interview she gave to the Times totally stoned. Read it if you dare. [The New York Times]
Stefan Simchowitz and his dealer/partner Ellis King are suing the 28 year old Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama for deauthenticating nearly 300 signed art works. As Greg Allen tells it, the Simchowitz King position sure is rich. Simchowitz claims he made his career with a Dublin show in 2015. At that point Mahama had two shows at Saatchi, a London residency, participation in DAK’ART, the largest African biennial, an announced show at The Mistake Room in Los Angeles, and announced participation in the Venice Biennale, but sure, that Simchowitz show in Dublin made Mahama. Then there’s the art itself. Simchowitz’s 300 works are drawn from a sprawling installation of jute sacks which he purchased for approximately $138,000—he has a history of buying large works and cutting them up to make buckets of money—and he’d already sold 17 of those works for $16,000 each. So, he’s already made close to $450,000, which means the suit is merely a complaint that he didn’t make 20 times his investment. Anyway, Allen suggests that Mahama flood the market with these things and devalue the work entirely. Haha! [Greg Allen]
North Korea’s new airport in Pyongyang has all the latest technology, including an Internet room…with no Internet. It seems the room exists primarily to create the illusion of a modern airport, as the country itself allows its citizens virtually no access to the web. [Associated Press]
Why are paintings of the baby Jesus usually so creepy? Maura Callahan investigates, and highlights some especially terrifying ones in the Walters Art Museum’s collection. [City Paper]
In other “children in museums” news, Osaka students can dress up like poo and navigate a sewage-themed interactive exhibit that features a giant toilet slide. [CCTVNews]
The Times publishes its second piece this week on hydration rumors. The first put to rest the myth that drinking eight cups of water a day was a necessity, the second catalogues a few high school football students who drank too much Gatorade and died. All we need now is a piece about how dehydration has been shown to lower cancer rates and the story loop will be complete. [Well]
New York City’s taxi drivers are getting an Uber-like app to help compete with the rise of popular, more-affordable ridesharing services. [Fortune]
Yes, this is a real headline from the BBC’s health report: “Young goths ‘at risk of depression’”. [BBC News]
A new retrospective of Keith Arnatt’s work sparks old discussions over the art world’s historically cold shoulder to photography as fine art. [The Guardian]
This photo essay looks more like New Orleans than New York, but “Bungalow Brooklyn” is facing many threats from development, sea level rise, and blight. The borough’s historic bungalow districts mostly date from the early 20th century as summer homes. Today, many of the tiny houses are storm damaged, squatted, or vacant as developers sit on them. The upshot? If you’re a crafty aspiring homeowner, they’re probably the only place in the borough where you can buy a home for less than $200,000. [Curbed NY]
The mass exodus of galleries from Chelsea to cheaper digs in the Lower East Side continues. [The Real Deal]

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Tuesday Links: The Haunted Macbook

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on February 10, 2015

Culled from an email thread on public hair

A haunted white Macbook, only $182! The seller claims to have left the Macbook in a graveyard next to a mental institution on the night of an electrical storm, green fog clouding, and “an old crone” who was terrorizing a nearby neighborhood. Haunting followed:

How do I “know” the computer is haunted?

Well, I took the computer home (still in perfect working condition) and, folks, this is when things started to get downright weird. First, I noticed that ALL of my songs in iTunes had become scary or haunted. Second, the desktop background was changed to a scary photo. The following week, we (my wife, Barbie, and I) noticed some of our stuff around the house had been mysteriously rearranged. One night, we went out to dinner with my wife’s parents and their friends and some people from my wife’s work and some of their parents. When we came home, my baseball cards were all out of order and my wife’s rare American coins were in total disarray. To make matters spookier, I occasionally saw the computer levitating. In some cases the screen and keyboard would open and shut quickly, as though the computer were attempting to speak.

[ebay via Molly Rhinestones and Julia Maria Sinelnikova on Facebook <- (thank you)]

Daily Life columnist Clementine Ford started #QuestionsForMen as an outlet to record unequal expectations between genders. The distinction is obvious in the blogging business, which generally permits men to freely air emotional complaints while expecting women to steer a more rational course, or else we’re on our period. [Twitter, via Buzzfeed]
Serial killer Charles Manson has called his wedding off to Afton Elaine Burton, a woman 53 years his junior, after it emerged that she was only after him for his corpse. She was hoping to gain possession of the corpse through marriage so she and her friends could put it on display in L.A. and profit from its display. [The Independent]
Miley Cyrus enters the NYC Porn Festival. The fucking tongue. Video included. [NY Post]
The new Whitney megaplex reaches completion. [Jerry Saltz on twitter]
The city of Atlanta might incarcerate the art student whose pinhole camera accidentally brought the highways when police suspected a bomb threat. The professor is throwing the kids under the bus by specifying that this was assigned as a “take-home” project. [artnet News]
Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew no. Brokelyn lists Brooklyn-branded Valentine’s gifts including graffiting the work “BROOKLYN” on a cologne bottle. [Brokelyn]
CAA has released a “Best Practices in Fair Use” guide for artists. [Hyperallergic]
Photographer Sarah Meyohas has invented an art version of BitCoin, “Bitch coin” in which collectors buy her work at a fixed rate of one BitchCoin per 25 inches of photographic print. (It’s backed by one of Meyohas’s prints, which she’s placed in a vault). After February 15th, you’ll be able to buy Bitchcoins online. [BitchCoin]

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Friday Links: Babies in Fear; Richard Nixon’s Helicopter Art

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on January 30, 2015

“Babies Going Through Tunnels in Cars” is like the vortex sequence from 2001 Space Odyssey but with babies. [YouTube via Metafilter]
Please, don’t drive with your cat on your dashboard. [Imgur]
Hauser & Wirth now represents the Mike Kelley Foundation. [Los Angeles Times]
Whoa. In response to the Charlie Hebdo, Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ” was removed from the AP’s image archives. Serrano discusses the original outcry over “Piss Christ”; he continues to advocate for freedom of expression. [Creative Time Reports]
Scams are everywhere on the Internet. Now they’ve inspired several new art commissions. Arjun Srivatsa discusses third-party pop-up ads, like MacKeeper, in “Human Inside,” a curatorial essay with commissions by himself, LaTurbo Avedon, Eltons Kūns, and Giselle Zatonyl. [Rhizome]
Poetweet will craft your tweets into a poem of the sonnet, rondel, or indriso variety. It’s a new site, so don’t expect it to work perfectly 100 percent of the time. [Poetweet via @mfortki]
In the world of art law, a new bi-coastal firm, Spencer Kerr LLP, has opened offices for “international clients with business and investments in art.” For a spicy take on art law, see our “Two Experts” interview between Franklin Boyd and Sarah Conley Odenkirk. [Business Wire]
And if you’re interested in the book Conley Odenkirk’s book “A Surprisingly Interesting Book About Contracts” discussed in the interview, you can buy it here. Only seven left! [Amazon]
Betting on the Super Bowl Is now an American tradition amongst museums. This year the Seattle Art Museum and the Clark Art Institute will bet art loans on the winner of this weekend’s Super Bowl. This tradition was established by Tyler Green in 2010. [Art Daily]
On the past and future of teledildonics. (You know, electronic sex toys.) [VICE]
AFC friend/furniture designer/past contributor Katie Stout is on Ellen’s Design Challenge! We’d probably watch anyway, but go Katie. [YouTube]
Emoji portraits of Miley Cyrus and other celebrities by Yung Jake. [Miley Cyrus on FB, via Marina Galperina and CNET]
“While searching through the White House art loan records for the Nixon administration yesterday…” begins a typical Greg.org post. I love this. He notes that hundreds of the White House’s artworks went missing during the Nixon Administration. Were they on that helicopter?? The artworks were eventually returned, but again, we now know that Nixon could have smuggled hundreds of artworks on his fucking helicopter. Records show that works were borrowed from the Smithsonian specifically for helicopter display, according to Greg Allen’s research. [greg.org]

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GIF of the Day: Kim Asendorf’s Rio Reset

by Whitney Kimball on December 4, 2014

I don’t envy the writers stuck with task of trudging through hours of art fair bullshit in the hopes of fishing out a fresh new angle. Aside from protest news, so far Art Basel coverage has consisted of “overheard” roundups, slideshows, and Miley Cyrus sightings. After 14 years, what’s there to say about an event that’s basically a luxury department store? I would imagine, dick.

So this Kim Asendorf GIF goes out to this year’s AFC Miami correspondent Paddy Johnson. “Rio Reset” is a picture of Rio, but the caption on 15folds is particularly relevant to fair season:

Every end is a new beginning, commonly with a higher standard, but sometimes it’s just the same again.

To be fair, I’m including another GIF, “Warenhaus“, in which Asendorf has topped New York with a toilet.

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Thursday Links: Invisible Graves and Empty Culture

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on December 4, 2014

James Franco, Seth Rogen and Kim Jong Un in “The Interview”

Carol Vogel, the Times lead art reporter is leaving her position. She took a voluntary buyout. Vogel had been the source of some negative press recently—a report she wrote this summer borrowed liberally from a wikipedia entry—but most reporters who leave won’t have that background. Artnews can barely contain their glee about Vogel’s departure. (No link.) Meanwhile, The Times shrinking paper should be a cause of concern. [The Baer Faxt]
Last night, New Yorkers took to the streets again to protest the police officer who killed Eric Garner. The horrifying video couldn’t make the crime clearer. [Animal New York, @RhettJones, @kainazamaria, @dianabhaktul, New York Times, the whole Internet]
Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will go ahead with its civil rights investigation of Eric Garner’s death. [NPR]
Private jet pilots picket Art Basel, Hyperallergic reports. [Hyperallergic]
Minutes after Art Basel opened, a tweeter claimed that protesters shut down Art Basel. Wishful thinking. [@okamax]
Thanks to Jeffrey Deitch, Miley Cyrus performed last night at the Raleigh Hotel in South Beach. Cyrus wore a silver metallic Cleopatra wig and bright turquoise eye-shadow, sang duet of Super Freak with a topless woman, and a bunch of covers. [AP]
Deborah Solomon’s Rockwell biography makes the New York Times’s notable book list. It appears to be the only art book. [New York Times]
“The Interview”, a movie about James Franco and Seth Rogen partying with Kim Jong Un, looks like the most tone-deaf bullshit ever. People are starving. [LA Times]

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Thursday Links: Baby Elephants or Killjoy Kastle?

by Paddy Johnson on October 31, 2013

A baby elephant playing with an elephant-sized soccer ball.

Carol Vogel reports that hedge fund manager of SAC and bullish art collector Steven A. Cohen will sell about $80 million worth of works he recently acquired through private collections. His company’s recent deal with the government to plead guilty to securities fraud is said not to have informed the decision. “Ever the trader, Mr. Cohen is also taking advantage of today’s active art market where new collectors will often pay far more for artworks than they are worth.” [The New York Times]
In response to a conversation over Twitter about the aforementioned article, Greg Allen updated the Greater Fool Theory on Wikipedia to include the art market, using Steven Cohen as the example. [Wikipedia]
Miley Cyrus dry humps a wrecking ball. We have Terry Richardson to thank for that video and photoshoot. She’s also sharing her Halloween porn pumpkins on instagram. Trick or Treat! [The Superficial]
Miley Cyrus wins Halloween as Lil’ Kim. [Racked]
The Toronto Sun has taken to trolling artists. Killjoy Kastle, a lesbian haunted house that features a room of severed penises and a mock-ball busting room, has sparked an op-ed in the guise of reporting on how Canadian tax dollars are being misspent. We’re talking 500 bucks. Allyson Mitchell, the artist behind the project, refused to allow The Sun entry into the haunted house. [The Toronto Sun]
USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts is hiring two part-time lecturers and two tenure track position. [USC via The Baer Faxt]
What a lead, “Art Toronto isn’t anyone’s favorite fair, but it’s the one we have.” Looks like we weren’t the only ones underwhelmed with this fair. [BlouinArtInfo]
Here’s a baby moved to tears by the sound of his mother singing. [The Huffington Post]
A.I.R. Gallery is inviting artists to apply to their biennial fundraiser. It’s a celebration of women! This year, they’ve named an award after yours truly—THE PADDY JOHNSON PRIZE. Ladies, get your jpgs ready. 40 bucks to apply. [NYFA]
After last night’s exhaustive research, I have determined that pitbull puppies are the cutest of all dogs, and baby elephants the cutest of all baby animals. [Google]
Look out publishing world: The home furnishing company Restoration Hardware (now RH) is releasing a quarterly pub, RH Contemporary Art Journal. This follows the Times’ September profile of RH’s plans to open a Chelsea gallery this November, which discussed about company’s Orwellian leadership. Company president, Gary Friedman, “compares himself to the Roman architect Vitruvius and enjoys alliterative euphemisms. RH is not a company, it’s a “cause.” It’s not about profits, but “purpose”; not about brand, but “beliefs.” Employees are referred to as “team members,” and the marketing department is called the “truth group.” [New York Times Magazine]

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