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Pierre Huyghe Releases Spiders, Welcomes Rats Into the Artist’s Institute

by Corinna Kirsch on February 27, 2014

And it’s nice.

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Pierre Huyghe’s Third Memory and a Bear Rocking Out

by Will Brand on December 7, 2011

In 1975, convicted bank robber John Wojtowicz sent a prospective article to The New York Times. It sheds fascinating light on his crime, the resulting movie (Dog Day Afternoon), and Pierre Huyghe’s seminal The Third Memory (1999). Also, a certain bear likes Fitty.

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Monday Links: What Is Living Sculpture? Living for Love? What Is Love?

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on August 10, 2015

The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Bernini (left), & Lindsay Lohan (right) [via Twitter user @Furmadamadam]

Singapore just turned fifty. And what the relatively tiny nation’s art scene lacks in terms of freedom of speech, it seems to be making up for with robust arts funding. Singapore (population roughly 5.4 million) increased its budget for the arts from $202.6 million (USD) in 2010 to a whopping $308.6 million in 2013. [CNN]

Pierre Huyghe’s “Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt)” is presently installed in MoMA’s sculpture garden. The sculpture consists of a reclining nude whose face is obscured by a living bee colony. Miraculously, it seems that no visitors have been stung yet and the bees seem content to gather pollen from Midtown’s scattered parks. [NY Post]

In related “living sculptures that produce edible sweet things” news, artist Sam Van Aken has been making grafted trees that bear 40 varieties of fruit. [CNN]

Although it includes no delicious agricultural projects, John Latham’s London home has been called a work of “living sculpture” too. Unfortunately, Flat Time House is slated to close next year due to a budget shortfall. [The Art Newspaper]

DJ Robin Skouteris and video editor Panos T. have created the biggest guilty pleasure of 2015: a surreal mashup of Madonna’s “Living for Love” with Haddaway’s 90s classic “What is Love?” [Youtube via DJ Vodkatrina]

Derrick Carter, Chicago house legend, offers the penultimate definition of “basic bitches.” [Twitter]

In yet another example of anti-piracy giving big studios carte blanche with ridiculous copyright takedowns, Columbia Pictures has gone on a rampage, targeting independent films hosted on Vimeo for using the word “pixels.” The efforts, coinciding with the studio’s recent release of Adam Sandlers’s “terrible” video game film Pixels, does little to earn the benevolence of nerds everywhere. [CNET]

Jonathan Ollivier, the lead ballet dancer in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man at London’s Sadler Wells, tragically died in a motorbike accident just hours before his final performance. [BBC News]

The Liverpool Biennial is looking to hire an assistant curator. [Liverpool Biennial]

For those of us car-free city folk, this itinerary of epic, art-centric summer roadtrip ideas is frustratingly tempting. [The Wall Street Journal]

Was the Bard a pothead? Forensic testing of 400-year-old tobacco pipes found in William Shakespeare’s gardens were found to contain the lingering residue of cannabis. Also: “Sonnet 76” was totally about weed. [Telegraph]

Seph Rodney has a thought-provoking look at the ephemeral place-less-ness of the Google Earth memorial to Michael Brown. [Hyperallergic]

The Spanish national synchronized swimming team performing to Led Zeppelin is probably one of the best things you can watch on the Internet today. [Little Things]

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Philippe Parreno at the Park Avenue Armory: Almost an Oasis

by Corinna Kirsch on June 30, 2015

A weary traveler might find respite in H {N}Y P N{Y} OSIS, a sometimes soothing, musical reverie held in the dark, cool space within the Park Avenue Armory. But just when she thinks she has stumbled into a calming oasis, those damn flashing lights won’t stop blinking, those automated pianos won’t stop playing, and those precocious little girls won’t stop speaking in existential overtones.

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Real Life Versus Instagram Life at the Armory Week Fairs

by Greg Allen on March 6, 2015

Greg Allen looks at the Armory week fairs through the lens of Instagram.

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Art F City Nominated for Best Blog in the 2014 AICA Awards

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 2, 2015

Good job, everyone. Woo! Art F City has been nominated for the “best blog” award by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA).

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Friday Links: It’s Cold

by Corinna Kirsch on February 20, 2015

New York (and me) right now.

On the rise of the art fairs: “This shift in the market has been problematic for many traditional art galleries, which are going out of business at an alarmingly steady rate.” [Art Media Agency]
Hahahahaha. The New Republic claims, in one headline, “The Privileged Are Taking Over the Arts.” Oh, thank you for warning me because I had never noticed all the rich people in the art world! [The New Republic]
CCA is now publishing the online art mags Art Practical and Daily Serving. Another college/non-profit crossover: Coronograph, Texas’ newest online art magazine. The interview-only pub will be jointly published by Dallas’ Southern Methodist University and Austin’s Pastelegram. [Glasstire]
HNWI Alert: Citadel CEO Ken Griffin has gifted the Museum of Contemporary Art with $10 million. In return, he will receive an art gallery in his namesake. On February 10, Griffin purchased a very large Richter at auction. Maybe Chicago will be able to see that. [Bloomberg]
“[T]he works are porous, they leak out or into each other, and their material realities exist with or without the gaze of a person.” Artist Pierre Huyghe on his current show at LACMA. [Art in America]
Nadya and Masha of Pussy Riot have released an English-language song and music video named “I Can’t Breathe,” after Eric Garner’s chokehold death. [The Guardian]
This spring, expect to see Op-art fashion on the cool kids who can afford wearing Kenzo. [Opening Ceremony]

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Tuesday Links: Show Me Some Art With Soft Porn

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 17, 2015

Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on Fuck Yeah Yanis Varoufakis

Do Artist Branding and Hollywood Talent Agency Deals Kill an Artist’s Soul? AFC’s Paddy Johnson doesn’t think so. [Artnet]
Chicago-based, Cuban-born artist Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera has been living behind a wall for three weeks, in quiet protest of his U.S.-Cuban policies. [Chicago Magazine]
Márcia Oliani, 54, the finance manager of an art gallery who recently endured six days without water in her Sao Paolo apartment unleashes some crazy vitriol on the governor and the water utility company Sabesp. The city has been experiencing the worst drought they’ve had in the last century “I feel hatred, hatred of the governor and of Sabesp,” she said. “I’d like to take them out and set fire to them. They completely failed to warn us, and have just continued to lie about this throughout.” [The New York Times]
City Desk Studio has been trying to sell the skyway they purchased in 2006 for $1.2 million since 2009. Having been unsuccessful, they are now offering $5000 to anyone who will purchase it. Greg Allen has devised a cheapo shipping option, which involves removing the skyway’s floor, but we think the permits required to get it on the barge he’s proposed might blow the budget. [Greg Allen]
A new book of Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko’s writings: The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art. [Amazon]
Looks like we all need to move to Minneapolis. Some stats: “The Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area is richer by median household income than Pittsburgh or Salt Lake City (or New York, or Chicago, or Los Angeles). Among residents under 35, the Twin Cities place in the top 10 for highest college-graduation rate, highest median earnings, and lowest poverty rate, according to the most recent census figures.” Why is the city so successful? According to Myles Shaver, a professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, it’s because “its most important resource never leaves the city: educated managers of every level.” I guess that’s a resource more valuable than oil. [The Atlantic]
Nothing even remotely to do with art, but you gotta read Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in the Times opinion pages today. He talks uses game theory and Kant to explain his position on austerity and Greek’s current negotiation strategy. [The New York Times]
And for those who want to know more about Yanis Varoufakis, an apparent heart throb in Greece, here’s the “Fuck Yeah Yanis Varoufakis” Tumblr, complete with duckfaces. [Fuck Yeah, Yanis Varoufakis]
And for those who want to know more about the economics of the Greece financial crisis and how it relates to the history of World War I, there’s Paul Krugman hitting it out of the park. [The New York Times]
71-year-old artist David Hammons has announced he is opening a gallery in Yonkers, but little details are known. Here’s what Andrew Russeth found out about the gallery: “Hammons’s space, at 39 Lawrence Street, is a one-story brick building with tall ceilings, filling a lot that measures two-thirds of an acre, about 29,200 square feet. According to property records, an entity called Duchamp Realty LLC, which is registered to the artist’s home address in Brooklyn, bought it for $2.05 million in January 2014.” [ARTnews]
Congratulations, again, to Pierre Huyghe for winning the 2015 Kurt Schwitters Award! Here’s AFC’s posts on the digital-conceptual-minimal artist. (“I do not own Tate Modern or the Death Star” remains one of Corinna’s all-time favorite works of art in neon.) [Artforum]
“Show me some art with soft porn.” [Imgur]
A letter from “Artists for Palestine” was published over this weekend in The Guardian. Over 700 art-worlders have decided to disengage with Israel in the cultural sphere. This means that invitations to any cultural centers with ties to the Israeli government will be declined. The 700 includes John Berger, Brian Eno, and Jeremy Deller. [The Guardian]

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Friday Links: Help the Whales, and a Vagina Ring Joke

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on September 5, 2014

You know, just a guy in a whale suit.

Because some artists and galleries have no ethical qualms about posting hacked female nudes, there will be an art exhibition about them. [SF Gate]
John Herrman at the Awl gifts a new phrase to the world, “take time.” Use this quip whenever the Internet overreacts to a single event, i.e. nude leak 2014. “Hey, guys, it’s everyone’s ‘take time.’” [The Awl]
Researchers have found that roughly half the viking remains they studied were female. Apparently, previous to this, nobody thought to check the gender. [Tor]
Comedian Joan Rivers has died. [The New York Times]
Never afraid to offend, Joan Rivers tells jokes about the Holocaust and her vagina ring, just months ago on The Tonight Show. Host Jimmy Fallon ends the interview by asking Rivers if she’s afraid of death. [YouTube]
Joan Rivers and a Dr. Who joke. [Imgur]
This month’s Brooklyn Rail’s Critic’s Page is devoted to feminism. [Brooklyn Rail]
Margaret Atwood has become the first contributor Norway’s Future Library, a project by artist Katie Paterson. Every year until 2114, the library will invite one author to contribute a work. In 2114, trees that Paterson planted this summer will be cut down so the work can be printed. [The Guardian]
Procrastinate, for science. Whale.fm crowdsources labor for matching whale calls, to help scientists start to decipher the dialect of Pilot Whales. Try to match the sound in the center of the screen to one of the sound files below. If it’s a match, click the checkmark that pops up next to the audio clip. [Whale.fm]
Randy Kennedy has a nice interview with artist Pierre Huyghe—who “fits into the tidy mold of a museum retrospective about as comfortably as a monkey fits into a dress”—prior to his first Stateside retrospective, set to open November 23 at LACMA. Haha, Randy. [The New York Times]
Artists beware. Bert Kreuk has sued Danh Vo for 1.2 million because he failed to deliver a work worth $350,000 for an exhibition of Kreuk’s collection. The rest of the money is for “damage to his reputation and lost profit.” Collector Alain Servais has suggested over Twitter that Vo may be refusing to deliver the work because Kreuk is “an art-flipper more toxic than [Stefan] Simchowitz” [artnet News]
White guys in power weigh in on graffiti (again). “I find it outrageous that one of the city’s museums is currently celebrating graffiti and what a great impact it had on the city,” says Police chief William Bratton. “The young people who invented this style didn’t have access to art supplies,” says Jeffrey Deitch. “They didn’t have a garage at home where they could work on canvases. They had the streets.” This is so so so so so stupid. [artnet News]

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Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s New Do It Video Tells You to Do It With Social Media

by Corinna Kirsch on April 29, 2014

But why should we do it?

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