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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Live From Grand Rapids!

Cancel whatever you’re doing at 7 PM tonight, readers. Paddy Johnson will be critiquing the finalists of ArtPrize, in the 3D and time-based categories. (Peruse the finalists here. Watch the Livestream here.) The stakes are high; we expect some animated debate to light up twitter tonight.

And the rest of the week looks equally promising: fashion snarker Simon Doonan talks menswear, the New York Film Fest continues, and Philadelphia’s Vox Populi Gallery sees a weekend filled with Videofreex, Jeanine Oleson, and Jaimie Warren.

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Tuesday Links: Squirrel Goes for a Swim

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on September 30, 2014

A squirrel at sea. Watch the whole thing. It’s cleansing. [Youtube, h/t Metafilter]
It reminds us of this depressed penguin from Werner Herzog’s “Encounters at the End of the World”. [Youtube]
Fergus McCaffrey has announced that he’s opening a second gallery location on the island of St. Barthélemy this November. The gallery notes that the island has held an artist colony since the sixties, hosting artists like Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and Francesco Clemente. In that tradition McCaffrey had already co-established an artist residency and gallery there from 2005-2008. The next logical step, we think, would be to fly some writers down for the tour. [Our inboxes]
Strange. The lede to this article makes artist David Hockney sounds like a grumpy old man complaining that art has become “less” through conceptual art, as it “gave up on images.” Watch the 4-minute video, though, and he sounds a lot cheerier and doesn’t talk so much about conceptual art. [BBC]
Laure Provost on art and life: “I know I’m never going to fully grasp life in my art. It’s never as good as having the sun on your face. Even if you film someone with the sun on their face it feels as if you’ve lost something. ” [Frieze, behind the paywall]
Prepare to die inside when reading “Blouin Lifestyle Picks” on ArtInfo. “Picks” include Burmese rubies, Colombian emeralds, and a diamond ring with “baguette-cut diamond shoulders” (whatever that means). Maybe their readership is made up of lords, ladies, and the richest Kardashians?[ArtInfo]
In Hong Kong, thousands of students are occupying the streets in a very orderly fashion. They are calling for democratic reforms by sitting outside, cleaning up after themselves, recycling, and doing their homework in public. Amazing. [The Independent]
And of course the city’s art fairs will go on in the face of protests, reports Kelly Crow. [Twitter]
Roberto Cuoghi joins the Lehmann Maupin stable. [artnet News]
Today in design crapola: Disney characters’ butts make phone chargers. [Gizmodo]

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Friday Links: Like Men, But Not

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on August 1, 2014

Source: Feministing

Amid more violence, the ceasefire between Israel and Palestine crumbles. [BBC]
Today and today only, the Design Museum Boston will be giving away 600 artworks that say “I think you’re fabulous” and “you’re spectacular.” These are the takeaway equivalent of the selfie. [BostInno]
Another art project that just begging to be photographed: 888,246 red ceramic flowers will flow—like a river of blood—from the Tower of London to commemorate the British who perished during WWI. [Colossal]
It looks like all-powerful collector and MoMA’s President Emirita and Chairwoman Agnes Gund has taken up the mantle of gender inequality. (We’re just glad to hear about something other than her dogs, her wealth, and MoMA-related opinions that aren’t Glenn Lowry’s). Last month, Gund speculated that the Google Art Project, a virtualization of MoMA’s collection, will bring out more lesser-shown female artists. And now she writes in an op-ed that there’s still a long way toward gender equality in the art world. This is presumably to promote MoMA’s initiative to give the museum over entirely to women artists in 2015. That’s a good thing! [Huffington Post]
Malik Gaines, of performance troupe My Barbarian, interviews his father Charles Gaines, who’s also an artist and currently has a solo show at the Studio Museum Harlem. Gaines the elder explains what it was like to make conceptual work in the 1970s: “When I started showing in New York, my name got out there, but nobody knew I was black, and then I started going to parties or to lectures or I’d be interviewed, and I can’t tell you how many times people have come up to me and said, ‘You’re black.’ ‘I really appreciate you informing me. I know.’” [Interview]
The history of BathSalts: A Drag Show for Fuck Ups. Colin Self explains the need for this weekly meet up as an escape creating “a space to clown and celebrate nonsense and absurdity with a form of ‘drag’ not based in subverting ideas of gender, but rather the content of our newsfeeds.” Drag for everyone! [Dazed]
The Jewish Museum has a new website—and logo—designed by Sagmeister & Walsh. This is the first complete overhaul to the site since 1997. [Jewish Museum]
500-year-old human bones are found in Ikea bags! Apparently up to 80 bags of bones have been sitting around in a church since 2009, and had been under the floorboards after being pulled up to build a wheelchair ramp. [Gawker]

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The Baltimore Highlights Slideshow

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on July 25, 2014

Highlights from last weekend’s trip to Baltimore include art on an Oculus Rift, Tindr painting, and an artist’s imagining of Robot Christmas.

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We Went to Baltimore: The Sondheim Prize Finalist Exhibition

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on July 24, 2014

Modernism and kinetic sculpture win more prizes.

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Thursday Links: A Morning Medley of Tastelessness

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on July 24, 2014

Image courtesy of Bloomberg Businessweek

Lay’s new cappuccino-flavored potato chips sound like a serious candidate for grossest food ever. [Bloomberg Businessweek, h/t @chaykak]
Weird Al Yankovic, with recent spoofs like “Tacky” (to the tune of “Happy”), remains more popular than ever. Weird. [Flavorwire]
Take a deep breath. Try to stay calm. Then see if you can manage to read this tasteless listicle on the Top 10 Artists Who Died During the First World War. [The Guardian]
Carolina A. Miranda begins her Comic Con coverage by chatting with writer Douglas Wolk who’s responsible for “Judge Dredd: Mega City Two – City of Courts,” the L.A. update on the Judge Dredd comic series. [Los Angeles Times]
Because there’s no art news today: This year, the cops reign in the open-air drug market at the Gathering of the Juggalos, just a little bit. [Village Voice]
Rhizome is giving away money to artists (again)! If you apply for a $500 Internet Art Microgrant, all you need to do is submit a 150-word proposal and a sketch, even a doodle, of your project. [Rhizome]
Rhizome continues its series of artist interviews, this time featuring Genevieve Belleveau. These are extensive. [Rhizome]
Will daily newspaper publishing soon be relegated only to giants like New York Times? David Boardman, ex-executive editor of the Seattle Times, hopes so. He thinks newspapers should publish only once a week, making for “superb, in-depth, last-all-week Sunday (or better yet, Saturday) paper, a publication so big and rich and engaging that readers will devour it piece by piece over many days, and pay a good price for that pleasure.” People should make magazines. [Slog]
An Air Algerie flight crashes.

I’m mad at planes.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) July 24, 2014

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We Went to Chelsea: Another Look at Detroit

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on July 3, 2014

Detroit, as seen through Chelsea’s lens.

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Friday Links: As Relevant as Cat Fancy

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on June 20, 2014

This week at Artnet, Paddy talks about Iñaki Bonillas’s Dia Art Foundation web-based commission “Words and Photos.” It’s a hard-to-navigate word guessing game. [artnet News]
The Broad is hosting a talk between comedian Steve Martin and artist Eric Fischl. Why? They’re buddies and Steve Martin’s been a longtime collector of Fischl’s work. It’s on Monday in Los Angeles, but you’ll be able to livestream it. [e-flux]
Mallory Ortberg dug up a 1966 letter to the editors of Cat Fancy from Ayn Rand, explaining the philosophical value of cats to her. Since Rand wrote searing volumes on freeloaders, and is now the philosophical artillery store for Republicans who want to cut food stamps, it’s fascinating to see her make an exception for cats: because they amuse her. Bloggers discuss. [The Objective Standard]
Even net artists get Internet anxiety. In Bedford + Bowery, Giselle Zatonyl talks about the way the Internet digests information into dog food and how people process their anxieties online. It makes me sorry I missed her show “Discrete Systems” during Bushwick Open Studios. Eight more days to see the show. [Bedford + Bowery]
New York is so close to launching a pilot program for medical marijuana. And lawmakers are voting on the bill, which includes a “no smoking” provision, today. You can eat it, but you can puff on it. [New York Magazine]
Sad but good: Detroit is auctioning off foreclosed homes on the Internet. They’re hoping to fend off the speculators by stipulating that buyers must pay to renovate the homes and live there. [City Lab]
Noticed at Art Basel: Art collector flipping a purchase the same day he bought it. This is shitty. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
Artpace calls for applicants to its San Antonio residency. They will accept one Texan artist, one non-Texan from the US, and one foreigner. [Glasstire]
A banned Grey Poupon ad, for sandwich poopers! [Petflow, via Michael Anthony Farley]
If we were in Philly this weekend, we know what we’d be doing: Force Field Project, an artist collaboration/festival of large scale installations and performances in unused spaces. I confidently recommend ceramicist, curator (and AFC friend) Sean Gerstley, who will be showing raku-fired raccoons. Get your tickets here. [Force Field Project, program guide]

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Wednesday Links: Some People Are Very Confused About Feminism

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on May 28, 2014

“6 AM, Cat Alarm Clocks”
© Judy Chicago, 2000, Watercolor on Arches, 22″ x 30″, Photo © Donald Woodman (Image courtesy of judychicago.com)

Does this Manhattan Mini Storage ad make sense to anyone? [Instagram]
Prompted by the #YesAllWomen hashtag, a pro-women response to the misogynist element of the recent Isla Vista murders, Mira Schor recently hosted a Facebook conversation about feminism and misogyny in the arts. “…[I]n my experience as a feminist artist and educator practically no men ever feel that the incredibly rich body of artwork, literature and discussion by women specifically in the period of second wave feminism of the past fifty or sixty years (as well as in the hundreds of years before) is necessary for them to study and learn from,” she writes. Her last two posts had been about Ana Mendieta’s murder. [A Year of Positive Thinking]
“But that does not mean that every single essay about your work has to say that everything looks like vaginas.” Well, that happens when you’re Judy Chicago. [Big Red & Shiny]
A review of performance and video artist Mike Smith’s first solo show in the UK: “ In the States, Mike is an Everyman, but in the UK, Mike is every American…As an expat, it’s painful to watch.” [Glasstire]
Amazon is hiring robot people! Or, just, 10,000 robots. Their mission is to move thousands and thousands of dildos. [The Verge]
The Modern Language Association releases its recommendations for PhD reform in the Humanities. What tops their list? Shorten degree programs to five years, and prepare students for careers outside of the teaching field. [Inside Higher Ed]
Another diatribe about how people don’t stop to read or experience anything on the Internet; the best remedy is keep shaming, we guess. [New York Times]
How can the book industry solve the problem of lagging print sales? Some are hedging their bets on BookCon, which opens this weekend at the Javits Center. It’s organized by the founders of Comic Con. [Vulture]
Time Warner Cable News, of Winston-Salem, NC, reports that Maya Angelou has been found dead in her home. [TWCNews]

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