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by Henry Kaye Corinna Kirsch on August 15, 2014
Artists on TV shows fall prey to plenty of stereotypes. (Artists be crazy, anyone?) Today we’re just going to scratch the surface of the rainbow variety of as-seen-on-TV artist craziness with shows like Wilfred, Doctor Who, and Six Feet Under.
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by Henry Kaye Corinna Kirsch on August 15, 2014
- Every summer, the facekinis return! [The Guardian]
- Artnet published part two of Paddy’s A Brief History of Animated GIF Art series. This installment covers the golden age of social media GIFs. [artnet News]
- In “How a Palestinian Artist Turned Detainment Into a Creative Opportunity,” the fact that Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar could not legally come into the United States for his exhibition gave him a chance to ship new work. (Yay?) And then this supposedly happened: “In addition, Jarrar organized a satellite project at art space Undercurrent Projects, which consisted of informal panel discussions about the current situation in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as talks about Jarrar’s works and the state of art in Palestine.” Yes, that series was organized, but it never got off the ground. It never took place. [GOOD]
- Some corners of Washington D.C.’s art scene are thriving; others just surviving. [Washington City Paper]
- Today in India: Former Louise Blouin staffers will begin a 5-day protest regarding “delayed wages and erratic firings.” [Gallerist]
- Statue selfies. (Kind of “blah,” kind of “hah.”) [Reddit]
- In need of a $5,600 skateboard with a whimsical skull drawn on it, or maybe a $4,300 high-gloss nude of Pamela Anderson? Then go down to Damien Hirst’s gift shop in Soho. Some of this stuff actually looks pretty great. [The New York Times]
- Amsterdam is about to get less racist. [Al Jazeera America]
- The Hairpin announces a new web editor, Haley Mlotek. She likes bad movies that might not be so bad. [The Awl]
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by Henry Kaye Corinna Kirsch on August 8, 2014
- Do large New York City museums use the Internet to expand or to improve upon already existing exhibitions? Some institutions, like the Brooklyn Museum, are using the web to improve things on home fronts. But, big surprise: The Met sees the Internet as an opportunity to conquer the world. [The New York Times]
- And on a slightly related note from the Onion: “Shitty Museum Doesn’t Even Have a Mona Lisa.” [The Onion]
- Artist claims that Gilbert and George ripped off his work. He may have a point. Here’s Gilbert and George’s 2007 work, and here’s Atkinson’s from 1989. [artnet News]
- Because it’s August and Friday and art news is slow, here’s some Star Wars trivia: Chewbacca’s voice came from recordings of four bears, a badger, a lion, a seal, and a walrus, all animals living in Long Beach. [The Atlantic]
- In yesterday’s links we begged the world to stop this parody-music revival going on. Just to spite us, the universe has decided not to let up. Lonely Island is making a movie with Judd Apatow. Anything’s better than Weird Al Yankovic at the Super Bowl, I guess. [The Verge]
- More than 900 writers under the name Authors United are signing an open letter admonishing Amazon for questionable practices. The claim: Amazon is discouraging readers from buying books from the publisher Hachette, as a way of pressuring it into giving better deals to Amazon on e-books. [Los Angeles Times]
- Former President Nixon’s media legacy involves the continued presidential blackballing of it. [The Atlantic]
- Social practice writers, artists, and historians: FIELD, the peer-review journal for you guys, has arrived. The first call for papers will remain open through October 15. Oh, and it’s run by Grant Kester and some other great people at UCSD. [Field Journal]
- Nigeria still has a ways to go for its artists to compete in the global art market. Artists claim a poor level of service from dealers; dealers claim artists wrangle in backroom sales. [All Africa]
- First rule of art school: Don’t act surprised when your teacher fails you for making art about shit. [Huffington Post]
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by Henry Kaye Corinna Kirsch on June 23, 2014
Edith Vonnegut, “Taking Out the Garbage.”
- New Yorkers, be on the lookout for the results of tonight’s Rent Guidelines Board meeting. Tonight, they decide whether to freeze rents for the thousands of tenants living in rent-stabilized apartments. [Capital]
- Across the pond, Nicholas Penny has announced his retirement as director of the National Gallery of Art in London. [ArtsBeat]
- After years of budget cuts, inner-city schools are slowly reintroducing art, music, and gym classes. The reason? These subjects encourage students to stay in school. [NPR]
- What a great find: Feminist novelist Kathy Acker interviewed the Spice Girls in 1997. Marxism, racism, and anger ensues. [Venus Radio via @longreads]
- If Kim Kardashian’s entire life sounds like a video game to you, you’re on the right track; she just released an app where you can learn how to be a paparazzi queen. [The Daily Beast]
- Julia Halperin surveys performance art collectors and finds that performance still remains one area of the art market where art-as-an-investment has yet to kick in. [The Art Newspaper]
- Art Basel closed yesterday. Most of the work was sold long before Sunday, though, mainly in the first few days. [Art Slant]
- Art writers, need some Monday morning inspiration? Writer and poet Kenneth Goldsmith talks about the myth of writer’s block. Also, he printed the internet. [Frieze]
- Well, this defies common sense. In an effort to clean up the J, M, and Z train lines, the MTA has decided to remove all but one trash can from the Brooklyn stations. Get ready for some summertime grossness! [The Brooklyn Paper]
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