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by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on August 15, 2013
From the "Neighbors" series by Arne Svenson,
- Holland Cotter has identified a new trend in art: historical awareness. He reviews the the Prada Foundation’s remounting of the 1969 show, “When Attitudes Become Form,” and learns a little about the construction of myth. Great piece. [The New York Times]
- The Russian art magazine Art Chronika will cease publication. This is yet another hit to the already small Moscow art scene, which has been hemorrhaging commercial art galleries over the last year. [Gallerist NY]
- New York Supreme Court ruled artist Arne Svenson was in his rights to photograph his neighbors without their permission. Yay for the First Amendment and all, but these photos still sound creepy. [The Art Newspaper]
- Physicists are fiercely debating whether a person would be crushed by gravity or flash-fried by a firewall of energy if caught in a black hole. The stakes? Oh, just the veracity of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. This article is a little difficult to follow without some background in physics. [The New York Times]
- Hyperallergic’s Mostafa Heddaya has a great piece on how Detroit’s defaults actually affect the Detroit Institute of Art’s “assets”. [Hyperallergic]
- Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers tears Bryan Goldberg apart for introducing Bustle.com as the first publication that targets women or goes beyond the narrow scope of women’s magazines. He also defended himself from backlash by speculating that his critics are probably mad at him because he’s a man addressing a market for women. Face-palm. [Flavorwire]
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by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on August 12, 2013
Mayan sculpture depicting a divine ruler. Courtesy of Blouin Art Info.
- At the age of 18, Stanley Kubrick was shooting photographs for Look Magazine. Here are his 1946 shots in the subway. [The Wall Breakers]
- Mega-dealer David Zwirner talks to Businessweek about the gallery world. Sounds like he’s having a good time—he says he’d encourage his kids to get involved. [Businessweek]
- The New Museum’s XFR STN gets some love from The New York Times. The project invites artists and creative types to bring in their old art for digitization. The work is then uploaded to archive.org. [The New York Times]
- George Clooney’s new movie on Nazi art thieves has a trailer. [Gallerist]
- Here’s a story that never changes: even high-powered female execs who decide to become stay at home moms are having problems re-entering the workforce. [The New York Times]
- New York City’s smallest museum, Museum, has three rules: no art, “sentimentality is a major filtration system”, and nothing vintage. [The New York Times]
- The Scottish Museum of National Art mounted an exhibition about witches. Ooh. [The Guardian]
- Q: Why are we attracted to beautiful things? A: They work better. There’s more to it then that, of course, and Divya Pahwa gets into some of that in her essay. [The Medium]
- Juliette Lewis is now in M. Night Shyamalan’s new television adaptation of Wayward Pines. Barf. [Flavorwire]
- A 26-foot Mayan sculpture dating back to 600 CE discovered in Guatemala. [ArtInfo]
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by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on August 9, 2013
Dylan Neuwirth
- LACMA hires a water sommelier, and launches a 45 page menu. Isn’t this a little like hiring a vodka sommelier? Water probably has a broad flavor profile. [Hyperallergic]
- An honest interview with twitter maverick and Seattle-based artist Dylan Neuwirth. [Culture Catch]
- Now that the five million features about curator Barbara London and her new Sound Art show “Soundings” have run, the show’s opened and the reviews are coming out. Holland Cotter seems very unimpressed. It’s not a major sound art show. [The New York Times]
- Carolina Miranda talks to artist Adriana Salazar about what’s left us after we die. Salazar’s making arrangements on tables from various implants that remain after cremation. [KCRW]
- The Washington Post gets called out for insulting the New Testament scholar Reza Aslan while reporting on Fox News’ recent controversial interview. [New Republic]
- 3D printers can be used to construct replicas of mummies without disturbing the original artifact. The future is now. [ArtInfo]
- Funny story: the entire US newspaper industry is making about as much on advertising as the revenue of one toilet paper company. The author admits he wasn’t trying to make a serious comparison, but that’s still a pretty insane statistic. [Forbes]
- Doug Aitken’s Station to Station tickets go on sale today. This Levi’s ad is supposed to promote the concert. [Vimeo]
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by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on August 2, 2013
A 3D printed portrait from Twinkind
- Artist Stuart Pilkington asked 98 photographers to submit an image that was inspired by a book, film or painting. As you can imagine that’s lots of contrived imagery in this series, which is exactly what memes are made of. [Stuart Pilkington]
- Only Ken Johnson would look at Thomas Houseago’s exaggerated masculine sculptures and think, “Poor Masculinity, he’s but a shell of his former self. He’s been in decline for a long time — since as far back as the Industrial Revolution, one might say, when people began turning into cogs. Lately, what with the shifts in gender roles and sex, and the moral undoing of so many male heroes, he finds his prerogatives challenged on every front.” Anyway, he’s visited The Storm King Art Center. [The New York Times]
- Star Trek, acted out in a public park. [Wired]
- XFR STN, a summer project from the New Museum, has begun posting recently converted video online. The results are pretty sweet. [Rhizome]
- The future is now: with advances in 3D scanning and 3D printing a company called Twinkind can make a tiny, life-like replica of you for $300. Compare this to a 2011 3D scan of Paddy’s head and it’s amazing how far this technology has come. [Wired]
- Oh, this is great: Old photographs of artists in their studios. [Hyperallergic]
- Tumblr of the day: workingatanonprofit.tumblr.com. [via: @Frieze_Magazine]
- Brooklyn-based conceptual artist Eric Doeringer gets a review for his show at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects in Toronto. Critic Murray Whyte says the show is better than a collection of one liners, it’s institutional critique. A thoughtful review. [The Toronto Star]
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by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on July 12, 2013
- In London, a new project modelled after the Highline will connect two disparate gallery neighborhoods from the Garden Museum to Vauxhall. [The Art Newspaper]
- Buzzfeed Founder Jonah Peretti and Artist and Filmmaker Miranda July talk about email, thanks to July’s new project “We Think Alone”. The project asks a bunch of stars to reveal their email correspondence. It’s a good conversation, mostly because it feels personal. [The Moment]
- Lots of the love for the Fred Valentine show up at Sometimes. We gotta say, those paintings look great, but can anyone tell us where the gallery’s located? [Two Coats of Paint, The L Magazine]
- Roberta Smith reminds us that Ken Price’s “Zoo” at Matthew Marks Gallery is a great entry point into his current retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Drawing Center. [The New York Times]
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation gets an A for effort in a condescending review of their retrospective Ode to Joy at the Brooklyn Museum. [The New York Times]
- Everyone is getting really excited about this NeverWet spray, including us. [AdWeek]
- Andrew M. Goldstein, Rachel Corbett, and Alex Greenberger think arts organizations are right to be nervous about the Bloomberg philanthropy coming to an end. They cite 2.8 billion spent on the arts across Bloomberg’s three terms. [Artspace Magazine]
- The city budget gives MoMA PS1 $3 million to buy gallery space in a nearby apartment building. No such luck for the South Street Seaport Museum. [Brownstoner]
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by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on June 25, 2013
Your day just got a hell of a lot better. Let us introduce you to Catflakes, a website that floats cat heads and legs in snowflake shapes across your screen.
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by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on June 21, 2013
2012 QAM recipient Camilo Godo. Image via: Hyperallergic
- “I like Mr. Turrell’s work well enough” Roberta Smith on the James Turrell exhibition at the Guggenheim. Despite the way it sounds, (if you’ll excuse the pun), the review is glowing. [The New York Times]
- With James Turrell at the Guggenheim, the summer solstice making his 1986 “Meeting” at MoMA PS1 an enticing destination for sunbathing, as well as retrospectives in Houston and Los Angeles, it would seem the artist is on top of the world. That said, he has recently declared one of his works in Dallas “destroyed” due to unwelcome real estate development. [Hyperallergic]
- Turkish artist and choreographer Erdem Gündüz stood still as an act of protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul this week. The artist has garnered a small following of fellow standers who in turn have been awarded the hashtags #direnankara and #duranadam (standingman, standingwoman) [ArtInfo]
- Queer artists, filmmakers, and writers pair up in the New York-based mentorship program aptly named the Queer Art Mentorship Program. Participants include Carlos Motta, Moe Angelos, Geoffrey Chadsey, Yoruba Richen [Hyperallergic]
- The Queens Museum launches a new studio program with nine residents. They include Juan Betancurth, Onyedika Chuke, Shahab Fotouhi, Caitlin Keogh, Mike Kenney, Filip Olzeweski and Bunny Rogers, Jewyo Rhii and Caroline Woolard. [Gallerist]
- Holland Cotter on Ken Price at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: one of those rare ideal shows: right size, great design (by Frank Gehry), pretty near faultless art. [The New York Times]
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