It’s time someone finally produced a peer-reviewed paper that ranked the butts of every Super Bowl player. This study divides asses into the following categories: Flat Butts, Long Butts (sister to the flat butt), Middle of the Pack, Honorable Mentions, and Best in Show. One quibble with the results: What the hell is Luke Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks doing in “Middle of the Pack”? Clearly that ass deserves better. [Buzzfeed]
Be nice to your New Yorkers today because yesterday sucked for thousands of us. Snow, a flaming umbrella, and signal-related delays contributed to three-hour-long delays on the 7-train (with commuters stuck inside), and malfunctions on the L, J, and M, leaving many with no cross-borough subway transportation. [Gothamist]
Mayor de Blasio, in today’s State of the City address, will stress the administration’s aim to build 1,500 below-market live-work spaces for New York City artists by 2024. [WNYC]
Interstate Projects Curatorial Director Jamie Sterns blogs about her recent visit to the Serpentine Galleries, and a flock of ravenous birds. One particularly enjoyable line, regarding a performance by Beth Collar: “It felt so familiar in its vague poetics and predictability of mumble-core Dadaism.” [Ya Ya Ya]
More blogs: WOW HUH, a group art blog, that we assumed was defunct, has posted six essays this month. Mostly by artists, and full of real opinions: Carlos Rosales-Silva writes “ It is increasingly difficult to be an artist in this moment. I am having a hell of a time imagining what utility art has in the fight against the deeply-ingrained, white supremacist system of law in this country. Now, to read all of them. [WOW HUH]
“Maybe the algorithm and social media soul is now so intertwined and interdependent that it makes little sense to even separate the two?” What does this mean? No idea, but it’s from a Rhizome interview with artists Daniel Rourke and Erica Sourti, and it’s not any clearer in the context of this mostly descriptive review of End User at the Hayward in London. [Hyperallergic]
Hayward Gallery of London has hung a huge Cold War Missile high on its facade for its show History Is Now. Had the missile, named Bloodhound, been launched as an attack, “the western world would have been engulfed in a barely imaginable catastrophe.” [The Guardian]
On the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, you’ll be able to find Keanu Reeves. On February 8, he’s giving a talk and reading on Gauguin at the Foundation Beyeler. [Observer]
Google has a “Bad Ads” team which filters scammers. Thank you, Overlord. [The Verge]
In nerd news: a database of unpublished sci-fi and fantasy authored not by the typical white males. [Double Diamond]
Katy Perry preparing for the Superbowl. Image via MTV
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter. Based on current weather conditions, that should come as no surprise. Thanks, Phil! [Washington Post]
Another February, another issue of Artforum. This month’s best read, David Joselit’s “Material Witness,” can be found outside the paywall. It’s tricky to make any correlation between Eric Garner and art, but Joselit does pretty well on that end by claiming the failure of images—the jury’s refusal to see a crime in the cell phone video of Garner in a chokehold—and the power of refusing those images—in the work of William Pope.L. [Artforum]
We are not a sports blog; we are an art blog. However, we recommend watching the halftime show with Katy Perry, Missy Elliot, and Lenny Kravitz because it is bonkers. Counting the number of influences on this Pepsi-sponsored spectacle is a fun game: Tron, Mary Poppins, and Harry Potter all come to mind. Oh, and there were human-size dancing beach balls. Society of the spectacle, indeed. [Vulture]
The New York Times does not approve of this society of spectacle. Katy Perry didn’t dance enough while riding that mechanical lion or floating star. There aren’t enough great pop stars, so in this environment “Ms. Perry will do.” Oh, come on. Not even a nod for belting out tunes on a fucking drone? That takes guts. [The New York Times]
Have you heard the one about Philip Glass going into a bar? Click if you’re prepared for a groan-worthy joke. [A Prairie Home Companion]
The best restaurant in Cardiff, Wales is the Clink, a restaurant run by prisoners. [Eater]
Chloe Wyma reviews Harmony Korine’s painting exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. “And yet, despite their air of slacker nonchalance, these paintings are still highly polished, slick, and expensive, likely bound for the man-caves of divorced Hollywood dads as tokens of their diminishing cool, like so many mounted vintage Stratocasters.” [Artinfo]
Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his favorite old synths and why he made the sounds he did. “I was looking for instruments that made sounds that were more relevant to our culture, things that sounded like what I heard on the news.” And what “we smell sausage” sounds like backwards. [Boing Boing]
Exposed man ankles are officially in, apparently. Thank you, Hairpin! [The Hairpin]
Artist-researcher Matthew Plummer-Fernandez puts a computer program with learning algorithms to the test of interpreting abstract art. “I’m reminded of a cartoon picture, of a woman and a knife,” observes computer. It blogs. [noviceartblogger.tumblr.com]
The Outsider Art Fair returned to New York for the third year. For the third year in a row, we hear that the definition of “outsider art” has expanded. [The Internet]
“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]
Paddy Johnson reviews Ryder Ripps’s new exhibition of paintings based on sportswear model Adrienne Ho’s Instagram account at Postmasters. “You could argue what he’s doing is misogynistic, and it probably is, but the total absence of a defensible idea is the larger offense.” Banality and a tin eye, she argues, is ultimate death knell for this show. [artnet News]
N000oooo!!!!!! Skymall is going bankrupt. (Last week’s news, but we’re linking to it today.) Goodbye, space-themed litter boxes and shoe-shaped wine bottle holders. A loss felt not only for sky consumers but also for net art inspiration. [The New York Times]
“Millennials Are Moving to Buffalo and Living Like Kings.” According to the piece, a handful have found sanctuary in Buffalo, New York because the rent is so damn cheap. Like Detroit. Like most everywhere else in this country . [Gothamist]
We linked to Andrew Rice’s story about developers moving into East New York earlier this week, but in light of last night’s panel on gentrification in New York, we’re highlighting it again. While Rice talked to a developer who thinks it will be a while before it’s taken over by hipsters, the lay of the land looks bleak. Near the closing of the essay he writes, “As the rich push the middle class out of brownstone Brooklyn, the middle class has been left with an unenviable choice: leave or compete with the truly poor.” [New York Magazine]
This week, the Paramount Ranch Art Fair, an artist-run fair held in an Old West ghost town, will return, held in conjunction with the blue-chip Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair. Yes, I would like to see art installed in a saloon. [LA Weekly]
Editors over at The Coveteur are going ape shit over the fact that architect Peter Marino has bought a bunch of brand-name contemporary artwork to decorate his office. He’s got Warhols, Richard Princes, and Robert Mapplethorpes. OoOooh. [The Coveteur]
The entire University of Wisconsin system of colleges and universities will receive $300 million in cuts over the next two years. Thanks, Governor Scott Walker; your possible Republican presidential run won’t please any students or faculty in your state. [Inside Higher Ed]
Popular gay Spanish illustrators, in list form. [Soyhomosensual]
At the Dallas Museum of Art last week, a bunch of people ran into a dark museum opening and smashed Loris Gréaud’s art. It was a performance, obviously, and Ben Davis wonders whether this kind of “media event” (which seems to have been done just for the press opening) is basically a dumb manifestation of Glenn Lowry’s desire to see art actively “engage audiences.” [artnet News]
If you had any questions about selling your underpants…[ANIMAL New York]
Keith Mayerson is going abstract. Not really news, just of interest to fans. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Lil B made a vegan emoji app with lots of jars of veganaise emoting. [iTunes via Vulture]
Ross W. Ulbricht, the man accused of running the black market website, The Silk Road, has lodged that the prosecutors failed to include a critical part of his defense: a golden emoji. The judge has ruled that the jurors must consider the emojis as part of the evidence. [The New York Times]
Taylor Swift has trademarked lyrics like “this sick beat” and “party like it’s 1989.” Looking at the complete list of phrases—she’s even trademarked her initials—she has a monopoly on any product that could possibly be made with those phrases. Want to make stationary that says “party like it’s 1989”? Nope. Want to make a wig that has “this sick beat” on it? No. Removable tattoo transfers? Absolutely not. Artists could learn a lot from her when it comes to shrewdly protecting their work. [HUH.]
OMG lipsuction cups, a timely release with yesterday’s IMG MGMT “Cosmetic Masochism,” (Faith Holland and Seth Watter on torture porn and cosmetic tutorials). You have to hand it to the lip suction cup inventors. These things really work. [Jezebel]
Gentrification moves Eastward in Brooklyn, what else is new. If this story makes you mad, then go to the Brooklyn Independent Media public forum and panel tonight with Scott Stringer, urban planners, a city council members, and others. [New York Magazine]
20×200 is holding their annual RIDONK sale. Yesterday and this morning 40 of their prints are available at 40 percent off. There’s a new deal every day this week. These are great prices, so take advantage while you can. And while you’re on the site, try to buy some art at regular prices too, while you’re on the site. Support artists! [20×200]
Expect to hear a lot more about the International Center of Photography, now that New Museum visitors (and press) will have no excuse not to stop by. The museum is moving just across the street from the New Museum on Bowery. The $23 million space will “increase the sense of institutional stability and help attract additional major support,” the organization says. [Bowery Boogie]
How Google celebrated Jackson Pollock’s birthday, in 2009. [Google]
“Leviathan” is up for Best Foreign Picture—lauded abroad and scorn from Russia—despite the fact that most Russians have not seen the film. This write up made me want to see the film. [The New York Times]
The engineering behind the deep-ridged potato chip, from the chip’s deep-ridged design to the development of new blade technology to create such deep ridges. This story is ridiculous and bizarrely captivating. [Daily Beast]
Not everyone is pleased with the Guggenheim’s architecture competition in Helsinki. After the Helsinki council shot down the Guggenheim foundation’s proposal to build a museum within city limits in 2012, they decided to hold an architecture competition anyway, and show the best museum designs in Helsinki. Now, the foundation hopes that by showing the finalists —in Helsinki, proper—the Finnish will be more willing to build a museum. Architect and writer Michael Sorkin has devised a rival competition to the Guggenheim’s, The Next Helsinki, which encourages ideas that aren’t just another big museum. [ArchDaily]
Bob Ross was apparently “the godfather” of ASMR triggers. Now I know what it feels like not to be able to do magic eye. [Mashable]
More strikes over the proposed privatisation of the National Gallery, which union secretary Mark Serwotka has called “reckless and risks damaging the worldwide reputation of what is one of the UK’s greatest cultural assets.” They’re serious. This time, it’s a five-day walkout. [BBC]
Get it while it’s hot off the digital presses! Charlie White’s Enemy Reader #2 is now up, and we’re going to read it all up. With Barry Schwabsky, Noah Fischer, Alec Soth, and Suzanne Hudson, among others. [The Enemy]
Prospect 3 has appointed a new artistic director, Trevor Schoonmaker. Though Schoonmaker, the chief curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, may lack the star power of former directors Dan Cameron and Franklin Sirmans, he has clout; the Nasher organized Archibald Motely: Jazz Age Modernist, one of our favorite exhibitions from 2014. After a mixed bag of reviews for P.3, we’re looking forward to a new recruit. [The Art Newspaper]
“He has the energy and power of an Enzo Ferrari, the elegance of a Maserati, and the charm of Miss Universe.” Ooh la la, does the 61-year-old Simon de Pury, the Swiss baron and former auction-house exec, get some love in this slideshow. [Harper’s Bazaar]
Art nerds who dare to brave the snow to see NYC museum shows can still do so today. None are closed. Yet. [Google: MoMA, The Met, the Jewish Museum]
The Walker Art Center has announced the list of presenters at Super Script, a “conference on arts journalism and criticism in the digital age.” Tickets are $200. [Walker Art Center]
Museums are not immune to the effects of viral media, which may explain why it is sometimes integrated into their programming. Clayton Cubitt’s viral video of celebrities getting off while reading will be part of an upcoming exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. [Paper]
Check the status of subways, buses, schools, commuter rails, airports, and roads before traveling today. [The New York Times]’
A roundup of hardcore snowstorm history, dating back to 1851. They were more fun back then: “From the first day that cold weather has fairly set in, sleighs of most tempting and gaudy hues, are displayed on the pavement by speculative coach-builders. Little boy’s sleds painted to catch the youthful eye are seen in the windows and at the doors of toy-shops; are regularly baptised, and have names of an inspiring nature inscribed upon them.” [ANIMAL New York]
This means we probably won’t get to see the asteroid, which is also coming. NASA assures that it will not hit us. [The Guardian]
Sunday, Greece elected an anti-austerity party, signaling a major shift in the country’s political direction. The youth are revolting in Greece, against the oligarchy and the Nazi-like Golden Dawn Party. [The Guardian]
Alfred Hitchcock was the supervising director for an unfinished documentary of Holocaust footage. The new HBO documentary “Night Will Fall” covers the making of that film. [Los Angeles Times]
There’s also going to be a new Scientology documentary-exposé “Going Clear”; HBO has preemptively hired 160 lawyers. [The Daily Beast]
N00ooOOoooooo. After a century in business, another New York stalwart, Yonah Schimmel’s Knishes, may close due to higher rents. But aren’t we lucky for gardens on condo rooftops. [Bowery Boogie]
Are the Met and MoMA at war? The Lauder’s cubist collection went to the Met instead of MoMA, leading some to believe that, with shared interests, these institutions will need to fight over donors. It’s a juicy read, five pages full of quotes from the rich and art-famous. Met Director Thomas Campbell on MoMA: “sometimes we’re frenemies.” Larry Gagosian, being himself: “I love expansion!” [Vanity Fair]
Marketing whiz and artist Ryder Ripps has a show of Instagram paintings opening at Postmasters. It’s not even up, and it’s already received one bad review. [Jezebel]
Microsoft vaults itself into the future with the creation of HoloLens, a hologram headset yet-to-be released to the general public. Brian Crecente was able to demo one of the models, which comes with virtual reality, Skype, 3D gaming, and a 3D image-building capabilities. The future is now, though it feels like fiction: “The effect of wearing the glasses also doesn’t feel real. But not because it seems fake, rather because it is initially a bit unbelievable.” [Polygon]
Every month I await the Netflix death watch on Gothamist. It answers many a serial TV-watcher’s needs: which shows will go away forever over the next two weeks, and which will take their place. Only days remain to watch Jem and the Holograms (Seasons 1-3), Red Dwarf (Seasons 1-9), or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Seasons 1-4). [Gothamist]
Linda Yablonsky reports that the Chelsea and Lower East Side art world seemed largely unphased by the Paris shooting. Mary Boone continues to wear ridiculous hats. [Artforum]
Wuuuuuttt. Places where dumb cashiers have been selling cigarettes to kids. Apparently this is the culture at Food Lion. [Vocativ]
Footbinding, a history. Apparently the 13th century Chinese trend was “inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon.” GROSS. “The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a ‘golden lotus.’” [Smithsonian]
On Tuesday, a Belgian court found painter Luc Tuymans guilty of plagiarism. Or is it copyright infringement? Copy activist Joy Garnett has taken to Twitter to dispute the use of the term plagiarism. [The Guardian, @joygarnett]
Just a month after Obama re-opened travel to Cuba, the Bronx Museum and Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts plan the first Cuban-American art exchange. [New York Times]
Craig Anthony Miller is suing the Toll Brothers development company for using his murals to advertise for their condos. Ironically, the mural was torn down and replaced by townhouses, but he’d copyrighted the mural with permission from the wall’s owner. Smart move. [ANIMAL New York]
Houston, Texas’s Flower Man House, an “ever-evolving masterpiece of African-American yard show art” kept by the late Cleveland Turner, will be demolished. (Scattered throughout Houston are incredible homes full of “yard show art,” for lack of a better term.) The Project Row Houses organization is planning a commemorative billboard near the site of one of Turner’s former homes. [Texas Monthly]
Bo Dollis (left) (Image via Nola.com and Erika Goldring)
Sad news: Theodore Emile “Bo” Dollis, the longtime Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians, died at his home in New Orleans on Tuesday (January 20th). He was 71. [NOLA]
Chris Ofili at The New Museum finally makes Contemporary Art Daily. He’s a great painter, but geez, those sculptures are cheeeeeeze ball. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Skate’s has released its 2014 art fair report. In it, the report finds that art fair attendance has dropped significantly for the first year since Skate began tracking art fair attendance in 2007. In total, attendance dropped by 7.4 percent since 2013. If you want to read the full report it will cost $500, but the executive summary has a few surprises. Art Miami is the second most attended art fair in the world. [Skate’s]
Continuing with the subject of money matters, 2014 was a record year for the major auction houses (of course!). Both auction houses saw sales plummet in Asia; it’s not a completely rosy situation. [The Art Newspaper]
We first linked to this yesterday, but it’s now become an ongoing story: London’s National Gallery could be facing extended worker strikes after the institution announced it will be privatizing some of its services. The front of house team, for example, would be outsourced. Naturally, the union that represents the museum opposes this. [artnet News]
A woman in Etobicoke writes about the prejudice she encountered when she ran against former Toronto Mayor and crack addict Rob Ford. [Toronto Life]
The painter Luc Tuymans has been convicted of plagiarism over a portrait of the Belgian politician Jean-Marie Dedecker. [Hyperallergic]
The State of the Union address transcript. [The Medium]
After watching the State of the Union, I can’t recommend wholeheartedly enough Guantanamo Diary, written by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian detainee who has been held by the United States since 2002. His writing can be surprisingly fresh, and unexpected; he often makes metaphors including to celebrities like Charlie Sheen and O.J. Simpson. Guantanamo Diary was released yesterday, possibly in conjunction with the SotU address, whereby President Obama stated once again that the detention center would be taken down. [Amazon]
Writer and art historian Anna Dezeuze weighs in on our Gramsci Monument reporting from last year. Dezeuze, who wrote the book about Hirschhorn’s Deleuze Monument, thinks that the monument can be approached with a mix of enthusiasm and criticality; til now, audiences have largely been picking sides. [A Blade of Grass]
The long and cosmic story behind Rachel Mason’s opera “The Lives of Hamilton Fish” about two men named Hamilton Fish who died one day apart in 1936. One was a notorious serial killer and the other one was a famed statesman. We’ll have more on this story. [The New York Times]
Karen Archey wonders why creative workers get a pass to be assholes. In a fictitious conversation she uses the term “Rain Man of Criticism” to describe one unnamed asshole people feel compelled to work with. May we never meet this person. [e-flux conversations]
Arts critics are suffering from increasingly strained relationships with the institutions they cover. Opera Australia has removed two critics from their comp list, including one from The Sydney Morning Herald after having received negative reviews. And Theatre Critic Joanne Kaufman from the Wall Street Journal was blacklisted by a press agent from receiving free tickets to show, after she admitted to bolting from certain shows at intermission. This podcast focuses on Denver’s Colorado Public Radio which announced last year it that it will no longer carry broadcasts of the Colorado Symphony. Apparently the main reason for this was editorial—the symphony wanted a lot more positive coverage on the radio. [WQXR via: Hyperallergic]
Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University senior who has become nationally known for her performance “Carry That Weight,” will be attending Tuesday’s State of the Union address. She was invited by New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand who supports the bipartisan Campus Accountability and Safety Act. [Jezebel]
This “Anime Tongue Tattoos” photo spread looks like a DIS photo shoot, but less weird. Very Internet-y, very Miley, and very many blue wigs. Pretty much, this photo spread crushes anything that once was alt into a pretty, plastic-coated display. [VICE]
In sci-fi movies and lit, female robots are always sexy pleasure machines. [The Guardian]
A dictionary of Harlem Renaissance slang circa 1938. Some terms still stick with us, like “hep cat” and “jive”; others, like “barbecue” (which means girlfriend), have gone the way of slang like “eat my shorts.” [Open Culture]
99% Invisible, a podcast about design, architecture and invisible activity has a great segment on chairs called “On the Edge of Your Seat.” These things are more dangerous than you think—silent killers! For those in the office today, use the posture tips. [99% Invisible]
“Civil rights” and “Martin Luther King Day” now brings up an American flag emoji for Chinese chat users, which is offensive. [The Verge]
A chronological history of Lifetime movies, from the Tori Spelling classic Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? to more serious fare like Angela Basset’s celebrity biopic, Whitney. Former executives from the channel discuss when certain genres, like “teens in jeopardy,” became popular. [Washington Post]
For those who don’t care about the Oscar snubs—here are the art nominees. Good Lord, Hyperallergic has reviewed them all. [Hyperallergic]
OMG. Shellac lead singer and songwriter Steve Albini has a cooking blog. [Mario Batali Voice]
Ben Davis has managed to make a convincing argument for Juan Muñoz’s Many Times at Marian Goodman, a feat I never thought possible. It’s a bunch of gray, laughing figures in resin cut off at the ankles. I always thought the work was boring, but Davis finds a little magic (a word he loathes) in the details. [artnet News]
Kehinde Wiley, Xu Bing, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Pedro Reyes, will be honored with the 2015 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts. The award recognizes artistic achievement as well as commitment to the government-sponsored program Art in Embassies. [ARTnews]
A review of the Riot Grrrl exhibition Alien She from a former riot grrrl. Critic Melissa Miller ends up writing a mostly positive review, but points out a necessary issue with any historical exhibition: “The drawback to this approach, however, is that it presents Riot Grrrls with one voice, with a ‘we’re all in this together’ attitude.” [Art Practical]
☆♕ A Grecian Inspired Roleplay for ASMR ♕☆ [YouTube]
Beefy Mortal Kombat monsters, but with the female victory dances, like pole dancing. Aside: holy shit, Mortal Kombat got gruesome since the 90s. [YouTube via Metafilter]
Wow, France’s Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin has promised Charlie Hebdo €1 million in funding to keep it running. Now the Pompidou and several other arts institutions are launching Charlie Hebdo-related shows and awards. [artnet News]
Critic Martha Schwendener reviews Tyson Reeder’s current show at CANADA (which we like), and fills her review with a total of seven textbook-friendly artists to compare Reeder: Matisse, Bonnard, Renoir, Bonnard, Isamu Noguchi, and Andreas Gursky. You can talk about art without having to namedrop; like, you could talk about the art. [New York Times]
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