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by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Henry Kaye on July 14, 2014
With all the extra time on our hands during the slow months, we can finally check out a few works everybody’s been talking about. The legendary Sarah Sze-Venice Biennale Pavillion comes to the Bronx; a Ryan McNamara performance comes to the High Line; and Internet artists come to Spectacle Theater.
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by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Henry Kaye on June 18, 2014
- A 19th century one-cent stamp sold for $9.5 million at Sotheby’s. Auctioneer David Redden calls it the “Mona Lisa of stamps.” Sure. [Artnet]
- Here’s a few of the reactions to Ryan Wong’s Joe Scanlan bombshell on twitter. As you can imagine a lot of people have strong opinions in every direction. [Hyperallergic]
- California senate and assembly is issuing $5 million to the California Arts Fund. This isn’t the $31 million budget we saw in 2000-2001, but at least it’s higher than in the recent years after California’s financial nosedive. In 2004-2005, California’s allocation to the Arts Fund was only around $1 million. [Los Angeles Times]
- In the growing lineage of photographs of Klaus Biesenbach standing next to Hans-Ulrich Obrist, this may be a Hallmark. [GalleristNY]
- Lisson Gallery will open an exhibition space right under the Highline Park in Chelsea. Not sure how that will work considering the limited wall space, but we’ll leave the logistics up to them. [The Art Newspaper]
- Kristof Kintera’s show at Basel involves camouflage strollers. From what we can tell, it’s kind of like Fisher Price gets a makeover from the Pentagon. [Twitter via @JavierPes1]
- Loews AMC theaters have cancelled its broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the “Death of Klinghoffer”, about the Palestinian Liberation Front’s hijacking of a boat and murder of Jewish-American passengers. The Zionist Organization of America is criticizing the opera for being anti-Semitic and pushing for the Met to cancel the production, too. [San Diego Jewish World, via @wyszniewski]
- This is the list of the new emojis including a fax machine and what looks like John Trovolta from Saturday Night Fever. Emoji icons were never too topical anyway. [Time]
- We’ve been hearing a lot about the ISIS in Iraq. Here’s an explanation of who they are and their origins in 90 seconds. [BBC News Middle East]
- A really well-executed Vine magic trick. [Christian Leonard]
- The Internet can seem pretty awful when deaths are treated with instant obits over twitter. But it’s also a place to honor people. Over a year after Roger Ebert’s death, fans are celebrating his birthday on Google +. [Google Plus, via @ebertchicago]
- A pictorial essay of cats standing up. [Sad and Useless]
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by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Henry Kaye on June 16, 2014
Looks like another week of group shows and art fairs, this time involving Art Basel, Switzerland, a little Peter Coffin craziness and a pseudo-Nascar transplant in Bushwick
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by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Henry Kaye on June 16, 2014
A chartreuse sculpture of Vladimir Lenin Urinating because why not
- Another performing arts center, the Incubator Arts Project, closes shop in New York with a lukewarm review of its final performance, “Nomads”. Oh, well. [Village Voice]
- The “Fountain of the Future,” erected in Krakow and commissioned by Polish officials is actually a fluorescent chartreuse sculpture of Vladimir Lenin urinating. [The Independent]
- Class division was always a part of New York life, according to these illustrations of the 19th century “Carriage Parade”, which is described as “a foreshadowing of our current celebrity-obsessed culture”. This is a great find for New York history nerds. [Ephemeral New York, Via @wagnerblog]
- The Whitney’s Instagramming sneak peaks of Jeff Koons sculptures still in their wrappers. It appears there will be gold. [Instagram]
- A fiery debate over a bland-sounding but relevant headline, “Why connoisseurship matters.” Art dealer Bendor Grosvenor thinks connoisseurship is finally starting to matter again because “The pendulum is at last swinging away from the “authorship doesn’t matter” brigade.” Tate curator Martin Myrone casts doubts over the a rebranded “new connoisseurship” because connoisseurship has always been part of the job. This sounds a little like the New Aesthetic, which identified hot new trends by faulty theory. [Arthistorynews]
- The Paris art school ENSBA’s out of touch and commercially driven director, Nicolas Bourriaud, is apparently renting out student space for his private events with Ralph Lauren, leaving the student’s without access to their studios for days. [Artnet News]
- Joan Mitchell’s work is on view at Cheim & Read and Lennon, Weinberg. For an excellent discussion of these paintings formal qualities check out Thomas Micchelli’s review. “There is nothing ingratiating about these paintings. Chrome green is one of the drabbest colors in the palette, and it is unpleasant to work with — sticky and invasive. Mitchell pushes its dourness further by darkening it with black, which erupts in smears across the surface.” [Hyperallergic]
- In another attempt to make art museums more and more like Disney World, there’s a fake crime scene around a missing painting at the Springfield Art Museum. Has the painting been stolen, or has it come to life!? The Art Hunters, or a fictitious duo of crime solvers not unlike an art-themed Scooby-Doo, have been called on the case. Oh it’s also an online reality show. [ARGNet]
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