Archive of Reid Singer

Reid Singer is now an Editorial Assistant at ArtINFO. A talented writer and baal koreh, Reid interned at AFC during the summer and fall of 2011, after receiving his BA in Art History from the University of Chicago.

Reid has written 39 article(s) for AFC.

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Reid Singer

Are Facebook Friendly Squares Necessary?

by Reid Singer on September 15, 2011
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Silly at best, Facebook’s policy on offensive content is being enforced with little regard to consistency or common sense, and Fotografiska is right to draw attention to it. It doesn’t bother me a bit that their act of satire will bring all the more attention to an exhibition of work by a photographer whose work has been subject to arbitrary, outdated notions of decency in the past.

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Massive Links! Good News from the Seaport | Bad News from Buenos Aires | Not-Really-News from King Robbo and Banksy

by Reid Singer on September 8, 2011
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The Seaport Museum sees brighter days ahead. Someone spray-painted a Buenos Aires Rodin, and the clean-up job might make things worse. Petitioners unite to get the Met’s Alexander McQueen exhibition on the road. AFC questions the newsworthiness of Britain’s street art rivalries by reporting on them more.

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How Radical Is Dasha Zhukova’s Magazine?

by Reid Singer on September 8, 2011
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Since her art and fashion magazine, Garage, launched a few weeks ago, I’ve wondered where her executive board keeps shop. But does she even have an office? I’d have loved to practice my humble Russian skills by chatting with an editor–even for just a few minutes–but up to now, attempts at locating even a home page with contact info have been woefully futile.

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Massive Links! Art Theft on the Rise | Dasha Zhukova’s Magazine Garage Launches | Glass, Sass and You Know…

by Reid Singer on August 26, 2011
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Dasha Zhukhova and her friends in the popular clique have started a magazine. Egypt has a new antiquities chief. The crime wave is up in the art world. Seattle won’t stop talking about how much it loves Dale Chihuly, and it’s getting weird.

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Jim Dine: The Glyptotek Drawings at the Morgan Library

by Reid Singer on August 1, 2011
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The thrill, supposedly, should come from seeing such work through an exceptionally gifted set of eyes and hands—as Dine described himself in a 2004 podcast at the National Gallery in DC. Unconvinced when I first heard it, I wanted to retort with a complaint once overheard after the showing of a latter-day Charlie Chaplin movie: “I don't care if he is a genius. I don't like that man.”

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Panel Discussion Recap: New Yorker Fiction / Real Photography

by Reid Singer on June 29, 2011
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Some of the inner workings of The New Yorker's Fiction department were revealed at a panel discussion held last week at Steven Kesher Gallery with four of the company's veterans. The panel, made up of Editor Deborah Treisman, Visuals Editor Elisabeth Biondi, A.M. Homes, and photographer Malerie Marder, spoke largely about the relationship between images and content.

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Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 Americans at Sean Kelly

by Reid Singer on June 6, 2011
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Surprise: not everyone has something insightful to say about Robert Mapplethorpe.That's the lesson from Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 Americans, for which Sean Kelly asked fifty volunteers from outside the art world (one from each state in the Union) to each choose a photograph from the Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive.

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