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Friday Links: Taylor Swift’s Face in Corn

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on September 18, 2015

A Maryland farm has cut a giant corn maize in the shape of Taylor Swift’s face. [Modern Farmer]

Pretty much everyone in New York went to at least one art opening this week, including celebrities! [Observer]

The ICA Miami has appointed Ellen Salpeter as their new director. She will be leaving her post at New York’s Jewish Museum. [The New York Times]

Fascinating old footage of the Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants playing a show at Vancouver’s artist-run centre Western Front. [Western Front]

Here’s your post-NYFW Yeezy Season 2 lite think piece on the gendered readings of Kimye’s “performance art”. [Refinery29]

Marilyn Minter discusses her career, glamour, and her mother: “the art world loves young bad boys and old ladies.” [artnet News]

Facepalm: in a televised election debate, the Canadian Prime Minister made mention of “new and existing and old stock Canadians.” (Read: white people.) [BuzzFeed]

Drawing lessons from a police sketch artist. [New York Times Magazine]

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is expanding into an adjacent building. The expansion will nearly double the institution’s gallery space. [Artforum]

Gallerist Monika Sprüth revisits her long-running curatorial project Eau de Cologne—a series of exhibitions and publications focused on bringing market attention to female artists. A new exhibition, which opened last night in Berlin, features work from the groundbreaking 1980s shows from Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. [The Art Newspaper]

Collector Joel Greene is now countersuing the Honolulu Art Museum after the museum cancelled annuity Greene was receiving in exchange for a donation of Southeast Asian artifacts. The museum claims Greene failed to provide documentation of the artifacts’ provenance. Greene claims the museum has “tarnished his reputation”. [ARTnews]

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Tuesday Links: Wanna Cyber?

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on August 25, 2015

Wait, so William Gibson wasn’t the first to invent the term “cyberspace”? Nope. According to the recent What’s Happening? exhibition at Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark, the honour goes to artist Susanne Ussing and architect Carsten Hoff, who collaborated in the late 1960s under the assumed name Atelier Cyberspace. Their work, included in a show focusing on late experimental art from 1965-1975, is fascinating, because their definition of the term is far less dystopian than Gibson’s take, and reveals a curious historical revisioning of the term’s etymology: stemming from early cybernetics, it was more infused with optimism, and concerned with the spatial and sensual. Like Buckminster Fuller meets Whole Foods Catalogue, but still connected to that pressing 1990s AOL chatroom question: “wanna cyber?” [Kunstkritikk]
Richard Rhodes, long-time editor of Canadian Art, is stepping down. Rhodes had been with the publication for over twenty years, and the winter issue will be his last. A search of his successor commences immediately. The announcement signals major masthead shifts within one of Canada’s leading arts magazines: David Balzer, author of the well-received Curationism, returns to the magazine in a new leadership role as Deputy Editor, overseeing all web and digital initiatives. Meanwhile, his Associate Editor replacement, Nicolas Brown, is now Manager of Programming and Education. [The Globe and Mail]
Matthew Collings calls Carsten Höller’s conversion of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic Tower into a gigantic slide an example of spectacular conceptual art trolling: “Besides being stunned by literalism, it’s possible to be struck by Höller’s sadism, his contemporary for the audience with his relational-aesthetic interactive activities, as if he’s a populist for the sake of seeing how far he can debase the populace.” [The Art Newspaper]
Let’s all agree: air shows are horrible. In light of the totally unnecessary tragedy of last weekend’s Shoreham air crash — as well as the horrific fact regarding how common (and unavoidable) air show accidents are — it’s baffling why these spectacles glamorizing the military-industrial complex continue today. [Vice]
This month’s slapstick-worthy art fumble: a 12-year old Taiwanese boy trips in a Taipei museum, and punches a hole in a 350-year-old Paolo Porpora still life, valued at $1.5 million. (Don’t worry — it was insured, and he won’t be charged.) [The Guardian]
I don’t even know where to begin: A scantily-clad young woman who looks just like a porno-anime character thanks to the help of plastic surgery has designed a pair of platform shoes that will help her hack into secure computer systems. Each shoe has a drawer that can be removed without having to remove the shoe itself. Inside is a wireless router, a USB keystroke recorder, a basic lock pick set, and a retractable ethernet cable. Impressive. [Imgur]
AF, bro-down, cock block: the word list of Buzzfeed’s Style Guide is a strangely accurately compiling of commonly used internet culture terminology. [Buzzfeed]
Banksy’s Dismaland attracts tons of press in its first weekend open. The mock themeland includes rude staffers who treat visitors to a gruff pat down, funeral theme park games, and art by about 60 artists. True to form, there’s no shortage of dumb art on view—Banksy’s sculpture of a woman being attacked by seagulls seems designed to appeal to 12 year olds—but who knows. Work by Jenny Holzer, David Shrigley and Damien Hirst is on view. Maybe it will be good? [The New York Times]

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Wednesday Links: Children Love Pee Spray?

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on June 3, 2015

What is going on in this video of a giant puppet’s detached genitalia dancing with children and spraying audience members with pee? Apparently, this a piece entitled “Everybody” by the Australian collective [Snuff Puppets].
Adrian Chen writes a story on Russian troll farms only to find himself caught up in their web. Note to self: Never sit down with a source’s brother who looks like a neo-Nazi skin head. [The New York Times Magazine]
David Byrne on contemporary society’s obsession with all things curatorial: “Why this insistent emphasis on choices and filtering now? It’s obvious: when everything is available, within reach, accessible, the problem becomes not one of scarcity but of abundance.” [New Statesman]
Harry Beck’s original London Underground map is one of the most iconic, successful, and influential diagrams in the history of graphic design. But as London grows, has the once-elegant design gotten too cluttered? Between a mess of fare zones and the addition of new services such as light rail, the Overground, and even a cable car critics claim the map is starting to lose legibility. Londoners, if you want to fall back in love with your tube map, spend a day staring at NYC’s. [City Lab]
The New York Botanical Garden’s Frida Kahlo exhibition will soon include light projections by Jenny Holzer. What? We assume the greenery was good enough on its own. (AFC’s Michael Anthony Farley has the review of Kahlo’s show, minus the Holzer.) [Observer]
Wow, MoMA has some gall. In the midst of fundraising enormous sums of money for an atrium no one but their board members likes, they hope to cut employee health benefits. Ew. [Hyperallergic]
The Art Law Report brings a lawyer’s clarity to the Richard Prince/Suicide Girls debate on “copyright.” Guess what? Copyright is not the same as public domain. “Instagram photos are not in the public domain. The public domain applies to works over which no copyright exists. The ease with which something can be copied has nothing to do with whether it is in the public domain. If what Prince is doing is acceptable it is as a fair use under the statute, not because of a lack of copyright in the first instance.” [Art Law Report]
Did anyone else find Gawker’s post on Fusion’s traffic numbers, “More People Work at Fusion Than Are Reading Its Most Popular Post,” a bit confusing? The fact that 32 people are viewing a single post is brought up, but without saying if that’s how many people are viewing a post at a single second, minute, or hour. [Gawker]
Florida man’s conceptual art piece has his neighbors confused and angry. Piotr Janowsky has wrapped his house and several surrounding trees in aluminum foil. People are not happy about it. [Orlando Weekly via Bmore Art]

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Selling Women: A Very Unpopular Choice at Phillips’ “Under the Influence”

by Corinna Kirsch on February 18, 2015

Part one: We look at the spring iteration of “Under the Influence”, to be held this March at Phillips in New York.

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Monday Links: Who Wants to Buy a Bronze Fat Lady Sculpture?

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 17, 2014

Christian Jankowski, “The Holy Art Work”, 2002

Job alert! Manifesta has hired artist Christian Jankowski to take the helm of the next biennial, to be held in neutral zone: Switzerland. It is the first time the biennial has chosen an artist as its curator. [Manifesta Biennial]
Artist Audrey Wollen is one of the few artists who’s upset that Richard Prince has used her Instagram for his own purposes. She explains why, in discussion of her Sad Girl Theory. “What Prince is doing is colonising and profiting off a territory of the internet that was created by a community of young girls, who, needless to say, do not have the cultural space Prince has. Selecting specific bodies from a sea of images, amputating them from their context, and then naming yourself the owner of those bodies: that isn’t just boring art, that verges on predatory and violent behavior.” [i-D]
On why paying $45,000 for a male tech speaker is like purchasing Jasper Johns’s “False Start”—with some less well-known Guerrilla Girls graphics. [Medium]
A terrifying tale for journalists: How you can win a Pulitzer Prize and still fall into poverty. [The Hedgehog Review via @sarahw]
Science has brought us the wonderful gift of the sounds of fish! Listen to an oyster toadfish’s call or a lollipop darter’s call. [The New Yorker]
Even the Muffys and Athertons of the world would have a hard time believing this line about a Rothko: “Later that week Untitled, 1952 went under the hammer and sold for $66.2 million—a total steal, by my calculations.” [Town and Country]
Who wants to buy a “bronze fat woman sculpture”? Or maybe a gigantic Jesus sculpture? [Alibaba]
Cosima von Bonin has created a “vomiting Italian” sculpture that has so far escaped being posted as click bait. [frieze d/e]
Hrag Vartanian takes a deep look at Ryder Ripps’s “Art Whore” and the surrounding controversy. Consider this your must-read. [Hyperallergic]
Executive women, finding and owning their voice. [The New York Times]
Mass MoCA will fill 90,000 square feet with the work of major contemporary artists, like: James Turrell, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Laurie Anderson, and Jenny Holzer. [The New York Times]

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New Museum Announces List of Artists in 2015 Triennial

by Corinna Kirsch on November 14, 2014

We’re providing you with a countdown clock so that you can plan out your February. The New Museum is going balls-out with this Triennial.

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Highlights From The Brooklyn Artists Ball

by Paddy Johnson on April 21, 2014

The Brooklyn Artist’s Ball in pictures.

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Art at Its Best 2013: A Top Ten List

by Corinna Kirsch on December 23, 2013

I’ve never been able to come up with a top ten list of exhibitions; big, lasting ideas don’t always take place in art on the wall. So, keep that in mind with my best-of list; there’re exhibitions, sure, but my main requirement was picking “art” that I keep coming back to time-and-time again.

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SnagFilms Greats According to Art F City

by Paddy Johnson on September 17, 2013

Snagfilms believes you should have free access to their carefully curated library of movies, and that’s amazing. If you’re looking for an offbeat documentary, a film critic’s favorite, or simply a list of AFC-approved movies, you’re in luck. Snagfilms gives you all that in their social media friendly archive. Using their tools, we put together a collection of our own we recommend on Snagfilms. You can start watching them for free now! Take a look:

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