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Curator Dan Cameron on David Wojnarowicz

by Paddy Johnson on December 8, 2010

House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio) and incoming Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) then called for the closing of “Hide/Seek”, the exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing the Wojnarowicz’s image of a Jesus statue with ants crawling on it, along with other works with sexual themes as an “outrageous use of taxpayer money”. Well, it’s not and Dan Cameron will tell you why

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[Sponsor] NURTUREart Seeks Artists for their 2010 Benefit

by Sponsors on August 18, 2010

Join NURTUREart‘s Artist Registry to submit work for the 2010 NURTUREart Benefit at Ziehersmith Gallery and have your work viewed by prominent art world figures Dan Cameron, Ceci Moss, Jane Panetta, and Krista Saunders. NURTUREart helps emerging artists and curators gain exposure in the field through initiatives such as the Emerging Curators Program and Artist […]

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The AFC Guide to Art Fair Week Events

by Art Fag City on March 2, 2010

Peter Peri, 2 Lakeside Figures, 2009, Graphite on unbleached paper, 14.37 x 17.52 inches Bortolami Gallery at The Independent SPECIAL EVENTS AND SCREENINGS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010 The Armory Show Opening Preview Benefit at MoMA Tickets begin at $5,000 for the Armory Show morning preview and after party at the MoMA, and $100 for the […]

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We Went to Artscape: The Artist-Run Art Fair

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on July 19, 2016

We returned to Open Space’s Artist-Run Art Fair at Artscape in Baltimore.
Michael: About fifteen feet into the garage, I was struck by the impression that the scrappy Artist-Run Art Fair had suddenly started to look much more like… an art fair.
Paddy: So, the elephant in the room: “The White Guilt Confessional Booth”.

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Wednesday Links: Before Orlando, There was UpStairs Lounge

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on June 15, 2016

“So, we’re American. And when the enemies of the US want to strike at US symbols, they now strike at us! LGBT equality would seem to be another American export than can be resented and attacked as American. For anyone used to being an pariah, this will take some getting used to.” In 2008, Skylar Fein’s “Remember the UpStairs Lounge” showed at New Orleans’ Prospect.1 biennial. The installation recreated aspects of the popular 1970s gay bar that was tragically set fire by an arsonist and killed 32 people. In light of Orlando, Hrag Vartanian revisits the work, and talks with the artist about the US’s complicated history of anti-LGBTQ violence. [Hyperallergic]
A change of guard: Barbara M. Vogelstein will succeed Elizabeth A. Sackler as chair of of the Brooklyn Museum’s board of trustees. Vogelstein has three decades experience in private equity investing, and served on the institution’s board from 2001-2010 and then again since 3015. Vogelstein was involved in the search for the museum’s new director, and she and her husband endowed the museum’s contemporary art curator position in 2005. [Artforum]
Adrian Searle glowingly reviews the Switchhouse, the Tate Modern’s new extension. The off kilter pyramid matches Herzog & de Meuron’s original conversion of Bankside power station into contemporary art gallery in 2000. And the show’s pretty good! Actual conversations between art works occur. [The Guardian]
Rose Eveleth just launched a new column exploring design bias in medical research and products. First up, artificial hearts. Even though women are more likely to die on transplant lists, artificial hearts aren’t designed for them — in fact, an artificial heart typically fits 80% of men and only 20% of women. [Motherboard]
London’s public transportation system has a new screen-friendly typeface. The new typeface, a revamp of the original 100 year old Johnson typeface, has a lighter weight made for mobile reading, while retaining certain idiosyncrasies like the “bulbous ‘U’”. [The Verge]
Yes, this happened today: UK Independent Party leader Nigel Farage and Bob Geldof had a boat war on the Thames. The Brexit debate just got real. [Telegraph]
Merray Gerges chats with Montreal’s GothShakira, who has been getting a lot of media traction for her intersectional feminist image macros on Instagram. [Canadian Art]
By 2020, the New York skyline will look f-ugly. Get ready for skyscrapers—a rendering by CityReality. [Curbed]
The International Association of Art Critics has announced that this year’s winner of AICA Incentive Award for Young Critics, will receive a trip to Havana, Cuba, to attend the AICA Congress this October. Submit a review by July 29th. [AICA via: ARTnews]
At the VIP opening of the new Tate Modern opening, over 150 feminist activists protested the institution’s decision to show work by Carl Andre, chanting “oi Tate, we’ve got a vendetta, where the fuck is Ana Mendieta?”. Organized by the WHEREISANAMENDIETA movement, the protesters are decrying the exhibition of Andre’s work — not to mention the failure to show Mendieta’s work in the same space, even though the Tate has five works in storage — as a glorification of violent men within the art institution. [Dazed]
Talk about exploitation: Jenny Lorenzo and Brittany Ashley, both popular producers/personalities for Buzzfeed’s Motion Pictures company, were fired for appearing in “Gente-Fied”, a web series produced by actor America Ferrera. Why? Because Lorenzo and Ashley apparently breached the non-compete clause in their contracts. Even though non-compete agreements are fairly common in tech and engineering jobs, digital media companies like Buzzfeed are now adopting them. It’s a backwards revival of the old Hollywood studio system, back when stars signed ironclad 7-year contracts. [Politico]
Breaking: Bloomberg’s art market reporter Katya Kazakina confirms billionaire Leon Black has won ownership of Picasso’s “Bust of a Woman” plaster sculpture. At the center of an international legal drama between Gagosian and the Qatari royal family, the dispute stemmed from Picasso’s daughter, Maya Widmaeier-Picasso, selling the work not once but twice to both parties. [@artdetective]
Art Basel reports are coming in: Dealers are bringing their best work to counter-act the narrative that says the market is down. [ARTnews]

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Light City Baltimore Happened to a Resounding “Meh”

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 4, 2016

For the past year, residents of Baltimore have been bombarded with hype about Light City, a free festival of music and “light art” in the Inner Harbor. The organizers have repeatedly compared it to South by Southwest and Art Basel (two extremely dissimilar events) and secured roughly $4 million in funding from a mix of public and private sponsors. But it seems like the only people excited about this thing are the people who paid for it.

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Friday Links: Olafur Eliasson’s Affection for a Parrot

by Paddy Johnson on September 4, 2015

Artist Olafur Eliasson and his parrot

Why does Olafur Eliasson have a parrot on his shoulder throughout most of his pitch for his solar iPhone charger, Little Sun? The video is part of a Kickstarter campaign to raise $56,345 to produce the final version of this charger. He’s only got 967 backers but has raised $123,025 making the average donation $127. (He’s landed two pledges at $7888, the highest amount you can ask for on Kickstarter in exchange for a studio visit). Oh, art world. Never change. [Kickstarter]
Franklin Sirmans has been named the new director of the Perez Art Museum in Miami. Sirmans, currently the department head and curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, just finished curating the Prospect Triennial in New Orleans last year. The Times asked him about what shows he’d be planning, though I don’t know why that’s relevant. It’s a fundraising position. Sirmans is the latest high profile curators to take on directorship positions, the most notable being Philippe Vergne at MoCA L.A. [The New York Times]
Inside the Tenement Museum: lots of severed doll heads, a dead rat, aspirin tins and more. [Gothamist]
Jaimie Warren DIY sets and videos at American Medium get a review from Martha Schwendener at the Times. I can’t parse what she’s saying in the last paragraph—she likes Warren’s allusions to history?—but it seems like she liked it. [The New York Times]
Oooh juicy. A review that skewers the three summer shows at the Power Plant and then proceeds to complain that assigning the curation of those three shows to one assistant curator—Julia Paoli—is too much. The revolving staff door at the institution gets a mention. Finally. It’s not exactly a secret that this place is hamstrung by its leadership. [CanadianArt]
An exhaustive selfie guide for men. [Medium via metafilter]

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Monday Links: Holes

by Corinna Kirsch on March 16, 2015

The problem with sinkholes? Too many homeless kittens! [Mother Jones via the New Orleans Times Picayune]
A fond farewell to “What Am I Looking At?” (WAILA), a web series that follows comedian Ali Clayton and guests to Chicago art openings. For the show’s final episode, Clayton, and the show’s producer, artist Patrick Bobilin, talk about art without fear, or fear of repercussions. It’s a show where you’ll hear comments like “That just reminds me of really stretched-out nutsacks” and “But did you like the emotion, or did you like the coolness?”. Patrick, you’re more than welcome to hang out and do a “We Went to” with us when you’re in New York next. [YouTube]
“Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn?” asks writer Adrian Chen, as he goes full detective mode, putting on his best Peter Sellers moustache for the investigation. Hint: Minority groups point fingers at each other for the goat-head slaughter. [Daily Intelligencer]
Sotheby’s appoints Tad Smith as president and chief executive officer. Tad—who has one of the preppiest names out there—has previously served as president of the Madison Square Garden Company and Cablevision. He also likes to spend his time teaching; he’s an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. [Sotheby’s, Business Insider]
A history of grits, written by me. [Ordinary Objects]
Press release: “Art Basel and BMW have launched the BMW Art Journey, a first-of-its-kind award that enables selected artists to design a journey of creative discovery to a destination of their choice. Inspired by travel and the boundless diversity of places, encounters and experiences, artists will have the chance to conduct research, discover new ideas and themes, and create new work.” Translation: BMW will pay for artists travel. Vrooom! [BMW Art Journey]

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GIF of the Day: Dave Greber’s GIF Ads

by Corinna Kirsch on February 9, 2015

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Advertising has taken over the Internet. Artist Dave Greber, whose work we first saw in 2014 at Prospect in New Orleans, has added click-bait ad squares to the sides of his website. We approve the project for the simple pleasure of the remix. On the left: “5 Things You Should Never Do.” On the right: “Are E-Cigarettes really this good?”.

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Monday Links: Snow, Simon de Pury, and Scientology

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on January 26, 2015

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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]
The blizzard cometh. Over 3,500 flights have been cancelled. People are urged to get survival kits. [NPR, Daily Mail, National Weather Service]
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]

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