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Monday Links: See You in Court!

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Rea McNamara on September 14, 2015

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On Sunday, activists occupied the British Museum to protest the oil industry’s cultural sponsorship of prominent British art museums, coming at the heels at the Tate Modern occupation in June. Since 2011, Britain’s “big four” — the British Museum, alongside the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Opera House — have benefited from a five year £10 sponsorship with BP. With the deal coming up for renewal in 2016, the pressure is on to force the institutions not renew. [The Guardian]
If you’re interested in the connection between science fiction, afrofuturism and social justice, you can watch a livestream today of “Ferguson is the Future”, a public symposium organized by Princeton’s Department of African Studies. [Livestream]
Whatever happened to Google Books? After a 2008 settlement between Google and authors and publishers was thrown out in federal court, the project has languished with congress. Despite the Authors Guild proposing a solution — an “extended collective licensing” system, which would ensure owners of scanned, out-of-print library be able to payout to authors — everyone agrees that an internet full of out-of-print books isn’t going to happen in this lifetime. [New Yorker]
I’ve never been a fan of the internet first-person essay, simply because it’s resulted in so many bad, navel-gazing Thought Catalogue confessionals. Laura Bennett discusses the “first-person industrial complex”, contextualizing it as a post-media industry collapse phenomenon that exploits easy, low-paying clickbait from young writers. [Slate]
The Lower East Side is officially colonized. A condo owner is threatening to sue gallery owner Hong Gyu Shin for the faux massage parlor which is a quirky set for a show of photos by Nobuyoshi Araki. Writes resident in an email published on artnet News:

I live up the street. I paid $1.3 million for my condo at 50 Orchard Street. I have contacted the Dept. of Consumer Affairs, and other city agencies to come investigate and slap a fine on you and your trashy installation and front of a massage parlor. There are prices listed on the door. This is no art installation. We’ve also hired a lawyer to sue Shin Gallery for damages to the value of our condominiums. See you in a Court of Law.

Is this condo owner just straight up crazy? Art as a gentrifying force has become such a known narrative that it’s almost a cliche. This year alone, we’ve seen it used to sell co-working spaces during Bushwick Open Studios and office space during a No Longer Empty show in Harlem. Industry City literally has taken out millions in loans in its plan to use art to become the next Chelsea Piers, and this resident is suing Shin gallery for the pop-up? Some people have money to burn. [artnet News]
The Broad Museum opens. Holland Cotter gives it a mixed review, praising the parts of their collection that focus on under-known Los Angeles artists and criticizing the large number of predictable blue chip masterworks in the collection. Cotter doesn’t care for the Diller, Scofidio and Renfro building either, which he describes as having “the color and texture of gefilte fish”. [The New York Times]
Christopher Knight also complains that the Broad collection is mostly tested, blue chip, art works but he likes the early focus on pop art. Seems like no one’s totally sold on the museum. [The Los Angeles Times]
Looks like AFC may need to provide readers with Panda Cam once again as Republican squabbling threatens to shut down the government (and the Smithsonian’s live panda cam) over Planned Parenthood funding. Ted Cruz and ilk don’t want to compromise with Democrats to pass a budget, preferring to fight for a doomed bill that would defund it entirely. [The New Republic]

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Wednesday Links: Sacramento Gets a Jeff Koons!

by Paddy Johnson on March 11, 2015

Robb Swanson, right, and Doug Wilson hold posters opposing the sculpture chosen to go in front of the arena Tuesday at the Sacramento council meeting. Photo: Jose Luis Villegas

The Sacramento city council unanimously approved funds last night to help purchase a Jeff Koons public sculpture that’s proved contentious amongst some local artists. [The Sacramento Bee]
Collector Alain Servais surveys the effects of amassed wealth across the art industry in his essay, “Art in the Shadow of Market Industrialization”. One depressing but perhaps unsurprising citation: Art prices rise—and rise faster—when income inequality goes up. [SFAQ]
New York upholds its ban on ferrets, inciting the criticism of ferret fans. “I don’t think I’ve ever been let down by my government this much,” said one disappointed New Yorker. [The New York Times]
Artists can say good-bye to the once friendly rent rates at Industry City (if they haven’t already). Jamestown, Belvedere Capital and Angelo Gordon are expected to ask the city for a zone variance to build a hotel on the Industry City waterfront. They plan to invest 1 billion to refurbish the facility. [Crains]
100 best paintings in New York, as chosen by 34 artists, critics, journalists, curators and gallery dealers including yours truly. [Time Out New York]
Are you paying taxes on art bought out of state? A useful tax guide for collectors. [Artnet News]
The clearest definition of post-internet yet: Artists who use the web as a basis for their work but don’t make a big deal out of it. This from a feature on Post-Internet poetry. [The New Yorker]
“The reason more women aren’t editing has to do with leisure inequality” says Jacqueline Mabey, co-founder of the Art+Feminism Wiki-edit-athon. [Artnews]
Love that Hyperallergic does a weekly survey of art crimes. Each crime comes with a Scream icon rating. This seems like the best way to deal with this kind of news, which this week included a couple that had sex in every room of the Erotic Heritage Museum, a couple charged with vandalism for carving their initials into the wall of Rome’s Colosseum. [Hyperallergic]

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Thursday Links: Be Very Afraid

by Paddy Johnson on October 16, 2014

The ArtQuarters Press semi-annual prize for art criticism has announced that their deadline for submissions has been extended to December 12, 2014. The prize is £1,000. [Breese Little]
RIP Loukanikos, the Greek riot dog that attended nearly every riot for the past ten years. A photo essay and obituary of his work. [Roarmag, Aljazeera America]
Eyebeam is stuck in Sunset Park’s Industry City. Their planned move to the BAM Cultural District has been stymied for reasons that are bit unclear. According to Executive Director Patricia Jones, the larger space would have doubled their operational costs. Did they not know this when they planned the move, though? What changed between the initial announcement and today? The rest of the article is dedicated to explaining why Brooklyn is so great for the org. [Hyperallergic]
An interview with artist Danielle Mysliwiec about her woven paintings and work with the feminist performance collective Brainstormers. I love how matter of fact the interview is: “Q: How do you see your work with this group and the “women’s work” nature of the weaving pieces relating to each other, if at all? A: I could probably concoct some kind of connection, but I don’t honestly feel that there is one. I came to weaving primarily because of its system, its relation to the grid, its history as a format for abstract imagery and because of its poetic/metaphoric possibilities. I knew almost nothing about it or how to weave.” [Bmore Art]
McSweeney’s will soon be a non-profit. “Our goal is to exist and keep on publishing in whatever way is most viable, and for us that’s as a nonprofit,” founder Dave Eggers said. [The New York Times]
Women are freezing their eggs, not because of job pressures, but because they weren’t able to find the right partner in time. No mention that finding the right partner takes time many women don’t have if they are working demanding jobs. [Business Week]
Gavin Brown is opening a new location in the Lower East Side and here’s five hundred reported posts from Frieze London—people are still buying art, and here’s the tour. [ARTnews]
Pumpkin carving season has begun. The New York Botanical Garden’s master pumpkin carver will be at work this weekend, and some of the country’s largest pumpkins will be on view. On October 18, in Williamsburg, there will be a pumpkin-carving contest at Crest Hardware. Naturally, the tools and process is important here. [City Room]

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An In-Depth Discussion on How Artists Can Save Studios in NYC

by Whitney Kimball on April 1, 2014

Six months after nearly a hundred artists were forced to leave their studios in Industry City, a panel convened to talk about what artists can do to stay in the city. We heard from representatives in city planning, city government, rent reform initiatives, and beleaguered artists.

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Monday Links: This Cucumber Isn’t a Cucumber

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 10, 2014

“It’s not what it seems” by artist Hikaru Cho.

Good morning and welcome to your first art fair-free day of the week! To celebrate we wrote up a link list.

Trompe l’oeil food painting. This cucumber is really a banana! [This is Colossal]
The BBC has created a text-based video game based on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This is to celebrate the novel’s 40th anniversary. [BBC]
The New York Times picks up the Industry City beat; they interview several artists, including Tamara Zahaykevich of the Artist Studio Affordability Project, about the neverending search for reasonably priced studio space. Apparently, many artists who were at Industry City can’t find a good new studio. [The New York Times]
A United States weapons firm is in trouble with Italy’s Minister of Culture. ArmaLite, Inc. created a newspaper advertisement showing Michelangelo’s David holding a AR-50A1 rifle. Government officials claim this is illegal and offensive. (The Italian government holds copyright over David’s image.) [The Mirror]
New artist trend: Getting kicked off of Instagram, then getting back on again a day later. New York Magazine talks to artist Richard Prince about what that was like; he was kicked off for posting a picture of his Brooke Shields. [Vulture]
Maryam Banikarim talks to six Silicon Alley (1.0) founders now. They reflect on the what the web was like then and now. “Suits” are described as having been interested in “risk assessment”. [Fast Company]
Hirst has announced that he intends to write an autobiography, but admits he no longer remembers his twenties due to a life of excess. We’re surprised (and doubtful) that he’s only lost a decade. [The Guardian]
A screed on what makes good photojournalism: pictures that don’t just confirm or corroborate some existing piece of knowledge, but actually advance our understanding. The examples of “good” news photos and paintings are limited to leaders playing with kids, but it’s a good piece regardless. [The Philosophers’ Mail]

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Thursday Links: The New Year Weather Report

by Paddy Johnson and Matthew Leifheit on January 2, 2014

Good afternoon and happy New Year!

Welcome New Yorkers to a world snow. Welcome twitter users, to the next 48 hours of New Yorkers talking about snow.

Thanks to everyone who donated to our year-end campaign. We’ve officially run out of 8×10 Bruce High Quality Prints, so a huge shout out to everyone who helped make that happen. Those who donated on the 31st also got tickets to our forthcoming benefit. We’re continuing that early bird sale, sans the prints, so pick up your tickets now.

Meanwhile, some news around the web.

Philanthropists are actually hiring PR firms to brag on their behalf about their role in a rigged market? A quote from an email critic Christian Viveros-Faune received recently, “In regular finance, if you have insider information about a stock, it is illegal to invest in that stock. In the art world, it is not only legal, it is done regularly. Peter Hort, along with his wife and family, are the people who create the insider information.” Anyway, Viveros-Faune is calling for market regulation. Already, I’ve read tweets from people who fear said regulation will soil the art. Good grief. [The Village Voice]
Benjamin Sutton is no fan of artist Jon R. Friedman’s official portrait of NYC’s former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, complaining that the painting is most notable for its “resolute mundaneness”. I disagree! Could their be a stranger mix of photographic realness and flattening of space? I do wonder, though, whether Mayor Bloomberg really has such short fingers. That would be notable indeed! [In the Air]
Barry Schwabsky does a good job of talking about both the art and the issues in “Come Together: Surviving Sandy”. Any reasonable review of this show has to mention that it takes place in Industry City, which has been busy forcing artists out of its buildings for the past year. [The Nation]
Talk at year-end gallery parties was all about where they would go for their vacation. Also, Jeffrey Deitch is opening a large space in Red Hook. [Artforum]
Tonight I’ll be awarding the “Paddy Johnson Prize” at A.I.R. Gallery to one lucky artist in their generations show. Come out to this. I’m kind of excited to have a prized named after me, so there’s that. But also, come on. You’re gonna be stuck at home tomorrow due to the snow, so you gotta get your art fix in now anyway. [A.I.R. Gallery]
Smarm gets a mention in Artforum. Smarm, according to Tom Scocca, (and paraphrased by Rhonda Lieberman) “is pious about shutting down discussion in the name of bogus “niceness.”” For the record, I am perfectly happy publishing smarm. I know that doesn’t sound great at the outset, but content farming seems to make many of us think that everything needs discussion. Not true. Sometimes debate merely legitimizes an insidious idea. Nobody needs that. [Artforum]
A celebritory New Years greeting over at Hyperallergic from Man Bartlett. [Hyperallergic]

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Surviving Rent: Why Artists Can’t Afford Critical Neutrality

by William Powhida on December 16, 2013

William Powhida responds to rave reviews of “Coming Together: Surviving Sandy” in the midst of artist evictions at Industry City.

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