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Simultaneous Sensations at Red Bull Studios’ BIO DIP

by Rob Goyanes on March 22, 2016

In which Rob Goyanes drinks a 10-year old energy drink to prepare for his art viewing at Red Bull Studios. The work by artists Nicolas Lobo and Hayden Dunham is better than the drink.

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The Sum of Everything: An Interview with Charles Atlas

by Rea McNamara on February 12, 2016

“The career of the American filmmaker Charles Atlas has been a steady but slow-burning fire for more than 40 years,” wrote Holland Cotter just last year. Despite pioneering the media-dance art form, and collaborating with dancers and performers like Michael Clark, Marina Abramović and Leigh Bowery, Atlas didn’t have his first solo until 1995 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. That’s a big name institution to land a solo with, but it’s only been within the past decade that he’s had a steady stream of solo presentations at institutions and galleries. Those include the Tate Modern, London’s Vilma Gold, and Luhring Augustine in Chelsea.

Why the CV gap? This question naturally came up in the context of Atlas’s recent screening of his early works in Toronto. Organized by Pleasuredome, the event was a cross-section of motion movies, narratives and video featurettes accompanied by a book launch of his first monograph at Art Metropole.

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We Went to North Carolina Part 1: CAM, Lump and Flanders Gallery

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 27, 2015

Two weeks ago Michael and I headed to North Carolina to visit a friend and do some studio visits at University of North Carolina Greensboro. We ended up with an epic tour of North Carolina, from Raleigh to Winston Salem (for context, that’s about the distance from Philadelphia to Washington, DC). In part one, we’ll discuss our highlights from Raleigh.

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Wednesday Links: Bullshit Aristocracy

by The AFC Staff on September 2, 2015

Ew. Rats the size of cats

A rare victory of this sort: Cooper Union’s Board of Trustees and New York’s Attorney General have reached an agreement that will allow the art and architecture school to work towards offering free tuition again after years of fiscal mismanagement. Amazing! [Hyperallergic]
USC still has only one MFA student enrolled for its fall semester. After six months of acrimony between Dean Erica Muhl, and a would-be second year class that dropped out in its entirety, it seems the damage has been done. Perhaps this will be a lesson to other administrations seeking to cut programs and stipends that have been promised: don’t do it. [L.A. Weekly]
MUTANT RATS. These rats strung up outside Baruch Houses in the Lower East Side look enormous (cat sized). We’re hoping this is just because the framing, but there’s a smaller rat for scale. Lower East Side galleries, write in! [Bowery Boogie]
Today’s hate read: 14 Young Power Players Posed to Become the New Art World Aristocracy. Artnet places Maria Baibakova, the 29 year old daughter of Russian oligarch Oleg Baibakov, at number six, and quotes her in artspace, “Through my selections—the very act of choosing an object—I am suggesting that it represents a part of me, and that’s very interesting.” I bought three bananas/objects on the way into work today and now I’ve eaten them. They are a part of me. FASCINATING. [artnet News]
A round-up of the most anticipated openings to check out during Berlin’s abc art fair: Hito Steyerl will have new video works at KOW Berlin and Camille Henrot is showing a new installation featuring e-Bay sourced items at König Galerie. [artnet News
A peek inside the collaborative relationship between Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier, founding members of the Royal Art Lodge. [Canadian Art]
Last week, open e-print archive ArXiv posted “A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style”, revealing the ways in which a convolutional neural networks — basically Google Deep Dream — could be used to process images within an hour in the style of famous artworks. It’s like Photoshop layer styles, but next level: your snap, in both the representation of style and content, gets transformed to the effect of Munch’s “The Scream” or Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”. Imagine what will happen when technologists will run a neural algorithm through sound? [Medium]
Baltimore cops arrest artist and activist Kwame Rose, the hero (and artist, activist) who confronted Geraldo on camera during the Freddie Gray protests. More details TK but he’s on the ground with what looks like a taser on his back. [Deray McKesson] Speaking of Gray, take a look at the info sheet BALT (the Baltimore Action Legal Team) put together about the pre-trial hearings. [BALT, h/t Deanna Haggag]
EMI Production Music is extending an olive branch to DJs everywhere by initiating a six-month amnesty on undeclared samples from its music library. Starting this month, the amnesty is an attempt by EMI to create not only awareness for their catalogues — which includes the vinyl crate diggers favourite KPM — but also send a message to artists that they’re willing to negotiate fairly rather than hit them with a royalty back claim. (Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, Admiral Ackbar is having a strong reaction to this news.) [Billboard]
Art critic and reporter Brian Boucher gets a mention in a New York Post article about Bill de Blasio’s unscripted chat on Twitter yesterday. He is quoted as “twitter user.” [New York Post]

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Monday Links: Literally Everyone Wants Something Removed or Replaced

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 3, 2015

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An exhibition by black artists at the Tubman African American Museum in Georgia is causing quite the stir. The painting Preacher Pimp by Alfred Conteh has drawn ire from religious groups who want the artwork removed. [Macon Telegraph]
A separate news story attributes the artwork to Rudy Mendez along with a photo of a venn diagram where the words “Preacher” and “Pimp” converge over “Money” and “Flock”. Isn’t this one kind of better? [NBC 41 WMGT]
An opinion piece entitled Oxford Undergraduates and the ISIS School of Art Criticism is as full of fighting words as one would expect. Brendan O’Neil equates a petition to remove a statue of a British imperialist with the American movement for iconoclasm of Confederate symbols. O’Neil argues that both of these desires are no different than the cultural rampage ISIS is blasting through the Middle East. [Newsweek]
In related news, artists Brandon Joyce and Jessica Ciocci are calling for submissions for a new flag for the south, as the Confederate one clearly isn’t cutting it anymore. The best submission so far? A giant billowing Waffle House menu. [The Enthusiast]
The South Street Seaport’s vacant retail spaces are being rebranded as the pop-up Seaport Cultural District. Former tourist-aimed businesses that have been empty since hurricane Sandy are now being converted to temporary outposts of the Guggenheim and the art and tech center Eyebeam, among others. The scheme is being funded by the controversial development group the Howard Hughes Corporation. [The New York Times]
Read this excerpt from The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries in the Art World and marvel at the ballsy-ness of Ely Sakhai. The dealer acquired original paintings by the likes of Gauguin, Rembrandt, and Paul Klee. He would then commission Chinese forgeries and sell them along with the originals’ certificates of authenticity to collectors in Tokyo. The originals were sent to auction houses. Unfortunately for Sakhai, this led to awkward moments when both Christie’s and Sotheby’s were listing “identical” works in their catalogs as Japanese collectors attempted to flip his fakes. [Salon]
The Seattle Art Fair gets a blow job. “It’s really, really exciting for Seattle,” Interior Designer Brian Paquette told the Times. “No, seriously. This is, like, beyond amazing.” Paquette was excited to see a Louise Nevelson at the fair. That’s just one of seemingly countless glowing reviews of the fair. Apparently Seattle was suffering for not having an art fair in its home town. [The New York Times]
More Banksy in Detroit controversy: an especially sappy mural the street artist completed on the Packard Plant there in 2010 was removed by the nonprofit 555 Gallery. The gallery intends to auction the piece to raise money for education programming, despite promising that the mural would not be sold. [Deadline Detroit]
We doubt there’s a single artist who will get behind Magnus Resch’s conclusions in his new book “Management of Art Galleries”. The author, in trying to determine why so many galleries lose money in a time when so much money is pouring into the market, suggests that galleries don’t pay their staff enough and pay artists too much. The profit split, he says should look more like 70/30. Given that artists don’t pay their bills either, this doesn’t seem like a useful recommendation, but we appreciate the author’s willingness to table ideas no matter how ridiculous. (And he has a number of outright loony ones, including placing sparklers beside work that has sold at gallery openings to increase sales.) We haven’t read Resch’s book, but our recommendation for the field is to charge more for art, so that businesses can pay their expenses. [Bloomberg]
The ten most awkward things artists have said to art critics: from Warhol inquiring about Calvin Tompkins’s penis size to James Franco bashing Ben Brantley on Instagram. [artnet News]
Now on YouTube: A fan fiction sequel to Star Trek TOS episode, “Mirror Mirror” produced by Star Trek Continues. “The Fairest of Them All” is the third of four sequels produced and the one recommended by Metafilter user Wittgenstein. [Metafilter]

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The Definitive Stay in New York Reading List

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on June 26, 2015

If you’re heading out to “Stay in New York,” Art F City’s affordable workspace conference, there’s no better time than now to catch up on the issues: artists kicked out of studios, community-building legislation, and whether artists can afford real-estate in New York. Not going? We’ve compiled a lengthy guide on the state of affordable workspace in New York City, with articles from Art F City and other online publications, professional and academic studies, and books to get you started on knowing the current state of affordable studio space in New York City. Some of these resources you may be familiar with. Others have been made publicly available here for the first time.

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