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Friday Links! Arty Sex Toys and a Swedish Librarian

by Corinna Kirsch on June 29, 2012

Keith Haring’s art is on a new line of sex toys, and the staff of AnimalNY took it upon themselves to ensure the “uber-advanced vacuum fuck cups” were up to par. Best review: “Still feels like I’m fucking a rubber egg.” [AnimalNY]
Jonathan Jones, that voice of art criticism cloaked in arcane classicism, has stated in recent tirades that cavemen weren’t artists, Big Ben is a timeless work of art, and if given the option, Rembrandt should be shown over Andy Warhol. Somehow, he still has room to like Bruce Nauman. [The Guardian]
For a time, Sweden’s biggest criminal was a wayward librarian. Nobody suspected the librarian had been stealing rare and valuable books, even though he was living the life of luxury, with “Armani suits, silk ties, Cuban Cohibas and a Mercedes.”After he was caught, he committed suicide, and became a posthumous celebrity in Sweden, with a TV mini-series and radio documentary. Now, one of his stolen manuscripts, containing the first Atlas of the Americas, has been recovered, a map worth almost half-a-million. [The New York Times]
At yesterday’s contemporary sale, Phillips de Pury showed the bigger auction houses that they, too, can shatter records. Some examples: they brought in the highest-ever dollar amount for a Wade Guyton and for a Basquiat-Warhol collaboration.We’d predicted the Guyton would move quickly, noting he’s been a charmer to collectors in our cheat sheet to the sale. [Art Observed]
Someone vandalized Billy the Kid’s tombstone in the Fort Sumner Museum. [Auction Central News]
The best K-pop art ever. And yes, that is a group of shirtless boys squirting each other with a hose. [Hancinema]
The National Academy announces its newest artist members to the academy, a group including Cindy Sherman, Bill Viola, and Robert Gober. You may now refer to them as “National Gallery Academicians.” Although this is an entirely honorary title, it’s the first time the organization has allowed artists working in video, photography, and installation to enter join the academy’s ranks. [Media Bistro]
The Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) just released a report on the abuses of part-time college faculty. The report finds that almost half of the entire higher education faculty in the United States is part-time and the median pay per course for these part-timers is a measly $2,700 per semester. [CAW]
Don’t miss Amanda Fucking Palmer at The Seaport Museum tomorrow night. We predict awesomeness. [South Street Seaport Museum]
Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg have apparently trademarked “Cinemagraph.” [Cinemagraph]
If you’re in Baltimore, come listen to The Sound of Art! It’s included in an exhibition at Baltimore’s Guestspot gallery through August 4th. [Guestspot]

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Wednesday Links! Everybody’s Losing It

by Will Brand on December 7, 2011

Jerry Saltz tees off on the New Museum’s Carsten Holler show and the last five years of museum-friendly relational aesthetics. Highlight: “It would be impossible to imagine anyone getting anything from these works, except briefly distracted.” [NYMag]
Jonathan Jones tees off on the Turner Prize judges for not picking George Shaw, and particularly for accusing Shaw of conservatism. For reference, Shaw paints naturalistic, depopulated scenes from around his hometown. Highlight: “Art is now judged by criteria that are fundamentally pretentious and empty. I suppose it has to be, or all the pretentious and empty art that sells in galleries would lose its value.” [The Guardian]
In case you missed it, here’s an interview with Shaw that ran in the same paper back in February. Highlight: “I look at [my] work and its innate conservatism shocks me. When I was growing up, I thought I was going to be a really contemporary artist doing video and installation work, capturing the zeitgeist and all that, but”¦ Then, I realised I was just lying to myself.”” [The Guardian]
James Panero tees off on the Brooklyn Museum for bringing that veritable antichrist David Wojnarowicz (or the other billion artists in the show) to town. It’s three weeks old, but in our defense nobody we know reads the Post. Highlight: ‘Why wait for Black Friday to begin the tedious “War on Christmas”?’ [NY Post]
Apparently, some opera houses and theaters are now offering “tweet seats”, special marked-off areas where audience members are allowed to use their phones for the purpose of livetweeting. Ewwwwww. [LA Times]
The latest advance in cat memes is the Procatinator. Fear it.

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The Art World’s Biggest Hate Reads of 2013

by Whitney Kimball on December 13, 2013

The year in hate reads.

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The Complete Coverage of The Complete Coverage of the Rothko Vandalism

by Whitney Kimball on October 8, 2012

If art writers can’t have Columbus Day off, then at least we can have the second best thing to an art world snow day: an Art Vandalism Day! That means everybody in the art world can drop whatever they’re doing and spend two full days disputing the exact nature and aftermath of an art vandalism. Let’s see if we can push it to three.

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This Week in Art Podcasts

by Whitney Kimball on June 27, 2012

What do people talk about when they’re not typing? What does Tyler Green’s voice sound like? This week, I listened to a handful of podcasts to find out.

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Massive Links! Arrest for Spray Painting on Oil Painting | Law to Prevent Painting Over Spray Painting

by Whitney Kimball on July 21, 2011

Don’t spraypaint over Poussin, unless you do it with your eyes and the government decides it’s valuable. Also, a photographer takes pictures of skinny beautiful people, MIT comes up with some crazy shit, and a leopard takes out the fear and anxiety of modern life on someone’s head.

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Massive Links! Matthew Collins’ Fuck-You to Art Writers | Jerry Saltz Tweet Watch | Will Trade Iguana For 360 Games

by Paddy Johnson on June 23, 2011

This week on the Jerry Saltz watch, the critic complains about artists making work that looks like other artists. He also doesn’t like that Michael Fried doesn’t write about any women artists in his new book Four Honest Outlaws. To quote the critic, “WTF”. Also, Matthew Collins hates the art world, facebook ads are icky and um, who wants to trade some video games for an Iguana? We’ve got a Craigslist ad for you!

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Don’t believe the hype about contemporary art | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

by Paddy Johnson on May 27, 2011

Don’t believe the hype about contemporary art | Art and design | guardian.co.uk – "Truth teller" Jonathan Jones connects some disperate dots to draw conclusions best expressed by @gregdotorg: "Because there are not 200 Cezannes in the UK, contemporary art is rubbish."

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Wednesday Links! Everybody’s Losing It

The Complete Coverage of The Complete Coverage of the Rothko Vandalism

Massive Links! Arrest for Spray Painting on Oil Painting | Law to Prevent Painting Over Spray Painting

Massive Links! Matthew Collins’ Fuck-You to Art Writers | Jerry Saltz Tweet Watch | Will Trade Iguana For 360 Games

Don’t believe the hype about contemporary art | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

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