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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: An Overdue Eclipse of Male Artists

by Michael Anthony Farley on October 3, 2016

While the Guerrilla Girls are in London chastising Europe’s man-centric art world, we’re happy to report an all-too-rare week in New York that’s dominated by awesome female artists. Tuesday night Esther Ruiz is unveiling an installation at BAM, and the much-missed queer space Spectrum gets resurrected as The Dreamhouse in Ridgewood, with performances from Juliana Huxtable and more. Thursday night at Anna Zorina Gallery, Nadine Faraj’s solo show celebrates going topless as an act of political defiance, and Friday Robin Kang’s weavings at OUTLET demonstrate that textiles are still relevant to tech.

Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg is having a banner weekend, with a Friday night documentary about gender-redefining icon Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and a Saturday night screening of an experimental feminist revenge flick from Kat Hunt.

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Museums Are Cool, Too: 16 Shows to See This Summer

by Julia Wolkoff on July 18, 2013

Summer is here, and it’s hot. If going to the beach sounds painful, we’ve got a suggestion: museums. Thankfully, the air conditioned galleries of New York’s museums have plenty of worthwhile shows to check out. (Just don’t try to go to the rooftop gallery at the Met; they’ve closed that today due to the heat.) Below, we’ve rounded up a whopping list of 16 fantastic museum shows we’re going to check out.

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President’s Day Links: Famous People Edition

by Paddy Johnson on February 18, 2013

Making the rounds this week: The Wall Street Journal’s profile of Venice Biennale curator Massimiliano Gioni. “Lately,” he says, “people just think that contemporary art is something there to pass the time of the wealthy, or because everybody else is doing it or because openings are cool and fashionable.” Gioni, by contrast, sees art not as the exclusive domain of the hip and the well-to-do, but as a kind of mental playground for the masses.
“We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don’t understand,” he says.That’s some Gioni gloss on an actual problem, though, to be fair, there is some truth to what he says about coexisting in the context of class. The middle class isn’t always friendly with those from the upper class and visa versa.

Meanwhile, want to know what drives Gioni? “That’s ultimately my interest,” the curator tells the journal “to get the artwork to tell stories.” [WSJ]
British artist Stuart Semple has signed a contract for worldwide representation with the fashion agency Next Management. Oh goodie; the art world was sufficiently lacking people whose job description is to make demands. Now we have a whole new group of icky people to make the field more annoying. [The Art Newspaper]
Jillian Steinhauer visited the archives of the American Folk Art Museum and got a chance to look at some of Darger’s writing. He wrote a 15,000 page novel. [Hyperallergic]
Artist Jayson Musson is responsible for a line in that Harlem Shake meme that’s been going around. Background on that, from Animal. [AnimalNY]
President Roosevelt was no fan of the Armory Show, Duchamp or Cubism. Highlights from his scathing review courtesy of Benjamin Sutton. [In The Air]

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Friday Links: Boon Edition

by Paddy Johnson on January 4, 2013

Sigur Rós: Varúð from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo.

Bad news for the American Folk Art Museum. The Wall Street Journal reports they will have to give up more than 200 artworks promised to their collection. The works were promised gifts from Ralph Esmerian, owner of the high-end jewelry business Fred Leighton, who is now facing bankruptcy and a six-year jail term for wire fraud. The collection was used as collateral in a loan he’s now defaulted on. [Wall Street Journal]
The Seaport Museum received a half million dollars in the mail through an anonymous donation. The museum suffered 22 million in damages thanks to Hurricane Sandy, so the money is much needed. [NYCReconnects]
Editor Joanne McNeil is no longer working at Rhizome. The organization has not yet put out a call to fill the position. [auto-reply]
Terrible art will be in New York taxi cabs soon. Starting Wednesday and running through February 5th, the Art Production Fund will sponsor a 30 second clip from the Sigur Ros video made by Ryan McGinley. The piece features his friend Jessica Tang, wearing only a gold wig and a t-shirt, skipping barefoot amidst the streets of New York. Can’t wait. [NYTimes]
Buzzfeed Founder Jonah Peretti is by far the most successful ex-art worlder we have to brag about. (He was a former R&D Director at Eyebeam.) The company now has a 34 million cash hoard thanks to VC funding and Peretti promises to spend it on growing his company. This article mentions all this, by means of framing a conversation about how both Buzzfeed and Tumblr believe in ads that behave more like content. That wraps icky self promotion and thinly labeled ads in a very attractive package, but let’s face it: targeted advertising is a way better experience than being subjected to the random crap TV throws at us. [Paid Content]

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Survivability Report: The American Folk Art Museum and the Seaport Museum

by John Gawarecki-Maxwell on January 17, 2012

2011 wasn't a great year for either the Seaport Museum or the American Folk Art Museum. The two museums have been in dire financial straits for the past several years, struggling to keep rising operating costs down while bleeding admissions and memberships. We took a deeper look at their finances to figure out what these museums’ prospects look like.

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Approaching Abstraction in New York on 10/06/09

by David Harper on July 28, 2010

Approaching Abstraction Date: Tuesday, October 6th 2009 – Sunday, September 12th 2010 Venue: American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd St. The Folk Art Museum’s Approaching Abstraction has been open for nearly ten months now, but this may be the first show of “untrained” artists where both the creators and their works depart from what is […]

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Survivability Report: The American Folk Art Museum and the Seaport Museum

Approaching Abstraction in New York on 10/06/09

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