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The Best of Art F City, 2015

by Rea McNamara on December 31, 2015

Revisiting the ‘Simple Net Art Diagram’, reviewing an art fair’s virtual tour, calling out Georg Baselitz, breaking news on the USC MFA Class, and even bringing back nerdocracy. Readers, we truly feel a real sense of accomplishment for the stories we wrote in 2015, especially after amassing them in a ‘Best of’ list such as this. We not only paid artists to attend art fairs, but also investigated sexism is arts publishing and even had two Renaissance cosmetics experts dish on body hair removal. Who else publishes this shit? No one.

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Friday Links: Dollar Store Chocolate Santa Penis

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on December 18, 2015

Dollar store chocolate Santa turns out to be a huge penis. [CityNews]
Bad hire: Ben Genocchio, Artnet News’ editor-in-chief, has been named the new executive director of the Armory Show. Who knew writing an eyeroll-inducing clickbait listicle on the ways in which the artworld could change for the better would lead to an executive level position at an art fair? [The Art Newspaper]
But! Hiring a media type to run a major fair then inspires other trade publications to dig up past dumb art fair quotes (sample: “most art fairs bore me”) for traffic purposes. [Art Market Monitor]
Most professors use Academia.edu to publish their papers online, but concerns have been raised whether its wise to make a for-profit website the repository for open-source research. After all, if the website is reliant on venture capital, when the money dries up, how will the site be mined for profit? [The Atlantic]
Handmade ceramics are hot. The newspaper’s got a point, but I wish they had identified artists as well as artisans. Christina Schou Christensen is a favorite (though not exactly local.) [The New York Times]
In somewhat related news, an anonymous professor complains about a group of students denied extensions initiating a flyer campaign tapped to his office door demanding “respect seeing as I pay you £9,000 a year”. The suggestion that universities need customer service departments isn’t a bad one. [The Guardian]
Ayahuasca tourism is now veering into Fight Club territory—a Canadian man killed a Briton in self-defence during a ceremony in the Peruvian Amazon. [The Guardian]
Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril discusses documentary filmmaking and screening ethics, specifically in light of that racist Quebec documentary on inuit life: “I’m so fucking tired of having to take our two minutes of opportunity, of airtime, to say, ‘I’m not a drunk.’” [Art Threat]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens tonight and the reviews are good! [The New York Times]
Hate read: a list of major art collectors who are also big Republican donors. Why is this so surprising? After all, the big news from Miami was all the presidential candidates hanging around the pop-up parties because they were chasing after campaign cash. [artnet News]
An oldie, but a goodie by Adrian Chen: Best gifts under 5 cents. [Gawker]
Speaking of Chen, here’s another great moment from the past:
pic.twitter.com/JweHxqNDD4

— Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen) May 7, 2015

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Dealers Report: The 2015 Armory Show Is Legit Awesome

by Corinna Kirsch on March 5, 2015

Writing about the Armory Show comes with a caveat: people lie. Ask a dealer if they’ve made any sales, and they’ll often say “yes,” whether or not they’ve actually sold anything. Often, though, those tales reveal themselves. Some lies come with errors. This year, for example, a dealer told us collectors only buy at the end of a fair—an obviously false statement—but yes, she’d sold some small works. Other tales reveal themselves years later. Like when a dealer tells you he was “losing his shirt” at a past fair, forgetting that he’d told you that very same year that he’d sold out the booth.

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The Art F City Guide to the 2015 Armory Week Fairs

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 2, 2015

Bad news for those planning to do anything other than look at art this week: Your week is fucked. It’s Armory Week, which for art professionals and lovers alike means a marathon of art-viewing practically guaranteed to hurt your eyes at some point. There’s treatment for these kinds of injuries, but the best advice we can offer is to simply be careful out there.

Don’t overdo it. Eat well. Get lots of rest. You’ll need it.

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Dealers Take Another Look at the ADAA

by Whitney Kimball on March 11, 2013

Five years in the art world count like dog years. In 2007, we had dealers like Paul Kasmin speaking about the ADAA’s art show in stark terms; this year, they’ve changed their tune.

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ΔRMΩRΨ 2013 SΩ ΔRMΩRΨ 2013

by Alex McLeod on March 7, 2013

[Editor’s note: We invited artist Alex McLeod to provide commentary on some of the fairs. His slideshow below.]

LAS YEAR WAS MY FIRST ARMORY SO BY NO MEANS AM I SPEAKING FROM AUTHORITY I KNO THAT. NONE OF MY FRIENDS ARE SHOWING (#FOREVERALONE).

[Slideshow after the jump.]

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Tuesday Links: Writers Explain Why Everyone Else is Wrong

by Whitney Kimball on January 15, 2013

Ben Davis doesn’t want to write another piece about the poisonous art market, but he believes it’s his responsibility, so he’s doing it. We’re glad he did. He singles out the big three that are ruining art for everybody: unsustainable contradictions (often, artists making wink art about money) inequality, and terrible people. “…personally, I feel that art is too important to become PR for tycoons,” he writes, “no matter how much they want to pay to make it so.” Amen, brother. [ARTinfo]
That Davis quote reminds us of a Bob Nickas quote tweeted by Karen Archey over the weekend. “Wealthy and powerful people—and boring people, and famous people—use art and artists to legitimize themselves.” [VICE]
18 human heads found in box at the airport, only Gawker seems to notice that that’s weird. [Gawker]
Painting needs some categories in order to go anywhere, so writer Richard Kalina has made some. Basically, they are “mimetic” and “abstract.” [Brooklyn Rail]
Remember when the Armory show was a shocking event? Neither do we, but this WNYC episode describes how the art there once helped the plunge into “absolute chaos and nightmare.” [WNYC]
Erin Kissane does a good job of explaining why the Atlantic was wrong to run a sponsored article for Scientology. [Incisive.nu]
Facebook just announced the new “graph search” feature that answers Facebook-specific questions like “restaurants my friends have been to” and “photos I’ve liked.” [CBS]

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Friday Links!

by Reid Singer on October 7, 2011

Does art matter in the semi-urban Midwest? We think so. Democrats in Wisconsin are calling for the removal of a portrait of Jeremiah Rusk, the governor who, as one congressman put it, “gave the order to fire on people who were demonstrating for the eight-hour day” in 1886 Milwaukee. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Kaelan Wilson-Goldie tackles the problems of supporting “revolutionary art” and its inevitable use by the counter-revolution. [Frieze]
Ben Fino-Radin’s post over at Rhizome about the problems of properly anti-aliasing a net art piece about anti-aliasing won’t blow your mind, but we should probably be talking more about how we’re gonna conserve the digital artifact aesthetic. I sense an argument coming on. [Rhizome]
Some of us felt bad for poking fun at the animated GIF version of the R.E.M. album cover. The guilt is waning now that it’s occurred to us how many other album covers would be just as deserving of lo-tech wow-factor [Deathandtaxesmag].
Have you looked at the Occupennial Art Database, the huge online cache of the OWS-related art? No? Maybe you should.
If you take away the VHS collection, the Joy Division posters, and the quarter-of-an-inch-thick plywood divider between by room and my flatmate’s, the Armory is going to look just like my apartment once Herzog and de Meuron are done renovating. [via NYT]
Word to the wise: watch the video for Beyoncé’s song “Countdown” before it gets removed or you think of something valuable to do.

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Dealers Take Another Look at the ADAA

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Tuesday Links: Writers Explain Why Everyone Else is Wrong

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