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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Give Thanks for Kate Bush

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 21, 2016

It’s a slow week, but one with just enough good events to keep any Thanksgiving-related food coma at bay. Monday night, we’ve got two book release events with talks and more! Fragments of Metropolis – Rhein & Ruhr launches with a panel discussion at NYU’s Deutsches Haus and Douglas Crimp: Before Pictures is kicking-off at The Kitchen. Tuesday, rising video art star Sondra Perry speaks at SVA and bitforms gallery returns to its roots for a homecoming party. Wednesday, MoMA opens a Josef Albers exhibit that shows the color guru’s dark(room) side.

Thursday is Thanskgiving, so there are no art events. But if you can’t deal with the potential of seeing a Trump-supporting relative, I recommend teaming up with friends to support local immigrant-owned businesses instead! Post-holiday, there’s a bit of a slowdown. On Black Friday, check out a campy screening at Williamsburg’s Spectacle theater. Saturday Pioneer Works is hosting the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. If that’s not your thing, head to Roulette, where artists reinterpret the music of Kate Bush. That’s one thing we can all be thankful for.

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Friday Links: Embarrassed Dancer Literally Tries to “Break the Internet”

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 26, 2016

#trimp #dinild #dinildtrimp #trump #donaldtrump #trump2016 #presidenttrump #viscousfluid #wetsuckingnoise #bloatedskinmonster #dumpsterfire #toiletfire

A photo posted by Dinild Trimp (@dinildtrimp) on Aug 16, 2016 at 4:05pm PDT

Spoiler Alert: Rupaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars has a whole new elimination process. It’s pretty complicated, and definitely engineered for maximum over-the-top drama. [A.V. Club]

Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter, a.k.a. “Honey and Bunny,” are architects-turned-performance artists who aim to disrupt notions of polite, wasteful dining. This involves wrapping themselves in saran wrap and cutting cake with a chainsaw. [The New Yorker]

Tamiko Thiel’s augmented reality piece “Gardens of the Anthropocene” allows viewers to wander post-apocalyptic Seattle and witness what alien flora might take over due to climate change. [Seattle Times]

A Chinese man has been arrested after he vandalized several fiber optics boxes. Apparently he was upset that he had been photographed square-dancing, and wanted to destroy the internet so people couldn’t make fun of him online. [Kotaku]

A really smart interview with Nicole Caruth, the curator of The Grace Jones Project and Emily Kuhlmann, Director of Exhibitions as the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. The show is currently on view at MoAD. Caruth observes that Jones is often seen through the lens of her white male collaborators and that exhibition texts often would have you believe she is merely a muse. Not so. [Hyperallergic]

“Under US copyright law, the use of copyrighted material in a work of art is considered fair use if it comments on the original source material; Prince is leaving literal comments beneath the Instagram photos he reproduces.” Surprise! Richard Prince is getting sued again. [The Art Newspaper]

The New York York Times would have you believe that its latest art feature is breathtaking work of reportage. “We tried to find out what goes on in the mind of the modern museumgoer, unscientifically, by staking out the Met Breuer and interviewing nearly 50 art gazers over the course of two months, their pensive moments pierced by our questions as they peered at works.” What follows are side by side pictures of viewers and the painting they looked at, (the layout is confusing—why do we need to see portraits of the viewers?) and one line reflections on what they saw. Nobody has anything interesting to say. [The New York Times]

Residents of Bristol are unhappy that sculptor Frank Benson’s statue of “castaway” Alexander Selkirk is going to be installed in a cemetery—largely because it’s “terrifying.’ [ART news]

I guess you really can rap about anything. Welcome Fart Touch by BIG STOOPID. Choice lines include, “My fart went BOOM!” and “Get your gas masks if you can’t take the smell” Not for the squeamish, but unexpectedly funny. [YouTube via metafilter]

Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus architecture is totally dreamy. [Dezeen]

“You can’t beat homelessness with economic growth”, writes Evan Horowitz. Why? Because the cost of housing is more expensive in areas with high density populations and wealth, thus pushing those on the brink of homelessness out of their homes. According to this report, Massachusetts has been setting a good example on the policy front. [The Boston Globe]

“Dinild Trimp” is a mysterious social media figure assembled from photoshopped parts of Donald Trump. It’s gross. [The Creators Project]

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Thursday Links: Sick Pyongyang Trip, Brah!

by Michael Anthony Farley and Corinna Kirsch on August 18, 2016

Lucia Moholy, wife of László Moholy-Nagy, is pretty much the unsung hero of the Bauhaus. While her husband taught at the school, she took gorgeous documentary photographs of everything from architecture to student-designed teacups. These negatives were left behind when she was forced to flee the Nazis, and Walter Gropius ended up using them to promote the school’s design philosophy while the campus remained occupied, first by the Nazis and then behind the Iron Curtain. She was often not credited. [99% Invisible]

Why is unnaturally (and obnoxiously) cheery travel vlogger Louis Cole now making bizarre North Korean propaganda? This batch of extremely weird vlogs look like what a British person would make if a North Korean agent forced them at gunpoint to do “hip” things…based on a North Korean perspective of what’s cool in the West, based on smuggled DVDs of South Korean media. Sick beats, bro! Skateboarding! Water parks! Dreadlocks! Human rights abuses?! [Vanity Fair]

Gary Nader and Jorge Perez are currently feuding over who gets to build a museum in Miami or who’s dick is bigger or something. [artnet News]

Curator, critic, and online-project organizer Carla Acevedo-Yates join the Broad Art Museum in Michigan as an assistant curator. [Baer-Faxt]

$9 and this Dan Graham cassette could be yours! [Primary Information]

There’s more single people than ever before, and now social scientists are trying to figure out how to start studying this previously neglected category of people. [The Science of Us]

Q: Why are academics such bad writers? A: Part I and Part II. [The Awl]

Here’s the first aerial photo of Manhattan, taken from a hot air balloon in 1906. Now that we’re so accustomed to ubiquitous crystal-clear satellite imagery it’s hard to imagine just how crazy this must’ve been just 110 years ago. [Curbed]

We’re looking forward to Chrissie Iles’s Dreamlands exhibition, a survey of immersive moving image works over the last century, opening at the Whitney this fall. In an interview with Sloan Science and Film, she gives a preview of the exhibition, and discusses the relationships between art made in Weimar-era Germany and today. Hint: it has something to do with cyborgs. [e-flux Conversations]

Photo filters have gone passé, it seems, now that augmented reality are taking over apps. Still, here comes Prism, an app that lets you apply so-called art filters like “Impression” or “Urban” to your phone pics; the app has the Mercury News speculating that “fine art may be the next career killed by the internet.” We doubt the latter on so many levels. [Mercury News]

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Wednesday Links: This Thing, Illegal Butt Paintings, Inscrutable Art World Decision Making

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on April 20, 2016

Say hello to Mordor’sBrooklyn’s new skyline. From SHoP Architects.

The Bauhaus Ballet turns 100. I want all of these costumes. [Hint]

People in Boyle Heights are really, really serious about fighting gentrification. [The Guardian]

An interactive map breaks down how individual block groups voted in yesterday’s primaries. It’s pretty fascinating stuff. Obviously, the Upper East Side voted for Hillary. But Trump didn’t do well in his home turf of Manhattan. And plenty of millennial-saturated pockets of the Lower East Side and Bushwick didn’t turn out for Bernie. Are the kids still registered at their parents’ addresses back in the suburbs? Why did so many poor people in Brooklyn vote for Ted Cruz and who are the people in Hispanic neighborhoods voting Trump? You could spend hours on this thing and walk away with so many questions. [The New York Times]

Students at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee have been freaking out after a set of rainbow-colored nooses was found hanging in a tree on campus. It turns out they were an art project for an intro to yarn class. A very stupid art project. [Newsweek]

Strange rituals, backdoor deals, power plays, vast fortunes… this isn’t a teaser for the new Game of Thrones season. This is how LACMA curators battle for acquisitions in front of the Collectors Committee and it is bizarre. [artnet News]

100 year old plus paintings captioned by computer programmers. Naturally, the captions are all about computer programming. [Classical Programmer Paintings]

Cornelia Parker’s “Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)” is now on display on The Met’s rooftop sculpture garden. It’s a fake house that looks just like the Bates Motel from Psycho. The installation will be up until Halloween, when we can be sure to expect many selfies. [Time Out]

Looks like that monster 73 story high tower poised to be built in Brooklyn got the green light from city council. It will literally be twice as tall as anything around it. [Gothamist]

Infamous art collector and hedge fund manager Steve Cohen has put his $72 million penthouse on the market. Again. When it was first listed the asking price was $115 million, so that’s a pretty significant price cut. I’m not surprised. The place looks like a corporate office — it’s not exactly homey. [Curbed]

Gallerist Laura Borghi, owner of Borghi Fine Art Gallery, is facing a fine and jail time for refusing to remove a painting by Tom Dash that features a butt. No, this isn’t happening in the UAE. This is in Englewood, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan. [NJ.com]

Nicole Bonneau is watching all 403 episodes of Bob Ross’s Joy of Painting and recreating every single painting. Why? Mostly because it’s relaxing and also because it’s exactly the kind of thing that gets social media followers. [Huffington Post]

The Guggenheim will be installing gold toilet by artist Maurizio Cattelan. Cattelan insists it’s a serious toilet not a joke toilet. Nancy Spector, the museum’s head curator said the Occupy Movement and a growing gap between the rich and poor came to mind when she saw the piece. No mention was made of Gulf Labor, a group negotiating fair working and living conditions for the laborers building their new museum in Abu Dhabi. The museum abruptly cut off negotiations with them this week. [The New York Times]

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