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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: A Hot (In A Good Way) New Fair

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 11, 2017

While the big galleries are still at the beach, the city’s museums and artist-run initiatives continue to keep us on our toes. Case and point: the Whitney’s opening the first US retrospective of Brazilian art/activism pioneer Hélio Oiticica on Friday. Speaking of art/activism, there are plenty of opportunities to get engaged this week, including talks at SVA on Wednesday and SOHO20 gallery on Sunday. The weekend’s real highlight, though, is Crushed, the inaugural Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair. Organized by former AFC teammate Matthew Leifheit, we’re expecting that to be great. Artist-made porn? Weird performances involving cake? A pop-up exhibition of vintage queer zines? Check, check, and check! We’ll see you there!

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Teach-ins, Yoni Eggs, Cemetery Secrets, and More

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 24, 2017

It’s a bit of a slow week for the art world, but that’s just fine by us. There are a handful of events we’re really looking forward to this week and those will be much better enjoyed without the stress of darting around to a dozen other openings. Those include Martha Wilson’s Activist History Teach-In at The 8th Floor on Wednesday night, Alex Ebstein’s solo show at Victori + Mo Friday night, and Sophie Calle at Green-Wood Cemetery on Saturday. Calle will be taking visitor’s confessions and entombing them. Never turn down an opportunity to check out Green-Wood, and certainly never an opportunity for consequence-free secret-telling.

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Monday Links: After the Floods

by Rea McNamara on June 6, 2016

In the wake of the worst flooding Paris has seen in three decades, the Grand Palais exhibition hall reopened as floodwaters slowly recede. The Louvre, which had to move 250,000 works from their basement storage last week at risk of flooding, won’t reopen until Wednesday. [CBC]
St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum has unveiled a Rubens painting unseen for the past 80 years. “The Resurrection of Christ” only began to be restored in 2012 — it had become warped and darkened over the years — when the institution opened its own restoration center. [The Art Newspaper]
The new website for the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) is gorgeous. The navigation has shifted away from prioritizing on the front page programming at CCA’s physical space toward a curatorial framework that brings new and old materials on contemporary issues in architecture. “Can a museum be a magazine?” asks Cincinnati Art Museum curator Brian Sholis. “Pushes the Walker Art Center model further.” [@briansholis]
The rise of the surveillance age has inevitably led to a new cottage industry: stickers and plastic slides designed to cover up the front-facing cameras of our laptops, phones and even televisions. [Guardian]
Seph Rodney recaps the American Alliance of Museum’s recent conference, which was focused on the theme of “Power, Influence and Responsibility.” The conference inevitably led to discussions around whether the large organization could truly enact policies that expanded diversity, as well as what portion of the museum field is hostile to ideas like intersectionality; according to Rodney, at one panel focused on museum jargon, the term was referred to by panelists as a “problem” word. One panelist even bafflingly said “I think it’s just a stupid-ass word. It’s pretentious.” [Hyperallergic]
The nonprofit that coordinated the Panama Papers project is suffering cutbacks. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is moving out of its offices to cut costs, and has let go of three contract journalists who helped with the project. [New York Times]
Only at a Japanese baseball game do characters from The Grudge and The Ring throw the first pitch. [Hypebeast]
A eulogy for the “Internet”, the deferential capital-I term that was awestruck by the vast computational “information highway” network. [The Atlantic]
“Why don’t organizers of for affordable space see arts graduates as partners? Because arts graduates haven’t demonstrated an ability to organize and contribute to existing movements for affordable spaces.” Artist, teacher and organizer Caroline Woolard outlines ways artists can contribute to the affordable housing movement. [creativz]
Meanwhile, will we “remember the de Blasio years as the era when real estate ran the city”? Given that the administration has cut generous deals with donor-developers, and one of his much-heralded new housing zones, Flushing West, was cancelled, probably! [NY Daily News]
Of course Muhammad Ali had a personal magician. [Vox]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The Roving Eye

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on February 1, 2016

Yes, this is a Lorna Mills GIF.

Legacies, transitions and milestones loom largely in this week’s slate of events. Black History Month kicks off in Harlem tonight at the Schomburg Center with a panel featuring Juliana Huxtable and Kimberly Drew among others dwelling on Basquiat’s life and legacy. Further on the BHM-related tip, decolonial knowledge is dropped by Tabita Rezaire at MoCADA’s Window Gallery, and the representation of black and queer personhood is re-assessed in Sondra Perry’s selection of video works for MoMA PS1’s Sunday Session.

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Seeing and (Not) Hearing

by Katie Waddell on March 24, 2015

This week, it’s art for all your senses. Start the week with a cinematic sensory overload. Taper off with some quiet contemplation and intentional time-wasting. Watch a very different kind of silent film, take a hands-on approach to roaming the city, or consume some art—literally, at a dinner party. What else is on this week’s menu? Cyborgs, activists, and dead squirrels. Yum.

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Ten Takeaways on Rent Reform: “Talk to Your Neighbors”

by Whitney Kimball on April 1, 2014

From “Studio in Crisis,” here are ten crucial points on how artists can help change real estate policies in New York City.

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An In-Depth Discussion on How Artists Can Save Studios in NYC

by Whitney Kimball on April 1, 2014

Six months after nearly a hundred artists were forced to leave their studios in Industry City, a panel convened to talk about what artists can do to stay in the city. We heard from representatives in city planning, city government, rent reform initiatives, and beleaguered artists.

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