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L.A. Art Diary: The Final Entry

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 31, 2017

In his final L.A. Art Diary post, Michael Anthony Farley explains why he can’t live in Los Angeles, even though it seems like everyone else is these days.

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We Went to the LES: Solo Shows of Chris Burden and Patricia Treib

by Michael Anthony Farley and Patricia Margarita Hernandez on May 12, 2017

Michael: In the belly of the beast that was Frieze Week, I met up with Patricia Margarita Hernandez, Gallery Director/Assistant Curator of P! to check out some openings in the gallery’s neighborhood. We ended up at two solo shows: Chris Burden at Shin Gallery and Patricia Treib at Bureau.

I liked both of them a lot more than she did. Below, we talk nerdy masculinity, whether abstract paintings have content beyond “decor”, weird curating, and bad lighting.

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Tuesday Links: Patrick Stewart in Drag, Coco Fusco on the Whitney Drama, Canada’s #Lacgate

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on March 28, 2017

Patrick Stewart Kellyanne Conway

AHHH! Patrick Stewart in drag looks so much like Kellyanne Conway it’s freaking me out. Please tell me there’s an SNL appearance planned. [22 Words]
I keep thinking we have to be done with the Dana Schutz Open Casket controversy and then something else comes out on the subject. Coco Fusco, hands down, pens the piece of authority on the subject. If you read anything today, make it this piece. [Hyperallergic]
Those interested in applying for a residency at New INC can attend an info session tomorrow and Tuesday April 18th at NEW INC. You’ll want to go tomorrow, because on April 18th, you’ll be at our Goth Opera benefit! [Facebook]
A performing arts center slated for development at Ground Zero could face a $100 million shortfall if federal officials retract the unspent funds the city received after Sept. 11. Basically, this nonsense is the result of government agencies fighting with each other. The Port Authority, which says it is owed $68 million by the Lower Manhattan Development Council (LMDC). The LMDC says it owes $45 million. Port Authority is refusing to hand over control for the site until they are paid. [Crains]
Related: one of many lawsuits by the City Club of New York may have finally succeeded in derailing the Thomas-Heatherwick-designed Pier 55. This is kind of a bummer. Of all the architect’s upcoming controversial projects, this one was by far the best and least offensive, especially in a part of the city that could use some non-High-Line green space. One of the arguments against the park was that it would obscure the natural beauty of the waterfront… Manhattan’s obviously man-made waterfront, where it would be straddling the ruins of two man-made piers. What a ridiculous group of crotchety fun-spoilers. [Dezeen]
One of the NEA’s most important functions is supplying insurance coverage to museum exhibitions. Without the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program, many cross-institutional exhibitions simply couldn’t happen. It’s saved museums an estimated $450 million but has only resulted in $4,700 in payouts from the federal government in the past 42 years. (For those curious, that’s less than one Melania Trump Hour, by our metrics). [Los Angeles Times]
Apply for the 2017 Summer studio residency at Ortega y Gasset Projects. [Ortega y Gasset Projects]
Cristo and Jeanne Claude aren’t the only ones who can bring fences into New York City for public art. Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei will build over 100 fences around the city for his installation project, “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” this fall, thanks to a commission by the Public Art Fund. The work is inspired by the international migration crisis. [Gothamist]
The first trailer has arrived for Burden, the upcoming documentary about Chris Burden. [Artspace]
While the US has been plunged into a political drama out of a particularly boring episode of Game of Thrones, we have been neglecting Canadian political/news media scandals. Namely: #lacgate. Yesterday I clicked on the article “The Five Signs You’ve Written a Bad Column”, hoping for some journalism advice. Instead, I was introduced to the saga of columnist Leah McLaren, who wrote about her experience attempting to secretly breastfeed Conservative MP Michael Chong’s baby at a houseparty. This is so much weirder (probably) than whatever the fuck Devin Nunes was doing during his inexplicable missing time. [VICE]

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NSFW GIF of the Hump Day: Shoot

by Rhett Jones on August 3, 2016

Normally, NSFW GIF of the Hump Day is just meant to poke fun at some of the puritanical attitudes that surround art, sex and nudity. It is certainly weird that sex and nudity are more off-limits in American culture than violence. But NSFW can mean more than just jiggling boobs and raging boners.

While we wouldn’t necessarily say that Chris Burden’s “Shoot” (a performance in which he allowed someone to shoot him in the arm with a gun) is violent, your boss might think you’re watching some sort of fucked up snuff meets America’s Funniest Home Videos.

And just for good measure we’ll throw in Eva and Franco Mattes reenactment of “Shoot,” done entirely in Second Life.

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Breaking into Broken Systems: On Being Marginalized, and the “Politics of Refusal”

by Rea McNamara on May 31, 2016

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, the second floor of Toronto’s Theater Center was packed with artists for the panel DAMNED IF YOU DO: A Conversation on the Politics of Refusal. Co-presented by local artist-run center Whippersnapper Gallery, the panel focused on stories and strategies from the trenches of the “marginalized”: namely, the tricky pursuit of navigating art and funding systems as an “artist of colour” or “visible minority” or whatever fraught PC term can describe what it means to be a racialized body in the art world.

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Melon Bra and Digital Nails

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on July 21, 2015

It’s Video Art Week! Well, not officially, although there will be plenty of top-shelf video art and film to see this week, from the old to the new, from the weird to the weirder.

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Tuesday Links: Kanye West Praises George W. Bush’s Painting Skills

by Paddy Johnson on May 12, 2015

Photographs from Chris Burden’s “Shoot”

Oh lord. Kanye West’s commencement speech for the Art Institute of Chicago praises the painting skills of George W. Bush. [Stereogum]
Last night Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) sold for $179.4 million including fees at Christie’s, making it the most expensive art work ever sold. Less than 30 minutes later, Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture L’homme au doigt (Pointing Man) $141.3 million with fees, making it the most expensive sculpture ever sold. Josh Baer had no significant observations from the sale past the fact that it was mostly new money purchasing the lots. [Baer Faxt]
Most of the obituaries we’ve read on Chris Burden have been long pieces dedicated to chronicling his work and his importance. But arguably the most heartfelt comes from this short reflection by Jonathan Jones, “I will always picture Chris Burden in those 1971 photographs, wounded and shocked. An artist sharing the pain of others. He was one of the true greats.” [The Guardian]
A list of “must see events” for the week that are almost entirely invitation only or ticketed. [Artnet News]
Nobody writes a better Venice Biennale review than Adrian Searle. He says that All the World’s Futures tells a story “of a world too complex to submit to any single critique or system.” It’s too much to unravel. [The Guardian]
And here’s an unusual review of the Biennale that takes it to task for being filled with too much angry and ugly work. [Artnet News]
Yesterday Matthew Apperson injured George Zimmerman—the man was acquitted of Trayvon Martin’s murder in 2013—in a shooting. Apperson’s lawyer says his client was acting in self-defense. [WFTV]
A devastating story about what caring for a loved one with cancer looks like. [Esquire]

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