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Wednesday Links: A Bad Month Ahead for Taurus

by Paddy Johnson on April 5, 2017

Image via: Gulliver’s Gate

Come April 9th, the birthday of famous conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, artnet is hoping Museums will let visitors in for free if they know the secret password, “R. Mutt”. MoMA won’t confirm if they are participating, so I guess there’s a glimmer of hope. [artnet News]
Oooh, my favorite: Art world horoscopes! I think they hate Taurus’s over at Hyperallergic, though, because we’re always getting beaten down in our predictions. They’re calling this an Ana Mendieta month! Guys, you know she ended up dead, right? Meanwhile Sagittarius is slated to have a retrospective because this is the month they realize all their long term projects. [Hyperallergic]
Artist Tony Conrad has a saying, “Life is too rich to finish everything.” That’s a positive spin on all the things we can’t get done. In this article by digital artist Cory Arcangel he discusses “Music and the Mind of the World”, a project Tony started in the 1970’s and continued for seven years, in which he recorded every encounter he had with a piano. When he was done, he had more than 200 hours of sound, which was impossible to publish. Well, thanks to digital technology, not any more. [ARTnews]
In just over a week, “S-Town” has attracted 1.8 million subscribers to its podcast feed. It’s a blockbuster. If you haven’t tuned in to this, make a point of doing so. It’s an outlier in the genre of real crime because the writer, Brian Reed, isn’t a documentarian – he’s a storyteller. (It’s produced by Serial and This American Life.) As such the narrative weaves back and forth in time, employs and exploits metaphor, and is propelled by the contradictions and complexities of its subjects, not just the stuff that happens to them. It’s extraordinarily compelling, not to mention consuming. [The New York Times]
The Canal street building that once housed the famed art supply store, Pearl Paint will be converted into apartments. More condos for the hood? [Curbed]
A $40 million diorama called Gulliver’s Gate, recreates some of the world’s most-beloved places. It went on display yesterday and will be on view in Times Square. You have to buy tickets to see it. [Gothamist]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Anxiety on High

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 16, 2017

Let’s face it—the bulk of this week’s chatter in the art world isn’t going to be about Donald Trump’s Inauguration, but Marilyn Minter and Madonna’s talk Thursday evening at the Brooklyn Museum lamenting it. And that’s as it should be. Resistance to this new presidency is essential.
Friday, we’ll be participating in the #J20 Art Strike, so no content on our website will be available but for a livestream of Rachel Mason lip synching the inauguration as FutureClown. Those seeking to participate in the art protests can head to the Whitney where Occupy Museums will be hosting a “Speak Out”.

Other than that, we’re recommending a show about soul crushing anxiety and despair at LUBOV, and a show called “Infected Foot” at Greene Naftali, because sickness also seems like an appropriate theme for the week. Sorry to be depressing. Unfortunately, there’s no other honest way to paint the events.

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Friday Links: You Can Really Poop in Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on September 16, 2016

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Maurizio Cattelan has come out of retirement with a new piece at the Guggenheim. “America” is a fully-functional 18-karat gold toilet, installed in a restroom about two-thirds of the way up the museum’s spiral atrium. [The New Yorker]

Jay Z narrates an op-ed on the War on Drugs, which is illustrated by Molly Crabapple. [The New York Times]

Glad someone finally wrote this essay: What Canadians Understand About Ketchup Chips that American’s don’t. Oddly enough the theory proposed has little to do with Canadians. It’s that Americans fear the ketchup-chip combination. Get over it people. Ketchup chips are good! [The A.V. Club]

Daniel Arsham’s first New York solo show, Circa 2345, is now on view at Galerie Perrotin. From this profile piece, we learn that the artist is color blind and is just now working with color thanks to special contact lenses. Wild. [artnet News]

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens September 26th and the Times has a gorgeous feature on it. Lots of moving images, huge image spreads, oh yeah, and some text too. Each section is divided by gallery and tracks a path through the museum. [The New York Times]

The Senate is working on a new bill to extend the statute of limitations on claims of Nazi-looted art. [CBS News]

The public forum on gentrification in Queens AFC’s Paddy Johnson is moderating is picking up steam. DNAinfo has published a story on the forum. Let’s make sure Queens doesn’t become the next gentrification battleground. [DNAinfo]

The New York Art Book Fair at PS1 sounds really good and really weird—you can buy editions of everything from Cory Arcangel sandals to wrapped up papers from the NY Family Court’s trash. [ARTnews]

Japanese designer Nendo has installed 50 uncomfortable-looking chairs in Chelsea’s Friedman Benda gallery. The chairs are inspired by illustrations from manga, and accompanied by floor-to-ceiling video projections. [Dezeen]

Yesterday’s Twitter conversation between Carolina Miranda and Jorg Colberg was so funny that I keep remembering it and breaking into laughter. The two discuss their breakfast in the rare language of artspeak for #askacuratorday. Some highlights: @jmcolberg Breakfast is indeed a cyclical concept, a performative gesture that regenerates with the start of each day. @cmonstah It’s not for nothing that in certain circles, you’re referred to as the On Kawara of eggs and toast! @jmcolberg A compliment for sure, though no evidence remains of my performance except its memory. I am the Tino Seghal of huevos fritos. [Hyperallergic]

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GIF of the Day: Resurrecting Warhol’s Unknown Digital Art

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 30, 2016

The above GIF [h/t Science Sparks Art] shows four rarely-seen experiments with digital art made by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s as a promotion commissioned by the Commodore computer manufacturer to promote its Amiga model. These, and other early piece of digital art created in the last years of Warhol’s life, were discovered and extracted from deteriorating floppy disks by artist Cory Arcangel and a team from Carnegie Mellon. Now, they’ll be on display in a restored Commodore Amiga at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh:

This is so cool. As Corey Archangel says in the video below, “that’s a Warhol that nobody has ever seen before. That’s what I think that is.”

The Invisible Photograph: Part 2 (Trapped) from Carnegie Museum of Art on Vimeo.

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Will Electronic Superhighway Accurately Historicize New Media and Internet Art?

by Rea McNamara on November 13, 2015

How has technology impacted art? Whitechapel Gallery will be addressing this question in a landmark exhibition launching in January 2016. Entitled Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), the show will bring together over 100 multimedia artworks from the past 50 years. Over 70 artists will be involved, including Nam June Paik, Cory Arcangel, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Hito Steyerl, Jeremy Bailey, Amalia Ulman, Douglas Coupland and Judith Barry.

The show is clearly a major coup for its curator, Omar Kholeif, whose rise in the artworld has garnered comparisons with Hans Ulrich Obrist. It’s an ambitious survey that is much needed in a genre still struggling for institutional validation. So, it’s concerning that a majority of the internet art represented in the show will come via the archives of new media non-profit, Rhizome. While Rhizome has substantially impacted collecting and preserving digital art works, they still only represent the perspective of one organization.

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Return to the Real? A Survey of the Analog in Photography

by Paddy Johnson on June 24, 2015

Bryan Zanisnik’s “Green Owls Manhattan Bridge” is all illusion. In reality, this apparent flat collage is actually an elaborately constructed set, complete with foregrounds and backgrounds, stools, digitally printed wall paper and even windows to the outside world. Through July 1st, Zanisnik’s studio was located on the 8th floor of 20 Jay Street in DUMBO, (only a few floors above our office) with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge. The artist waited until sunset to shoot his still lives, which created that perfect blueprint blue you see in the shots of the bridge above. The set itself was photographed under studio lights.
This approach reminds me a little of Artie Vierkant’s digital manipulations of his exhibition documentation—in both cases, the artist’s statement seems to be that the documentation is the work. But it also seems a break from artists in the early aughts whose work relied mostly on various photoshop filters. Lucas Samaras’s self portraits and Cory Arcangel’s Photoshop gradient instruction paintings might be the highest profile example of such work, but there are plenty more examples. Is this new interest in physical illusion a shift away from digital manipulation?

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SLIDESHOW: Inside the New Whitney

by Paddy Johnson on April 23, 2015

You gotta see this.

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Tuesday Links: Nine Inch Nail Art

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on October 14, 2014

Does nail art mean we’re turning into post-human cyborgs? [Rhizome]
“I put a giant 10-foot vagina in the world and people respond to giant 10-foot vaginas in the way that they do.” Carolina A. Miranda interviews Kara Walker on her Domino Sugar project. [Culture: High & Low]
As we mentioned yesterday, Karlheinz and Agnes Essl, founders of the Essl Museum, had 43 works from their private auction put up for sale at Christie’s last night. To be honest, sales “fell flat,” according to The Art Newspaper. That didn’t stop Christie’s from trying to sell works after the auction; the house sold Gerhard Richter’s “Net” straight after the auction close. I guess you can you do that? [The Art Newspaper]
Frieze opens its doors to VIPs today. Journos don’t have their write-ups ready, but we’ve learned that there’s a new section for performance called “Live.” [Twitter]
Can’t get enough Frieze news: Cory Arcangel and a Frieze staff member will perform a new piece by the artist, which is to download and watch Anchorman 2. Very Arcangel. Very ironic. Very 2000. *eyeroll* [@cory_arcangel]
Adult goths, bow down before this new review of NIN’s 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine. It’s been 25 years since the album’s original release, and the ensuing commodification of teenage angst. [The Quietus]
Beginning this December MoMA will present a 50-film screening of Robert Altman films. [Artsbeat]
“I think that humor is always a reaction to a feeling of impotence or despair, and for me the moment we are living in right now is very dark, with conflicts dividing people in a violent way and having an impact on culture and trade.” Camille Henrot on the relevance of humor in art. [Artspace]
Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced the creation of “Public Art Challenge,” a series of million-dollar grants to three cities in the United States to create temporary art projects that “celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private partnerships and drive economic development.” Could this mean more cities hosting ArtPrize-inspired exhibitions? [Artsbeat]
Man arrested for aggressive mopping and threats. [Fox]
It’s restaurant week in Queens! [It’s in Queens]
Governor Cuomo’s “Women’s Equality Express” campaign bus looks like a tampon box. [The Daily News]
Follow up to yesterday’s Baby Pac-Man link: Pac-Man air hockey. The goal is to smash all the “baby” pucks with your mallet. Where can we play? [YouTube via Ben Gonyo]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The NY Art Book Fair Might Take Over Your Weekend

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on September 22, 2014

Take your pick of performances and fairs taking place this week because there is no scarcity in that realm.

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