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Gentrification, Income Inequality and Donald Trump Baby Turds

by Paddy Johnson on November 24, 2017

In this episode of Explain Me William Powhida and Paddy Johnson talk about the 450 million dollar Leonardo Da Vinci of disputed authenticity and the Boyle Heights activists who follow artist Laura Owen’s from L.A. to New York to protest her non-profit 365 Mission while she visited The Whitney. Activists believe the presence of her gallery will lead to displacement. Additionally, we discuss the exhibitions listed below.

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Didier Williams

Tiger Strikes Asteroid: Didier William, “We Will Win“. Review: A Haitian Artist’s Mesmerizing Eyes

Paddy Johnson failing to hula hoop and draw at the same time.

The Museum of Human Achievement (in Austin TX)

Nicholas Cueva at Five Miles

Five Miles: Nicholas Cueva, “The People Games Play”

Tracing Trajectories at Trestle Gallery – Installation view.

Trestle Projects: Tracing Trajectories/Selections from the Hoggard/Wagner Collection

From “Anteroom”, by Anita Thacher, 1982, 35mm color slide projection, brass doorknob and plate, sound, 108 x 144 x 3 inches – Image courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

Microscope Gallery: Anita Thacher, “Anteroom”

Rachel Rossin, Installation view at Signal Gallery

Rachel Rossin Aquarium detail

Signal Gallery: Rachel Rossin, “Peak Performance”

Installation view at Present Company

Myeongsoo Kim at Present Company

Present Company: Myeongsoo Kim and Jessie Rose Vala, “Dusk to Dust”

Future Retrieval at Denny Gallery, Installation view

Denny Gallery: Future Retrieval, Permanent Spectacle

Derek Eller Gallery: Whiting Tennis

Whiting Tennis, The Vegetarian, at Derek Eller

Whiting Tennis at Derek Eller, Installation view

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UNTITLED: Bright Lights, Dim Content

by Paddy Johnson on November 30, 2016

Evidence that the election results have had any impact on the art fairs were scant at best yesterday. Artist Jason Lazarus told me he kept hearing that this was the year artists would skip, but as I walked around UNTITLED., I didn’t notice any fewer artists then usual. I witnessed plenty of sales, though, and the dealers mostly seemed pleased. Collectors are aware of their upcoming tax windfall.

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A Door-Shattering Breakthrough At Denny Gallery’s Pop-Up “The City & The City”

by Emily Colucci on July 8, 2016

Nothing underscores the fraught tensions of gentrification quite like the deafening sound of a large glass door shattering behind you. Moments after I entered Denny Gallery’s East Broadway pop-up space this Wednesday, the gallery’s door splintered with a bang and a startling crack. Fragmenting into a wall of tiny shards, the broken door trapped the gallerists and me inside. “You’re not art press, right?” jokingly asked Director Robert Dimin. Well, actually…

As the initial shock wore off, Dimin, between calls to his building contractor and the gallery’s main Broome Street space, tried to piece together what happened. Was it the scalding summer heat that weakened the glass–a product of faulty construction and sweltering temperatures? Or was it something more nefarious such as a warning sign from a neighborhood hostile to symbols of gentrification like a gallery?

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Rachel Stern’s SPRING/BREAK Slideshow

by Rachel Stern on March 7, 2016

Those hoping to catch SPRING/BREAK still have a chance to do so. The fair closes today at 6:00 pm.

In the meantime, last week we asked photographer and curator Rachel Stern to produce a SPRING/BREAK slide show over instagram for us. This is what she shot.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Hacking Dystopias

by Michael Anthony Farley on February 22, 2016

This weekend’s must-see events include a lot of AFC’s friends and favs, from Friday’s discussion on hacktivism as part of Joyce Yu-Jean Lee’s project FIREWALL Internet Cafe to fundraiser events featuring the work of AFC’s own Matthew Leifheit and F.A.G. Bar artist Macon Reed on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. But during the week, do check out solo shows from Leanne Shapton (Tuesday) and Sherrie Levine (Wednesday). Thursday’s all about dystopia, with sci-fi cityscapes by Romain Erkiletlian and found hyper-generic product packaging from Maryam Jafri. Hack on, New York.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Gallery Armageddon

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 4, 2016

Those who thought they’d ease into the work week after the holiday break will be sorely disappointed. Nearly every gallery in the city has an opening. Between the Abrons Art Center’s American Realness Festival opening this week and a rash of Chelsea and Lower East Side shows, your calendar will be full. And not just with the usual crap. Painter Jane Corrigan will debut fresh new figurative paintings at Feuer/Mesler—it’s her first solo show in two years. Grids, systems and minimalism take over The Kitchen, Cheim & Read and Lesley Heller, all in unrelated shows. And for those following all the climate change stories, Dana Sherwood’s exhibition at Denny Gallery focuses on our destruction of the earth. Assuming we survive long enough to see the show, it should be illuminating.

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Monday Links: Everyone is Terrible

by Paddy Johnson on August 24, 2015

SIRENS OF THE SQUARE - Times Square A seventeen year taking photo with topless painted Times Sq females

This is what toplessness looks like in Times Square

Michael Kimmelman, killing it, as per usual. In his latest piece he takes Mayor Bill de Blasio to task for entertaining the idea of ripping up the pedestrian plaza’s in Times Square as a means of curbing topless women wearing body paint from asking for tips. He calls the whole idea harebrained. From the piece: “As an exasperated Tim Tompkins, the president of the Times Square Alliance, put it on Thursday: “Sure, let’s tear up Broadway — we can’t govern, manage or police our public spaces. That’s not a solution,” he added. “It’s a surrender.” Not for the first time, Mr. de Blasio is creating a peevish impression that, even now, he is running against his predecessor when he needs to be running the city.” [The New York Times]
The Awl has assembled a post of architectural renderings that demonstrate “That Brooklyn Look”. Get ready for fields of grey, glass and brick combined to create a whole lot of ugly. [The Awl]
Speaking of real estate, The Awl has another feature on a Bushwick development project called “Colony 1209”. Turns out this was a bad name for building because to “colonize a place means to overtake it, to pillage its resources, to dehumanize its people, and to attempt to erase its past.” Anyway, the owners have changed the name and are happy to talk about the lofts they have for rent, but strangely refuse to talk about turn in marketing strategy. Sarah Quinter, an artist and activist born and raised in New York City, who co-founded Reclaim Bushwick had this to say, “We never just wanted the name change. When you are gentrifying this neighborhood, you are taking away other people’s ability to live here, and to feel like they belong here. So, you should give something back to the community.” She continued, “The name change is a kind of flip way for them to deflect some of the attention, so they don’t have to give up real concessions.” [The Awl]
Why do plagiarism stories make everyone look like an asshole? Here’s the latest: Kelly Mark recently discovered that her text neon piece “I Called Shotgun Infinity When I Was Twelve” was copied and on display at Old School, a restaurant in Toronto. Neon text based art is the easiest thing in the world to copy. Mark enlists her lawyers. Old School Co-Owner Brad Moore claims that because they were made from scratch they couldn’t possibly be plagiarized. Riiiight. And Mark says she thinks they should commission her to do a new piece called “Old Schooled”. Everyone is terrible. [The Toronto Star]
Performance artist Tania Bruguera is back in the US. She was detained for eight months in Cuba for her art and activism. [Culture: High & Low]
There are no instruments used in this rendition of Hotel California, where even the guitars are imitated through vocals. Watching this, you can kind of imagine how this got conceived and it begins with a bunch of bored Dads in a garage one day. Anyway, it’s worth a watch: very entertaining. [Youtube]
MetaModern at Denny Gallery gets a review from Thomas Micchelli. Micchelli seems to like the work in this group show because a lot of it exists in an inbetween state, but there’s a lot of parsing of what Meta-Modernism is before we get to that. And good luck nailing that definition down. According to the cited cultural theorists Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van der Akker it “oscillates between a modern enthusiasm and a postmodern irony, between hope and melancholy, between naïveté and knowingness, empathy and apathy, unity and plurality, totality and fragmentation, purity and ambiguity.” Micchelli boils all this down to mean “art after the death of art.” [Hyperallergic]

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This Week’s Must See Art Events: The Creative Time Summit and a Painting Fiesta

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 21, 2013

Creative Time’s Summit returns, along with an explosion of painters on the rise. The dearth of exhibitions by black and female artists continues.

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