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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Future Bodies are Everywhere and Scary

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 17, 2016

There’s plenty of heady discourse this week—future bodies, hypothetical architectures, theories of curation and criticism—and of course plenty of election-related hand-wringing.

Kick it off Monday night at Jersey City’s Word Bookstore, where the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research is inaugurating a lecture series about cyborgs. Or head to Manhattan’s Red Bull Studios for an event celebrating Grand Arts, the Kansas City project space that launched dozens of conceptual art projects and, now, a catalogue. Tuesday night, Paddy Johnson joins other art critics to talk shop at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Cultural Center, and Tyler Coburn talks genetic engineering and body mods as the future of humanity at e-flux. If you’re looking for something more hands-on (or a chance to move your feet), there’s a survey of handmade prints at Site:Brooklyn and an epic-looking disco fundraiser for El Museo del Bario Wednesday night. Thursday, White Box is opening a jam-packed group show (with some impressive names!) all about political angst. Friday we’ve got a talk from Maura Riley at Stony Brook Manhattan and Underdonk opening a class-conscious solo show by Patrice Renee Washington.

But the weekend brings us back to what we like the most: artwork that investigates the weird. Selena Gallery’s two person show from Dalia Amara and Florencia Escudero looks for uncanny surrogate female bodies in consumer goods on Saturday night. Sunday, Sascha Braunig’s work at MoMA will likely strike a similar chord. And MARC STRAUS opens a solo show by Chris Joneswho builds fantastical dioramas (pictured) from mundane images.

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Friday Links: Punk’s Not Dead at Art Basel, Begs to Be Euthanized

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on June 17, 2016

Huh. For some reason, someone made a kawaii commercial for Donald Trump. [Youtube]

The DAO has been attacked. The distributed autonomous organization which had centralized in one fund over $150 million in crytocurrency was hacked early this morning, with hackers siphoning off so far over $3.5 million ether, the DAO’s digital currency. To put in perspective: ether is trading at $17.50 per coin, putting the value of the stolen currency at over $60 million. [CoinDesk]

Here’s a GIF of a grandmother (the Queen) telling her grandson (the Prince) to stand up during her 90th birthday celebration. [Indy100]

Last month, Texas troubadour Guy Clark passed away. One of his final wishes, it turns out, was to have his longtime friend, singer and artist Terry Allen, make a sculpture using his ashes. “I think it was kind of like a ‘Fuck You, Terry,” joked Allen. [Glasstire, Rolling Stone]

What’s the next frontier? For Star Trek, which is marking its 50th anniversary with a new movie and TV series, turns out its unifying ts fanbase. Trekkies basically invented fandom — slash fiction, for instance, was famously coined from all the “Kirk/Spock” stories written by female fans as far back as the early 1970s — and it looks like their fan films are now competing with the official franchise productions. At the center of this is Axanar, a fan film that crowdfunded a seven-figure budget, and is now being sued by Paramount and CBS for copyright infringement. [BuzzFeed]

San Francisco poet Bill Berkson has passed away. Linked to the New York School of poets and artists, Berkson went on to become a prolific art critic, publishing reviews in Art News and Artforum. He also taught art history and critical writing at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1984 to 2008. [SF Gate]

According to this list of punk-inspired artworks for sale at Art Basel, punk’s not dead. But Jesus Christ, if it were it would be rolling in its grave. [The Art Newspaper]

Here’s good news: even if you suck at making art, the act still reduces stress hormones, according to researchers. [The Creators Project]

Sun Ping has been expelled from the official China Artists Association because, according to the CAA, Ping “ruined calligraphy at will and trampled on civilization.” Ping’s crime? A video of a woman writing calligraphy with her vagina. [artnet News]

Privately-owned “public art” can be sold or destroyed without governmental approval, in most cases. Now, Pittsburgh is trying to brainstorm ways to keep track of, and hopefully preserve, all the artwork in the public sphere that the public doesn’t actually own. [Next City]

Holland Cotter writes about the Antonio Lopez survey that just opened at El Museo del Barrio. As this show charts, Lopez created an out-gay art and helped change the ethnic profile of the fashion industry. Cotter gives the show two thumbs up, calling his art “true L.G.B.T.Q., loud and proud and unguarded.” [The New York Times]

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This Week’s Must-See Events: Queer Power Edition

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on June 13, 2016

Monday’s been a rough day for us here at AFC as I’m sure it has for many readers. We’re still processing the horrific news of Orlando’s mass killing Sunday morning and it’s made writing much of anything difficult. Is there anything that can be said on the subject of guns, prayers, Islam, hate crimes and ISIS that social media hasn’t covered?

Probably not, that doesn’t diminish our need to mourn. One way we’ve decided to do this is to focus on queer events in this week’s must see events. It’s a small gesture to be sure—we’re not saving any lives. But it’s what we can do to say to the families, friends and lovers of those lost that, “you’re not alone.”

So, let’s talk all things homo-tastic: Monday night, Neil Goldberg revisits the David Lynch classic ERASERHEAD with a queer perspective. Tuesday, the unsung godfather of glam illustration Antonio Lopez gets his long-overdue retrospective at El Museo del Barrio, and two events at BRIC and Mitchell Innes & Nash bring queer/feminist perspectives to the city’s affordability crisis. Wednesday night, dyke icon K8 Hardy opens a mysterious solo show at Stap-On Projects while Thursday offers a one-night-only performance/installation from Scottish duo Ruby Pester and Nadia Rossi, who will be tackling sexuality, gender, and more at Bannerette. Friday night, head to Bushwick, where the Hot Summer Nights gallery crawl has some queer-tastic highlights in time for Pride month—be sure to catch Los Ojos’s all-LGBTQ group show and Vincent Tiley’s solo project at Christopher Stout Gallery. Also in Brooklyn Friday night: solo shows from AFC favs Björn Meyer-Ebrecht and Rachel Stern at Studio 10 and Black & White Projects, respectively, both located in the same building.

If you’re not politically/emotionally exhausted by the weekend, we recommend checking out the massive group show Of the people on Saturday at Smack Mellon. It’s all about the issues involved in this fucked, fucked election cycle. So when you’re feeling thoroughly anti-establishment, check out the Queens Museum’s Sunday panel on the visual legacy of punk.

It’s too late to wish everyone a happy Pride Month, but hopefully we can at least have a thoughtful one.

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by Paddy Johnson on February 26, 2016

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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 Events: Sext Me, Sext Me, Don’t Forget Me

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 19, 2016

Modern-day slavery, female representation and outsider art are the big themes of this week’s Must-See Art Events. Today, two talks (Cheryl I. Harris at Artists Space and the Normalities Austrian Cultural Forum) look at the market-enforced instability of ‘black’ spaces and the ongoing Balkan immigration to Vienna, respectively. Two solo shows — Betty Tompkins at FLAG Art Foundation and Carla Gannis at TRANSFER — could be seen together as first- and third-wave feminist responses to female representation. And the Outsider Art Fair at the Metropolitan Pavilion — coinciding with a Christie’s sale of outsider art on January 22 — suggests the formerly niche art market sector is finally going mainstream.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Please Fund The Penis Wall

by Whitney Kimball on February 9, 2015

Let’s toast Valentine’s week with an evening of penile discourse. Also: significant political art from Russia; shows inspired by fury; and a discussion on Latinos in the media.

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Wednesday Links: Owl in a Towel

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on January 14, 2015

Owl in a towel! [Imgur]
On why ramen is dead: “The country’s noodle scene is currently awash in deeply porky broths and stifling homogeneity…which is the antithesis of ramen.” Sadly, no mention of instant ramen. [Grub Street]
Brooklyn’s waterfront has been invaded by Chinese developers. (Okay, that’s an exaggeration.) The Oosten, set to open in Williamsburg next year, will become the first solely Chinese-owned building to be erected in the United States. [WNYC]
Astronauts: stop littering. There are 96 bags of urine on the moon. [The Takeaway]
Expansion Notice: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) has raised $330 for its $450 million capital campaign. Houstonians should be happy about some of the planned renovations which plan on making the campus more pedestrian-friendly. This from a city where people look at you funny if you’re walking instead of driving. [Glasstire]
Everyone is planning for motherfucking Valentine’s Day already. If you like boobies, and you live in Chicago, you can pay to go on a “Naked at the Art Institute Scavenger Hunt” tour. $41 will give you and a date all the boobs, balls, and buttholes on view in the museum. [Fleshbot]
El Museo del Barrio curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado responds to our reporting last year on the Gramsci Monument. She advocates for a less cynical outlook on art in general, and views the monument as a community-based experience which goes “beyond the self”– “turning regular capital into social capital.” (At the time, skepticism about funding, colonialism, and the artist’s intentions surrounded the monument.) This, and other responses will continue on A Blade of Grass. [A Blade of Grass]
Here’s the supplement to the modern love story in the Times we linked to yesterday: It’s the set of questions you ask your partner to fall in love. [The New York Times]
Art critic Rodrigo Cañete has noticed that MoMA plans to sell a Monet to benefit its acquisitions fund. This is justified by a spokesperson who notes that Impressionism doesn’t fit the museum’s modern painting collection. [Taboofart]
Tom Moody has some thoughts on our blogroll and our recent statements on Ryder Ripps. Generally speaking, I think he gives critics a little too much power, but it’s good to hear the perspective regardless.[Tom Moody]
Moody also argues that Ripps’ “Art Whore” is “no more offensive” than Andrew Norman Wilson’s “Virtual Assistance Project,” a year-long mutual collaboration with a presumably low-paid overseas assistant, for art. This is unfair to Wilson, who worked extensively with his assistant Akhil and returned the favor by building a mini-plane and making a video, which Akhil requested. While this does not forward the assistant’s career, Wilson doesn’t align his own creative work with his assistant’s. He also doesn’t view him as a whore. [Tom Moody]
Margarine consumption happens to correlate almost perfectly with the divorce rate in Maine, and other random trends that correlate. This site is amazing. [Spurious Correlations]

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Friday Links: The Day the Calder Stood Still

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on January 2, 2015

“Mulata Que Sera”, Fernando Salicrup, 2005 (Image courtesy of Warnock Fine Arts)

Artist Fernando Salicrup, a cultural force in El Barrio and founder of the Puerto Rican nonprofit art space Taller Boricua, has died. [Facebook]
Roberta Smith writes about “Mr. Turner”, “Tim’s Vermeer”, and other movies about art from the perspective of an art critic. A wonderful reflection. [The New York Times]
Perhaps those upset about Uber’s recent booking fee to hail yellow cabs should just be thankful they aren’t taking a Pedicab? Animal reports a tourist who was charged $165 for a 15 block ride. [Animal New York]
Why does Penn Station only have six bathrooms? The Village Voice seeks answers from a swath of employees and frustrated travelers, to no avail. It just sucks. [Village Voice via Curbed]
Cuba artist Tania Bruguera was detained and released multiple times for staging a performance on the 30th in Havana in which she invited people to speak with a microphone on a podium, without censorship. The last update on the story is that Bruguera has been released, but can not leave the country for 3 months and is facing charges of “charges of resistance and disruption of public order.” [Hyperallergic]
Like everything else on Capitol Hill, a giant Calder sculpture has malfunctioned, ceased to rotate, and now hangs motionless in the Hart Senate office building. A Connecticut senator is fighting to get this piece moving again. Good luck with that. [artnet News]
Notes from a poverty jetset. If you’re in the art world, you are intimately familiar with the life described. [Momus]
How Britain sought to protect its art from nuclear war in the 1980’s. [Bloomberg]
The 2014 “best and worst” reader poll results are in over at Baer Faxt. I guess they tell us something about the average readership over there. Only the biggest galleries and museums get named. For example: Best US Gallery Show: Picasso at Gagosian, Worst US Gallery Show: Dan Colen at Gagosian. [The Baer Faxt]

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This Week’s Must See Events: Get Outta Town!

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on September 3, 2014

Let’s not sugarcoat this: Chelsea has become a glittering straight jacket for any artist who actually wants to experiment. The collector market tethers these artists to calculated production where artistic value and cost never seem to go hand in hand. This makes it hard to get too excited about opening night in Chelsea, and in fact, but for a handful of openings, we’re not. This is what we recommend.

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