Posts tagged as:

FOOD

Today, Miriam Simun Lets Us Taste the Future and it’s Gross (Mostly)

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 4, 2015

Today, Miriam Simun’s GhostFood will be offering viewers a chance to smell the future at Baltimore’s Lexington Market. The project is presented by The Contemporary and imagines a future where we’ll have to eat imitations of climate-endangered foods.

Read the full article →

Friday Links: Food Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Horoscope Haters

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 27, 2015

Hello-Kitty-Sushi-Rolls-Japanese-Kawaii-Food-Blog-Hello-Kitty

Artists Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw compete on the Food Network’s competitive cooking show Chopped. It airs next week. [Food Network via Jen Catron]
Weed the people have declared their opinions in Washington, D.C., where residents can now possess, transfer, or grow their own green stuff without getting in trouble with the law. Here’s a handy chart pointing out the finer details of what you can and can’t do. [WTOP]
Islamic State militants took sledgehammers to the Mosul Museum in Iraq. The museum was first seized in June, when IS took over Mosul. Yesterday, the ISIS media office published a video showing the destruction of statues. In it, a man says, “The monuments that you can see behind me are but statues and idols of people from previous centuries, which they used to worship instead of God.” Iconoclasm it is. [The New York Times]
I (Paddy) am outraged, outraged, at the inaccuracies in March’s Taurus art horoscope. According to the horoscope experts over at Hyperallergic I’m slated to give away house and home! [Hyperallergic]
I (Corinna) am outraged, virulently outraged, at the inaccuracies in March’s Virgo art horoscope. I’m set to have a “trying month,” but I’ll pull through thanks to my friends and colleagues. March is going to suck for me! [Hyperallergic]
Okay, who’s been following “the dress” fiasco? Some people see a dress colored white and gold, others see the dress as black and blue. The debate has steamrolled the internet—Buzzfeed announced yesterday that their post on the subject broke record traffic numbers on their site. What to make of the discord? Over here at the AFC offices we speculated that monitor calibration was the issue. (Last night I identified the dress color as blue and brown, a color combination nobody has debated, but today, on a different monitor, the dress looked white and gold.) Wired explains that the difference in perception has to do with the background color—your eye projects those colors on the dress. Then they printed the picture out. [Wired]
The Hello Kitty Cafe and Restaurant has nearly all its food shaped or stamped with Hello Kitty’s face on it. That is all. [Google]
According to the Artprice annual report, global art sales have increased by 300 percent over the last decade. [The Telegraph]
One of the stranger interviews you’ll read: Ali Wong is a curator and Wong Kit Yi is an artist. They share the same body. This is an interview with both. [Asympote]

Read the full article →

The Best of the Web

by Paddy Johnson on January 8, 2015

Hundreds of years from now, anthropologists will look back at our links and think we humans are a strange breed full of idiots, wits, and the absurd. Enjoy: the year 2014.

Read the full article →

Endless Tower of Chicken Nuggets

by Corinna Kirsch on March 18, 2014

A contemporary update on Constantin Brancusi’s “Endless Column” that’s actually endless. GIF courtesy of Village Drunk.

Read the full article →

Tuesday Links: That Time We All Smashed Ai Weiwei’s Vases

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 5, 2014

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld created a supermarket for supermodels at the Grand Palais in Paris. The food was not for eatin’, so Karl “nobody wants curvy models” Lagerfeld can still keep his reputation intact. [Gawker]
Sales reports from the ADAA are already coming in. So far, so good. [The Art Market Monitor]
A job opening for an associate curator of contemporary art at the Whitney has opened up. Sweet. [The Whitney]
This year the Whitney Biennial has one work at the site of the museum’s future home. Along the Hudson River you’ll find Tony Tasset’s shipping-container-looking monument containing the names of 392,485 artists. [Artnet]
Kenneth Cole has created a Google Glass app for narcissistic do-gooders. The app encourages simple acts of kindness (buy a coffee for a stranger, send someone flowers) and then photographing those accomplishments with the hashtag manupformankind. [Mashable]
The influence of John Coltrane on artist Terry Adkins was profound. Jessica Slaven interviews Adkins before his sudden death this year. [Paper Monnument]
The Spanish artist Eugenio Merino will show a series of sculptures of dictator heads in refrigerators. The Franco Foundation is suing him for a second time for the first work in this series, which used a depiction of Generalísimo Franco’s head as a punching ball. [The Art Newspaper]
Can someone explain what’s happening with New Inc, the New Museum’s forthcoming “shared workspace and professional development program”? Please? [A Plea]
The Ai Weiwei art-smashing game. [Aiweiwhoops]

Read the full article →

Tuesday Links: It’s Toilet Day

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on November 19, 2013

It’s World Toilet Day! (A day to raise awareness about proper sanitation around the world.) [Thanks, GOOD and the Internet]
Yesterday, Bloomberg cut about 50 employees from its newsrooms, including art and culture writers. Bloomberg editor-in-chief Matt Winkler said that the company has decided “to scale back arts coverage ….” [L.A. Times, International Business Times]
To make matters worse, Bloomberg suspended reporter Michael Forsythe last week after it was rumored that an investigative piece he wrote would get Bloomberg “expelled” from China. [The New York Times]
“Selfie” is the word of the year. It twerked its way up from Instagram and Twitter to get to where it is today. [TIME]
The year will be over in 41 days, so it’s time for more end-of-year awards! Here’s an award you’ve maybe never heard of: the Smithsonian Magazine Ingenuity Award. Artist Doug Aitken gets one this year. [The Washington City Paper]
The 19-year-old South Brooklyn performance venue Brooklyn Lyceum continues a court battle with its former architect. According to the Brooklyn Paper, the venue’s owner Erich Richmond owes $5 million in payment to the architect Jeane Miele; recently, he declared bankruptcy in order to avoid foreclosure, and continues to keep the space up and running. [The Brooklyn Paper]
44 Warhols printed by his off-site printer were deemed not the work of the artist by the Warhol Authentication Board in 1991, only to be sold more than 10 years later by the Warhol Foundation as prices for the work rose. They sent the work back for reappraisal, and 35 of the 44 works received an “A” rating. [The Art Newspaper]
The WhiBi speculation begins. Andrew Goldstein notes that it’ll include a lot of writers, art publications, Art Institute faculty, abstract painting, and older female artists. [Artspace]
According to Brigham Young University researchers, Instagram’s food porn makes you enjoy real food less. [Daily Mail]
“They are not going to find another Rob Ford,” Rob Ford said about the Toronto City Council on the Today Show. No, they’re definitely not. Now there’s some sort of come-to-Jesus moment after City Council stripped Ford of all his power then he knocked over a City Council member. Headline and picture the day goes to the New York Times, who ran with, “His Honor? Toronto’s Mayor Rampages on to City’s Shame.” [Today, Daily Mail, The New York Times]

Read the full article →

Jules de Balincourt Issues Call to Arms Against Bushwick Gentrification

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on June 9, 2013

Tired of being flushed out of their studios and homes, this time, artists have decided to fight for their stake in Bushwick.

Artists William Powhida and Jules de Balincourt—both all-too-familiar with Brooklyn developers—have been stoking the flames over Facebook and Twitter this week, to a whirlwind of response. They’re proposing the collective purchase of studio building, a project similar to that of Chicago based artist Theaster Gates. Gates, has been gathering multi source funding to buy and repurpose buildings, using a combination of non-profit funding and private investment. Given the trends in Soho, Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Williamsburg, artists need feasible plans like Gates’ to maintain and build enclaves in New York.

Read the full article →

FOOD

Jules de Balincourt Issues Call to Arms Against Bushwick Gentrification

Get Our Newsletter!

Like Us On Facebook!

Follow Art F City

What is Art F City?