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Gerhard Richter

Monday Links: Does Doing Drugs Affect Artistic Quality?

Scene from Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s Bananazz comic strip

This weekend, Twitter raged over an investigative article that wondered why a documentary film on Jeff Koons wasn’t included in the artist’s Whitney retrospective. It wasn’t even included in the gift shop! Let’s face it: this is a non-issue. Museums do not usually include documentaries as part of their visual arts programming. [The Art Newspaper]
Rhizome is in London. Even if you’re not there to attend their off-site programs, the lectures are online. Some lectures have been transcribed for your reading pleasure! Whee! I’m listening to the selfie panel with Amalia Ulman this morning. —Corinna [Rhizome]
Stop venting on Facebook; go to e-flux. This week the non-profit launched “e-flux conversations,” a moderated message board addressing topical issues. So far the best discussion has been Karen Archey on “top female curator” lists. [e-flux]
We might never know what killed Joan Rivers because her daughter has refused an autopsy. Now get back to work. [Gawker]
Solange is throwing an art party during Prospect.3. Bey’s little sis recently relocated to New Orleans. [NOLA]
Album sales are plummeting. Duh. [Death and Taxes]
Painter Wolfgang Hutter died on September 26th. We’re just finding this out now, says artnet News, because he didn’t want the news to be publicized. Maybe he’d read articles like this one. (Also wow these are cool.)
According to the National Report, Graffiti artist Banksy has been arrested in London, revealing the artist’s allusive identity. He is 35-year-old Paul Horner. Several news sites subsequently reported that that story is bogus, and National Report is a site made up of entirely fake news. [Glasstire]
Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s latest “Bananazz” strip is pretty good. An enormous gap between this and what’s typically on Hyperallergic. [the artblog]
What a really weird interview with Gerhard Richter. Questions include: How does doing drugs affect artistic quality? When did organized religion crumble and why do humans need art as a replacement? Are you depressed that artists now—even you, whom many consider to be the greatest living painter—can’t paint like Titian? [The Wall Street Journal]

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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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We Went to Chelsea: There Are No Drones in Chelsea

by Henry Kaye Corinna Kirsch Andrew Wagner on July 10, 2014

AFC Senior Editor Corinna Kirsch and Editorial Fellows Henry Kaye and Andrew Wagner give their takes on the industrial-themed summer group show at David Zwirner and Louise Lawler’s tracings of photographs at Metro Pictures.

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Tuesday Links: Power Mommies and a Garbage Nightmare

by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 11, 2014

Image courtesy Tara Moore.

Lean In has a solution to combat awful stock photos of women. With the help of the Getty, they’re releasing “empowering,” stereotype-defying stock photos. Tattooed mom holding her toddler? Check. Silver vixens? Check that box, too. [The Cut]
Here is some lovely and rare footage of the old Penn Station to really drive home how much of a garbage nightmare the current Penn Station is. [Gothamist]
Yuck. Plans have been hatched for another mega-museum, this time for a display of Central America’s Mayan artifacts. Nothing screams Mayan culture like an oppressive cement storage space. [Hyperallergic]
60 artworks have been removed from the Saltzburg home of the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, whose collection of 1,280 works includes Picassos, Renoirs, and Monets. [The New York Times]
At Monday’s Phillips contemporary sale in London, seven out of 32 lots failed to sell with a buy-in rate of 22 percent. The night’s top sales came from a predictable gang of “you know who’s” like Yayoi Kusama, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, and Christopher Wool. Also doing well: Nate Lowman. Yawnnn. [ArtInfo]
Klaus e_books releases Ann Hirsch’s “Twelve” on iPad after the app’s removal from the iTunes store. [Klausgallery.net]
After a flood of empowering stories about selfies, finally we get one that’s truly a neg. The Atlantic spotlights the “selfie with homeless people” meme. [The Atlantic]
Shirley Temple has died. [Vulture]

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September Preview Week: Outlying Art Events You Need To See

by Whitney Kimball on September 6, 2012

Though there’s too much to possibly visit in Chelsea alone, at least a few events in Brooklyn, Soho, and Uptown should make your must-see list. Creative Time’s sent some art to space, the Brooklyn Museum is organizing hundreds of open studios across the borough, and at least one event requires 3-D glasses. Also this month, check out shows at Marian Goodman, Tibor de Nagy, Venus Over Manhattan, the Swiss Institute, and Gavin Brown.

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“Gerhard Richter Painting” Is Mostly Gerhard Richter Painting

by Reid Singer on April 4, 2012

How do you make a documentary about abstract painting? When your subject strives for the indescribable, the normal tools of narration and interview become glaringly imperfect; I sympathize with any journalist who feels a sense of futility in the face of a work of art whose emotive power might be ineffable. This includes Corinna Belz, whose film “Gerhard Richter Painting” relies very little on interviews and stated history, and very heavily on long shots of the artist painting in his studio.

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Monday Links: #GIFs #MetaGramCity #Naznecromancers

by Paddy Johnson on March 12, 2012

A rabbit hole almost impossible to exit: TVTrope’s entry on Walt Disney’s Anne Frank. The movie doesn’t actually exist—though Variety reported in 2009 that Disney got the rights to a new stage rendition written and directed by David Mamet—but if it did, it would *very* loosely based on the same named book and would include a three talking animal sidekicks, a Nazi necromancer Femme Fatale, and a Happily Ever After ending. Naturally the list of tropes indexing this entry is five times as long as the stub. [TVTropes]

I’ve got a longer post on this in the queue, so get ready for more thoughts on PBS’s GIF special. Tom Moody got a few words in early. [Tom Moody]

The Knight Foundation is generously funding ARTLURKER’s Miami Writer’s Prize. The Miami Writer's Prize is open to any resident of Miami-Dade County who is not already on ARTLURKER's roster and/or has not had more than three art -related texts published in print. [ARTLURKER]

Someone asked Damien Hirst to talk again. [The Guardian]

Last night I made a video of a GIF of a RT of a RT of a Tumble of a Pinterest of a Instagram of a Instagram of a Instagram of a Tweet of a Google Search. Soundtrack: Tron. The video already has two dislikes and miraculously, 50 views. Miss Galperina, I believe it’s your move. [Youtube]

The Felix Salmon/Marion Maneker Richter-art-as-currency debate lives on. Maneker, when pressed to refine his argument that art is currency, clarified that what he really meant was social currency. Uh, okay. [Felix Salmon]

In other bones Salmon picks, he’s no fan of MoMA’s “Foreclosed Exhibition”. A good read. [Architect]

Happy Birthday Elaine de Kooning. [Artnet]

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Armory Show Bingo: The More Things Change…

by Will Brand on March 9, 2012

Good news: your Armory Bingo cards from last year are apparently still valid. Without changing a single square, we had Bingo within half an hour of walking in the door. The basic trend for Armory Show art—stuff cats like, like mirrors and motion and bright lights—is alive and well, and a few of last year’s micro-trends managed some unexpected longevity. We break down how well each trend square did this year, with pictures.

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Tuesday Links: The Art Market is Everywhere

by Will Brand and Paddy Johnson on March 6, 2012

What everyone is talking about: Felix Salmon takes issue with Jonathan Binstock’s report that painter Gerhard Richter is as powerful a market force as Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, or Andy Warhol. It’s a fantastic piece and a must-read for all. Over at the AFC offices we’ve been wondering why Binstock chose the painters he did. ArtPrice cites Chinese artists Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi as the top selling artists at auction, above both Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso (who ranked third and fourth respectively). Francis Bacon takes ninth, just one below Richter in total auction sales. How did de Kooning make Binstock’s list when he’s not even in the top 10 selling artists of 2011? We also questioned Salmon’s rationale for labeling Picasso, de Kooning, and Andy Warhol as “important” over “good”, though this is probably semantics. Salmon notes a lack of controversy in Richter’s history as evidence that the artist won’t ever be as important as Picasso, but Richter had his share of controversy, too, with the Baader-Meinhof paintings. As one commenter at Reuters points out, who’s important to history remains to be seen. [Felix Salmon/Reuters]

Meanwhile, Marion Maneker at Art Market Monitor points out a few flaws in Salmon’s argument, making the following compelling case: Salmon is mean to rich people; Salmon is often mean to rich people; it’s difficult to get upset about Salmon being mean to rich people; on at least two occasions, women have purchased valuable art; valuable art is a currency, not a commodity; Felix Salmon does not know what currencies and commodities are (Maneker, of course, keeps the secret to himself). Where did people learn to argue like this? Let’s see some definitions! [Art Market Monitor]

Alice Gregory worked at Sotheby’s for an unspecified amount of time and now recounts a moderately generic experience. A lot of what is imparted in the piece has been written before but if you have an hour or so kill, these 5,000 words will do it. [N+1]

Klaus Biesenbach explains why Kraftwerk deserves a retrospective at MoMA. [Hyperallergic]

I like this occupation: Occupy Museums invites artists to bring their art work to exchange with Armory attendees and each other. [Paddy Johnson]

Bad at Sports latest podcast: Canadian art legend Iain Baxter, sound and installation artist Bill Fountana, and promises of an all Canadian art posse [Bad at Sports]

The Brooklyn Museum’s benefit is coming up, and they’re using the occasion to honor women artists. Get your ($750) tickets now. [artnet]

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Gerhard Richter: Lines which do not exist

by Art Fag City on September 1, 2010

Gerhard Richter: Lines which do not exist Date: Saturday, September 11th 2010 – Thursday, November 18th 2010 Venue: Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street Relative to his famed blurry photo-realist paintings and giant abstract canvases, few Gerhard Richter drawings have been displayed. This show aims to correct that problem, with over 50 abstract works on paper from […]

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Gerhard Richter

September Preview Week: Outlying Art Events You Need To See

“Gerhard Richter Painting” Is Mostly Gerhard Richter Painting

Monday Links: #GIFs #MetaGramCity #Naznecromancers

Gerhard Richter: Lines which do not exist

IMG MGMT: Cosmetic Masochism, Metal on Flesh

GIF of the Day: GIFs Go Corporate

A Bill to Save Your Studios, New Yorkers

Jayson Musson’s New Web Series: No Art, Just Hip-Hop and Comedy

Two Experts on Art Law: Franklin Boyd and Sarah Conley Odenkirk

This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Important Retrospective; Snowden Documentary; AFC Q&A’s

AFC Guide to Public Art: When an 800-Person Band Ruled Brooklyn

The Making of “Hamilton Fish”: Rachel Mason’s Eight-Year Saga

The Nostalgic Pop of Grear Patterson’s Manhattan Beach

This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Depression Filmmaking, Magic Painting, an Actual Discussion on Gentrification

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