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Gerhard Richter

September Preview Week: Outlying Art Events You Need To See

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

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