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Gerhard Richter

Julie Mehretu at Marian Goodman Gallery: Can Social Abstraction Succeed?

by Paddy Johnson on October 20, 2016

How valuable are first impressions? In art, this seems to be a perennially important question. A work should, aesthetically, stand on its own. Except, of course, when it doesn’t matter because the concept determines the formal choices. Or when aesthetics kinda sorta matter but so does the context.

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Monday Links: Pop Blasphemy

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on February 29, 2016

Brazilian artist Ana Smile has pissed off Catholics by repainting religious figurines as pop culture characters like Maleficent or Batman. [Dangerous Minds]
There’s a nonprofit in San Francisco that hires drag queens to read to children in libraries. [SF Gate]
In other Bay Area news, Google’s weird AI has its first art exhibition. Should we all be bracing ourselves for more terrifying psychedelic dog landscapes? [Wired]
When a new pigment hits the marketplace, all bets are off. Last year, it was the accidental discovery of a new blue pigment by chemists at the Oregon State University. This year, it‘s vantablack, and it looks like Anish Kapoor has already rained on the parade by buying the exclusive rights to a black so pure it’s absorbs 99.96% of light. This has pissed off other artists — does a blue-chip artist really deserve exclusive rights on a pigment? — and one of them, painter Christian Furr, is already planning a whole series using the shade. [Daily Mail]
The Hnatyshyn Foundation has launched a new awards program that will give 150 cash awards totalling $1.5 million to Indigenous artists in 2017. [Canadian Art]
Gerhard Richter has penned an open letter decrying the closure of the Museum Morsbroich near Cologne. The German institution, frequently named the best museum in North-Rhine Westphalia and has hosted shows in the past by artists like Yves Klein, Rosemarie Trockel and Richter himself, is closing as part of municipal cost-cutting measures. Worst, it appears the city wants to sell the museum’s collection. In his letter, Richter rightfully states that “a public art collection is not a financial investment that can be plundered depending on the cash situation. It is a piece of art history and represents the cultural memory of its trustees.” [The Art Newspaper]
Institutions around the world are deaccessioning pieces at a breakneck speed. This can help museums pay off debts from expansion projects, but is also “the cultural equivalent of burning the furniture to heat the house”. [Maclean’s]
Who knew 10cc’s “The Things We Could Do For Love” could be used as the soundtrack for an animated musical sequence on chapters 19-40 from the Book of Exodus? This comes from Nina Paley’s upcoming animated film Seder-Masochism. [Vimeo]
Tilt Brush is a VR drawing/painting program that looks like it’s probably so much fun to use that I’m afraid to try it. Here, the writer says we’re waiting for a maestro of the medium. Based on our experiences at DiMODA, I think it’s Jacolby Satterwhite. [The Verge]
The Met has made at least one signage change that people might like: the “recommended” $25 admission will now be “suggested”. [The Guardian]
Art world headline of the day: Why Casey Jenkins is vaginal knitting your online abuse into art [ABC News]

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Monday Links: Does Doing Drugs Affect Artistic Quality?

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on October 20, 2014

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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“Gerhard Richter Painting” Is Mostly Gerhard Richter Painting

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