Patrick Riester as Peter Bishton in the film Computer Chess, shown in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Credit: Kino Lorber
Paddy Johnson uses her platform on artnet to make a call for net art at the Biennial. The headline tells it all: Why is our era’s greatest art movement missing from the Whitney Biennial? [artnet news]
The Guggenheim does not give up. Two years ago, Helsinki officials voted down the museum’s plan to build yet another silver crumple, this time along the Finnish waterfront. But the Gug is still trying—now they’re looking to hire a project coordinator based in New York to help their plans lift off. [NYFA]
Biennials are everywhere, nearly everyone has one. Now all it takes is £100 to join a club for people who run biennials, the International Biennial Association. [e-flux]
MIT has the world’s largest collection of holograms. [MIT]
Megumi Sasaki, the filmmaker behind the Dorothy & Herb documentary, is now the host of Art Time Traveller, a show discussing Japanese art throughout the centuries. The english version airs once a month online. [NHK]
Artist Esther C. Werdiger discusses why she thinks her cartoons were rejected by the New Yorker. [The Awl]
This Kickstarter campaign offers bronze, silver, and gold dicks to women who want to “bring their dicks to the table.” [Kickstarter]
Wu-Tang is releasing one album and the only way you can listen to it is at museums. [Forbes]
Load this website, turn up your speakers, and start typing. [Patatap]
Artist Nayland Blake asks the question: Zombie Apocalypse happens, which gallery do you barricade yourself into? Twitter is divided over whether Gagosian is already filled with zombies or if it’s a fortress strong enough to withstand zombies. [Twitter]
Entrepreneur Dana Beth Ardi explains how collecting art has helped her coach CEOs. [Artspace]
The Broad Museum doesn’t open until 2015, but they’ve scheduled a series of public talks in advance of the opening. And what a pairing they’ve come up for their first event, a one-on-one between John Waters and Jeff Koons. That conversation takes place tonight, at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. [Culture Monster]
Legend of Zelda gets the MMO treatment: Over on Twitch, you can tell Link what to do via group chat with thousands of other people. Or you can just watch. [Polygon]
Drawings are becoming more desirable among collectors and there are 278 art fairs around the world for dealers to show them at. [The New York Times]
More than six groups, including the National Press Photographers Association, Professional Photographers of America, and the Picture Archive Council of America, have joined together to submit a friend of the court brief to support the photographer Patrick Cariou, after part of his case against artist Richard Prince was sent back to a judge. They are also hiring a Washington lobbyist. [The New York Times]
Gulf Labor activists protested inside the Guggenheim this weekend, denouncing poor working conditions on the site of a new Guggenheim branch in Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. [Gothamist]
It’s not just people enduring questionable labor practices in the Middle East. The FEI (Fédération Equestre Internationale) has been cracking down on the mistreatment of horses, with the most recent violation going to Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa for “abuse of horse” during an endurance race. [The Chronicle of the Horse]
Vice profiled our Roast. Full of hairy chests and butt pics! [Vice]
Creative Time Summit begins today. Twitter hashtag #ctsummit and livestream feed here: [Creative Time]
Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim gets a lukewarm review from Roberta Smith. Yawn. Christopher Wool. [The New York Times]
Four shows to see in Philadelphia. The Barnes, Kaws @PAFA, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Mario Ybarra, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. [Hyperallergic]
All’s been quiet on the Jori Finkel front. Months after the Los Angeles Times laid off Finkel, the publication’s last reporter dedicated to the visual arts, it appears she’s started covering the California museum beat for The New York Times. This week, she discusses the de Young Museum’s new VIP rate for the upcoming Hockney exhibition. [The New York Times]
“Right now, Whiteread is the most famous artist in Britain.” [Frieze Magazine]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has renegotiated its building’s lease with the city of New York, with one potentially divisive amendment: the museum now has the ability to change their admission rates without the city’s approval. [In the Air]
Second year Central St. Martin’s art student Clayton Pettet is giving up his anal virginity on stage for an art exhibition. “The key thing about performance art is that it should only be performed once, and this is the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime performance,” he told reporters. Not sure who told him that performance is a one-time gig. [Gawker]
Our events posts just got a whole lot easier, thanks to founder Barry Hoggard’s new service Filterizer: a one-page list of the season’s best art shows in the New York City area. [Filterizer]
Marina Galperina and Kyle Chayka’s National Selfie Portait Gallery has been getting tons of press from Yahoo News, TIME, and The Atlantic. (We’ll note that Galperina’s first selfie post was written for AFC back in 2010.) Yahoo News doesn’t waste any time getting to the real question; is this art? That’s the second sentence. PS1 Curator and Director Klaus Biesenbach isn’t having any of this. This morning he indirectly acknowledged the exhibition tweeting, “everybody seems obsessed with talking about selfies…..it is nothing else than looking into a mirror and spreading what you vainly see.” Well, I guess that’s settled. [The Internet]
Looks like Animal and Metro New York have a new partnership. Read Bucky Turco and Andy Cush on how landlords may cash in on Banksy’s graffiti. [Metro]
Anyone else remember when Jerry Saltz said he and his wife had an agreement not to cover the same shows? That pact’s obviously gone out the window now that he’s at New York Magazine and it’s too bad, because they often share the same opinions. Anyway, Saltz follows up Smith’s Chris Burden show at The Times. He likes the show too. [New York Magazine]
The Art Newspaper covered the shit out of The Frieze Art Fair this year (as they always do). Collector Alain Servais rounds up his favorites on twitter our favorite of which is Julia Halperin’s piece asking why so many artists are attracted to abstract painting. Digital backlash? [The Art Newspaper]
National Academy School offers free classes to displaced 3rd Ward members. [In the Air]
Companies involved in synthetic biology can make yeast taste nearly identical to vanilla, saffron, and a host of other flavors. [The New York Times]
The James Turrell show at The Guggenheim was the highest attended of all time, with 470,000 visitors. [Real Clear Arts]
In response to pressures to boost profits, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are getting in on the gallery business, with Sotheby’s S|2 and Christie’s Mayfair Gallery. The Wall Street Journal speculates that they’ll “shake up the clubby international art scene” with “trendy new artists”; Christies’ Haunch of Venison has been on this for a while now, and based on the S|2 and Mayfair lineups, we’re not as worried. [Wall Street Journal]
Arthur Bispo do Rosário, "Vinte e um veleiros", courtesy of the V&A
There’s something about outsider artists that eludes insiders, postulates Sarah Boxer as she nears the end of a trend piece on outsider art rise within the art world. I’d suggest it’s something a little more simple; some of us need a break from the unending stream of contemporary art shown at fairs, biennials, and triennials. –PJ [The Atlantic]
A massive Pre-Raphaelite mural was discovered at the William Morris house in London. The mural’s briefly mysterious subject matter was revealed by an explanation offered up on Twitter. [The Guardian]
A Prezi-style map documenting the real estate changes that occurred under Bloomberg hit the front page of the Times this weekend. [The New York Times]
There’s also a bunch of two minute videos featuring notable New Yorkers weighing in on Bloomberg’s legacy. [The New York Times]
This month, n+1 debuted a new, evil-themed edition. So far, I’ve heard rave reviews about Chris Kraus’ “Kelly Lake Store,” a failed Guggenheim application for revitalizing a corner store in Hibbing, Minnesota. My issue hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, but I found an earlier, shorter version of Kraus’ application over on The Brooklyn Rail. I haven’t found the “evil” part yet. [n+1, The Brooklyn Rail]
Gregory Kloehn, a Brooklyn resident, has converted a dumpster into what amounts to a 1970s camper to serve as his apartment. [F’d in Park Slope]
73-year-old Chinese immigrant Pei-Shen Qian has been caught at the heart of an $80 billion dollar forgery scandal. The Woodhaven, Queens resident has been accused of painting fake Modernist masters, which were then sold by Long Island dealer Glafira Rosales to the Upper East Side’s Knoedler Gallery. [The New York Times]
Ever wonder why lobster remains an expensive item at restaurants when its wholesale value has been plummeting? Your answer here. [The New Yorker]
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