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Halloween at “The Wolfpack” Apartment

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 2, 2016

I spent Halloween at”The Wolfpack” brothers’ apartment, which is an artwork unto itself.

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Tuesday Links: Is Ai Weiwei a Dick?

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on November 1, 2016

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19 years after legislation passed to establish Greece’s first contemporary art museum, it’s finally opening. Greece’s art scene sounds like a mess, but people are hopeful the new EMST can change that. [Al Jazeera]
There’s a one-legged Statue of Liberty with a crazy life story in Japan. Manaka Murakami, a student at Tokyo University for the Arts, is planning her thesis exhibition on the theme of the devastating 2011 earthquake. She tracked down the replica Statue of Liberty in a coastal town, which lost its leg in the tsunami, but was otherwise unscathed, and it’s going to be incorporated into her show. [The Asahi Shimbun]
Images from New York’s Halloween parade. Covering political themes this year we see a bad hombre, a brexit, some NRA zombies (a personal favorite), and a basket of deplorables. Other costumes include boobs, a naked guy, a plug, a broken computer, plenty of injured people and 2015. [Gothamist]
New York University’s 23 story sports center has got the green light. This is a lot of floors for ellipticals, so we hope they include a several story mountain in there or something. The building is of relevance to art folk, because it will also apparently house a performing arts center. The building will be divided into two towers. The project is expected to be completed in 2021. [Curbed]
Long, but interesting read: Jacoba Urist examines the changing role of college museums in the academic and art worlds. Universities are spending big bucks on exhibitions, starchitecture, and collections. Some are starting to rival their non-academic peers. [The Atlantic]
The Shanghai art collective Chi She has a new home in the West Bund Arts District. The building, designed by Archi-Union, was essentially “printed” by bricklaying robots and looks kinda like a pixelated buffering video of a warehouse. [Dezeen]
This report of a conversation between Ai Weiwei and Tania Bruguera does not cast a positive light on Ai. Bruguera asks him a question about the ethical implications of restaging a well-known photograph of a Syrian father holding his dead toddler and Ai responds by accusing her of not being a full political artist, just a “Cuban” political artist. [ARTnews]
How a Yoko Ono joke from The Simpsons ended up becoming an actual sculpture in her show at The Reykjavik Art Museum. [i-D]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: F.A.G.’s Strange Genitals & More

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 31, 2016

If ever there was a week for art nerds, this is it. It begins Tuesday with a screening of artist made music-videos Otion Front Studio and a show of meticulously assembled abstract paper works by Jessica Dickinson and Alison Knowles at James Fuentes. Paper nerds and music nerds unite. By Friday, gallery goers will be heading to Transfer Gallery to witness a room full of projectors showcasing a playlist of works by a dozen or more new media artists. New Media nerds rejoice.

In between all this nerdery, there are also quite a few exhibitions promising a good time, not the least of which being our very own Strange Genitals, which opens this Thursday at AICAD. Following this, is the always provocative Marilyn Minter at the Brooklyn Museum come Friday and Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw’s performance looking at how the relationship between gravity and politics leads to the break-down of thought. Catron and Outlaw promise an “assembly of libations” after their performance, so don’t make any plans for Sunday.

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IMG MGMT: Freddie and St. Cosmas

by Jaimie Warren on July 14, 2016

These images are pulled from my personal database of thousands of saved jpgs, gifs and video clips from Internet memes, pop culture, and art history, collected over a ten-year period. Deceased saints and celebrities, horror movie victims and victims of plague, pop culture monsters and cartoon characters form a cast of silly and somber subjects who cameo in my large-scale community reenactments of art history.

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NSFW GIF of the Hump Day: Happy Halloween Marina Abramović!

by Michael Anthony Farley on October 28, 2015

Yes, someone made a spooky animated GIF of Marina Abramović’s 2005 work “Nude with Skeleton“.

This would be such a good Halloween costume!

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Tuesday Links: This Dog for President!

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 27, 2015

DONALD TRUMP DOG! [The Guardian]

Is there anything better than the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade? [Gothamist]

The NYPD Union is calling for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino because the filmmaker spoke at an anti police brutality rally in Washington Square Park, where he made the apparently controversial statement: “When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers.” The Union has no actual plan as to how a boycott of Quentin Tarantino is going to proceed, but they did respond by showing up in riot gear and arresting 11 demonstrators, including a 70 year old woman. [VICE]

CCS Bard has launched a new online student-run journal. We’ve only poked around on it, but it looks pretty great so far. The first issue is titled “The Artworld is Normal” and features artist-made pop-up ads alongside headier articles. [aCCeSsions]

James McAnally makes a lot of good points and asks a lot of good questions in “After the alternative is another alternative: A Radicalization of the Artist-Run”. There are now thousands of artist-run spaces putting on shows and facilitating other programming/services, scattered across living rooms and warehouses and garages in nearly every city. Are these actually an “alternative” cultural network, one which can exist in political difference with the mainstream art world and capitalist goals? (I imagined an analogy to punk houses) Or is the “artist-run” always viewed as a stepping stone toward the ultimate goal of commercial success and museum shows? I’d argue that depends a lot on surprisingly-relevant local conditions—for example, generally, New York’s artist-run spaces are stepping stones to mainstream success; Miami’s function in symbiotic opposition/co-option of the hyper-commercial model; and Baltimore’s have effectively become the city’s art world, eclipsing weaker institutions and commercial spaces in both volume of programming and exposure. [Temporary Art Review]

Gentrification in the Bay Area has reached such insane heights that it is now cheaper to commute by plane from Las Vegas than rent a one bedroom in San Francisco. Yes, really, though it is not recommended. [Business Insider]

Afraid of showing up to a Halloween party in the same costume as 10 other people? Google Labs has a new service that tells you what costumes are trending where, based on searches. In case you were wondering, New Yorkers are dressing as superheroes this year, which is a pretty common look nationally. The costume most uniquely popular in the Big Apple: Cinderella …which might make sense given the city’s obsession with glamour and growing class disparities. [Frightgeist]

The listicle we never knew we needed: eight of the best weed-themed artworks. [artnet News]

Beautiful landscape photography as seen through the lens of a nutsack. [Daily Dot]

What is the purpose of art? 9 curators, museum directors and artists weigh in. Not exactly an uplifting read. Many are concerned with war. [The Art Newspaper]

Painters or people who work on paper, these charts are so useful. Marc Trujillo has been experimenting with different art materials to test their lightfastness, among other qualities. Never buy white oil paint without looking at how yellow some of these brands will be in a year! [The Huffington Post]

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Friday Links: Best of Luck to This Rat

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on October 31, 2014

Just keep humming the Mission Impossible theme, it gets funnier pic.twitter.com/Js2wBdBoWX

— Science Cat (@DrScienceCat) October 17, 2014

Astounding shot of a death-defying rat trying to shimmy between two trash cans. [Sciencecat on twitter]
The only link that seems into Halloween this year is this photo of Taylor Swift wooking wike a sad unicorn. 🙁 [The Cut on Twitter]
Toast editor Mallory Ortberg, the brains behind such art-historical lists as “Women Having a Horrible Time at Parties,” breaks down her thought process. “You read these [classics] in high school and the big question you ask is, Is Hamlet mad? Another big question to ask is, Is Hamlet an asshole?” [The Cut]
Metal heads steal the metal head of John Denver. [SF Gate]
It’s that time of year when your inbox becomes nothing but press releases for what’s happening at next month at the Miami art fairs. Today’s tip: Ryan McNamara will enact his much-lauded 2013 Performa commission, “MEƎM: A Story Ballet About the Internet,” during Art Basel. [Art Basel]
Planning on going out tonight for Halloween? Why not memorize some of the worst jokes to tell at tonight’s parties? [Reddit]
Another year, Kelly Crow predicts another auction frenzy. Who cares. [Wall Street Journal]
The clowns must be stopped. The small French town of Vendargues has banned scary clowns “fueled by a clown craze on social media.” Are they referring to Juggalos? Or just scary clowns? [BBC]
You can do as best a job as a parent that you can do. You can still have less-than-genius kids. [DailyMail]
There is now an artist residency program on a cargo ship. Artists will have their own cabin while the ship resumes its normal commercial activities. [Smithsonian via the Paris Review]

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Thursday Links: Why Wouldn’t You Want to Ooze a Pumpkin?

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on October 30, 2014

Oozing pumpkins. Need we say more? [Youtube via: Swissmiss]
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR OUR REFRIGERATOR DOOR. “Our refrigerator door is currently accepting your artwork, personal essays, short fiction, and poetry for submission. Please know that we are careful about the work we publish on our refrigerator door. We want people to come away from our refrigerator door feeling invigorated and alive, as if they had just learned something about themselves and/or the world that heretofore they had not.” [McSweeney’s]
The Hirshhorn hires independent curator Gianni Jetzer to become “curator at large.” He’ll stay in New York instead of living in Washington, DC. [artnet News]
The List’s Rachel Sklar: “I’m 41, single, and pregnant.” [The Medium]
There are now eight women who are accusing the former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi of violence and sexual abuse. A masterful piece of reporting. [The Toronto Star]
Wear a drone on your wrist. [Activist Post]
Apple CEO Tim Cook has come out. “I’m proud to be gay.” [BusinessWeek]
Daniel Buren’s cathedral-like installation at Baltic Gateshead looks incredible. So, if you’re in North East England….[Contemporary Art Daily]
Another glowing review of the Chris Ofili show, this time from Benjamin Sutton. We’re not surprised he’s getting such good press; he’s a great artist. [Hyperallergic]
Good news for journalism on the web: New York Times digital subscriptions are rising. [Poynter]
Dick pics in the gallery spark questions on The Guardian about the nature of appropriation art and personal privacy, the same goddamn debate we have to have every time Richard Prince has ripped anything off since the 80s. Please get over this, people. [The Guardian]
Horror movie locations on Google maps. The only New York location is Rosemary’s Baby, whichwas shot at The Dakota, a celebrity apartment complex on 72nd and Central Park West. [Shortlist via Metafilter]
Capitalism colonizes Africa again: Nigeria rolls out a national identification card that doubles as a debit card. Sponsored by MasterCard. [How We Made It in Africa]
Nurse who just came back from West Africa, but who tested negative for ebola, is fighting a state-imposed 21-day quarantine. She plans to go to court if the state doesn’t lift it immediately. Divided opinion on this over at AFC!

Paddy: This an infringement on individual rights and will affect volunteer efforts.
Whitney: IT’S A BASIC SAFETY MEASURE
Paddy: That no scientist backs.
Whitney: Again: she would be out by November 10th. The blue water in the airplane toilet will not save you.
Paddy: You don’t need to be saved by the blue water in an airplane. You only need to be worried about sweat contagion and whatever else in the last stages of the disease.
Whitney: Like poop.
Paddy: Are passengers lining up to eat it? It’s not touching you. [Reuters]

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