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Friday Links: Yay, More Art Fairs

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 18, 2016

Mandarin Oriental

From Damien-Hirst-inspired appetizers to a painter’s palette full of sauces, chef Uwe Opocensky’s Art Basel menu at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong is ridiculous. [Quartz]
San Francisco’s art scene is being gutted by gentrification. To combat displacement, a group of philanthropists has opened the Minnesota Street Project—a for-profit warehouse building with artist studios, offices for nonprofits, and retail spaces for gallerists who can now share resources under one roof. It’s an interesting model. [ABC 7]
Brace yourselves: another art fair is coming to New York. A satellite fair called “Portal” will occupy the Federal Hall on Wall Street during Frieze Week. [The New York Times]
Baltimore collective Open Space has released the vendor list for their seventh annual Publications and Multiples Fair, which is always awesome. Some of our favorite artists and groups are participating, including the BHQF, April Camlin, Transmitter, and Bmore Art. [City Paper]
Christie’s is being held responsible for more than $700,000 worth of art destroyed in Hurricane Sandy. [New York Post]
Big Freedia—the queer artist who popularized New Orleans bounce—is facing jail time over housing voucher fraud. Brentin Mock argues that would be Louisianna making the worst out of a bad situation. [City Lab]
If you live in an American city, chances are your subway/public housing/bridges/other vital infrastructure is falling apart. The capital metro just had to shut for safety inspections. That disaster-fraught system is the poster child for the “Great Society” era infrastructure we’ve inherited—it was beautiful when it opened, but the past few politically dysfunctional decades haven’t seen us building anything new or maintaining what we have. “Demolition by neglect is now our maintenance policy, and not just when it comes to things we have made in bricks and mortar; it erodes our civic landscape, too.” [The Washington Post]
Now BART—another aging transit system left over from a more civilized time—is responding to twitter critics with brutal honesty. “We have 3 hours a night to do maintenance on a system built to serve 100k per week that now serves 430k per day. #ThisIsOurReality” [Vox]

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Thursday Links: Fuck Room Tips!

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on April 3, 2014

Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealing the Living Small NYC project back in 2012, image courtesy of Business Insider

If you’re heading to the Mike Kelley show in LA, Carolina Miranda has some tips on where to locate the hidden “fuck room”. Wish we’d known about this when the show was at PS1 🙁 [C-Monstah]
Speaking of fuck rooms, the micro apartments are getting financed. Welcome to a new standard of living, people. [Commercial Observer, h/t Curbed]
Immigrants are barely a factor on this map of people who now make up NYC. [ANIMAL NY]
An international group of artists has come out in support of Ukraine, in a campaign #SupportUkraine. [Artists Support Ukraine, h/t The Art Newspaper]
After over twenty years in the works, a non-European art museum designed by David Chipperfield will open in Milan this October. [The Art Newspaper]
Why is everybody rounding up lists of hot redheads? [theCHIVE, Paper Mag]
It’s National Tweed Day. [Twitter]
Sotheby’s has a new logo. It looks a lot like the old one, except now it doesn’t have serifs and looks a little clunky. Naturally, the internet has produced a slideshow comparison. [Fastcompany]
And in Knoedler story updates, Swiss art historian Oliver Wick has been accused of helping the gallery to sell forgeries. [New York Times]
Cool! Kevin Buist just tweeted a Calder painting that you can only see from Google Maps. [Twitter]
Architects have come up with designs to help New York prepare for the next Sandy. We could be getting barrier islands, dunes, absorbent parks and suburban water channels. [New York Magazine]
Bad news for democracy. The supreme court voted to eliminate long-established contribution limits to federal political campaigns. May the circus grow. [The New York Times]
Protests are happening near you. [Citizen.org]

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Monday Links: Katz’s Gallery Opens, Creative Time Goes to Sweden, Sandy Turns One

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 28, 2013

On a Queens beach, 3,000 people held hands Sunday to commemorate Hurricane Sandy. Image via: The New York Times

Lou Reed has inspired a ton of tributes on twitter and obituaries. Here are a few:

[Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone]

[Jody Rosen, Vulture]

[Ben Ratliff, New York Times]

[Gabrielle Bluestone, Gawker]

[Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice]

[Steve Chawkins and Randy Lewis, LA Times]

And for those unsatisfied with a simple obit, here’s the Lou Reed smear obit. [The Daily Mail]
A few Suzanne Lacy performers have put their petition for fair wage on change.org. The petition’s inspired a lot of public conversation on art world and gendered wage standards (especially on Facebook and Hyperallergic), so we hope it continues to do so. [change.org]
NYC mayoral debates have been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday, so that it’s not held on the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. [Daily Beast]
“A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government.” Paul Krugman on the ideological divide that has made Obamacare a kludge. [The New York Times]
Tomorrow is Sandy’s one year anniversary in New York. WNYC looks at the recovery of the South Street Seaport. [WNYC]
Boston’s trying to start a literary district in order to attract some of the intellectual community it’s lost over the last decade. Henriette Lazaridis Power, editor of Drum calls it “a Broadway for writers.” If they succeed, it would be the first literary district in the US. [Boston Globe]
Creative Time takes the show on the road. Next year, they’re holding the Creative Time Summit in Stockholm, Sweden. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]
Katz’s Art Gallery is already open, and ARTinfo’s making video posts. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]
Ben Sutton rounds up this weekend’s Bushwick Beat Nite. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]

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Thursday Links: Sad News Day

by Whitney Kimball on December 13, 2012

So long, Art Cat. We’re sad to hear that New York’s hub for emerging and underknown artist exhibition listings will be converted into an archive as of January 1st, 2013. Writes Barry Hoggard: “Charging for listings, for a calendar that wants to maintain quality and promote underknown artists and galleries, is a non-starter. It is apparent to me, after eight years, that there is no financial support for an art calendar of this kind.” He goes on to say that if anyone is interested in the code and data, he’s ready to talk. [ArtCat]

He will still be publishing IDIOM.
Somebody stole $635k worth of fiberglass tigers in broad daylight. [Gothamist]
It’s wikigifs! All that information buried so, so deep in the internet is at your fingertips, in randomly-generated gif form. Infographics. Capoeira techniques. A Baltoro Glacier animation. A spinning hexlet annular, in sideview. It’s all yours. [wikigifs, via: the Verge]
Breezy Point is still really fucked up. It looks like there will be lots of work to do, for a long time. [ANIMAL]
Good. Vandal Wlodzimierz Umaniec who defaced Tate Modern’s Mark Rothko work jailed for two years. [The Evening Standard]
4chan does it again. Kim Jong-Un win’s Time’s Person of the Year with the help of 4Chan. [BetaBeat]

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#Longreads: The End, The End, The End

by Paddy Johnson on November 9, 2012

Got a bit of extra time to read a misguided reflection on post-apocalyptic and post-catastrophic novels?

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27th Street Galleries Must Jump Hurdles Before Reopening

by Corinna Kirsch on November 7, 2012

27th Street looks like a mess. That swath of galleries—Derek Eller Gallery, Winkleman, Foxy Production, Jeff Bailey Gallery, and Wallspace—remains shuttered, dealing with a lack of electricity, heat, and phone service. Things have been destroyed irrevocably, and it could be some weeks before these galleries reopen, if at all.

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Six Feet Under: Smack Mellon Begins Its Road to Recovery

by Corinna Kirsch on November 5, 2012

Smack Mellon, the artist residency and exhibition space in DUMBO, was hit especially hard by Hurricane Sandy. This weekend, AFC paid a visit to assess the damage.

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[Updated] How to Volunteer for Hurricane Sandy Clean Up

by Corinna Kirsch on November 1, 2012

You’ve seen the pictures. You’ve read the tweets. New York City looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland along its waterfront. Among the many things New York City needs right now, clean up is one of them. The art world is rallying, too.

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Flood Damage Tips From AXA ART

by Whitney Kimball on October 31, 2012

We called up the art insurance company AXA ART to ask what Sandy-affected galleries can expect in the days ahead. A rep tells us they’re currently moving artworks to a warehouse, where they’re performing “art triage,” so cheers to that. They also gave us a few tips for dealing with the aftermath. New gallerists in particular will want to look at this.

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Hurricane Sandy

Thursday Links: Sad News Day

#Longreads: The End, The End, The End

27th Street Galleries Must Jump Hurdles Before Reopening

Six Feet Under: Smack Mellon Begins Its Road to Recovery

[Updated] How to Volunteer for Hurricane Sandy Clean Up

Flood Damage Tips From AXA ART

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