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Worst of 2015

by Michael Anthony Farley on December 30, 2015

What were the top five most scandalous stories we covered this year? The ones people read, shared, and re-tweeted the most, of course. I delved into our site stats to ask why we love bad news so much.

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The Enduring Stink of Lucien Smith’s Out of Touch Art Rave

by Rea McNamara on November 3, 2015

Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn is on clean-up duty. Since last Monday’s deluge of overwhelming negative press over artist Lucien Smith’s “Macabre Suite”, the art dealer has faced fire for co-hosting Smith’s “curated” event in celebration of two new luxury condo towers breaking ground along the South Bronx waterfront. (Conveniently enough, Greenberg-Rohatyn is rumored to be starting another gallery in the Bronx.)

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Wednesday Links: Urinating in Someone’s Mouth Not Considered Helpful

by Paddy Johnson on March 26, 2014

Always good to get a little context. Patricia Morrisroe, Robert Mapplethorpe’s biographer, on the reception of his work while he was alive: “At a time before gay marriage, when most gay men were still in the closet, pictures of leather men in chains hanging upside down, or urinating in someone’s mouth, wasn’t considered helpful in furthering gay rights.” [Dazed]
LOL. “post-Internet artists have moved beyond making work dependent on the novelty of the Web” [Artspace]
24 year-old Lucien Smith was scouted by Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn at his Cooper Union thesis show. Now his work is selling at auction for 6 digits and there’s speculation that David Zwirner will pick him up. Smith is now dating Zwirner’s daughter Marlene (though we hear that relationship is no longer). WTF? [Artnet]
Christian Viveros-Faune on William Powhida’s “Overcultured” at Postmasters. “As most artists and the majority of critics scratch their heads, Powhida has effectively conceptualized several novel ideas and forms to better illustrate our confounded present. In that spirit, Powhida makes art out of the normally utilitarian press release, where he defines “overculture” as “a small cultural group (artists) within the larger culture, often affirming the beliefs or interests of the ruling class (collectors),” and also as “a negative or ambivalent feeling about culture often in relation to socio-economic conditions.” [The Village Voice]
Felix Salmon thinks Mark Zuckerberg is the Warren Buffet of technology. [Felix Salmon]
OMG. Tonight, a burlesque tribute to Star Trek at The Slipper Room. [The Slipper Room via City Room]
For those who can’t attend, but want to pay tribute at home, we sourced these Star Trek Insignia Pasties. [Etsy]
Give me some Jeff Koons Banality Service Plate please! My favorite is the Michael Jackson and Bubbles plate, but a whole set is available. [MoMA Design Store]

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Monday Links: I Wore This to Miami Last Year, So I Can’t Wear It Again

by Paddy Johnson on December 2, 2013

ahhh, palm trees [via dumpfm/deephunk]

As we prepare for Basel Miami, let us reflect on Aurel Schmidt’s approach: “It’s a great way for people in the art world to actually have fun together.” [T Magazine, 2009]
Manish Vora, co-founder of Grey Area, tells it like it is, “So much of the Basel fatigue is that a lot of the events are not that fun.” Pre-party Basel coverage has already started at NYT. This year’s concern? Celeb parties are a bigger draw than art parties. [The New York Times]

BUTT Magazine has taken down our favorite reportage from the fairs, but Choire Sicha quoted a juicy paragraph of it back in 2009. Even that much is worth the read. [The Awl]

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn gets a lauding profile from the New York Times. Marilyn Minter has the best quotes in the piece, “I was really attracted to her in the first place because she had black artists and women, and never made a big deal out of it,” she said. We also learn a little about a Minter painting called “The Singer”, which sadly won’t be at Basel this year. [The New York Times]

NADA’s offering tours to kids at Basel this year. [In the Air]

New York Magazine will go from publishing their magazine weekly to every other week. They plan to use the money they save to beef up the long form features in the magazine and invest in online content. [The New York Times]

Jay and Stuart Podolsky are landlords making a fortune by renting shelter spaces to the city. Their nicknames back when one such building was used as a hostel? The “terror lords”. Andrew Rice really did a great job with this story. [New York Magazine]

A revised bill for the Equity for Visual Artists Act, which would introduce artists’ resale rights to the art market will be floated in the Capital come January. With all the political gridlock there though, we don’t anticipate the bill passing anytime soon. [The Art Newspaper]

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Work of Art Episode 3: POP IS EVERYTHING Recap

by Will Brand on October 27, 2011

Lots of worry and heartbreak as the contestants realize Pop art ain’t easy in a double-elimination slaughter. Oh, and also, Kymia goes topless. Reality TV at its best.

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Work of Art Episode 2: Attack of the Clones Recap

by Will Brand on October 20, 2011

As Work of Art marches relentlessly on, one more artist is thrown beneath the grinding treads of “reality”. Here’s what happened, slavishly recorded with intermittent jokes.

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Work of Art Gears Up For A Second Season

by Paddy Johnson on August 26, 2011

BRAVO has discovered a new reality show gold mine: the art world. Not only is the network casting for a docudrama on 20-something gallerinas, but yesterday, the TV network released a tear-filled trailer for Work of Art’s second season (beginning October 12th). The series seeks to find America’s next great artist (so far they’ve come up empty handed), once more pitting a few artist hopefuls against one another for a cash pot of $100,000. We’ll soon see what fruits the season has to bear.

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Work of Art Recap: The Art Pussy Escapes Elimination

by Paddy Johnson on July 15, 2010

I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d be much happier if Work of Art were a PBS style reality show a la Frontier House with a series of art historians and critics discussing the realities of art world as we watch the struggling members of the art world. I like drama as much as the next person, but I found Bravo’s focus on artistic disputes at the expense the art particularly disheartening in this week’s public art challenge. Too many of its participants will be left scarred by this show.

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Work of Art Gears Up For A Second Season

Work of Art Recap: The Art Pussy Escapes Elimination

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