Reviews of the Met’s Punk show seem unilaterally negative so far. The Times, Gallerist, ArtInfo and Hyperallergic don’t like it (an understatement for Hyperallergic’s Geraldine Visco). My review comes out in the L Magazine next week.
Gawker reporter John Cook has seen a video of a man he’s told is smoking crack cocaine. He believes that man is Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Toronto Star reporters are claiming to have seen the video too. Ford’s denies the allegations and has had his lawyers send Gawker an email threatening legal action. Gawker has responded by posting the request. [Gawker]
Relatedly, Rob Ford is the worst mayor Toronto ever. [Wikipedia]
Tom Moody isolates the 180-degree rule as important in an essay about GIFs as micro-cinema. “Both [Bruce Conner's] A MOVIE and these animated gifs employ some common cinematic principles. The cuts create an eyeline match, which make it appear as though the characters are looking at one another, and obey the 180-degree rule (meaning that if you draw a straight line between their eyes, our perspective stays to one side of it).” [Indiwire: warning, there’s a 15 minute static ad that pops up before the article can be read!]
AFC Alumn Julia Halperin will be moderating an ArtsTech meetup on the Art Market. If you live in New York and aren’t in Venice, you should go to this. [ArtsTech]
Roberta Smith isn’t thrilled with the dick measuring contests going on in Chelsea between David Zwirner/Jeff Koons, Gagosian/Jeff Koons, and Hauser & Wirth/Paul McCarthy. Nonetheless, she measures, and concludes that Hauser & Wirth/Paul McCarthy has the biggest dick of them all. [NYTimes]
Don’t you want to know just how much money blue-chip galleries turn over each year? Here’s a list of unverified numbers from the top-selling art galleries this past year, and let’s just say, they’ve had enough money pass through their hands to stomp on the GDP of small, island countries. [Art Market Monitor]
Jaimie Warren is getting a show at The Hole, featuring her faux-celebrity-food photographs where she dresses up as food and celebrities at the same time. It’s full of bad puns like “Oreoprah” and “Jon Beignet Ramsey”. Plan to be confused. [Paper Mag]
Damien Hirst’s retrospective at the Tate Modern was the most popular solo show in Britain last year, of course. Here’s the requisite photograph of him in front of his work looking smug. [The Standard]
Gawker editor John Cook published the 446-page list of gun owners in New York City. He’s had it in his back pocket for two and a half years, because apparently, you’re completely within your rights to obtain it from the NYPD. Cook cites section 400.00 of the Penal Law of New York as stipulating that their addresses be on public record, as well, but that you must take the NYPD to court for them. [Gawker]
Does anyone give a shit that art.sy changed its url to artsy.net thanks to unrest in Syria? Given that the decision was obviously coming, we certainly don’t, but thanks to every art press online outlet for dutifully covering that story. [The Internet]
“Regarding Warhol” is going to the Warhol Museum, but apparently they’re planning to make it good. How come nobody thought of that before? [CultureGrrl]
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were making each other’s work. [Greg.org]
Kickstarter made its list of most successful campaigns of 2012. What we learned: 10 percent of Sundance films are funded by Kickstarter, Stanford now teaches a Kickstarter class, and air quality egg makes fighting pollution awesome. [Kickstarter]
“Regarding Warhol” is going to the Warhol Museum, but apparently they’re planning to make it good. How come nobody thought of that before? [CultureGrrl]
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were making each other’s work. [Greg.org]
Kickstarter made its list of most successful campaigns of 2012. What we learned: 10 percent of Sundance films are funded by Kickstarter, Stanford now teaches a Kickstarter class, and air quality egg makes fighting pollution awesome. [Kickstarter]
