Liquor distilled from a piece of a Beuys sculpture.
Three artists did a performance where they distilled liquor out of a piece of a Joseph Beuys’s sculpture, “Fettecke.” Beuys’s widow called the performance “crap and stupid.” [artnet News]
In scary, apocalypse-y news of the day, a new study says that we’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. [USA Today]
If you want a sense of just how hard it is to talk about the Israel/Palestine situation, last night’s “10 Days/10 Ideas” workshop was a good reminder. We hear that instead of Skyping in artist Khaled Jarrar, the event was shuffled around between venues until finally landing in a bar. Fortunately, Deborah Solomon interviewed him. [WNYC]
Given how contentious that small event seemed to be, it’s not surprising when Christian Viveros-Fauné points out that the New Museum’s Here and Elsewhere, a survey of art from the Arab world, is “New York’s first museum exhibition of art from that region.” He thinks it’s long overdue. [Artnet News]
Another beautifully meditative Triple Canopy piece on archived images of motherhood. [Triple Canopy]
It’s happening: Rising rents are running even the larger dealers out of Chelsea. Casey Kaplan and Betty Cunningham join the wave, Rozalia Jovanovic reports, though others like Lisson and Gallery 303 have opted to resign long-term leases. Apparently, ground floor retail space south of Houston has gone up 37 percent in the last year. Holy. Mother. Of. God. [Artnet News]
Rumors are spreading of a Williamsburg Shake Shack. [Free Williamsburg]
Labour leader Ed Miliband uses the phrase “image-based politics” to describe the social media-friendly look of David Cameron’s campaign; signalling a change in style, this comes with an unflattering photo of Miliband eating a bacon sandwich. It’s reminiscent of John McCain’s smear ad comparing Obama to Paris Hilton. [The Guardian]
We invited Copenhagen-based artist Sophie Dupont to spend a month with us in NYC. As the final portion of her residency with AFC she produced an image essay on dance and spirituality.
All hail cats. For better or worse, Nyan Cat, Kitler, and LOLcats have burned their way into our Internet-based memories. They’ve been nuzzling their way into our lives for ages, and for one such historical reminder, look no further than Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers’ performance “Interview with a Cat”.
This week in really boring summer stories with traction, New York Magazine profiles collector and conceptual food artist Jennifer Rubell. The feature tells readers pretty much what they would expect: eating fancy dinners with famous people as a child influenced her interest in making work for them. It was scary, of course, to become a […]
Fiercely Independent. New York art news, reviews and culture commentary. Paddy Johnson, Editorial Director Michael Anthony Farley, Senior Editor Whitney Kimball, IMG MGMT Editor
Contact us at: paddyATartfcity.com
Paddy Johnson, Editorial Director
