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Kathleen Hanna

Working Through Post-Election Grief with This Riot Grrrl Playlist

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 18, 2016

For many of us feminists, the election of Donald Trump might just be the single worst event we’ve collectively experienced. This statement needs no litany of examples to back it up.

Of course, many people—myself included—have been glued to social media, religiously reading political commentary, the news, and critical theory to help process how royally fucked the world is. But honestly, the only thing that I have found to be remotely comforting is feminist punk.

Here’s my suggested playlist, paired with a stage of grieving correlated to each song.

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Friday Links: Leo DiCaprio Saves Art Market, No Icebergs On Horizon

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 4, 2016

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“If we accept that fairs are a necessary evil, then we should at least try to make them more interesting,” Matthew Higgs, creative adviser to the Independent art fair. [Vogue]
So, how is Armory Week weathering the art market “correction” we’ve been warned about? Apparently, by reassuring ourselves that it isn’t actually happening. Although there’s little talk of actual sales, everyone at the ADAA seems to think everything is just peachy. [Artsy]
Meanwhile at The Armory Show, we’re told that the appearance of celebrities at the opening is an indicator that the market is alive and thriving. I don’t know much about economics, but apparently name-dropping Leonardo DiCaprio is a sign of prosperity. [Observer]
Eli Broad thinks there’s a slowdown, at least in middle-tier sales. And here’s an article with some observations to back that opinion up. [Bloomberg]
“To me, it looks like a super hairy vagina that has pants on —hairy vagina pants!” Kathleen Hanna on her favorite piece of artwork, a feminist sculpture rescued from Ebay. [The New York Times]
Jose Mugrabi opens up about his legal troubles with Christie’s. Mugrabi owes $32 million on a $37-million Basquiat bought on behalf of a client. That client hasn’t ponied up the cash, leaving Mugrabi responsible for the winning bid’s price. [artnet News via Baer Faxt]
Should Charlottesville, Virginia remove a 1921 Charles Keck sculpture depicting Sacagawea cowering behind Lewis and Clark? Or is this a good “teachable moment” public artwork? [C-Ville]

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Friday Links: Calling all Art Hi$$$tory Majors

by The AFC Staff on April 10, 2015

A bunch of well-off people discuss how their Art History degree made them (surprise!) a success in other sectors. “My art history education was the first step in training my eye to recognize the recurring signatures of price movement in the financial markets,” says Jamie Crapanzano ’00, portfolio manager at Guggenheim Partners. The moral of the story: it’s alright to study art history, so long as you use it for anything but art history. [e-flux via The Daily Princetonian]
Artist Mary Beth Heffernan is working to humanize the face-covering protective suits worn by ebola health workers. She makes sticker-backed photo portraits of the workers’ smiling faces for them to where on their suits, like a badge. What’s funny about this story is that photo technology is scarce in Liberia, so her subjects swiped their self-portrait stickers and started sticking them everywhere, including their kids’ backpacks. [NPR]
Is the enormous clothing trend in art localized to the south? We reported the trend dead in New York last month at The Armory, but Andrew Russeth has spotted it on the rise again in the SP-Arte fair in São Paulo. [Artnews]
The original cast of Twin Peaks is rallying behind David Lynch following his announcement that he could no longer continue working with Showtime on the series revival. We couldn’t agree more with Sheryl Lee, the actress who played Laura Palmer: Twin Peaks without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret. [Nerdist]
This one’s coming at you a couple days late, but it’s still worth celebrating. The Mayor of Boston declared April 9 “Riot Grrrrl Day.” Here are some of the actual words from the official proclamation: ““Riot grrrls redefine the language used against them and continue to fight the newest incarnations of patriarchy. In doing so, they ironically confirm one ex-congressman’s accidental wisdom: ‘the female body has ways to try to shut that down.’ It sure does: women’s voices telling their stories can shut that down.” Did reading that give anyone else happy chills? [Stereogum via Boston Magazine]
Two groups from MIT teamed up to make wearable social media (in t-shirt form) so wearers can find and make IRL friends. The garments might be technologically advanced, but just like Google glass, they’re just not that cute. In other words, scientists at MIT made t-shirts that only an MIT student could love. [Hyperallergic]
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation released the names of its 2015 Fellowship recipients. Let’s hear it for Fine Arts awardees Rick Araluce, Miyoshi Barosh, Amy Bennett, Matthew Blackwell, Mel Chin (woot!), Amanda Church, Russell Crotty, Amanda Davie, Agnes Denes, Fred Escher, Tim Hawkinson, Frank Holliday, Vishal Jugdeo, Mary Kelly (about time!), Diane Landry, Michael C. McMillen, Sabina Ott, M. Louise Stanley, Kyle Staver, Kukuli Velarde, Royce Weatherly, and Pinar Yoldas. [Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]
Last Saturday, a man terrorized NYC commuters with a giant black dildo. The Subway: just like reality TV, but not at all from the comfort of your own home. [Death and Taxes]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Red Hook Moves to Manhattan

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on February 19, 2014

It’s a typical week in New York: psychedelic painting, Brooklyn criticism, feminist archives, the Yiddish cannon, Julie Ault, and a Red Hook gallery opens a Manhattan outlet.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Pussy Riot Comes to Brooklyn, SculptureCenter Explores Time

by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 3, 2014

Brave the cold just a little longer, for we have so much art to see this week. Talks abound, from B. Wurtz on the history of sculpture to Winkleman Gallery’s panel on African-Americans in Soviet culture. We have openings, like a feminist sound art retrospective at CUNY and Greenpoint’s winter open studios night. Round out Sunday with a Genesis Breyer P-Orridge film-screening and book launch at PS1 and we’ll call it a week. Just grin and bear it.

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