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Kehinde Wiley

We Went to The Armory Show: HOW TO SPEND IT

Michael: Every time I go to a fair I’ve been told is going to suck, I’m pleasantly surprised by the first few works I see and actually like that are somewhat engaging. Then, usually within an hour of arrival, fair fatigue sets in and I want anything to shatter the stifling boredom.
Molly: I’m honestly devastated I didn’t know that the “YOUR MOM” balloons were free for me to take.

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Thursday Links: Enjoy Flogging That Data, Guys

by Corinna Kirsch on June 25, 2015

A new critical approach to the artist Kehinde Wiley; he’s a jokester. “If reflection, recognition, representation—so often identified with Wiley’s work—comprised its entire attraction, I’d be grateful for its existence, in the same way that I’m grateful for the existence of, say, Tyler Perry. Mere existence is a real and valuable politics, one whose importance shouldn’t be underestimated. But this, for me, is where the difficulty starts with Wiley: If his paintings have any value as art qua art, that value lies in something else—his best paintings read as jokes. [The Awl]
A conceptual art project to destroy the “worst part of America,” Oklahoma, and replace it with a freshwater lake. [Kickstarter]
Net artists, get $500 to make browser-based art with Rhizome’s Net Art Microgrants. Dooooo it. [Rhizome]
Postinternet public art comes to City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. [Observer]
Activists intent on saving Sweet Briar College, a women’s college in Virgina, will now be installed as board members. Former board members who voted to close the college this past March, have already been purged. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
Ello, which debuted in 2014 as a serious competitor to Facebook, is now rolling out ads on Facebook. Some are totally creepy, and call out FB for its surveillance practices. [Tech.Mic]
~~Teenagers~~ Internet tricksters ~~never~~ designed condoms that will change color when exposed to sexually transmitted diseases. [Hopes & Fears]
“Thanks to @facebook forcing me to use my real name, I am now at more risk of rape and death threats. But enjoy flogging that data, guys.” Journalist Laurie Penny got kicked off Facebook for using a pseudonym, even though she was doing it so that she wouldn’t get trolled. [The Guardian]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: So Many Romantic Loners

by The AFC Staff on April 15, 2015

This week, the art world plays punk teen-fantasy dress-up: feminist CD-ROMs, soap-opera karaoke, protest discussions, and DIY costumes. Whee!

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Rob Pruitt’s Panda Paintings Have a Starring Role in Kingsman: The Secret Service

by Corinna Kirsch on February 17, 2015

Pandas make the villain.

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Friday Links: Cooking Blog Surprise

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on January 16, 2015

torpedo pears

A chronological history of Lifetime movies, from the Tori Spelling classic Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? to more serious fare like Angela Basset’s celebrity biopic, Whitney. Former executives from the channel discuss when certain genres, like “teens in jeopardy,” became popular. [Washington Post]
For those who don’t care about the Oscar snubs—here are the art nominees. Good Lord, Hyperallergic has reviewed them all. [Hyperallergic]
OMG. Shellac lead singer and songwriter Steve Albini has a cooking blog. [Mario Batali Voice]
Ben Davis has managed to make a convincing argument for Juan Muñoz’s Many Times at Marian Goodman, a feat I never thought possible. It’s a bunch of gray, laughing figures in resin cut off at the ankles. I always thought the work was boring, but Davis finds a little magic (a word he loathes) in the details. [artnet News]
Kehinde Wiley, Xu Bing, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Pedro Reyes, will be honored with the 2015 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts. The award recognizes artistic achievement as well as commitment to the government-sponsored program Art in Embassies. [ARTnews]
A review of the Riot Grrrl exhibition Alien She from a former riot grrrl. Critic Melissa Miller ends up writing a mostly positive review, but points out a necessary issue with any historical exhibition: “The drawback to this approach, however, is that it presents Riot Grrrls with one voice, with a ‘we’re all in this together’ attitude.” [Art Practical]
☆♕ A Grecian Inspired Roleplay for ASMR ♕☆ [YouTube]
Beefy Mortal Kombat monsters, but with the female victory dances, like pole dancing. Aside: holy shit, Mortal Kombat got gruesome since the 90s. [YouTube via Metafilter]
Wow, France’s Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin has promised Charlie Hebdo €1 million in funding to keep it running. Now the Pompidou and several other arts institutions are launching Charlie Hebdo-related shows and awards. [artnet News]
Critic Martha Schwendener reviews Tyson Reeder’s current show at CANADA (which we like), and fills her review with a total of seven textbook-friendly artists to compare Reeder: Matisse, Bonnard, Renoir, Bonnard, Isamu Noguchi, and Andreas Gursky. You can talk about art without having to namedrop; like, you could talk about the art. [New York Times]

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Artforum Finds Racism at Art Basel Miami Beach

by Corinna Kirsch on December 9, 2014

“He doesn’t like black people,” said Blanco, just once. “He likes black culture.”

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Monday Links: How to Stay Out of Jail

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on December 8, 2014

Our calendar launch and signing party takes place tomorrow night at Sargent’s Daughters, 6-8 pm. Join us! [Art F City]
All satire was lost on the titler of Ben Davis’s Art Basel report. “Art Basel in Miami Beach 2014 is a Rip-Roaring Success” is a tongue-in-cheek Hunter S. Thompson-like view of the fair and its inanities. Referring to the fair as “the Maze,” Davis asks, “Who are these people? They wander in a distracted state, and appear happily lost in the space. Though the Maze experience seems to be the main draw, there is also a huge and growing market for Maze memorabilia, as these people buy up the puzzles from the Maze, to recreate part of the experience in their own homes for friends or mates.” This whole fair is a cultural vacuum, and nobody should be expected to come up with things to say about it. [Artnet News]
Punching a hole through an £8 million Monet will get you jailed. Don’t do it! [Metro]
Galapagos Art Space is moving to Detroit. “A white-hot real estate market is burning through the affordable cultural habitat,” said Robert Elmes, the space’s executive director. “And it’s no longer a crisis, it’s a conclusion.” [New York Times]
Jerry Saltz is the Jonathan Swift of social media? Puh-leeze. That was a week long spoiled middle school rant. [Wall Street Journal]
Chlorine Gas Leak in Chicago Disrupts “Furries” Convention. [NPR]
An actual headline from Vanity Fair: Everything You Need to Know to Prepare for Kate Middleton and Prince William’s New York City Trip. [No link]
“It’s a problem that I work in a profession that capitalizes on how cool it is to be black until it’s not cool to be black. If Kehinde Wiley decided to make black men killed by #damngoodcops the subject of his next portrait series, the art world would care.Wiley’s dealers would rightfully sell his works as the important documents of our time — and they’d make a pretty penny. Curators and critics would praise the series as an important reflection of this turbulent moment in American history. My colleagues would tell the media that an exhibition of his work is the most important statement about racism today. Unfortunately, racism doesn’t only exist when white people want to acknowledge and benefit from it.” [Hyperallergic]

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