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by The AFC Staff on April 9, 2015
- A pretty great collection of artist portraits with their cats. The pictures are drawn from Alison Nastasi’s new book “Artists and their Cats”, which means it far exceeds your typical blog listicle. [This is Colossal]
- After watching (and transcribing) no less than 4 hours of video at Artists Space Hito Steyerl show, I drew a few conclusions. Great show, but sometimes the metaphors don’t quite work. [Artnet News]
- The Walker Art Center’s “International Pop” exhibition uncovers pop art that you won’t find in any art history book. It surveys artists from all over the world who turned away from abstraction in the fifties and sixties, featuring work by German, Japanese, and Icelandic artists left out of the British and American-dominated Pop Art market. Oh, and let’s not forget women. “I was always accepted in the circles of male Pop artists back in the day,” says arist Rosalyn Drexler, “but it never occurred to them that I was the only one in the circle not getting paid.” *Sigh* [New York Times]
- “How much is that painting?” I asked [of a Blinky Palermo]. “That’s on loan from a private gallery,” the [Zwirner] gallery assistant on my right answered (there are always two guarding the front), with machine-like efficiency. “Are there any available for sale?” “Most of them aren’t.” “Which ones are?” “Not very many.” Very entertaining. [Artnews]
- Political campaign merch is big business. Why buy a Hillary Clinton button when you could show your support with $15 napkins or a onesie? And who wouldn’t want a $75 woven blanket with a picture of Paul Rand? [The Guardian]
- The most remote human settlement on earth–Edinburgh of the Seven Seas–is holding an architectural competition to make life on the South Atlantic isle more self-sufficient and sustainable. Competition hopefuls are staring down some steep challenges. The island is actually an active volcano. It last erupted in 1961, wiping out the community’s crayfish factory. Renewable energy is a problem, too. Wind turbines can’t withstand the beating the island takes from strong winds. So why would anyone want to live there? It’s totally beautiful. And with very limited internet and no airport, you pretty much get to ignore the rest of the world. [Hyperallergic]
- “It’s Official: The Boomerang Kids Won’t Leave,” the Times Magazine confirmed in 2014.. Of course the kids stay home because they can’t get jobs that pay rent. But the function of millennial-speak is to disguise structural causes (the lack of jobs) as human desires (the kids want to stay home), and to justify further measures (make hiring and firing easier) in terms of those desires.” [n+1]
- The number of black Americans killed by police in 2014 outsrips the number of people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. While this alone is a sobering thought, the data comes from a website called killedbypolice.net. That’s right. Things have gotten so out of hand, someone started a website in 2013 to keep track. [Raw Story via Killed by Police]
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