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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The NY Art Book Fair Might Take Over Your Weekend

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on September 22, 2014

Take your pick of performances and fairs taking place this week because there is no scarcity in that realm.

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Thursday Links: Richard Prince Must be the Luckiest Man on the Planet

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on September 18, 2014

An artist’s view of M60-UCD1 black hole. Via: NASA, ESA, STScI-RCC14-41a

This artist rendering of a black hole in a dwarf galaxy is amazing. [NASA Instagram via: @fredbenenson]
And, on that note, for the science nerds, here’s the best astronomy related video we’ve seen lately. Dizzying. [Youtube]
WTF? Richard Prince’s 48-inch by 56-inch″ inkjet prints of celebrity Instagram accounts are reportedly selling for $100,000. [The New York Post]
Chicago’s art paper Newcity made its own power list again, because fuuuckk youuu Artinfo. Here are the artists’ artists. [Newcity]
Jennifer Rubell is making food for the Performa benefit. This year Performa is honoring every rich woman under the sun. [In the Air]
The People’s Climate March preparations have started. They are expecting 100,000 people to show up this Sunday for the event. [The New York Times]
In further evidence, Environmentalist Bill McKibben is tweeting about 20 busloads of people headed to New York for the march already booked from Vermont. That seems like it would cover UVM and Middlebury alone. More! [Twitter]
The New Yorker does a video feature on the history of the Vocoder, a speech distortion tool popularized by Laurie Anderson and Kraftwerk, but was apparently invented as a top-secret military voice encoder. There is such thing as a “Vocoder historian”. [The New Yorker]
Philadelphia-based video artists: SUBMIT. The ICA has assembled a great jury for its open call video show, including Dirty Looks assistant director Karl McCool, PMA Associate Curator Erica Battle, and artist Beth Heinly, whom we featured in a Philly round-up last month. Based on McCool and Heinly in particular, we suspect this means creative risk taking and fearlessness will be rewarded. Submit to this. [ICA]
Carolina Miranda discusses Santa Monica Museum of Art’s “Citizen Culture: Artists and Architects Shape Policy” and the show looks great. It’s an exhibition that looks at social practice that sparks social change. In one example, Miranda discusses Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus, who was forced to wear a bullet-proof vest after receiving death threats. As a sign of trust, he cut the shape of a heart from the vest. [Culture: High & Low]
Iggy Pop plays ping pong with David Bowie. This is what happened. (aw). [BowieSongs Extras]

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Tuesday Links: Fun with Hue Grant

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on September 9, 2014

Our new favorite single serving site turns Hugh Grant’s face different colors with the Hue/Saturation tool. Lightness and saturation have been turned off. [Hue Grant]
Perhaps a public service, but sleazy execution: Somebody combed the porn star database and put together every demographic statistic imaginable on adult film entertainers. Here’s the opener: “I can’t recall how I first heard about the Internet Adult Film Database—the self-proclaimed ‘premier resource for information about the American porn community on the web’, but for the longest time I knew I wanted to plunder its treasure trove of juicy information.” Further findings are often relayed in cum jokes. [Jon Millward]
Electronic shock collars stress out dogs. This should be obvious to all dog-lovers. [Washington Post]
The history of SWAT teams from the 60s through to today. Watch the segment about the guy whose dog was shot. No spoilers from us, but it’s jaw dropping. [Retro Report]
As is customary, The Apple Store has been taken offline in anticipation of today’s big launch of the iPhone and iWatch. The Times has been live blogging since 8:00 a.m. and the conference doesn’t start until 1:00 p.m. (EST) today. [Bits Blog]
The British Museum is looking for a student or recent computer science grad to help them update their website for free. [Hyperallergic]
Here’s a Google image search for “Tom Otterness.” It’s a mixed bag of work, for sure, but sometimes those cutesy figures demonstrate great inventiveness! [Google, in response to this Twitter thread]
The New Yorker Festival events are out. Ew: Malcolm Gladwell. Stuff we actually want to see: a talk about income inequality with David Brooks, call-ins with Edward Snowden and Kim Dotcom, an interview with Laurie Anderson, and an intelligentsia-stocked debate on cats versus dogs. We feel that this last event compares apples and oranges, and both animals contain contain lovable features. [New Yorker Festival]
The Google Cultural Institute adds more museums to its growing rosters of museums who like to put their art online with the help of Google. [Google Art]
One (or a few) bad apples spoil the bunch. Costumed cartoon characters in Times Square are now all getting background checks and licenses. Apparently the “Spider-Man incident” was the come-to-Jesus moment. [The New York Times]
Here is what Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial portrait looks like. The Kindergarten Cop star paid for the portrait himself, choosing the the hyper-realistic flair of fellow Austrian, Gottfried Helnwein. [SF Gate]
Wow. Tim Wu, a candidate for Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor, and the man who coined the phrase “net neutrality” is suing the New York Democratic Party for interfering in its own primary. [The Nation]
Magic, barn-raising, meteorites: all that you missed during the Edinburgh Art Festival. [Frieze Blog]
Two Trump casinos to file for bankruptcy. [Bloomberg]
Note to art jurors: Never stand up during an awards ceremony and announce that none of the artists are worthy of a prize. [Yahoo! Australia]

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Wednesday Links: Stuff on Stuff on Stuff

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 26, 2014

Jason Foumberg went to the College Art Association’s annual conference and found nuggets of social activism. And a surprising amount of Laurie Anderson. [Artforum]
The Samsung Galaxy 5 will drop in April. This special phone will include a fingerprint sensor for security and shopping. Guessing the “shopping” part is meant to make this gadget sound appealing. [AP]
Wanted: Non-profit in need of 250,000 transparencies and slides documenting really important art and artists. Truck not provided. [The New York Times]
“Stuff on Stuff on Stuff: The Game” lets you “stack stuff on stuff.” It’s like Tetris, or the lesser-known office favorite Trash Panic. And it’s free and cross-platform, so everyone can play. [Chris Collins]
N+1’s MFA vs N.Y.C. gets a review in the Times. In this case, MFA students are writers either slogging away on a novel so they can secure a cushy tenure track position at a university, or trying to make a name for themselves in the city. Lots of stuff here similar to visual arts. (And Paper Monument gets a nod!) [The New York Times]
Helen Hughes discusses the ugly business of Transfield, a major sponsor of the Sydney Biennial, and a private corporation that handles the processing and care of Australian prisoners. They break all kinds of international human rights laws and national obligations as laid out in the 1951 Refugee Convention, so calls for protest have been made. But will a protest of their sponsorship have any effect at all? Hughes argues that if the protest is aimed at both government policy and its privatization of these services, plus leverages the grace of expression of arts professionals, they might get somewhere. [Frieze]
Dancing horse of the week! [YouTube]
Today’s $88,000 painting for sale on Craigslist. [Craigslist]
Cait Munro chats with two of the 2014 Whitney Biennial curators, Anthony Elms and Michelle Grabner, about what to expect when the show opens next week. Each curator has a floor to themselves, and Grabner chose to include more artists than the other two curators. So we’ll see fewer work from her artists. [Artnet]
Kevin Lau Chun-to, the recently dismissed editor-in-chief of what many regard to be the remaining independent newspaper in China, Ming Pao, was attacked with a knife this morning while walking from his car. [The New York Times]

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Friday Links: Halloween’s Hangover

by Paddy Johnson on November 1, 2013

Let's just say we can relate to how this kid feels.

Get your cheeseball on. War on Kinkade. [Deviant Art]
The Queens Museum makeover stories are coming out. This one focuses on the partnership with the Queens Library, which will be housed inside the museum. Very cool. The Museum opens November 9th and we plan to be there opening day. [The Wall Street Journal]
You can now take pictures at MoMA P.S.1 [Hyperallergic]
This is ugly: Calder heirs accuse the the Perlses of surreptitiously holding on to hundreds of Calder’s works and swindling the artist’s estate out of tens of millions of dollars. [The New York Times]
Laurie Anderson has published a short eulogy for her late husband, Lou Reed. “He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.” [The East Hampton Star]
Anyone else tired of reading about Obamacare’s troubled start? Just fix it. [The Internet]
Holland Cotter notes that rent was cheaper in New York in the 70’s and performance art flourished. He likes the performance art show (1970-1980) curated by Jay Sanders at The Whitney. [The New York Times]

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Barbara London, Champion of Video and Sound Art, Is Leaving MOMA

by Hannah Garner on September 19, 2013

After 43 years, Barbara London is leaving MoMA on October first. Over the course of her career as associate curator of Media and Performance Art, she has guided us over the expanding landscape of new media.

Her career began in the 70s when she founded the museum’s video collection, introducing works by Nam June Paik, Laurie Anderson, and Lynda Benglis. Over the years, she has consistently exhibited new work by Chinese and Japanese artists and pioneered Internet art at MoMA: in 2001 she produced the museum’s first website art commission, Tony Oursler’s Timestream, and in 1997 created Stir-Fry, a multimedia site mapping emerging media art in China. London has made a career of championing media and sound art, forms that continue to pose institutional challenges.

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Tuesday Links: Dogs and Assholes

by The AFC Staff on June 18, 2013

Australian artist Horst Kiechle uses 3-D modeling software to create anatomically correct paper sculptures of the human torso, begging the question: Why? Do-it-yourself patterns are available free online. [Wired]
U.S. paint brush manufacturers, the subject of Economist Adam Davidson’s latest column in the New York Times Magazine, have taken a hit since the economy crashed. Chinese competition has taken a chunk of their market, but these businesses have stayed alive through specialization. [The New York Times Magazine]
Charles Saatchi was caught choking his wife Nigella Lawson outside a restaurant. He voluntarily turned himself into the police for a “caution”. No charges have been pressed. [The Guardian]
New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman says the Le Corbusier show at MoMA is overwhelming thanks to its sheer size, but still finds the show riveting. Le Corbusier had some fascinating ideas, good and bad. [The New York Times]
The Metropolitan Museum of art will present Janet Cardiff’s “Forty-Part Motet” at the Cloisters this fall. This isn’t something anyone in the city should miss. [Met Museum via Brian Sholis]
“James Franco wants your money. What an asshole.” [Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, Indigogo]
Dog groomers clip, snip, and blow dry pooches for a coiffure competition, er, EXTREME ANIMAL MAKEOVER. Artful entries include poodles turned into sharks, Donald Duck, and tiger- bears. [The Guardian]
Ai Weiwei Skyped with Laurie Anderson to create art. We are linking to the video record of the performance just so that you know how uninspiring hearing Ai Weiwei chat about China over drone music really is. Starts at 13:35. [Luminato Festival, via @aiwwenglish]
Now on view at Arsenal Gallery, Benson’s collaged paintings of Central Park playgrounds depict the now out of use playgrounds of post-Robert Moses Central Park. Laura Mallonee suggests that just calling attention to these parks is a step towards repairing them, making a better New York for inner-city children. [Hyperallergic]
Anish Kapoor gets knighted. [Times of India]

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