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Beyond Chelsea And The Lower East Side: The West Village Gallery Round-Up Part 2

by Emily Colucci on September 23, 2016

Continuing my exploration of the West Village galleries’ September shows, I ventured above Houston Street to Maccarone and White Columns.

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Monday Links: “Total Fucking Ken-Doll Sexuality”

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Corinna Kirsch Marina Galperina on November 24, 2014

This is a tapeworm via The New Scientist

Wall Street and Silicon Valley companies pay their interns crazy salaries that are most of what we make in a year. According to vocativ, the global trading firm Jane Street pays interns ten thousand and four hundred dollars per month. Fitbit interns get $9.3 K. Killlll meeee. [Vocativ]
We get paid in tittie calendars. [Art F City]
“You will think of Matthew McConaughey every time you hear a google chat notification sound.” Alright. [YouTube]
Whoa. 40 years ago Lynda Benglis published her previously infamous, now famous dildo-wielding spread in Artforum. In an interview with Bard’s Tom Eccles, she says that Artforum editors and readers who were upset with her spread were “out of this century.” [Seen]
More Lynda. 26 female artists on the importance of the Artforum spread. (If you’re a man who’s ever been inspired by her advertisement, you should say so in our comments. Because why cis?) [Vulture]
The Swiss Kunstmuseum Bern has accepted a collection of 1,300 artworks from suspected Nazi looting. The museum claims that it will attempt to return the works to their rightful heirs. [Artnet News]
16 women, now, have publicly stated that Bill Cosby raped them, 12 of whom said he drugged them. The Washington Post has the definitive piece. [The Washington Post]
The Village Voice is probably right about half these so-called New York City scams, but one takeaway is don’t give to poors. Those subway kids making millions off your candy purchase? BUSTED. In other scams, there’s the “money first, keys later” Craigslist scam (legit) and the “melon drop scam” where you sell coveted melons to Japanese tourists (???). [Village Voice]
Hey, Tijuana gets its first-ever BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) event. BYOB arrives to the city at about the same time as a dolphin-eating whale—completely unrelated, we bet. [San Diego Reader]
The Grand Jury is expected to decide whether they’re going to indict Michael Brown’s murderer Darren Wilson today. [NBC]
Artprize Dallas blather has already begun. Here’s a writer who thinks the event will be really great but will it actually enlighten the Dallas art scene? We’ve got two years before we even begin to find out, but it’s never to early to start asking questions no one can answer. [The Dallas Observer]
Joerg Colberg says photography is plagued by “helicopterism”, a phenomenon in which photographers fly out to a location for a couple of days, shoot some dramatic shots, but without any deeper investigation. This term can be applied to photojournalism and fine art photography because it refers to depth of engagement not aerial photography. [CPH]
Rhizome interviews Huw Lemmey about his new work of Grindr-inspired fan fiction “Chubz: the Demonization of My Working Arse.” Lemmey hates hookup culture. “That’s the worst thing about public gay identity today; it’s total fucking Ken-doll sexuality, reasserting categories for behaviour and binaries, full of these aspirations for acceptance and assimilation with men like Sam Smith banging on about husbands and puppies. It’s boring and gross and violent.” [Rhizome]
How does Strand keep itself in business in the age of Amazon.com? Selling used books, non-books and catering to a very particular sort of buyers. “In the Hamptons, a wall of white books is a popular order.” [The Vulture]
Why is this tapeworm burrowing through a live person’s brain? *Spoiler alert* “Yum yum, brain fat.” [The New Scientist]

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Yellow: Lynda Benglis

by Corinna Kirsch on January 28, 2014

Lynda Benglis has transformed Cheim & Read into a forest of cat-sized ceramic sculptures. Some are yellow.

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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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Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: Tatiana Berg

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on May 31, 2012

Tatiana Berg’s paintings look like her lipstick and her shirts. That’s meant as a compliment — she clearly likes pastel, loose patterns and the 80’s, and so do we. Berg is also rarely content with standard canvas shapes. In one metallic-colored piece, she combines five separate canvases to create an anvil-like shape. In another series of tent-shaped paintings she equips the pieces with wheels and brakes. Our favorite, though, may be the painting in which Berg overlays colorful polka-dots with a creamy transparent white. She then runs through the paint with her fingers as though it were fog on a car window.

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The Glowing Ass Forest and Other Highlights from the Dependent Fair

by Will Brand on March 14, 2012

Last year, I wrote that “despite the chaos, it's difficult to see the Dependent as anything but a success.” This year, I'm willing to go a bit further: The Dependent Art Fair was, hands-down, the most interesting, highest-quality fair in town.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: The Best and Worst Exhibitions of 2011

by Paddy Johnson on December 21, 2011

This week at the L Magazine I’ve put together a list of the best and worst exhibitions that stretches the term “exhibition” well beyond its intended use. That’s okay; art is not easily categorized. As for reflections, this was a good year for art. A lot of much needed change is here and on the horizon. From Occupy Wall Street, to ArtPrize, to Hennessy Youngman’s youtube channel, 2011 is the year art’s started to unravel a little.

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IMG MGMT: ARTSCENTER TALKSOURCE

by Dushko Petrovich and Roger White on May 10, 2011

Here at AFC we’ve often asked ourselves the question, What Does Art Criticism need? According to Roger White and Dushko Petrovich true transformation of the form will involve paywalls, platinum memberships and critiscope experience. Put your art visors on because you’re about to experience ARTSCENTER TALKSOURCE (the proposal).

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Lynda Benglis’s Happy Dildos and Sexy Foam

by Paddy Johnson on March 16, 2011

“Feminism has had a much greater influence on art than we think,” a friend told me recently at The New Museum’s Lynda Benglis show (through June 19). Her comment was prompted by how fresh some of the 40-plus-years-old work looked, though I wondered if there was a sufficiently consistent aesthetic to feminist art-making to draw such a conclusion. After all, what does feminist art look like?

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: The Best and Worst Exhibitions of 2011

IMG MGMT: ARTSCENTER TALKSOURCE

Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Lynda Benglis’s Happy Dildos and Sexy Foam

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