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by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on December 10, 2015
- Earlier this year, performance artist Lech Szporer was arrested for locking himself in a cage outside of the Manhattan Detention Center to protest mass incarceration. Let that sentence sink in a while. [The New Yorker]
- Amar’e Stoudemire, Miami Heat’s center/forward, wants to help emerging artists sell art and find collectors via a website—the “Melech Collection”. I’m all for sports stars convincing their fellow players to think twice about sinking their big-money deals into Lanvin sneakers, but one of his advisors includes Mr. Brainwash. (To his credit, the other includes Rob Pruitt.) [Bloomberg]
- Everything you need to know about tree pins, the iconic Christmas costume jewelry piece. Yes, your most watched eBay auctions just got a little more seasonally appropriate. [Collectors Weekly]
- So this really blows: our very own Michael Anthony Farley’s boyfriend Ryan had his car burnt down to the ground just outside of his parents’ home in Miami. AFC’s F.A.G. Bar would not have happened without this vehicle transporting a lot of the art. Whitney Kimball has started a GoFund to help Michael and Ryan out—any donation would go a long way. [gofundme]
- This interview with Shia LaBeouf and his collaborators on his it’s-bad-wait-now-it’s-kind-of-interesting hashtagged performance art makes some good points, like calling on the “false intimacy” of Marina Abromovic’s The Artist is Present and criticizing academic art. [The Guardian]
- There’s definitely a graduate thesis somewhere in this early-1970s government-funded guide on sci-fi drugs by Robert Silverberg. [Boing Boing]
- France, can you stop vandalizing public art already? An outdoor exhibition of models and celebrities as gay couples by Olivier Ciappa in Toulouse’s Grand Rond park has been repeatedly vandalized since its November 30 opening. Worse, after a December 8 announcement of the exhibition being re-installed, all the photos were stolen. [artnet News]
- ICA Boston just received a major gift of twenty artworks by female artists, including two important sculptures by Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois. The collection, valued at $42 million, was given by frequent ICA benefactor Barbara F. Lee. [Boston Globe]
- The Edlis/Neeson Collection opens this weekend at the Art Institute of Chicago. The 44 artworks represent that largest donation in the museum’s history, and under a unique agreement will remain together on display for 25 years, followed by another 25 years of display. [The Chicago Tribune]
- This story about Chinese knockoff investigators reads like a sci-fi novel, complete with an anti-hero named “Flaming Lee” who led a double life as a private investigator and bootlegger of counterfeit circuit breakers. [Associated Press]
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by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Matthew Leifheit on November 22, 2013
- Adam Szymczyk, the director of Documenta 14, gets a write up in the Times for ‘his championing of unknown artists.’ He’s curated solo shows by Aleksandra Domanovic, Moyra Davey, and Lucy Skaer, so that’s a good track record. [The New York Times]
- Seapunk aesthetic for your tombstone? That and much more at Funeral Concept, a place that appears to specialize in the funerary objects for the young. [Funeral Concept]
- Paris Photo, which concluded Sunday, drew over 55,000 visitors this year. Carole Naggar wraps it up on TIME Light Box with a selection of mostly black and white documentary-style images from the 20th century, and notes that it rained inside the fair briefly. [TIME]
- Céline Piettre gives a nuts-and-bolts reflection of Paris Photo, crediting the increased presence of American collectors to last April’s inaugural Paris Photo Los Angeles. [Blouin Artinfo]
- Cheryl Newman fawns over Sophie Calle and shouts out Broomberg and Channarin’s much-shouted Holy Bible as a hot seller. [The Telegraph]
- Photographer Anita Totha makes the only edit of contemporary work I’ve seen from the fair. [Feature Shoot]
- Aperture’s PhotoBook of the Year award went to a self-published book, Rosângela Rennó’s A01 [COD.19.1.1.43] — A27 [S | COD.23]. Óscar Monzón’s KARMA won the $10,000 First PhotoBook award. [Aperture Foundation]
- On that topic, Wired did a Q&A with Leslie Martin, publisher of the Aperture book program. She makes it clear that the publishing industry is in flux: “There are 20 books in the Paris-Photo/Aperture First Book shortlist and 14 of them are self-published.” [Wired]
- ICI Benefits keep getting fancier. This one includes guests Dasha Zhukova, Sophia Coppola, and Marina Abromovic amongst others. [Blackbook]
- Looks like the Ad Reinhardt show organized by critic Robert Storr at David Zwirner is a must see. [The New York Times]
- An interesting concept from the Times: Retro Report; The truth now about stories then. The short video segments cover stories about 10-15 years old—the stuff that hasn’t quite left your consciousness, but isn’t exactly fresh either. Y2K is a pretty good example of this, a story that lives somewhere on the edge of nostalgia. [Retro Report]
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