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AFC’s Fall Forecast: Goth Art Everywhere

by Michael Anthony Farley and Corinna Kirsch on August 19, 2016

Winter is coming. As the nights grow longer, shadows seem to creep into the city’s innumerable white boxes.

Our prediction for what the Fall/Winter 2016 look will be in New York: goth as fuck.

Artists, galleries, and institutions across the city seem to be embracing the macabre, gloomy, and achromatic in the months leading up to Halloween (by far, the art world’s most important holiday). We’re looking forward to aesthetic darkness, existential angst, and an embrace of the occult. Is this otherworldly tragic election season to blame for our state of mourning? We’re not sure, but let’s hope some fall weather shows up in time for us to break out our all-black wardrobes.

We’ve rated New York’s darkest upcoming art shows from “one tube of black lipstick” for “somewhat bleak” to “five tubes of black lipstick” for “this gallery is essentially a food court full of crying mall goths.” Our picks, arranged by opening date:

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Thursday Links: Sucker Schools

by Paddy Johnson on September 24, 2015

Casey and Rowdy horse training, 71 Ranch. Deeth Nev. 2012. Lucas Foglia, Courtesy of Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York (originally via Lens Blog)

More negative press for the University of Southern California. Earlier this year, the entire first year class MFA class dropped out of the program, citing an array of broken promises by the school’s administration. Now, the unofficial blog they set up in protest has been taken down the school’s administration. The administration has a problem with the URL, uscmfa.tumblr.com, which they claim looks like an official blog of the school. The students have set up another blog under a slightly different address that thus far has not been removed. [Hyperallergic]
Kara Walker has left her position at Columbia for Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. What a coup. [ARTnews]
A Matthew Barney profile in which we get to learn about just how icky his art has become. [The New York Times]
Larry Pitman’s new paintings are displayed inside a tiny box in Culver City. [Culture: High & Low]
Jerry Saltz hands four female painters positive three sentence reviews. They are very long sentences. Alicia McCarthy, Jackie Saccoccio, Keltie Ferris, and Betty Tompkins will be very happy right now. [Vulture]
We don’t normally link to profiles of collectors, but Nancy & David Frej’s collection is so thoughtfully put together, this one deserves a nod. [THE SEEN]
Yogi Berra, famed Yankees catcher died yesterday at the age of 90. He’s the guy who once said, “It’s ain’t over til it’s over”. Or did he? Here’s a list of properly and misattributed quotes by the baseball player. [The New York Times]

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Talk Hard, Talk Dirty

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on May 11, 2015

There’s a lot to do in the next seven days—from Chelsea openings to the Met’s rooftop and art fairs on opposite ends of Manhattan. When your eyes (and feet) are sore from trying to see it all, sit down and enjoy listening to some stellar presentations from some of the world’s best and brightest curators, artists, and critics. And Jerry Saltz.

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Friday Links: Borecore is a Thing

by Paddy Johnson on April 3, 2015

Yes, that’s George Clooney in a Yayoi Kusama installation.

Matthew Barney has filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife Bjork. He wants a more equitable custody schedule of their daughter Isadora. [Page Six]
86 year old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is the most popular artist in the world according to museum visitor figures. [The Art Newspaper]
It’s hard to be the little guy: Almost one third of solo shows in the US go to artists represented by five galleries. Those galleries are: Gagosian Gallery, Pace, Marian Goodman Gallery, David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth. [The Art Newspaper]
Borecore: when teenagers stream videos of themselves, bored, at home in their bedrooms. [The New York Times Magazine]
A documentary fiction about how a man’s urinal changed the face of the art world. By Twitter’s beloved Ben Street and Al Smith. [B.B.C.]
Aleksandra Domanović gets a profile in Art in America. She considers her earliest artworks animated GIFs and websites populated by hyperlinks. [Art in America]

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Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s New Do It Video Tells You to Do It With Social Media

by Corinna Kirsch on April 29, 2014

But why should we do it?

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This Week’s Must See Events: No Rest for the Weary

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on March 31, 2014

Any art nerd who’s dreaming of taking this week off needs to take another look at their calendar. Galleries across the city are opening new shows, and there are plenty of talks too. Between art star Matthew Barney’s tell-all talk with Sir Norman Rosenthal at The 92nd Y this and upcoming talent Sara Cwynar’s show opening at Foxy Production this Friday, you’ll not lack art to see and discuss.

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Friday Links: Louise Blouin Sued for Backpay

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on February 14, 2014

Still from Matthew Barney’s “River of Fundament,” Image courtesy of Phaidon

It appears that Carolina Miranda’s campaign of #BlouinShaming has been vindicated. Two top Art + Auction publishers have sued Louise Blouin for a total of $250,000 in withheld pay. For years, they also claim to have been classified as independent contractors, not full-time employees. Now they’ve joined ex-editor Ben Genocchio to start Artnet News. Blouin has responded by calling the plaintiffs “greedy,” “evil,” and that they “stole”. [New York Post]
Looking for a Valentine’s Day art listicle? Here’s an enormous, imageless list of “power couples” in the art world. [Artspace Magazine]
Wash that down with a special tour. New York’s sewage treatment plant is offering Valentine’s Day tours. [Metro]
L Magazine film critic Jeremy Polacek gives Matthew Barney props for successfully melding avant-garde sensibilities with the aesthetic sorcery of a high-quality film production but ultimately dismisses the film. “The awful truth is that River of Fundament is occasionally attenuated and overwrought, a scatological Tower of Babel.” We’d be curious to hear Polacek’s thoughts on Barney’s 2006 movie, “Drawing Restraint 9” which Village Voice critic Ed Halter near eviscerated for its poor editing and insipid editing. The Barney backlash continues. [The L Magazine]
From the slides and description of the Pawel Althamer show of figurative sculptures, animations, and visitor tags at the New Museum it’s hard to think it’s anything other than cheesy and terrible, but Holland Cotter likes it. It’s “stirring” and about “community and impermanence”. [New York Times]
The White House has nominated Jane Chu for the new head for the NEA. [TAN]

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Monday Links: Some Women Aren’t Coatracks

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on January 20, 2014

Happy MLK Day, readers! We’re bringing you the best of the web this morning, but expect a lighter posting schedule due to the holiday.

Holland Cotter rails against an art world he sees affected at every level by money. Art, galleries, media are all identified as suffering.

Conservative art can encourage conservative criticism. We’re seeing a revival — some would say a disinterment — of a describe-the-strokes style of writing popular in the formalist 1950s and again in the 1970s: basically, glorified advertising copy. Evaluative approaches that developed in the 1980s and 1990s, based on the assumption that art inevitably comments on the social and political realities that produce it, tend to be met with disparagement now, in part because they’re often couched in academic jargon, which has become yet another form of sales-speak.

The antidote, at least to some of the problems he lays out, are outlets like Art F City and Hyperallergic. [The New York Times]

With the Sochi Winter Olympics soon approaching (and with an estimated $50 billion price tag) Malcolm Harris investigates how cities can end up taking on so much financial and political risk. The answers are fairly simple: guns and insurance. [Al Jazeera America]
Uproar over Jezebel’s search and publishing of untouched Lena Dunham photos finally makes the New York Times. Dunham doesn’t see how “photoshop or no” why featuring a woman whose body doesn’t look like coatrack wouldn’t be a good thing. [The New York Times]
The Guardian instigates a curious poll asking whether Damien Hirst will be remembered in 50 years. Ah, Britain, where everyone has an opinion on art. [Comment Is Free]
Courtney Love is in court for “twibel,” a combination of Twitter and libel (and possibly the most annoying new word of the year so far). This is the first time a libel case involving Twitter has been presented before a jury. [On the Media]
Making the rounds on Facebook: a Tumblr about all the mirrors sold on Craigslist. [Craigslist Mirrors]
Matthew Barney’s latest film River of Fundament will premiere in February at BAM. Tickets are already on sale. [BAM]

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