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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Winter is Coming

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 13, 2017

The week is of course dominated by two news items: The Whitney Biennial and The Wintery Downfall.

After the blizzard, Wednesday is a great opportunity to get yourself in the snowy mood, art-wise. Enjoy doses of culture from freezing, windswept regions, including Marsden Hartley’s Maine at The Met Breuer (if you’re missing the Whitney’s old digs) and Berlin-based Danish/Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset in conversation with Dan Cameron at The Flag Art Foundation. Later, catch the Icelandic thriller Hevn at Scandinavia House’s New Nordic Cinema screening series.

Other highlights include Fort Gansevoort’s female-perspective sports show March Madness Thursday night and TRANSFER’s four year birthday party, which will feature affordable editions from some of our favorite digital artists.

Oh yeah, and make time to check out the Biennial. I’m told it’s good, but “traumatic”. An appropriately bleak show to match our physical and political climate?

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This Week’s Must See Art Events: Dad Art, Cigarettes, and Graveyards

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on May 10, 2016

Thankfully, the next few days aren’t as stressfully-packed with events as Frieze Week was. But we’ve picked out a handful of options if you’re still hankering to see some art. Tuesday night, Matt Bolinger’s solo show opens at Zurcher Gallery, featuring cinematic paintings of Middle-American life. Wednesday, rising art-star Kour Pour opens a new exhibition at Feuer/Mesler that looks to be a new direction for the painter. Thursday is a big night for fans of drawing: David Nolan Gallery has a Jorinde Voigt show and The Drawing Center is offering a Josef Albers-inspired workshop.

The weekend is when things get weirder. Christopher K. Ho’s solo exhibition at Present Company looks at aging, “art dads”, religion, and more Friday night. At the same time, Invisible Exports is opening Frida Smoked, a group show about women artists and their cigarettes. Saturday, Rhizome’s annual Seven on Seven conference will present collaborations between tech insiders and artists and Underdonk will open an ambitious group show of tiny sculptures from dozens of artists. Borna Sammak’s solo show also opens at American Medium that night. But Sunday sounds like it will be the most fun—Hyperalleric has organized a walking tour of artist’s graves in Green-Wood cemetery, so go enjoy the partially-sunny outdoors after a rainy weekend.

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Wednesday Links: Caravaggio Maybe Found, Warhols Lost

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on April 13, 2016

Eric Turquin in front of “Judith Bheading Holofernes”

The FBI is now offering a $25,000 reward for information in the Warhol “Soup Can” heist from the Springfield Art Museum. Whoever the thief is, they’re either dumb or extremely picky. The set of seven “flavors” stolen will be substantially less valuable without the three left behind: pepper pot, cream of mushroom and consommé (beef). [Inquisitr]

Alan Lupiani checks in on Natural Disruptions, a collaborative mural-based project in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park led by artists Mark Dorf and Anthony Goicolea. [Hyperallergic]

A long-lost Caravaggio has been discovered in an attic in France. [New York Times]

Can we talk about how amazing the Brooklyn Museum’s Reanimation Library is? It’s collection prioritizing printed materials from the public realm with visual information, and is dedicated to being a resource “that inspires the production of new work”. (And yes, the image collection has been digitized.) [Reanimation Library]

Rich artist destroys his passport because he was pissed off with his work in the Sydney Biennale. [ARTnews]

Art Cologne launches its 50th iteration tomorrow. Here’s a brief history of the mother of all fairs, an event that drastically changed the course of the art world. [Deutsche Welle]

If there are any Wendy fans out there, get excited: Walter Scott’s sequel to his cutting art world satire will be dropping this fall. [Koyama Press]

Rhizome announces the collaborators for this year’s Seven on Seven conference. The artist/technologist pairings include Hito Steyerl with Aesthetic Integration co-founder Grant Olney Passmore, and Miranda July with Postlight co-founder Paul Ford. [Artforum]

The Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) has announced plans for an ambitious $60 million expansion and renovation of their main buildings on McCaul Street, just south of Dundas in Toronto. Improvements will be made on the 1920s heritage building, George Reid House, and the famed Will Allsop-designed Sharp Centre for Design. So far, the Ontario government has chipped in $27 million toward the project, but OCADU will have to fundraise the rest. Not mentioned in all of this is what further “revitalization” we can expect in the Grange Park neighborhood: condos, perhaps? [Urban Toronto]

The “American Attitudes Toward Art” survey results have been released and there aren’t too many shockers. 44.3% of people aged 18-24 and 33.8% of people aged 25-34 use social media to discover new art, while people over 65 (at least 29.5% of them) prefer to discover new artists through museums. Based on the press release, be prepared for this report to inspire way too many online art-selling platforms to spring up to cater to millennials. News flash: we go to galleries too and we’re too broke to buy art. [Business Wire]

Richard Prince’s new show at Sadie Coles is a series of cartoon-inspired pieces depicting nudist culture. According to writer Catherine Sedgewick, they feature young, big-breasted women being pursued by lecherous old men in the context of hippie culture. Richard Prince, what are you doing? [The Upcoming]

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The Art World’s Biggest Hate Reads of 2013

by Whitney Kimball on December 13, 2013

The year in hate reads.

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Curated Intimacy Over Email: On Miranda July’s “We Think Alone”

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on August 19, 2013

We have our doubts about Miranda July’s “We Think Alone” project.

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Friday Links: Actual Art > Artworld Edition

by Paddy Johnson and Ian Marshall on July 12, 2013

In London, a new project modelled after the Highline will connect two disparate gallery neighborhoods from the Garden Museum to Vauxhall. [The Art Newspaper]
Buzzfeed Founder Jonah Peretti and Artist and Filmmaker Miranda July talk about email, thanks to July’s new project “We Think Alone”. The project asks a bunch of stars to reveal their email correspondence. It’s a good conversation, mostly because it feels personal. [The Moment]
Lots of the love for the Fred Valentine show up at Sometimes. We gotta say, those paintings look great, but can anyone tell us where the gallery’s located? [Two Coats of Paint, The L Magazine]
Roberta Smith reminds us that Ken Price’s “Zoo” at Matthew Marks Gallery is a great entry point into his current retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Drawing Center. [The New York Times]
The Bruce High Quality Foundation gets an A for effort in a condescending review of their retrospective Ode to Joy at the Brooklyn Museum. [The New York Times]
Everyone is getting really excited about this NeverWet spray, including us. [AdWeek]
Andrew M. Goldstein, Rachel Corbett, and Alex Greenberger think arts organizations are right to be nervous about the Bloomberg philanthropy coming to an end. They cite 2.8 billion spent on the arts across Bloomberg’s three terms. [Artspace Magazine]
The city budget gives MoMA PS1 $3 million to buy gallery space in a nearby apartment building. No such luck for the South Street Seaport Museum. [Brownstoner]

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Miranda July’s “We Think Alone” Lets You Know Celebrities Are Normal People, Too

by Corinna Kirsch on July 5, 2013

Miranda July used to make art about normal people, but now she makes art about celebrities. In We Think Alone, an email project that debuted on Monday, July delivers celebrities’ emails straight to your inbox, revealing the mundane and absurd details that make up their lives. Celebrities: they’re just like us!

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Massive Links: What Can Curators Tells Us About Not Shitting Ourselves All Day | Jim Carrey’s Nuts Are A-Okay | Some GIFs Are Small

by Paddy Johnson on June 16, 2011

This week in Massive Links, journalists are mistaking a new study that finds one year old babies like Picasso’s cubism more than Monet’s impressionism as an art story. Jim Carrey’s jet is now available on ebay for the buy it now price of 1.5 million! Better act quick on that collectors. Also, lots on GIFs and Miranda July’s face. Let’s get to it!

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[Sponsor] Sundays in July, Experience Some of the Decade's Most Exciting Avant-Garde Films

by Art Fag City on July 16, 2010

Don't miss this rare opportunity to experience 30 beautiful, provocative, and poetic avant-garde films that are part of “21st Century Limited: Experimental Films 2000-2009” on July 18th and 25th. Drawn from Film Comment magazine's best-of-the-decade poll, six Sunday programs in July will showcase some of the most memorable experimental works from the first decade of […]

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Miranda July

Curated Intimacy Over Email: On Miranda July’s “We Think Alone”

Massive Links: What Can Curators Tells Us About Not Shitting Ourselves All Day | Jim Carrey’s Nuts Are A-Okay | Some GIFs Are Small

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