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MATTE: Daniel Gordon

by Matthew Leifheit on March 6, 2014

Photographer Daniel Gordon on painting, surgery, portraiture, and pretty much everything else.

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Friday Links: The Perfect Artist for the Age of the Selfie?

by Corinna Kirsch on February 28, 2014

Good morning. Bryant Park’s ice rink closes this weekend, but we know it’s still winter—snow starts falling on Sunday.

De Blasio pushes back on the Domino Sugar Factory redevelopment, calling for more affordable housing sites. [The New York Times]
Scratching the surface on what makes Berlin’s art gallery scene tick. [Artnet]
Portlandia makes fun of art again. This time the show targets McDonald’s, Urban Outfitters, and activist art. It’s only a little bit funny, but at least there’s an exploding head. [Hyperallergic]
“St. Petersburg was selected as the host for Manifesta 10 due to its expressed desire to research the notion and function of contemporary art and culture in a contested area.” That phrase—“contested area”—in the latest Manifesta press release must, we assume, refer to the petitions against holding the event in Russia. [e-flux]
Activist shareholder Daniel Loeb wants to pack the Sotheby’s board with a team of his own choosing. [Dealbook]
A “privileged” fashion line. Sure. All the better to stomp on the backs of the less privileged with stillettos. [Nasty Gal, via @kstoeffel]
Andrea K. Scott previews Maria Lassnig’s retrospective at MoMA PS1, opening March 9. She responds to curator Peter Eleey’s comment that the 94-year-old painter is “the perfect artist for the age of the selfie.” [The New Yorker]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Pussy Riot Comes to Brooklyn, SculptureCenter Explores Time

by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 3, 2014

Brave the cold just a little longer, for we have so much art to see this week. Talks abound, from B. Wurtz on the history of sculpture to Winkleman Gallery’s panel on African-Americans in Soviet culture. We have openings, like a feminist sound art retrospective at CUNY and Greenpoint’s winter open studios night. Round out Sunday with a Genesis Breyer P-Orridge film-screening and book launch at PS1 and we’ll call it a week. Just grin and bear it.

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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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Friday Links: Make Room for Some Friends

by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Matthew Leifheit on October 18, 2013

Raymond Pettibon and Marcel Dzama get interviewed and talk about urine paintings because it’s VICE. [VICE]
The Moving Image Fair granted its second annual Art Award to artists Rollin Leonard and Jessica Faiss; their works will be acquired by the 53 Art Museum in Guangzhou, China. Congratulations! [In The Air]
Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL) gets it from the New York Post. They claim it’s more ubiquitous than James Franco. [The New York Post]
What happened to 3rd Ward. According to this report, Next Street, a merchant bank, held the company hostage after it failed to come up with promised funds for the expansion project. Something about this part of the story seems fishy to us. Since when are banks unable to come up with the funds for their investments? [The Observer]
Gene McHugh profiles artist Nate Hill as though he were a fictional character. Pretty brilliant. [Rhizome]
Best headline and subheader of the day: Brooklyn Man Giving Away Life-Size Hamster Wheel to Make Room for Some Friends. UPDATE: It was a hoax. [Time]
Cody Foster & Company, ornament wholesale manufacturer to the world, might be ripping off the designs of craft artists. A Flickr has popped up documenting the company’s copycat designs. [Jezebel, Consumerist]
Jesus. Holland Cotter sure likes the Mike Kelley exhibition at PS1. “Plainly put, the Mike Kelley retrospective, fresh from Europe to MoMA PS1, knocks everything else in New York this fall right out of the ring.” [The New York Times]
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has greenlighted construction for up to 10, 30-story-tall condominiums along Greenpoint’s waterfront. Current residents are especially not happy that Greenpoint’s turning into New Williamsburg. [The Brooklyn Paper]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Orgasmatron Lives!

by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Gabriela Vainsencher on October 7, 2013

We’re still flying by on September’s openings, but by the time the weekend rolls around, we’re gonna see some signs of new art life. Throughout the week, there’s a heckuva bunch of artist talks and lectures. We just might jump out of our panda costumes to attend a few. By the time the weekend rolls around though, we’ll have some hard choices to make. Pandacam re-enactments or Mike Kelley’s behemoth retrospective at PS1, Rollin Leonard’s solo show of cut up digital bodies, or Robert Longo’s Patsy Cline cover band reuniting at The Kitchen. Only time will tell whether the government’s shutdown has greater effects on the art world than anyone could have predicted.

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Tuesday Links: Promotions and Dress Codes

by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Gabriela Vainsencher on September 24, 2013

Dancing Baby from GIFSoup.com

Last week, the online auction site The Auction Room crashed during the last half hour of bidding during a sale of works from the Middle East; these works included several from Charles Saatchi’s private collection. The close of the auction was postponed for nearly a week, until today. [The Telegraph]
In an attempt to improve journalists’ productivity, Newsweek introduces a dress code. No t-shirts, jeans, or sandals allowed. [New York Magazine]
China will introduce a plot of land where you can access some of the Internet. [Quartz]
Peter Eleey got a promotion: he is now Curator and Associate Director at MoMa PS1. [Gallerist]
Giving new meaning to the phrase “Live with art,” companies and institutions are moving into museums in Madrid as part of a sponsorship program designed to solicit support for the arts. This recent turn has occurred thanks to a reduction in government spending on the arts in Spain. [The New York Times]
Elmgreen and Dragset’s Prada Marfa art installation has been deemed “an illegal roadside advertisement” by Texas state officials. No word yet on whether the art installation will need to be removed. [The Guardian]
A new way to buy a painting of money! bidding started yesterday for Conrad Bakker’s paintings depicting images of cowrie money shells auctioned on eBay. The paintings are priced according to the original asking price of the shells. [Tumblr via Cabinet Magazine]
Bad at Sports rounds up all the critical coverage of EXPO Chicago 2013. [Bad at Sports]
Tumblr and Phillips have changed the opening date of their digital auction, Paddles On, from September 23rd to October 1st. [Paddle8]
This is real: for $200 per family, the new DJ school for babies in Crown Heights will help your 0-3 year-old create “fun and funky samples”, and that’s not referring to diaper contents. Maybe they should partner with whoever taught this baby to shake it. [F’d In Park Slope and YouTube]

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This Week’s Must See Art Events: From Mural Painting to Squat Squashing

by The AFC Staff on August 19, 2013

Now’s the time to brush up on your activism skills. This week, we’re planning a protest with the world’s leading Putin critic, and then taking squatting advice from experienced artists. It’s also a good season to head outdoors. The so-called best Puerto Rican art and culture festival comes to New York, and will mural paint all over El Barrio and the Bronx. Renowned culture critics and artists will shine their wisdom. And on Saturday, we’re hoping for one of the last best PS1 warm ups of the season.

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Thursday Links: Now with More Booze

by Paddy Johnson Clara Olshansky Ian Marshall on August 1, 2013

PaintNite via The Daily Beast

This map breaks down New York neighborhoods based on whether loud party complaints or vermin complaints are more popular. [Gawker]
In response to Pope Francis’ recent comments on how he can’t judge the gays, Scalia has stepped in to offer to fill the role. No, this isn’t the Onion. [New Yorker]
Australian Photo show is censored in the name of family values. [The Art Newspaper]
Fascinating and only minorly creepy, a new clock measures time with breaths instead of hands or numbers. [Wired]
Edward Snowden has received one year asylum from Russia and left the Moscow airport today. [The Wall Street Journal]
“Art Rules” wants to be the new Twitter for art debates, but can you really make a convincing argument for anything within their tight 100 character limit? I’m predicting a lot of over-generalizing, undefended statements. [The Guardian]
Art fraud is so sexy right now. Check out the beginning of the “American Hustle” trailer. [Youtube]
This is MoMA PS1. This is MoMA PS1 with Google Glass. [GalleristNY]
Nathaniel Stern’s “Stuttering” an interactive installation at the Wits Art Museum in which blank walls come alive with text and images gets the thumbs up from Business Day’s Chris Thurman. The faster you move, the more frantic and unreadable the piece becomes. [Business Day]
“Teaching drunk adults is basically like teaching children.” PaintNites around America mix art classes with drinking. Whoo. [The Daily Beast]
Chicago’s opening up some gallery-themed bars. Woo hoo and all that, but basically all this means is that these bars will have some art on the walls. [Redeye Chicago]
Classic ‘Chicken or Egg’ problem: are artists eccentric alcoholics, or are eccentric alcoholics artists? Turns out, neither one is true, but we could have told you that. [The Globe and Mail]
Want a morning dose of a little bit of bullshit? Geno Smith, rising Jets quarterback, says that it’s his art background that makes him so talented. “I can see things on the field: angles, geometrics, and I think that played a huge role in things with football.” Yeah, whatever. [Fox News]

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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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