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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Djinns Against Digital Colonialism, John Waters Action Figures, and “Werifesteria”

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 22, 2017

This week you’re in for a weird ride. From Aaron Pexa’s installation inspired by faeries from Welsh mythology (opening Wednesday at UrbanGlass) to a show of fake John Waters memorabilia Thursday night at La MaMa, there’s a lot of idiosyncratic happenings to partake in. Add to that itinerary a Friday night group show of emotion-altering colors (like the opposite of a mood ring!) at Small Editions and Eva Papamargariti’s speculative mutant frogs at TRANSFER on Saturday.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Teach-ins, Yoni Eggs, Cemetery Secrets, and More

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 24, 2017

It’s a bit of a slow week for the art world, but that’s just fine by us. There are a handful of events we’re really looking forward to this week and those will be much better enjoyed without the stress of darting around to a dozen other openings. Those include Martha Wilson’s Activist History Teach-In at The 8th Floor on Wednesday night, Alex Ebstein’s solo show at Victori + Mo Friday night, and Sophie Calle at Green-Wood Cemetery on Saturday. Calle will be taking visitor’s confessions and entombing them. Never turn down an opportunity to check out Green-Wood, and certainly never an opportunity for consequence-free secret-telling.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Arctic Performances and Rooftop Sculptures

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 11, 2017

This is a bit of a slow week in New York’s art world. That’s a good thing, because everyone will need their energy for our goth party next week.

Nevertheless, we managed to track down at least one art outing per day that looks promising. Tuesday, Wong Kit Yi is closing her show of Arctic-specific performance documentation at P [exclamation]. Karaoke is rumored to be involved. Wednesday, Hercules Art Studio Program is opening a show about painting and the body that couldn’t feel more relevant to contemporary discourse. Thursday, we found a subversive performance night at Ridgewood’s The Woods, and Friday we’re looking forward to checking out Adrián Villar Rojas’s rooftop installation at the Met. This weekend MoMA opens the must-see Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, and the Queens Museum will host a Sunday book launch of election-woe poetry.

Remember: rest up. You’ll need that energy for dancing.

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Stella Forces Museum Closures, Delays Whitney Biennial Opening Gala

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 14, 2017

Winter Storm Stella has forced most of the city’s museums to close today, including the Whitney. Today was supposed to mark the member preview and VIP gala for the Whitney Biennial.

Only MoMA stands tall against the storm.

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Thursday Links: Protesters Demand Trump Advisor Resign from MoMA Board

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on February 23, 2017

Protesters, including Coco Fusco, at MoMA [h/t Hyperallergic]

Venice Biennale promo is like the Christmas season—every year it starts earlier. This year, in the lead up to the show, one video spotlight per participating artist will be released each day. That’s 120 days folks. [artnet News]

Protesters are demanding that MoMA drop board member Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, due to his ties to the Trump administration. Good. Make this guy’s life hell. MoMA has refused to make a statement. [Hyperallergic]

“One of the surprising things about these artists, which isn’t always apparent in the work, is how despondent, even dystopian, they are about the internet. They might fetishise PDFs and encourage open platforms and shared interfaces (Wikipedia as art), but when interviewed they describe the web as pernicious, and technology as the glossy face of human misery.” -Alice Sprawls on One & Other at The Zabludowicz Collection. [London Review of Books]

Choreographer David St-Pierre told audiences to expect a retelling of the Joan of Arc story. “Instead, the audience was treated to 95 minutes of screeching music, dogs barking and a climactic scene where a man gets his hand stuck in a vending machine.” Montreal’s Place des Arts is now allowing people to change their tickets to more conventional works. [BBC]

Ok, people say the art world does a lot of silly things, but non-art people do even dumber things for even stranger reasons. For example, people are fighting in New York subway stations over Metrocards with an ad for clothing brand Supreme on them. The Metrocard is only good for two swipes? Can someone explain to me why this isn’t just a shittier Metrocard? [The Hundreds]

MTA ridership has dropped for the first time since 2009. This may sound like a relief given all the over crowding and delays but it means less revenue for the MTA which is already looking down the barrel of 65 million budget cut thanks to governor Cuomo. I want that guy out as governor and the talk of him running for President to end. No good comes of anything Cuomo touches. [Curbed]

Can’t wait to see all the public art proposals for the highline. Here’s hoping they’re better than the Jeremy Deller lizard on a plinth they chose to release as exemplary. [The New York Times]

Desert X claims to be the Coachella of the art world. They know the Times refused to cover Coachella last year because it had become such a shit show, right? Anyway, the show responds to the desert and actually looks pretty good. Doug Aitken has made what he calls a human scale kaleidoscope and Claudia Comte basically made a building-sized Bridget Riley. Sign me up. [The Los Angeles Times]
João Doria, the new mayor of São Paulo, has launched a program to paint over the city’s famous street art with grey. This is a terrible idea. The program includes painting over even commissioned murals if they’ve been tagged. A judge is attempting to block the grey-washing with a rule that graffiti removers must consult the city’s historic preservation department. [The Guardian]

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Monday Links: Tiffany & Co., Museums, Shia LaBeouf Want You to Join the Resistance

by Michael Anthony Farley on February 20, 2017

Via Medium Quality Screen Captures. I would kill for some context on this one.

The Shia LaBeouf saga continues. After the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens kicked LaBeouf’s anti-Trump installation “HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US”, the actor/artist relocated the piece to the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque New Mexico. It’s already back up and running. [Independent Journal Review]
From rehangs at the Whitney and MoMA to The Brooklyn Museum’s #J20 programming, Andrea K. Scott rounds-up how New York’s museums are protesting the Trump administration. [The New Yorker]
Karen Pence wants to use her new position as “Second Lady” to raise awareness about the benefits of art therapy. One would imagine that after decades of marriage to Mike Pence, she must be a therapy connoisseur. [PBS]
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer opposes Bill de Blasio’s “mansion tax”, which would add a 2.5% sales tax to homes over $2 million to fund much-needed affordable housing. That’s because the vast majority of New York City’s priciest property sales are in her borough, unsurprisingly. She claims this puts an unfair burden on Manhattanites. But aren’t so many $2+ million sales investment properties for foreign buyers of pied-a-tierres for the globe-trotting ultra-rich? If anything, the tax might have the additional benefit of cooling the luxury market slightly, which would be a boon for most actual Manhattan residents. If you live in Manhattan, it might be worth giving her office a call. [Curbed]
Kota Ezawa has installed his illustration-like reproductions of missing paintings from the infamous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist at the museum. These are surprisingly lovely. [artnet News]
Miami’s once-scrappy Borscht Film Festival turns 10 this week, and is now a fully-grown-up institution… sort of. They’re celebrating with all kinds of hijinks from a viking funeral to a jetski parade. This would be an excellent time to schedule a last-minute Miami trip. [The Miami Herald]
Bad And Nasty is planning a “Not My President’s Day” of art and activism across the country. In Baltimore, for example, protest/activities/performances are planned across several blocks of the Station North Arts District. [Facebook]

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Tuesday Links: It’s Hard to Be King

by Michael Anthony Farley on February 14, 2017

Nicholas Monro’s “King Kong,” part of 1972’s “The City Sculpture Project” in the U.K.

Read the saga of Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s toxic real estate empires. The two own some of New York City’s most polluted sites, and ironically enough, could stand to benefit from EPA programs. [Curbed NY]
Yep. It’s dark days for print media. Cult horror magazine Fangoria will likely never see another issue, according to a former editor. [Bloody Disgusting]
NADA, MoMA, and Anish Kapoor take stands against Trump’s travel ban, and France is building a wall of its own… around the Eiffel Tower? Highlight’s from artnet’s “The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week in One Minute”. [artnet News]
College students stopped Jordan Russell Leishman from looting Boston’s Galerie D’Orsay following the Patriots’ Super Bowl win. The robbery was caught on tape, which is always fun to watch. [NBC Boston]
Why are public sculptures generally so unsuccessful? Maybe a short-lived British commissioning program from the 1970s holds some answers, namely: a public that doesn’t give a shit. [The New York Review of Books]
Artists Space has hired Whitney Museum curator Jay Sanders as its new Executive Director. Sanders is coming on board at an interesting time—the nonprofit lost its longtime Manhattan home and is searching for a new space. [ARTnews]
I didn’t watch the Grammys, but apparently plenty of musicians used the opportunity to speak out against Trump. This trend is actually making me care about awards shows. [Reuters]
There’s a movement in India to stop the privatization of the Venkatappa Art Gallery. The best part of this story is that they’re called “VAG Forum”. [Deccan Herald]
And in politics, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has resigned due to his connections with Russia. Leaked information to the Washington Post and the New York Times forced this resignation. Don’t let anyone tell you news outlets like these aren’t doing their jobs. They’re saving the country. [The Internet]

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Monday Links: Lady Gaga Shocks Gays With Least Controversial Halftime Show of All Time

by Michael Anthony Farley on February 6, 2017

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Finally, a border wall proposal so relatively inexpensive and easy to assemble a Republican could do it. [Dezeen]
Related: the indie video game “Papers, Please” is seeing a surge of interest as of recent weeks, unsurprisingly. The 8-bit game lets users play as a border agent in a dystopian Eastern European nation, rejecting or accepting immigrants based on suspicions they might be a smuggler or terrorist. [Humble Store]
MoMA is protesting Trump’s visa ban with a rehang of its permanent collection. They’ve interrupted the galleries’ usual art-historical arc by replacing a room of Picasso and Matisse works with pieces by artists from countries on the ban list. These include mostly artists from Iran. [The New York Times]
Meanwhile in Mexico, Samah Abdulhamid, a Syrian refugee, was greeted at the airport by a crowd with signs welcoming her to the country, including “Aquí no hay muros” (Here there are no walls). She’s the first female Syrian student to arrive via Proyecto Habesha, which is helping Syrians whose studies have been disrupted by the war attend universities in Mexico. It seems like a really great organization, especially if you’re looking to donate to something making a concrete positive impact now. [Fusion]
I can’t figure out why this Salvador Dalí painting is being described as one of the artist’s “most controversial works”, but it’s going up for auction at Bonhams. It’s an innocent-seeming portrait of his sister, painted as a gift shortly before the two had a falling-out. [Blouin Artinfo]
Ridiculous headline of the day: David Spade is suing Peter Beard, along with his wife and gallerist, over Beard’s failure to authenticate a photograph Spade bought fifteen years ago. [artnet News]
Pretty much all of the gay world just lost whatever respect we had left for Lady Gaga after she somehow managed to perform the least controversial Super Bowl Halftime Show of all time. Seriously, what the fuck? These past few months she had been a such an outspoken Trump opponent and she blew the one opportunity to have “other America” watching? Someone must’ve had a gun to her stylist’s head. [Gay Internet]
Trump is really bad at writing executive orders, but here’s a meme generator that lets you do it for him! [Executive Order]
“The definition of ‘pretension’ is somebody who elevates something that is not worthy of any kind of elevation… Brad does that quite a bit, but nothing he makes is straight-up dumb.” -Paddy Johnson is quoted several times in Adrian Chen’s profile of Brad Troemel, which has to be one of the most thorough biographies of a young artist I’ve read. [The New Yorker]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Propaganda for the Digital Age

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 23, 2017

Today and tomorrow New Yorkers will be saddled by this terrible Northeaster storm, but that shouldn’t stop you from attending Hannah Cole’s talk on artist taxes today or Judith Bernstein’s talk and book launch dubbed dicks of death tomorrow. They’re too important to miss. By Wednesday art lovers will be able to head to the Lodge for an opening of John Wellington’s dystopian history paintings, and on Thursday to the New York City Ballet to see electronic artist Dan Deacon’s “America” set to ballet. We’re particularly looking forward to seeing the ballet given Deacon’s connection to the blog. He’s a Baltimore resident and a long time muse for the blog.

By the time the weekend sets in, it’ll be all talks moderated by Art F City’s Paddy Johnson. On Saturday she’ll be discussing how the Nevada Test Site has influenced the paintings of Eric LoPresti with Eric LoPresti. Sunday, she’ll be discussing the evolving roll of storytelling in American culture with Jack Early and friends.

All of which is to say there’s plenty to see and do this week. So let’s not delay. Put these dates in your calendar and plan to compare notes later on!

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Tuesday Links: Star Trek: Voyager is 22, Red Hook Artists’ Home a “Bargain”, Zaha Hadid Was Super Rich

by Michael Anthony Farley on January 17, 2017

OMG! Star Trek: Voyager premiered 22 years ago, as of yesterday. I feel old. [Facebook]

Shepard Fairey, Jessica Sabogal and Ernesto Yerena have created a series of protest posters that are free to download in anticipation of the #J20 strike and demonstrations. Unfortunately, there are new (draconian) restrictions on bringing signs into certain parts of the capital on inauguration day. To get around this, they’re raising funds to take out full-page ads in Washington newspapers and to distribute hard copies in the District. So far they’ve raised over $1 million. [Kickstarter]

Apparently the late, great Zaha Hadid left behind a £70.8 million fortune. Unfortunately, übercapitalist dickhead Patrik Schumacher is the executor to her will (a decision I doubt she would stand behind given his recent inflammatory comments about affordable housing). The other check-writers include her niece Rana Hadid, artist Brian Clarke, and former Serpentine Gallery chairman Peter Palumbo. The have 150 years to figure out how that money gets dispersed, via the Zaha Hadid Foundation. I hope those three vote to dole it out for innovative affordable housing. [Dezeen]

As opposed to participating in the #J20 strike, many museums are offering free admission on inauguration day, with programming such as a marathon reading of Langston Hughes’s 1935 poem “Let America Be America Again” at the Brooklyn Museum. The National Museum of Women in the Arts is closing on Friday, though, but will reopen for the Women’s March on Washington the next day, offering a “nasty women” tour of its galleries. Diversity of tactics is good for resistance. Disappointingly, the Guggenheim and MoMA, among others, have offered asinine, relatively apolitical statements about their decisions to remain open. [ARTnews]

London’s gallery-sharing event Condo 2017 sounds so smart and so successful. This is the kind of cooperation that will keep brick-and-mortar arts spaces alive. [artnet News]

Are memes the key to making the art world less elitist? Probably not, but Katie Fustich thinks they might be. How is Jaimie Warren not mentioned in this article? [Salon]

Wow. The Asheville Art Museum is beginning an $18 million, 18-month demolition/reconstruction project that will see the facade of its historic home seemingly half-swallowed/penetrated by a transparent glass box. It’s hard to tell from the renderings if this can be pulled-off effectively. [abc 13 WLOS]

Two Brooklyn artists are selling their historic 11 bedroom, 5,000 square-foot-home (with wraparound deck and killer waterfront views) for the relatively low price of $1.25M. Here’s the catch: it’s an old ferry with an insane history. 11 very smart artists should form a coop and buy this immediately. It’s one way to survive gentrification and/or sea level rise in Red Hook. [Curbed]

Potsdam, just outside Berlin, is getting a private museum from billionaire Hasso Plattner. The star attraction at the new Museum Barberini is will be Edvard Munch’s “Girls on the Bridge,” which recently sold for $54.5m at Sotheby’s. It’s believed Plattner was the buyer. If you’re a Munch fan, you can see it starting January 23rd. [The Art Newspaper]

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