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The Revolution Might Still Be Televised: “Public Access/Open Networks” At BRIC House

by Emily Colucci on March 31, 2017

Sometimes an exhibition succeeds more as a source of creative inspiration than a collection of timely artworks. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current group exhibition Public Access/Open Networks at the Gallery at BRIC House.

The show, curated by BRIC’s Jenny Gerow with freelance curators Reya Sehgal and Lakshmi Padmanabhan, gathers historical and contemporary video art that was broadcast publicly whether through public access TV or YouTube. The physical exhibition is just aspect of the show, which also includes an assorted program schedule of screenings, live tapings and symposiums.

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Friday Links: “Hotbeds of Liberal Radicalism and Degeneracy” The Right Wing Goes After Artist-Run Spaces

by Michael Anthony Farley on December 23, 2016

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Crap. The Right Wing is now targeting semi legal artist-run spaces, punk houses, etc. According to 4chan threads, they plan on reporting code violations to shut down “hotbeds of liberal radicalism and degeneracy.” We need to strategize about this one. [VICE]
Just when you thought Atlantic City couldn’t possibly be any more depressing, a group of tourist industry types is pitching the idea of a Donald Trump museum. They think it could bring visitors to the town, which is presently (ironically enough) blighted by various failed Trump enterprises. [NJ.com]
Speaking of dystopia, the new Blade Runner movie looks like it might actually be good? That would certainly be a relief to die-hard fans of the 1982 original, including myself. [NME]
From a flag for first-time Olympic team “Refugee Nation” to illustrators coping with David Bowie’s death, terrorist attacks, the election, and Brexit, Dezeen rounds-up the good design that came out of awful 2016. [Dezeen]
Hili Perlson’s “Meet Kaari Upson, the Artist Whose Mom Loved Pepsi Too Much” is one of the strangest pieces of art writing I’ve read in a while. I think that’s a good thing? Truth be told, I can’t tell if Upson’s solo show at Sprüth Magers (Berlin) is any good from reading this, but the review of a truly, singularly bizarre sounding exhibition definitely makes me want to go see it. [artnet News]
75 year old Chi-Tien Lui is the electronics repair shop owner who worked with Andy Warhol. Bruce Nauman, and most closely with Nam Jun Paik. Now, a new generation of art conservators is hoping to learn his magic touch, as cathode ray televisions and other obsolete technology show its age and need repairs. [The New York Times]
Wow. The past few years have been rough on NYC Galleries. Nate Freeman rounds up which ones bit the dust and which ones departed Chelsea in search of cheaper pastures. [ARTnews]
The totally bonkers story of how Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire basically ruined their then-friend Dale Wheatley’s life in the 1990s. The emerging actors starred in Wheatley’s black-and-white indie project Don’s Plum and then regretted it, going to great lengths to bury the film. It all sounds very petty. [Vanity Fair]

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The Topless Cellist Finally Gets Her Due At The Grey Art Gallery

by Emily Colucci on September 14, 2016

Resurrecting the forgotten careers of women artists can make for bittersweet exhibitions. On one hand, it’s exciting when a visionary woman finally gets the attention she deserves. On the other hand, the institutionalized sexism that erased her creative input is thoroughly enraging.

Nowhere is this felt more intensely than in A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde 1960s-1980s, currently at the Grey Art Gallery. Organized by a curatorial team largely connected to Northwestern University (the show first premiered at their Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art), the expansive exhibition firmly establishes Charlotte Moorman as a performance art force alongside seminal Fluxus artists like Nam June Paik, John Cage and Yoko Ono. In a response to art historical misogyny, the show essentially returns her artistic agency 25 years after her death in 1991.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Painted Rooms, Painted Faces, Digital Everything

by Michael Anthony Farley on September 6, 2016

Well, we hope the art world had a good summer vacation because school is officially back in session. There are so many good shows opening on Thursday night in Chelsea we just couldn’t list them all—Matthew Barney at Gladstone, Rashid Johnson at Hauser & Wirth and Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read, to name a few.

We’ve focused on the absolute can’t-miss openings and those that might get overlooked below. From Wednesday night’s opening exhibition on the work and collaborative legacy of early digital/conceptual artist Alison Knowles at The Graduate Center to Thursday night’s absolute must-see double exhibition of Meleko Mokgosi [pictured] at both of Jack Shainman’s Chelsea locations there’s plenty to see and do.

But to offer a quick summary of where the most openings which nights, expect to spend Wednesday on the LES, Thursday in Chelsea, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday rushing from neighborhood to neighborhood. This should be a good week for Uber.

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Will Electronic Superhighway Accurately Historicize New Media and Internet Art?

by Rea McNamara on November 13, 2015

How has technology impacted art? Whitechapel Gallery will be addressing this question in a landmark exhibition launching in January 2016. Entitled Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), the show will bring together over 100 multimedia artworks from the past 50 years. Over 70 artists will be involved, including Nam June Paik, Cory Arcangel, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Hito Steyerl, Jeremy Bailey, Amalia Ulman, Douglas Coupland and Judith Barry.

The show is clearly a major coup for its curator, Omar Kholeif, whose rise in the artworld has garnered comparisons with Hans Ulrich Obrist. It’s an ambitious survey that is much needed in a genre still struggling for institutional validation. So, it’s concerning that a majority of the internet art represented in the show will come via the archives of new media non-profit, Rhizome. While Rhizome has substantially impacted collecting and preserving digital art works, they still only represent the perspective of one organization.

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Tuesday Links: Alphabetization™

by Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch Rea McNamara on August 11, 2015

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How to be a DIY cyborg, from 2013. [Slate]
Gagosian Gallery is now representing the estate of Nam June Paik. The representation was initiated by its Hong Kong gallery staff, and will coincide with a fall exhibition there focusing on his later works. The move is obviously a huge blow to James Cohan Gallery, who originally represented the video art pioneer. [Art Newspaper]
On the Alphabetization of Google from a venture capitalist: “The way I see it, Google is the cash cow that finances all the big bets Larry and Sergey are making inside Alphabet…For $445bn, you get $70bn of cash, Google, which does $70bn of revenue and produces $20bn of operating cash flow (probably more now that is it not going to burdened by all of these other investments), and all of these big bets, including Google Ventures and Google Capital, which are about the biggest investors in the VC sector right now.” [AVC]
A newly-released security camera tape might hold clues to the case of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, the largest art theft in American history. In 1990, a security guard let men dressed as police officers into the museum, who then bound him and his colleague in duct tape and made off with $500 million in paintings by the likes of Vermeer and Rembrandt. Sadly, many of artworks were cut from their frames during the heist—damaging them irreparably. [Live Science]
How on earth can you publish a discussion on why typing “haha” is for the olds and “hehehe” and “heh” are for the youngs, and without mention of the biggest “heh”-types of all, Beavis and Butthead? [The New Yorker]
For those rueful about start-up culture’s legacy of inflated fake job-titles, this etymological history of the term “rock star” reveals how the downward spiral began with boomer rock stars becoming corporate shills on the 1980s comeback concert circuit and then ended with the 28K-earning social-media rock star. [New York Times Magazine]
Amy Goodman interviewed Anne Pasternak and Nato Thompson, chief curator of Creative Time, about the organization’s democracy-centric summit at the Venice Biennale. [Democracy Now!]
There’s been a surge of censorship in the UK. Art exhibitions and theatrical productions that could strain ethnic tensions have been repeatedly cancelled or relocated due to police concerns that they could incite violence. [The Guardian]
Kanye West’s new adidas sneaker won’t be released until August 22, but here’s a list of all the shops in the entire human world that carry it. It also looks like a goth grandma knitted a shoe off a plumbing pipe. [HUH.]
New trend on YouTube: creating frames for the TV show you uploaded. Here’s Garfield and Friends, as seen within a Garfield-theme frame. [YouTube]
Venice Biennale 2015 Artist Trading Cards. Collect them all! [Biennial Project]
Melissa Chiu, the director of the Smithsonian’s Hirschhorn Museum, has come under fire for igniting a seemingly one-sided N.Y./D.C. rivalry. Offenses include appointing New York-based Gianni Jetzer as the museum’s curator at large and throwing the museum’s 40th anniversary party in Manhattan, instead of the District. [Washington City Paper]
Still need a vacay, people with money to spare? New York nonprofit Art in General is accepting slots for a $2,500 tour of Detroit in October. Price includes hotel, meals, but no airfare. [Art in General]

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SLIDESHOW: Inside the New Whitney

by Paddy Johnson on April 23, 2015

You gotta see this.

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Real Life Versus Instagram Life at the Armory Week Fairs

by Greg Allen on March 6, 2015

Greg Allen looks at the Armory week fairs through the lens of Instagram.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Please Fund The Penis Wall

by Whitney Kimball on February 9, 2015

Let’s toast Valentine’s week with an evening of penile discourse. Also: significant political art from Russia; shows inspired by fury; and a discussion on Latinos in the media.

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Eat Turkey, See Art

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on November 24, 2014

With family-friendly events like movies and a NSFW (and NSFF) events with butt coins.

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