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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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NEW INC Executive Director Julia Kaganskiy Predicts More NEW INC

by Rea McNamara on May 3, 2016

We’ve been following NEW INC since it’s founding in 2014. An arm of the New Museum design to offer professional development opportunities to creatives in all fields, NEW INC offers a much-needed support model. Now, two years in and newly accepted applications for its September 2016-2017 term, how’s the non-profit doing?

“One thing that has been unique about NEW INC and incredibly important to our mission is that it’s not a one-size-fits-all community or approach to the idea of entrepreneurship,” says Julia Kaganskiy, NEW INC’s director, in an email interview with AFC. “We believe that even an individual artist or designer in the program is an entrepreneur — a business of one.”

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Roleplay Edition

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on March 28, 2016

Spring is in the New York air, and with it, a sense of fantastical possibility. Tuesday, head to BRIC to hear from powerful women in the music industry who overcame the glass ceiling to live the dream. Wednesday, Simone Subal Gallery has a show of reality-warping paintings and Thursday the New Museum is hosting a panel discussion with artists who try to do it all. Friday night, Nic Rad’s solo show at Victori + Mo imagines an art-historical alter ego to combat zombie formalism with Ab-Ex passion and millennial pop references. At Bannerette, Ash Ferlito and Clare Torina explore the potentials of oil and other media in a playful two person show. End the night drinking maybe-imaginary beer at Brooklyn’s ALL WHITE MALE ART SHOW (don’t worry, that name’s just a fantasy too).

But the weekend is where things get really surreal: Saturday is an all-day virtual reality team hackathon that invites visitors to construct their own immersive dreamscapes using a high-tech installation at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Sunday, Cao Fei gets her first museum show in the US at MoMA PS1. Expect photos of live-action-roleplaying Chinese anime fans (abvove) and narratives from her Second Life avatar.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Talking GIFs, Kissing Painting, Watching Dogs

by Michael Anthony Farley on February 16, 2016

What a week for New York City! From the small gestures aimed at pedestrians, like project space FOUR A.M. in the Lower East Side, to the triumphant return of Jack Early to Chelsea on Thursday night, we’ve got you covered on weeknights. Our very own Paddy Johnson will be speaking at NYU on Friday all about our favorite medium: GIFs. Be sure to pre-register for the event, which has a reception where you can say hi! Then, head to Bushwick for a night of group and two-person shows at neighboring artist-run spaces Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Transmitter, and Underdonk. Saturday, check out perpetual AFC fav Alex Ebstein’s yoga mat paintings at Ridgewood’s lorimoto. But Sunday might be the day that goes down as one of the weirdest and most fun in the city’s art history: Greater New York artist Hayley Aviva Silverman is mashing-up 1990s disaster cinema with 1830s literature for a theatrical production starring dogs. Let that singular experience marinate on your 35 minute M train ride to Chinatown Soup, where Joyce Yu-Jean Lee’s pop-up cybercafe promises to give us a glimpse of what the internet looks like in China (hint: very different) plus snacks!

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Wednesday Links: Art That Kills

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 20, 2016

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We’re currently in the midst of Europe’s pagan ritual season, which means we’ve been gifted with photos of glorious commedia dell’arte-meets-Dίa de los Muertos costumes of people dressing up as devils or boars to honour the earth goddess or improve the crop yield. [Dangerous Minds]

Here’s an exhaustive survey of museum collections with some pretty depressing figures. It’s no surprise that the vast majority of artwork is never displayed, but it’s insane to think how much work by important or beloved artists has been hoarded into vaults, gathering dust. This chart, for example, tracks the holdings of 20 museums in 7 countries, focusing on the work of 13 major artists and it’s shocking to see how many crowd-pleasing names have been relegated to archival benchwarmer status. [Quartz]

Yikes: a recent survey by the UK’s Museums Association has found that one in five museums (roughly 18%) have had to either close a branch or reduce their exhibition space in the past year or be forced to in 2016. Given the sustained deep cuts British institutions have faced, this comes as no surprise; the survey reveals surprisingly that despite the cuts, museums have seen a 61% increase in visitors over the past years. [Artforum]

“[The Internet] encourages people to collapse any distinction between their work life, their social life, and their political life. ‘Hey, that person who tweets about the TV shows I like also dislikes injustice,’ which over time becomes ‘I can identify an ally by the TV shows they like.’ The fact that you can mine a Rihanna video for political content becomes, in that vague internety way, the sense that people who don’t see political content in Rihanna’s music aren’t on your side.” An essay on the ways the internet molds our politics. I agree with about 60% of the author’s thinking. [Medium]

In anticipation of Takashi Murakami’s personal art collection being shown at the Yokohama Museum of Art, comes the expected preview coverage to pique your curiosities (if you have any): he collects a lot of traditional Edo period Japanese art, antique store finds (old beer mugs was mentioned) and fellow blue chip artists like Anselm Kiefer, Maurizio Cattelan and Yoshitomo Nara. Oh, and if you’re wondering who snapped up Frank Benson’s 3D printed sculpture of Juliana Huxtable from last year’s New Museum Triennial — it was your boy Superflat. [Hyperallergic]

Yesterday a truck carrying work by Matisse, Chagall, Miro, Haring and Neiman was stolen from an industrial park in suburban LA. There aren’t many details about the case yet, but this looks like it will be a juicy story. [Los Angeles Times]

Photographer Leila Alaoui has died from injuries she sustained in the recent Burkina Faso Siege. At the time, Alaoui was on assignment for Amnesty International for a photo series exploring women’s rights. She also just recently had a solo show at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. [PetaPixel]

You’ve built up a sizable vinyl collection, and you get your new music fix from independently release cassette tapes. Well, guess what, discerning music fan? It’s not enough, because an Austrian audiophile company is attempted to resurrect another obsolete player: the reel-to-reel deck. [FACT]

Sketchy: Josh Baer reports in his weekly mailer that a collector purchased an Ed Ruscha print for 18,150 GDP at LiveAuctioneers from Duchovnys Art. He paid for the piece immediately and has still not received it. These are the names of the dealers he worked with: Sean Duchovny (duchovnysart@gmail.com); Sean Rudy (comeseegallery@gmail.com); Gio (youlovepopart@gmail.com); Christopher D. Morris. Don’t do business with them. [The Baer Faxt]

The US Government is putting 4 billion into self driving cars. They believe these cars will make the roads safer and will help the country transition as its population increases and more of its residents move to cities. [Dezeen]

The Met is planning an 180,000 sq foot expansion project to accommodate it’s modern and contemporary collections, which will be displayed at the former Whitney location on the UES in the interim. How many moms of Central Park are going to rally against this one? [New York Post]

OMG today’s cover of the Daily News. [Mother Jones]

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The Best 25 Shows of 2015

by The AFC Staff on December 31, 2015

2015 was great for art. For all the bitching that went on about art fairs, the dominance of the market, and sub-par museum shows (cough, cough Björk), I saw more great shows than I have in my ten years working as a critic in New York. Rather than try to whittle our picks down to a few select shows, we wrote up every show we thought was truly exemplary.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Spooooky Edition

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 26, 2015

Halloween is here! The art world’s favorite holiday. If you aren’t busy working on a last minute costume, head to American Medium Tuesday night to see AFC’s friend Brenna Murphy and pick up her new book, Domain~Lattice. Wednesday night, go to the New Museum’s insanely fun Halloween party. Then on Thursday, head to Bortolami, where Tom Burr’s installations and photographs serve as a haunted house channeling the ghosts of Chelsea’s gayer, sleazier past. But really, the scariest thing in New York City this week is the NSFW flyer for Nolan Hendrickson’s Halloween, uh, opening at Ramiken Crucible.

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Superstar Pee

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 5, 2015

Plan to spend at least part of your time at major exhibition openings in New York this week. This Wednesday the New Museum opens their Jim Shaw exhibition, an artist who has been referred to as the posterboy for “junk shop sublime”. (He incorporates a lot of second hand work into his sculptures and installations.) Come Sunday the quinquennial survey show everyone loves to hate—Greater New York—opens at MoMA PS1. No artist list has been released, but we’re sure this show will be better than the last if for no other reason than the bar was set so low. Critic Christian Viveros-Faune, when complaining of the pains the 2010 show took to be politically correct hilariously concluded, “No matter—black Jesus floating down from on high with a strap-on would not improve this disaster of an assembly one iota.” We’re hoping an artist has made that work for this exhibition.

The rest of the week’s events include a talk by artist, writer, lawyer and teacher Sergio Munoz Sarmiento which will focus on property through the lens of the law and art and Taner Ceylan’s opening of hyper-realistic borderline gay porn paintings. The most promising opening, though, is a solo show of work by Brigid Berlin, a Warhol Superstar who once boasted about a daily routine that involved throwing her coat off on the floor, dropping her pants and pissing. Can’t wait to see what’s in that show!

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Bask in the Obscure

by Michael Anthony Farley on August 31, 2015

Skip the blockbuster museum shows and blue chip galleries; what makes New York so great is access to the under-exposed. Tonight, hear a lecture at Asia Art Archive in America about the little-known influence of Seattle modernists on the career of art star Yayoi Kusama. Tuesday, go check out poetry and art at Outlet—part of an exhibition I’m convinced is on the cutting edge of a sea change regarding artists’ relationship with place. Wednesday, traverse a secret garden for a chance to see a performance by Otion Front Studio artist in residence La Martelle, which will be performed for just two groups of twelve people at a time. Thursday, go play a quick game of basketball with the New Art Dealers Association. Then, head to Rhizome for a lecture about the emerging ontology of digital painting or hop on the F train to check out off-the-beaten-path art spaces in DUMBO’s First Thursday Gallery Walk. Friday night, head to Tender Trap in Greenpoint, where bi-coastal gallery Superchief is throwing a pop-up exhibition of Penelope Gazin’s trippy horror-pop illustrations. And Saturday, load up on affordable multiples and zines from DIY presses from across the East Coast at The Silent Barn. Some of the most talented young artists aren’t Instagram celebrities, they’re distributing their work with Xerox machines and silk screens.

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