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Prospect.3 at the New Orleans Museum of Art

by Corinna Kirsch on November 4, 2014

A lot to say about Prospect at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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Prospect.3, Notes for Now: The Lesser Biennial

by Paddy Johnson on October 31, 2014

Does Prospect.3 live up to its predecessor? No.

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Looking Back at Prospect: Prospect 1 New Orleans, the Antidote to Miami

by Paddy Johnson on October 23, 2014

Right now, Art F City is in New Orleans to see Prospect.3. Before we begin to contemplate this biennial, we thought it’d be timely to look back at Paddy’s report from the first Prospect, held in 2008.

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Wednesday Links: Trouble in Canada!

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 22, 2014

Gianna Commito’s, “Brig” on Paddle8. Starting bid: $1,750.00

The countdown is on! You’ve got until Thursday, 6 pm to place your bids in our paddle8 auction. Do not miss this. [Paddle8]
There’s no stopping the “amenities” coming to the Lower East Side’s waterfront. Nancy Ortiz, the Resident Associate President of the public housing project Vladek Houses– which happen to be on the Lower East Side waterfront– spoke up last night about the fancy new revamps to Pier42. “[W]e are a community tired of being ignored … [kayaks] don’t fit into the demographic of our community”, she said. [Curbed]
A London power list of powerful people in the arts. No big surprises here. Of the handful of visual arts entries, there’s Amanda Sharp, Sarah Lucas, and Ben Vickers, digital curator at Serpentine. Basically, artists should win a Turner Prize and professionals should work at the Tate or Serpentine. (Writers, bloggers, and alt spaces, forget it.) Our suspicions about circular glasses stand the test of time.[The London Evening Standard, via artnet News]
Trouble in Canada: Parliment Hill’s Centre Block is in lockdown after shots were fired in the building and a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial was shot. [The Globe and Mail]
The Albright Knox is expanding. [The Art Newspaper]
Sotheby’s is creating a new category to handle sales of 20th century art. The hope is to boost sales in the under developed market of modernist works from countries across Europe and around the Mediterranean. These works are by artists who have a strong regional following but are not yet part of the international mainstream. [The Art Market Monitor]
A good reason to head to Philadelphia (aside from this) is a retrospective reviving the century-long career of a female Jewish Ashcan School painter Theresa Bernstein. According to theartblog, curator Gail Levin posits that she was unfairly left out of history for her gender and religion. Maybe. [The artblog]
Another article questioning whether biennials can rejuvenate economies. This one is about New Orleans. [The Art Newspaper]
Has been circulating around the Internets for a few days: King Tut had several congenital deformities which may have led to his early death. More evidence has emerged that his parents were siblings. [Tabloidy images at the Daily Mail; Research from the BBC documentary]

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Monday Links: Does Doing Drugs Affect Artistic Quality?

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on October 20, 2014

Scene from Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s Bananazz comic strip

This weekend, Twitter raged over an investigative article that wondered why a documentary film on Jeff Koons wasn’t included in the artist’s Whitney retrospective. It wasn’t even included in the gift shop! Let’s face it: this is a non-issue. Museums do not usually include documentaries as part of their visual arts programming. [The Art Newspaper]
Rhizome is in London. Even if you’re not there to attend their off-site programs, the lectures are online. Some lectures have been transcribed for your reading pleasure! Whee! I’m listening to the selfie panel with Amalia Ulman this morning. —Corinna [Rhizome]
Stop venting on Facebook; go to e-flux. This week the non-profit launched “e-flux conversations,” a moderated message board addressing topical issues. So far the best discussion has been Karen Archey on “top female curator” lists. [e-flux]
We might never know what killed Joan Rivers because her daughter has refused an autopsy. Now get back to work. [Gawker]
Solange is throwing an art party during Prospect.3. Bey’s little sis recently relocated to New Orleans. [NOLA]
Album sales are plummeting. Duh. [Death and Taxes]
Painter Wolfgang Hutter died on September 26th. We’re just finding this out now, says artnet News, because he didn’t want the news to be publicized. Maybe he’d read articles like this one. (Also wow these are cool.)
According to the National Report, Graffiti artist Banksy has been arrested in London, revealing the artist’s allusive identity. He is 35-year-old Paul Horner. Several news sites subsequently reported that that story is bogus, and National Report is a site made up of entirely fake news. [Glasstire]
Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s latest “Bananazz” strip is pretty good. An enormous gap between this and what’s typically on Hyperallergic. [the artblog]
What a really weird interview with Gerhard Richter. Questions include: How does doing drugs affect artistic quality? When did organized religion crumble and why do humans need art as a replacement? Are you depressed that artists now—even you, whom many consider to be the greatest living painter—can’t paint like Titian? [The Wall Street Journal]

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BURNAWAY and Pelican Bomb Critic-in-Residence Program Seeks Critics

by Paddy Johnson and Matthew Leifheit on June 6, 2014

Apply for the BURNAWAY-Pelican Bomb critic-in-residence program.

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STUFF: Dana Sherwood

by Dana Sherwood on August 2, 2013

Are you having trouble understanding artists through their art? Understand them through their STUFF instead. Dana Sherwood discusses some of her favorite possessions and companions.

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