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by Art Fag City on November 21, 2013
- Photographer Mary Ellen Mark and her husband director Martin Bell are crowdfunding a follow-up to their 1983 project Streetwise, which documented the lives of eight teenagers who lived on the streets of Seattle. Bell’s original film was nominated for an Oscar, and Mark’s photos were published in a monograph by Aperture. [Kickstarter]
- Ryan McGinley profiled in the New York Times , focusing largely on his role mentoring younger artists. The piece ends “I’m learning just as much hanging out with Petra [Collins] as she is hanging out with me.” [The New York Times]
- Mathilde Aguis and Reto Schmid’s new show “Daze Daze” available online for those of us not in Zürich. [Novembre]
- The New Yorker on Alain de Botton’s new book, Art as Therapy. The book advocates for museum curators thinking more like therapists, organizing galleries around “human-scale themes, like marriage, aging, and work.” The website for the book includes a tool for finding a work of art that might improve your day. [The New Yorker]
- Martha Stewart has been tweeting some truly gross looking food. Buzzfeed picked up on this, and Stewart responded via twitter with an image of some grey pasta and the comment “Now if any one thinks this is a bad photo you are ridiculous.” It is a bad photo. Anthony Bourdain hashtagged it #deadpastababy and #stopmebeforeikillagain. Very entertaining. [@petewells]
- Last night’s Youtube spelunking introduced this Canadian to Schoolhouse Rock. Some favorites: Figure Eight and the classic, I’m Just a Bill. This came out of the revelation that this kids video on Pi is an imitation of 70’s public access television. [Youtube]
- Occupy has purchased $15 million worth of American medical debt. Incredible. [The Guardian]
- Cole Books has sold the site that is home The World’s Biggest Bookstore to a Toronto developer. The store, (which is not actually the world’s biggest bookstore, but large none the less) will close this February. [The Toronto Star]
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by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Matthew Leifheit on October 10, 2013
- A mobster’s art collection goes on view at a museum in Southern Italy. On display are “18 fakes.” The exhibition’s curator describes the criminal-collector as “a not particularly refined auction-goer.” [Frieze]
- You’re not having a bad day—Scot Haney, the weatherman for CBS’s Hartford, is. He ate cat vomit on broadcast TV. [New York Magazine]
- 20-year-old “artist” Petra Collins has designed a t-shirt for American Apparel with a girl touching her bushy vagina. While menstruating no less. [VICE, of course]
- Tattooed Librarians of the Ocean State 2014 calendar now available for pre-order! [Rhode Island Library Association]
- Boston NPR interviews MFA curator Kristen Gresh on her show “She Who Tells a Story,” which features work by 12 women photographers from Iran and the Arab world. [WBUR]
- Hrag Vartanian talks to the organizers of the Phillips digital auction Paddles ON!, which takes place tonight at 8:30 pm. [Hyperallergic]
- Damien Hirst displays perhaps his fugliest sculptures of all time in perhaps the one part of the world that’s not sick of him yet—Qatar. Ah, but these 14 bronze sculptures display science in motion: christened “The Miraculous Journey,” they each show a stage of human development, from fetus to birth. [The New York Times]
- Art funds pool money from investors to purchase works, and industry is deteriorating. “Of the 36 funds that Noah Horowitz, now the director of the Armory Show art fair, lists in the appendix to his 2011 book Art of the Deal,” writes Melanie Gerlis for The Art Newspaper. “Ten had been abandoned by the time it was published and a further seven have since joined them.” [The Art Newspaper]
- German print magazine Du devotes its October issue entirely to Maurizio Cattelan—the cover is particularly tasteless. [Du]
- Alice Munro, an 82-year-old Canadian novelist, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Her daughter called her this morning when she heard and informed her of the good news.) We’re thrilled, as she’s a favorite here at AFC! [The New York Times]
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