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Friday Links: Extreme Nerd Alert

by Paddy Johnson on September 19, 2014

Photograph: Michael Jang

“If there was ever an academic space that combined a Woodstock party sensibility with the clever pragmatism of an indelible business magnate, it was the California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s.” But how can we learn more about this time? Portrait photographer Michael Jang has one answer. He’s been releasing the photos he took as a student during that time on Instagram. So cool. [Nerve, Instagram]
Summer sure was short lived. We’re already back to talking about record breaking auctions. This week, 26 artists in the Phillips’ “Under the Influence” broke auction records. [Artnews]
The most feminist moments in sci-fi history. [The Cut]
The Getty Foundation has announced the first awardees of their Keeping it Modern program, which provides support to conserve modernist architecture. [Hyperallergic]
Jackson Pollock’s former home in the West Village is available for purchase at a mere $1.25 million. [Artnet]
The Times has released their Fall Art Preview in the form of a new interactive feature. A few ridiculous art pick in here—the mind numbing exhibition David Bowie Is, for example at the MCA but overall it gives one a good sense of what’s going on across the country. [The New York Times]
Looking at novelty cameras and fun back in 2000, Steven Stern writes, “Even though most of these cameras are analogue, low-tech devices, the model here would seem to be the Internet – these pictures are not exhibited so much as posted. They don’t end up in a photo album, on a shelf, or in a frame in a gallery, but in some real-life equivalent of virtual space. Like the personal website, the wall of Lomographs and the teenager’s bedroom filled with i-Zone stickers function as open records of the everyday, celebrations of the unexceptional. Not the special ‘Kodak moments’ of conventional photography, but non-events made visible. Disappointing perhaps, but fun.” [Frieze]
Net Art Pizza precedents (extreme nerd alert). [Rhizome Today and Tom Moody]
‘nuf said.

Four words to strike fear into the heart of man pic.twitter.com/7dKqo42ksJ

— Ben Street (@thebenstreet) September 19, 2014

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Interest on the Rise for Paddles ON! Digital Auction

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on June 26, 2014

Looks like Paddles ON! London, is on its way to replicating the strides made during last year’s much-discussed net-art auction, the first at a major auction house. Last fall, the auction held in New York at Phillips totalled $90,600 on the sale of 16 pieces out of 20 lots. People widely lauded the auction as a success—a GIF sold for $1,300 and the excitement from the live auction crowd was palpable—but financially, the case for Paddles ON! achievements aren’t clear cut. Nine of the works sold for less than their estimated bids, and four of those were bought in by the auction house.

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Tuesday Links: Power Mommies and a Garbage Nightmare

by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 11, 2014

Image courtesy Tara Moore.

Lean In has a solution to combat awful stock photos of women. With the help of the Getty, they’re releasing “empowering,” stereotype-defying stock photos. Tattooed mom holding her toddler? Check. Silver vixens? Check that box, too. [The Cut]
Here is some lovely and rare footage of the old Penn Station to really drive home how much of a garbage nightmare the current Penn Station is. [Gothamist]
Yuck. Plans have been hatched for another mega-museum, this time for a display of Central America’s Mayan artifacts. Nothing screams Mayan culture like an oppressive cement storage space. [Hyperallergic]
60 artworks have been removed from the Saltzburg home of the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, whose collection of 1,280 works includes Picassos, Renoirs, and Monets. [The New York Times]
At Monday’s Phillips contemporary sale in London, seven out of 32 lots failed to sell with a buy-in rate of 22 percent. The night’s top sales came from a predictable gang of “you know who’s” like Yayoi Kusama, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, and Christopher Wool. Also doing well: Nate Lowman. Yawnnn. [ArtInfo]
Klaus e_books releases Ann Hirsch’s “Twelve” on iPad after the app’s removal from the iTunes store. [Klausgallery.net]
After a flood of empowering stories about selfies, finally we get one that’s truly a neg. The Atlantic spotlights the “selfie with homeless people” meme. [The Atlantic]
Shirley Temple has died. [Vulture]

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A Week of Record Breaking Auctions in Perspective

by Paddy Johnson on November 14, 2013

The contemporary auctions are breaking records again. Maybe it’s time to revisit Sarah Thornton’s reasons not to write about the art market.

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Tuesday Links: People Are Buying Contemporary Art at Auction This Week

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 12, 2013

David Hammons

Felix Salmon sees evidence that the art market is being run by the greater fool theory (there’s always someone dumber than you to purchase a work for more money). Steve Cohen is Salmon’s primary example here, since he’s unloading work he bought last year. Makes sense and all but Steve Cohen’s hedge fund, of which he owns 100 percent, also owes the government billions now that it’s pleaded guilty to insider trading. Could that not have something to do with the sales? [Felix Salmon]
Phillips de Pury’s contemporary auction ran last night, and according to Josh Baer, most of the big ticket items were bought by dealers, (who often bid on behalf of clients). Tonight’s sale totaled $68 million with 88% of lots sold. Baer thinks going first helped their sales. Zwirner grabbed the Hammons for $7,000,000 and Koons for $3,800,000 making him the dealer who purchased the most last night. [Baer Faxt]
@charlieburns seems to think Zwirner’s purchase of Hammons constitutes artist support. Let’s quash that misnomer now. Artists don’t see any money from the sale of their work when purchased on the secondary market. Also, Hammons isn’t exactly a struggling artist at this point. [@magdasawon]
Wikipedia does not yet have an entry for “art fair.” Go on, make one; you have three weeks before Miami Basel. [Wikipedia]
North Korea has put eighty people to death by firing squad for watching foreign films. [The Telegraph]
Richard Prince is having another angsty flare-up. It’s been a while since he’s typed up a shitstorm about bloggers, so this week he let loose on art magazines. He hates Art Forum. He really hates Artinfo: “(Just to let you know … I hope you fuck off and die and go out of business and leave the art world to me. Why me? Because I am the fucking art world).” [Artinfo, Bird Talk]
Weather report: It’s snowing in New York! [The Internet, your window]

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Thursday Links: You’re Not Having the Worst Day Ever

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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Tuesday Links: Promotions and Dress Codes

by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Gabriela Vainsencher on September 24, 2013

Dancing Baby from GIFSoup.com

Last week, the online auction site The Auction Room crashed during the last half hour of bidding during a sale of works from the Middle East; these works included several from Charles Saatchi’s private collection. The close of the auction was postponed for nearly a week, until today. [The Telegraph]
In an attempt to improve journalists’ productivity, Newsweek introduces a dress code. No t-shirts, jeans, or sandals allowed. [New York Magazine]
China will introduce a plot of land where you can access some of the Internet. [Quartz]
Peter Eleey got a promotion: he is now Curator and Associate Director at MoMa PS1. [Gallerist]
Giving new meaning to the phrase “Live with art,” companies and institutions are moving into museums in Madrid as part of a sponsorship program designed to solicit support for the arts. This recent turn has occurred thanks to a reduction in government spending on the arts in Spain. [The New York Times]
Elmgreen and Dragset’s Prada Marfa art installation has been deemed “an illegal roadside advertisement” by Texas state officials. No word yet on whether the art installation will need to be removed. [The Guardian]
A new way to buy a painting of money! bidding started yesterday for Conrad Bakker’s paintings depicting images of cowrie money shells auctioned on eBay. The paintings are priced according to the original asking price of the shells. [Tumblr via Cabinet Magazine]
Bad at Sports rounds up all the critical coverage of EXPO Chicago 2013. [Bad at Sports]
Tumblr and Phillips have changed the opening date of their digital auction, Paddles On, from September 23rd to October 1st. [Paddle8]
This is real: for $200 per family, the new DJ school for babies in Crown Heights will help your 0-3 year-old create “fun and funky samples”, and that’s not referring to diaper contents. Maybe they should partner with whoever taught this baby to shake it. [F’d In Park Slope and YouTube]

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