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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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Red: Communist Christmas Cards

by Corinna Kirsch on December 18, 2013

One real, one fake.

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Thursday Links: Picasso Raffle, Cronut Madness, More President Painting

by The AFC Staff on December 5, 2013

Yesterday the Miami art fairs brought us a range of celebrity-filled events we did not attend. From Hans Ulrich-Obrist in conversation with Kanye West about art and design—“What did I paint when I was in school? Music.”—to Lady Gaga’s dinner gala, Kanye West performing with Vanessa Beecroft, and the opening of the Perez Art Museum, we cried for the 41 whales remain beached in the Everglades. [Miami Herald]
Hunting down celebrity events are easy with this massive guide from the Miami Herald. [Miami Herald]
Bill Clinton presidential doodles have been leaked by Guccifer, the same person who hacked George Bush’s paintings (and a lot of other high-security breaches, etc). With a little practice, these stationary drawings could be ready for The New Yorker. [Gawker]
Millionaire art dealer Charles Saatchi was not in fact checking wife Nigella Lawson’s nose for cocaine when he was gripping her throat in public. [HuffPo]
You probably can’t get to the top without stabbing everybody in the back– is what we conclude from this Gallerist exposé by the London art dealer Kenny Schachter. He details what happened when his beloved in-law died and entrusted him with an art collection, and the vulture-dealers who have been scheming ever since. “[T]hese people are not an easy lot to keep at bay,” he writes, “especially when the wolves (competitors and shareholders) are huffing and puffing and trying blow their house down.”[Gallerist]
“To make matters worse,” he writes, “I wrote this on BA Flight 207 non-stop London to Miami for Miami Basel, surrounded on all sides by some of the protagonists. At one point I had to obscure my computer screen.” Oh my god. [Gallerist]
The blue chip world isn’t all that bad. Now one lucky raffle participant will win a $1 million Picasso for the raffle ticket price of $100. The December It’s a fundraiser to rebuild the city of Tyre, Lebanon, after it’s been devastated by Lebanon Civil War. [Hyperallergic, 1picasso100euros.com]
RISD President John Maeda quits to go corporate. [TechCrunch]
New issue of Cura includes a poem by Paul Legault called “Mary Desti’s Ass” [Cura]
If you’d like to see something grisly this morning, check out Emanuele Satolli ‘s photos from inside a “krokadil” cookhouse in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The flesh-eating drug is easy to make and has effects like heroin, but it turns your skin dark and scaly like a crocadile’s. [TIME]
Is this a joke? The New Museum has announced that it now sells CRONUTS. [Facebook]

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Thursday Links: Bankruptcy and Philanthropy Edition

by The AFC Staff on October 3, 2013

Image via The New York Times

New York City has just given the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum $5 million towards its $79 million renovation. [ArtsBeat]
Former Executive Director of Rhizome and New Museum triennial co-curator Lauren Cornell interviews Laura Poitras, the filmmaker behind The Guardian interview in which Edward Snowden revealed himself to the public. Poitras, who was described as the “Keyser Soze of the [Snowden] story” by The New York Times earlier this year, expresses her commitment to fighting against the “Orwellian nightmare” of government surveillance. She also uses the interview to speak about storytelling and the artistic choice to put Snowden behind the camera. Poitiers is currently making a documentary about government surveillance in America which will serve as the finale in a trilogy of films about the post-9/11 world. [Mousse Magazine]
The Silk Road, a website operated via Bitcoin exchange and subject of various artworks, has been shut down by the FBI. Approximately $3.6 million in Bitcoin currency was seized in conjunction with the shutdown. [The Washington Post]
Today’s must-read: Randy Kennedy’s report on Detroit, and the looming possibility of the sale of DIA’s art collection. Kennedy gives readers a very clear sense of the damage that would be done to the institution should the City attempt to do this; basically, it would be destroyed. [The New York Times]
Chicago art dealer Alan Kass was convicted of fraud. Due to health issues, he was sentenced to six months in prison, followed by six months home confinement, in addition to paying $350,000 in restitution to the gallery’s former clients. [The Art Market Monitor]
Cities unfriendly to artists based on soaring housing prices: Washington, San Diego and Los Angeles. The chart also maps cities where housing costs have declined. Looks like Chicago is a winner here, behind the obvious city, Detroit. [The Washington Post]
Sometimes art and horses don’t mix. Teenage girl buys horse named Señor Pablo Picasso. Finding that a dopey name, she fields suggestions for new names on a message board. Once “Guernica” gets tabled, the infighting begins. [The Chronicle of the Horse]
319 Scholes opens up a co-working space with desk space, meeting rooms, and an in-person fabrication studio. [Deskmag]
You’ve got a month to enter the 2013 Conscientious portfolio competition. Aimed at emerging photographers, it’s free to submit, and all you have to do is send a link to your website and tell them what pictures to consider. Deadline is Halloween. [Conscientious]
On Wednesday, Sotheby’s largest shareholder Dan Loeb, fired off a letter to the auction house accusing CEO William Ruprecht of failing to offer up “enough modern masterpieces to woo potential bidders and compete with rival Christie’s International.” That same day, Sotheby’s announced the upcoming sale of two major modern works by Picasso and Giacometti, worth a combined $80 million. [The Wall Street Journal]

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Tuesday Links: The Rent Is Still Too Damn High

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on July 23, 2013

ANIMALNY's Halloween-themed Jimmy McMillan paper dolls

The Picasso thief’s mom Olga Dogaru is now claiming that she did not bake seven paintings by Picasso, Monet, and Matisse in the oven in a panic. [The New York Times]
Glafira Rosales, the dealer from Long Island who sold all those alleged fakes to Knoedler & Company pleaded not guilty to seven counts of wire fraud, money laundering, filing false tax returns and failing to report foreign bank accounts. [The New York Times]
Richard Prince speaks in code. Yesterday over Twitter, the artist identified a new type of photography he calls photomil. Apparently that’s also the domain name, which is owned by some dude in Germany. [Twitter]
Nation’s Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization. [The Onion]
BAM’s Visual Art Curator Dave Harper will leave for Paddle8 where he will become the director of special projects and client development. [AFC Inbox]
French magnate François Pinault’s art collection goes on view to the public for the first time, in the Paris prison where Marie Antoinette was held. He has one of the largest contemporary art collections in the world. [Global Times]
Vladimir Putin has just signed a law allowing Russia to arrest foreigners and tourists whom they suspect are gay or gay sympathizers, and detain them up to two weeks. [The New York Times] Buzzfeed has a very scary listicle. [Buzzfeed] Klaus Biesenbach suggests boycotting the 2014 Winter Olympics. [twitter]
Jimmy McMillan, aka “Rent Is Too Damn High” party leader, has hit the campaign trail for NYC mayor- and he needs signatures! As of this writing, he’s still a few thousand short of the 7,500 quota. [Village Voice] You can sign by downloading the petition on his website, and then email that to Jimmy. [Jimmy McMillan]
Some complicated invisible narratives for a bunch of monochromes. Greg Allen investigates. [Greg.org]

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Nina Katchadourian’s Book-Spine Poetry

by Leighann Morris on August 1, 2012

Artist Nina Katchadourian has mastered the art of Book-Spine Poetry. A relatively simple exercise, it works like this: take a titled book, place another titled book underneath it, and continue to do so until you make a verse that can be read from top to bottom. The result is a series of art dork in-jokes, subtle social commentaries, and witty one-liners.

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The Freshest Internets: Deutsche Bank and the Guggenheim Split, but Jay-Z still loves Gagosian

by Corinna Kirsch on February 7, 2012

Jay-Z played Carnegie Hall last night and while on stage, he gave a three-artist salute to his art dealer, Larry Gagosian. Aw, luv! [Twitter]
GIFs have started to trend in style photography; even fashion lines like Agent Provacateur are using GIFs on their websites. [Vice Style]
Deutsche Bank almost entirely funds Deutsche Guggenheim, the museum’s Berlin outpost, but now Deutsche Bank is ending its partnership. What will happen to the museum? Well, Deutsche Bank wants to turn the museum into “a place for political and corporate conferences.” [Art Observed]
Art isn’t like laundry detergent, but it is like a cell phone. Star Wars Modern writes a smart essay about the spectrum of commodification in art and how art is “a black swan out at the far edge of the consumer economy’s left field.” [Star Wars Modern]
Hooray! Hennessy Youngman uploaded a new video. His last one memed pretty well; he coined a nickname for Hirst – sharkface – that caused a little internet sensation. This vid’s theme? Performance. [You Tube]
These “pawcasso kittens” are skilled at fundraising, proving you don’t need a MA in Arts Administration to make money for a non-profit. [Daily Mail]
The NEH is doing something right: they granted Wesleyan University money for a curator! [The Wesleyan Argus]
In yet another step toward total art world domination, Ai Weiwei will design another building for the Olympics. [ArchDaily]

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Monday Links: Beer Buys Friends and Butts Are Back

by Art Fag City on January 16, 2012

It's amazing what buying people over $100,000 worth of beer will do to an artist's career. Cyprien Gaillard, who won the Nationalgalerie's â‚¬50,000 prize back in September, has now won the People's Choice award for the same exhibition. [Artinfo]
We just found this YouTube video of Julian Schnabel giving advice and his words of wisdom seemto reflect the arc of this artist’s career. Sample advice: “If you win, you win, and if you lose, you win.”
SOPA's dead; it's not dead. Facing a presidential veto, the bill may be over, but this isn't stopping fears over PIPA. No word yet about how this will affect the Emergency NY Tech Meetup this Wednesday, January 18th. We’re planning on attending. [BoingBoing]
Everyone’s thinking about big butts. [Gawker]
Damien Hirst is now a lifestyle brand. At least, the Gagosian shop is betting on it. You can now buy official dot-inspired keychains, cufflinks, tea towels, and wall clocks. [Gagosian]
Picasso was trumped as 2011's top-earner at auction by a Chinese artist you've probably never heard of before. [The Huffington Post]

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Jim Carrey | TruLife – Picassooooo Out of my League

by Paddy Johnson on September 15, 2011

Jim Carrey | TruLife – Picassooooo Out of my League – Smart phones are really broadening the range of fodder Hollywood stars can produce for art news hounds.

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