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by Paddy Johnson on March 4, 2013
- Tom Moody’s got a lot of great posts on his blog right now, including a sympathy letter to artists who made Hissbitch’s Five Worst Net Artists list, and some griping over the meet-up event titled, “Social Media, Art, and The Like Economy”. Moody points to Ryder Ripps’ “Zillion Hits vs The Darger Economy” as a better way to frame the discussion. He’s right, of course, though waiting til you’re dead for fame doesn’t leave much to talk about on a panel like this. That said, Marina Galperina expressed an interest in viral content driven by conflict, so perhaps this panel would have benefited from hosting at least one person who doesn’t give a shit about likes. [Tom Moody]
- Speaking of The Like Economy, this NYTimes Bits blog post about how Facebook may actually be suppressing likes you don’t pay for is frightening. [NYTimes]
- Carolina Miranda’s post on Richard Jackson will be made into a TV show if she can get enough votes. This is what journalism 2.0 looks like. (Vote for her). [kcet]
- Blast from the past: 8 months ago Edward Winkleman posted an excerpt from a newsletter by collector Alain Servais about what he calls “very bankable artists” VBA and the necessity for galleries to “grow or go”. Very prescient. [Edward Winkleman]
- Related, in that same post, a number of commentors speculate on the meaning of a tweet I sent out back in August that read, “Art could do without the art world”. To be clear, I was simply referring to the ridiculous apparatus that holds this economy together, which includes a world of bullshit press releases and art lingo, skeevy dealers and curators, and a press corps that eats all this nonsense up. We all have days where we can include ourselves on that list, but hopefully, not too many. [Edward Winkleman]
- Art critic and monochrome expert Thomas McEvilley has died. Jerry Saltz writes a beautiful obit. [Vulture]
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by Paddy Johnson on February 25, 2013
- What the hell is going on over at El Museo Del Barrio? The former Director, Margarita Aguilar, filed a claim with New York State human rights officials last week, citing gender discrimination. The Museum’s Board Chairman Tony Bechara and Board President Yaz Hernández have refused to comment. [NYTimes]
- It seems the Oscars were a disaster last night: The Onion calls a nine year old girl a cunt over twitter, and host Seth MacFarlane spent the night making sexist jokes. But Charlize Theron looked good, so I guess there’s that. [The Internet]
- Carolina Miranda wrote a longish feature on Richard Jackson’s survey show at The Orange County Museum. According to Miranda, Jackson has used a Ford Pinto as a painting tool, so that sculpture of a dog pissing over the museum some of you have seen bouncing around the web may be the tip of the iceberg. [kcet]
- A Queer History of Computing. [Rhizome]
- Oh God. Jen Graves has written a piece on the art of Charles Krafft, a holocaust denier. His work is in the collections of several museums. [The Stranger]
- Those Peter Williams paintings we liked so much at NADA have gotten him another show at Foxy. John Yau gives it the thumbs up. [Hyperallergic]
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