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Wednesday Links: Best Optical Illusions Ever, in 3D

by Whitney Kimball on December 3, 2014

Who sees dolphins?

“Every day is International AIDS Day.” [@AA_Bronson]
The SCUM Manifesto is available for download. [Ubu web via @AA_Bronson]
Who’s paying for Miami’s new museums? A good question, since millions of dollars are now coming from taxpayers. [The Art Newspaper]
In continuation of yesterday’s pitbull news, a weatherman who had steak treats in his suit gets lots of kisses from a pitbull in the middle of his segment. [Boing Boing]
Universities are punishing one percent of their rapists. As far as we know, “The Mattress Project” is still on. [Mother Jones]
Art history nerds, this is for you. In light of the controversies surrounding the Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar (slave labor, vaginal design, and plans to host the 2022 World Cup), Arch Daily rounds up a list of controversial buildings throughout history. [Arch Daily]
How to get an Art Basel VIP pass: make rich friends. Otherwise “if you have to ask for a VIP pass, you’re probably not going to get one”. You’re not getting one. [artnet News]
Here’s some good news, though: an Art Basel VIP pass gets you into the Margulies Collection, which will donate $10 per VIP. It’s not the all around cut of ticket sales that we wanted, but it’s a step. [artnet News]
Richard Prince is opening his Catskills retreat to the public, like Marfa. [Wall Street Journal]
Amazing nuts! This TED talk includes mind-melding video optical illusions. So cool. [TED]
YouTube had to raise its view counter limit to accommodate the 2.1 billion views of Gangnam Style. There are 7.1 billion people on the planet, suggesting that every person in the developed world has seen this video. [The Verge]
William Powhida tracks what artists can do to, hopefully, make money. It’s not that there isn’t enough money to go around. [Creative Time Reports]
Highlights from Jerry Saltz’s Facebook chat yesterday. He brings donuts to the office every day, and advises, “don’t hide your opinion in one word in the middle of the last paragraph”. Guilty. [Vulture]

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Monday Links: Who Wants to Buy a Bronze Fat Lady Sculpture?

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 17, 2014

Christian Jankowski, “The Holy Art Work”, 2002

Job alert! Manifesta has hired artist Christian Jankowski to take the helm of the next biennial, to be held in neutral zone: Switzerland. It is the first time the biennial has chosen an artist as its curator. [Manifesta Biennial]
Artist Audrey Wollen is one of the few artists who’s upset that Richard Prince has used her Instagram for his own purposes. She explains why, in discussion of her Sad Girl Theory. “What Prince is doing is colonising and profiting off a territory of the internet that was created by a community of young girls, who, needless to say, do not have the cultural space Prince has. Selecting specific bodies from a sea of images, amputating them from their context, and then naming yourself the owner of those bodies: that isn’t just boring art, that verges on predatory and violent behavior.” [i-D]
On why paying $45,000 for a male tech speaker is like purchasing Jasper Johns’s “False Start”—with some less well-known Guerrilla Girls graphics. [Medium]
A terrifying tale for journalists: How you can win a Pulitzer Prize and still fall into poverty. [The Hedgehog Review via @sarahw]
Science has brought us the wonderful gift of the sounds of fish! Listen to an oyster toadfish’s call or a lollipop darter’s call. [The New Yorker]
Even the Muffys and Athertons of the world would have a hard time believing this line about a Rothko: “Later that week Untitled, 1952 went under the hammer and sold for $66.2 million—a total steal, by my calculations.” [Town and Country]
Who wants to buy a “bronze fat woman sculpture”? Or maybe a gigantic Jesus sculpture? [Alibaba]
Cosima von Bonin has created a “vomiting Italian” sculpture that has so far escaped being posted as click bait. [frieze d/e]
Hrag Vartanian takes a deep look at Ryder Ripps’s “Art Whore” and the surrounding controversy. Consider this your must-read. [Hyperallergic]
Executive women, finding and owning their voice. [The New York Times]
Mass MoCA will fill 90,000 square feet with the work of major contemporary artists, like: James Turrell, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Laurie Anderson, and Jenny Holzer. [The New York Times]

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Ryder Ripps’s “ART WHORE” In the Running For Most Offensive Project of 2014

by Whitney Kimball on November 11, 2014

This has not been the art world’s finest season.

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Tuesday Links: IHNITA [I Have No Insight to Add]

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 21, 2014

Jayson Musson’s “Nasib”, one of the many works in our auction on Paddle8

I wish I had written this Internet Glossary. So good. The Toast adds some additional translations to common Internet slang: “You need to see” translates to “here is a video you’ll forget in two minutes”. “!”=”I have space for one character in this RT”. “FTW”=”I agree with this”. “THIS“=”I Have Nothing to Add”. [The Toast]
Paddy Johnson has filed another artnet News review. It is titled “Richard Prince Sucks.” Click through to find out what she thinks of Richard Prince. [artnet News]
A new study by the Pew Foundation finds that Buzzfeed is trusted less than ThinkProgress, Sean Hannity Show, Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh. [PewResearch]
The Founder and Executive Director of Art21, Susan Sollins, passed away last week. Hyperallergic has reported a nice overview of her influence and vision. [Hyperallergic]
Rhizome is building a tool that will help archive facebook conversations. Dragan Espenschied, Rhizome’s digital conservator, speaks to the New York Times. [The New York Times]
In news of the ever-shifting art blogosphere: Just months after scooping up the staff of Artinfo because Louise BLOUIN wasn’t paying anybody (she’s currently embroiled in lawsuits and small claims court filings filed by her former contractors), artnet News has already lost one of its best assets. Ben Sutton is now at Hyperallergic. One wonders if this has to do with Artnet’s tabloid-like news sensibility. (Also, it appears they’ve made a font change). This means Hyperallergic is expanding, which is good news for those of us who are sick to death of Gallerist NY voice.
An Edward Snowden documentary, Citizenfour, was slipped quietly into the New York Film Festival. Apparently, Snowden contacted the filmmaker Laura Poitras soon before making the leaks because of her previous films My Country, My Country, and The Oath. [Hyperallergic]
Hoverboards are real, and they are not two blowdriers attached to the bottom of a skateboard. They’re using magnets, and you have to hover over a metal floor. No, you can’t have one, they’re $10,000. [The Verge]
Not art-related, but what the hell: Renée Zellweger looks like an entirely different person. [Gawker]
Guess who’s got a Jayson Musson’s Coogi painting for sale? We do, and you have two more days to get it. [Paddle8]

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Thursday Links: Richard Prince Must be the Luckiest Man on the Planet

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on September 18, 2014

An artist’s view of M60-UCD1 black hole. Via: NASA, ESA, STScI-RCC14-41a

This artist rendering of a black hole in a dwarf galaxy is amazing. [NASA Instagram via: @fredbenenson]
And, on that note, for the science nerds, here’s the best astronomy related video we’ve seen lately. Dizzying. [Youtube]
WTF? Richard Prince’s 48-inch by 56-inch″ inkjet prints of celebrity Instagram accounts are reportedly selling for $100,000. [The New York Post]
Chicago’s art paper Newcity made its own power list again, because fuuuckk youuu Artinfo. Here are the artists’ artists. [Newcity]
Jennifer Rubell is making food for the Performa benefit. This year Performa is honoring every rich woman under the sun. [In the Air]
The People’s Climate March preparations have started. They are expecting 100,000 people to show up this Sunday for the event. [The New York Times]
In further evidence, Environmentalist Bill McKibben is tweeting about 20 busloads of people headed to New York for the march already booked from Vermont. That seems like it would cover UVM and Middlebury alone. More! [Twitter]
The New Yorker does a video feature on the history of the Vocoder, a speech distortion tool popularized by Laurie Anderson and Kraftwerk, but was apparently invented as a top-secret military voice encoder. There is such thing as a “Vocoder historian”. [The New Yorker]
Philadelphia-based video artists: SUBMIT. The ICA has assembled a great jury for its open call video show, including Dirty Looks assistant director Karl McCool, PMA Associate Curator Erica Battle, and artist Beth Heinly, whom we featured in a Philly round-up last month. Based on McCool and Heinly in particular, we suspect this means creative risk taking and fearlessness will be rewarded. Submit to this. [ICA]
Carolina Miranda discusses Santa Monica Museum of Art’s “Citizen Culture: Artists and Architects Shape Policy” and the show looks great. It’s an exhibition that looks at social practice that sparks social change. In one example, Miranda discusses Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus, who was forced to wear a bullet-proof vest after receiving death threats. As a sign of trust, he cut the shape of a heart from the vest. [Culture: High & Low]
Iggy Pop plays ping pong with David Bowie. This is what happened. (aw). [BowieSongs Extras]

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Tuesday Links: The Age of Soft Net

by Henry Kaye Corinna Kirsch Andrew Wagner on July 22, 2014

VICE finds the ten softest net artists

In case you didn’t see this last week, here’s a list of the softest net artists. [Vice]
Why is painting today so flippant? According to art historian Lane Relyea, it’s because artists just don’t have any darn time: “[T]he social identity of the painter can be salvaged and recuperated for today: by reconceiving it as the painter who always goes to parties, curates shows, writes a blog. Somebody who’s like, wow, when does he ever have time to make those paintings? And the paintings look like it. They’re small, they’re more sketchlike in a way….” [Painter’s Table via Bad at Sports]
A two-ton rubber duck sculpture by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman was washed away by torrential rainfall in China’s southwestern Guiyang City. A local radio station to the city’s public: “If you live by the river and see an 18 meter tall big yellow duck please call.” [The Guardian]
Evil building developers keep on being evil. Extell Development Company is building a high-rise at 40 Riverside Boulevard, and as part of the deal, some of the units needed to be reserved for affordable housing. In order for the rich folks to not be seen with the have-nots, they will have a separate entrance into the building. Get back from your Italian vacation, De Blasio! [Gawker]
We know that summer is slow for news and all, but Time Out New York has decided to go the celebrity route to round up readers: Susan Sarandon will take on the role of editor-in-chief for their August issue. [Time Out New York]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host a naturalization ceremony for new U.S. citizens. Those participants will include the Met’s director, the Brit Thomas P. Campell. [City Room]
Madrid’s Prado museum can’t find 885 artworks in its collection. [The Local]
In the latest from Richard Prince’s bizarre Twitter output, he tweets a photo of a girl bending over and looking at one of his paintings. This isn’t edgy social media art by any stretch of the imagination. It just seems like sexism (or some parody thereof). [Twitter]
While plans have been set in place to dissolve the Corcoran Gallery of Art, opponents have just moved forward (again) in their attempts to keep the Corcoran alive. [New York Times]
Retired Detroit workers vote to lower their expected pension benefits, thus reducing the city’s debt. Had the workers voted the other way, the pledges involved in the Grand Bargain would have vanished. Seems like Detroit is one step closer to protecting it’s collection at the DIA. [The New York Times]
Artists who love horses and live around Oakland, here’s an open call you may have missed: the 6th annual It’s All About the Horse exhibition. Just send in a JPEG of your horsey work by August 1. Who knows, you might win a ribbon (winners do actually receive ribbons). [Oakland Press]

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Monday Links: Easter Hangover

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on April 21, 2014

What appears to be a North Korean children’s orchestra and choir. [Facebook, via Arash Akbari]
Unexpectedly, Martha Stewart produced the most disturbing Easter egg still life we saw yesterday. A taxidermied Easter bunny sitting on emu eggs and quail eggs and pheasant eggs. [@marthastewart]
Easter iconography made ugly. (We like these gifs by Mike and Claire.) [VICE]
Romans were some of the first art collectors. In a nutshell, here’s how it’d work: After taking over an enemy, they’d steal their art collections, then open up a victory museum. [University of California]
An original print of Richard Prince’s “Spiritual America” (1983) is going up for auction at Christie’s, but it was probably made in 1987. This, despite claims from Richard Prince himself that the work was conceived later. Why is nobody listening? [greg.org]
Amazon is going to start selling self-published photo books. [The Telegraph]
Camille Henrot, darling of the 2014 Venice Biennale, has a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art where she focuses on the Houma tribe of Louisiana, a tribe that has failed to receive federal recognition. [Art in America]
Next level Easter eggs for your Easter Monday. [Vimeo]
A woman “gives birth” to a painting. Someone call Keith Boadwee up. His asshole paintings are being given a run for their money. [The Huffington Post]
The grammar of click bait. So good. [The American Reader]

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Friday Links: Sweet Gigs, Pain for Everyone

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 4, 2014

Whip out your pillows. Saturday is International Pillow Fight Day. (More chipmunks, here.) [pillowfightday]
Proof that red pandas have amazing upper-body strength. Full video on YouTube. [Imgur]
Is ARTnews for sale? Artnet can’t confirm it, but they believe something’s up. [artnet news]
Curator Jens Hoffmann’s new book Show Time: The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art showcases his picks for the most important contemporary art exhibitions over the last 25 years. For the most part, Hoffmann’s picks include European mega-shows, reiterating his stance that as “the art world has become globalized, the international biennial has emerged as the ultimate exhibition format of our time, and the biennial curator [has become] an all-important arbiter of global art trends and tastes.” Perhaps, but it’s good to take this with a grain of salt when looking at the alternative to why so many biennials began popping up after the fall of the Berlin Wall; for one, there’s Julian Stallabrass’s view that biennials are yet another instance of neo-liberalism, serving to introduce a mix of blue-chip art all over the world, all the while generating income for the tourism industry. [Art in America]
Now that Richard Prince has been cleared of any wrongdoing with his “Canal Zone” series, those works will go on view at Gagosian’s Upper East Side gallery on May 8, 2014. In 2008, Gagosian generated over 10 million dollars in sales from an exhibition of works from that series. [New York Times]
Ticket sale: “Sex Tips For Straight Women From a Gay Man,” now 40 bucks each. [Living Social]
A comprehensive survey of five gallery districts in New York. So great. [New York Times]
“In his early years in New York [Roger Fessaguet] would send his towering white chef’s hats back to France aboard French-line ships, to be washed, ironed and starched “by women who know exactly what to do.” Chef Roger Fessaguet has died at 82. [The New York Times]
This is really sweet: On April Fool’s Day comedian Greg Benson teamed up with chef Jesse Brune to prank the homeless—by turning a shelter into a five-star restaurant. [Gawker]
This year same-sex couples can file joint taxes with the IRS. Some states won’t recognize those returns, though, so some couples should prepare to file multiple taxes. Pain for everyone! [The Atlantic]
An Afghan police officer shot two AP journalists, killing one and wounding another. Anja Niedringhaus, a German photographer, died in the attack; Kathy Gannon, a Canadian reporter, was rushed to the hospital. [Bloomberg]
Vox Populi in Philadelphia is looking for a curatorial fellow. This looks like a pretty sweet gig. [Residency Unlimited]

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