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Venus Over Manhattan Delivers Art in the Form of Cars

by Corinna Kirsch on December 7, 2013

Take an elevator to the 7th floor of an open-air parking garage, and you’ll find Piston Head, an exhibition of over a dozen artist-designed cars, motorcycles, and trucks shipped from all over the world.

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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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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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Our Take On “The Cat Show” at White Columns—With Kitty Pics!

by Corinna Kirsch on June 20, 2013

The Cat Show at White Columns has everything and nothing to do with cats. Everything, because most of the 134 artworks show cats or cat-related ephemera—like litter boxes, scratching posts, or yarn. Nothing, because the themes of many of these works aren’t about cats at all.

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Friday Links: On, About, Inside the Artist

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on June 7, 2013

Richard Artschwager, Photo: Rachel Chandler, Courtesy David Nolan Gallery (Image courtesy of ayearofpositivethinking.com)

Richard Artschwager’s last major work was a design for four elevators for the new Whitney Museum. They’re based on six motifs which appear often in his work: door, window, table, basket, mirror, and rug. “When visitors enter they will find themselves standing under a table, on a rug or in front of a mirror,” writes the Times. “[T]hey will also be opposite a door, next to a window or floating in a giant woven basket.” [NYTimes]
Vogel also reports that Maryland’s Glenstone Museum has begun a major expansion. [NYTimes]
Amanda V. Wagner tells young artists not to move to New York City until the time is right. There’s a picture of me alongside Patti Smith, which is possibly the most flattering juxtaposition this author’s ever been graced with. (PJ) [Art Attack]
LACMA’s twice failed to raise sufficient funds for their reconstruction and expansion efforts, but as their Director Michael Govan tells it, this time’s different, because their new design’s “worth it”. And maybe it is. According to reporter Carolina Miranda, Peter Zumthor’s proposal is a radical departure from traditional museum design. There’s no grand staircase or main entrance, so no single type of art takes priority. Sounds like a building that responds to increasingly multidisciplinary practice. [Architect]
Not sure what Andrew Goldstein actually thinks of the Tino Sehgal Golden Lion win at the Venice Biennale. His analysis is mostly description. He seems to like the silver Lion winner, Camille Henrot, and National Pavilion winner, Angola, which showed the work of Edson Chagas and we agree with him on both. [Artspace]
Hyperallergic got an interview with Karen Finley, who was the face of the NEA Four scandal in the nineties. They discuss how her work relates to celebrity and sexuality. [Hyperallergic]
Artinfo introduces Travess Smalley. [ArtINFO]
VICE got a tour of Richard Prince’s house, which, it turns out, is a pretty normal experience of a rural town where there’s nothing to do. “There’s not much to do in this town,” we’re reminded repeatedly. “I’ve always liked this road,” he tells us on the road. He walks us through his drawing process. No surprises there. [VICE]

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Frieze New York: Either Way, We’re Drinking Champagne

by Corinna Kirsch on May 10, 2013

“Greetings from Captain John. There will be no swimming and no diving.” Sailing on the Frieze ferry to Randall’s Island, the driver told us that we were on our way to vacation, but cautioned against letting loose with freewheeling abandon. Once we landed, that ethos seemed to be in effect at the fair itself: dealers and collectors were having fun, and the fair was certainly crowded, but nobody was breaking out champagne in the early afternoon to celebrate skyrocketing sales.

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Tuesday Links: Sext Me If You Can

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 30, 2013

So, the New Museum is hosting a residency program for the NEA 4. It’s hard to pin down what, exactly, this residency will look like; from what we know so far, all four artists’ projects will be concerned with how to fund performance art. Sadly, Karen Finley’s project shows how to do that, but only by getting away from performance altogether. In “Sext Me if You Can”, Finley will ask audience members to send her sexts, which she’ll then make into paintings to sell at the New Museum. Here’s my preliminary review: Not brilliant. [New Museum]
Latvia just opened the Mark Rothko Center. Pro: This is the first time any Rothko paintings have made their way to Eastern Europe. Con: The museum only has six of them. [Financial Times]
The Saudi conceptual artist Abdulnasser Gharem plans to set up the Arab state’s first artist-run foundation in Riyadh. [The Art Newspaper]
Women: shitting at the workplace should feel empowering. It’s okay to take a dump in a stall. [New York Mag]
Richard Prince made a composite of all of Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriends. [Animal]
The planned alliance of Philadelphia’s rare-book collectors’ mecca, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, with the Free Library of Philadelphia could mean greater access to literary treasures. The editorial here suggests the merger will be less messy than the Barnes move. [Philly.com]
There’s a war brewing with literary critics, and it’s because, no surprise here, book lovers don’t always get bloggers. Literary critics are whining about The New York Times Book Review because the old school publication’s new editor Pamela Paul has “no writerly or literary credentials”. That’s not exactly true, but that doesn’t stop The Guardian’s Michael Wolff from deriding Paul for working “two years as a blogger at the Huffington Post, which, it doesn’t seem entirely churlish to point out, is not a job.” Unfortunately, that’s the best he can come up with. [The Guardian]
Canada’s National Film Board gets props from The New Yorker blog for supporting radical filmmaking. [The New Yorker]
A recent New Yorker piece on Depression journalism has an unnamed New York Times editor calling poor people losers, according to ex-Times writer Charlie LeDuff. [The New Yorker, behind the paywall]
The oil company Shell bankrolled an eight-year scientific analysis of van Gogh’s true palette. It reveals that his colors were originally more naturalistic. [The New York Times]

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Highlights from the Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report

by Corinna Kirsch on October 10, 2012

What happens to the wealthy is what happens to the rest of the art world. At least, that’s what Artprice’s annual contemporary art market report suggests. Every October, Artprice publishes The Artprice Annual Report, a whopping 140-page document about trends in the contemporary art market; they look at art auction records,then talk to dealers and anybody else managing multi-million-dollar art sales to come up with a sense of the health of the market as a whole. We disagree, knowing that what happens at the auction houses doesn’t trickle down to the rest of the art world; for all its flaws, though, we enjoy reading this thing.

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Watch a Fat Man Die: MTV Premieres Art Breaks 2.0

by Corinna Kirsch on April 3, 2012

If watching MTV programs like Jersey Shore and Sixteen and Pregnant makes you feel dirty, MTV has a pill to relieve your pain. MTV Art Breaks, a collaboration with Creative Time and MoMA PS1, debuts short video clips made by artists including Rashaad Newsome, Mads Lynnerup, and Mickalene Thomas, with more artists to be announced soon. Starting this week, these clips will play during MTV's commercial programming, both online and on cable TV.

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Tuesday Links: The Rent Is Still Too Damn High

Highlights from the Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report

Watch a Fat Man Die: MTV Premieres Art Breaks 2.0

What the Hell Is Food Stamp Art Doing at Art Basel?

Kanye West’s “Bound 2″: Blame It on the Collector Class

The Definitive NADA Slideshow and Commentary

The Official Art Basel Miami Beach Slideshow and Commentary

Miami Project: A Family Business

We Went to Miami: Here’s What We Had to Say

This Week’s Must-See Art Events: We’ve Got a Talk Show, Emojis, and a Death Match

The $50 Million Question

Week Six: Female New Media Artist Memorial

Venus Over Manhattan Delivers Art in the Form of Cars

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