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L.A. Art Diary: Week One

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 28, 2017

Michael Anthony Farley is exploring Los Angeles (sans car) and will be reporting back on the art scene weekly.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Nightmares Before Christmas

by Michael Anthony Farley on December 12, 2016

This week there’s not a lot of art stuff happening beyond holiday parties and craft fairs. One could say NYC’s taken an unexpectedly Middle-American turn in that regard, were it not for how morbid so much of the week’s happenings are. Tuesday night, scholars Sam Tanenhaus and Richard Wolin perform a post-election autopsy on the American Republic and speculate about its afterlife (hint: It’s not looking good) at CUNY. For a slightly less depressing evening, head to Ubu Gallery where German artist Heide Hatry is opening a new series of drawings made with the ashes of human remains. If that’s not enough mortuary holiday cheer for you, Con Artist Collective is throwing a fake memorial art show for the comedian Bill Murray (one of the few national treasures that hasn’t died in 2016). Thursday night we’re looking forward to a subversive holiday group show at Kate Werble Gallery, and a six-hour night of discussions about Art After Trump at Housing Works.

Friday night, things get a little less bleak city-wide. P! and Beverly’s are hosting events for a Bard CSS project that sprawls across Chinatown and continues with satellite events all weekend. At Brooklyn’s Orgy Park, a group show invites painters to make something collaborative, and in Queens, MoMA PS1 is throwing a holiday party for artists that looks totally bonkers. Have some spiked hot chocolate. After a week of thinking about Trump and death, you’re going to need it.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Long Island Eclipses Manhattan

by Michael Anthony Farley and Corinna Kirsch on August 23, 2016

For years, people who make proclamations about “something being the new something” have said “Brooklyn is the new Manhattan.” Apparently that means it’s now also totally boring in August? New York’s two most over-exposed boroughs are having a slow week, with just a smattering of art events (but we are thrilled Vector Gallery is making a triumphant return to Manhattan Thursday night.) Brooklyn has a Wednesday night performance at The Park Church Co-op and a screening of the 1977 feminist classic Riddles of the Sphinx to look forward to Thursday, but really it’s the rest of Long Island that sees the most action.

LIC will be art-star-studded Thursday night for MoMA PS1’s Night At the Museum closing party. Then, the party moves out to Fire Island for BOFFO’s performance festival. All weekend, look forward to genre-bending work across the swirly disciplines of drag, dance, music, and fashion from artists such as FLUCT, SSION, M. Lamar, Pearl, and more. Seriously, we can’t recommend a trip to the beach more—there’s practically nothing to do in the city’s art scene this weekend and the Fire Island fest looks like it’s going to go be remembered as a total “had to be there”.

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GIF of the Day: 10 GIFs to Get You PUMPED for SPRNG BRK!!!

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 14, 2016

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The weather might suck today, but tomorrow, life’s a beach.

That’s right: the annual AFC fundraiser party SPRNG BRK is happening tomorrow, 6:00 p.m. at Otto’s Shrunken Head in the East Village. If you don’t have your tickets yet, act now, because they’re selling fast.

We’re going to party like it’s the MTV Beach House in 1999, with vegan jello shots, a “Best Man Boobs in the Art World” wet t-shirt contest (email us to enter for a free ticket!) hosted by Jaimie Warren, a limbo contest hosted by drag superstar Whitney Biennial and Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, and much, much more. We’re also honoring the decades-long career of feminist artist Carol Cole, screening a piece by Ryan Trecartin, and dancing all night to the musical stylings of international DJ Marcelo Cunning. That’s just the tip of the iceberg in our margarita. It will be a gala gone wild.

To get yourself psyched, check out our Paddle8 auction featuring pieces from artists such as William Powhida, Carlos Rigau, and more. And check out these Spring Break GIFs:

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Even FOX News is excited:

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Tuesday Links: Courbet Inspires Vagina Display

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on June 9, 2015

Deborah Roberts displaying her vagina.

The Musée d’Orsay and its security guards are pursuing “sexual exhibitionism complaints” against the artist Deborah de Robertis after an unauthorized performance in which she displayed her vagina in front of Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde. [artnet News]
Berlin is instituting a rent cap, which means landlords in fast-gentrifying neighborhoods must limit rent increases (even on new leases) to 10% of the area’s average rent. This is great news for artists, who have had to deal with a massive increase in housing costs in a city that was once globally known for its bargain rents. [Vice]
Play Inside the Rent, and find out what your skills are as a New York developer. [CHPC via City Room]
Hamilton Nolan finds the perhaps the worst sentence ever published at The New York Times. I won’t spoil the surprise, but it involves ethically grown coffee beans and haircuts. [Gawker]
Curiator has launched its first sale and it includes Internet star Yung Jake. [Curiator]
Speaking of Berlin, these photos of the city taken from orbit are amazing. Although it’s been decades since the wall fell and increasingly hard to tell East from West at street-level, the divide is still visible from space due to different-colored streetlights that have survived from the days of communism. [City Metric]
Now, this is a collector: Lonnie Mimms collects personal computers—he has thousands of them and estimates that the collection is worth over a million dollars. This video profiles Mimms and offers a few shots from his “Apple Pop Up” exhibition in a former CompUSA building. So cool. [The New York Times]
Here’s a compilation of robots falling down at the DARPA. [Vulture]
Gagosian will open a third location in London. How many Gagosian outposts does the world really need? As their global collect-a-spot Damien Hirst challenge illustrated—complete with customer-loyalty punch-cards—it feels like Gagosian is on its way to becoming the Starbucks of the art world. [artnet News]
Kate Davis Jones looks back on the internet oeuvre of the late, great Eric Fournier—better know as the creator of Shaye Saint John—a visionary Youtube artist whose obsession with borderline glamour and schizophrenic editing presaged the style and success of Ryan Trecartin. This paragraph is probably one of the best, succinct explanations of the enigmatic web personality: “First, in myth, supermodel Shaye Saint John is disfigured in a freak accident and subjected to a series of horrific mind-control experiments by the CIA. Eric Fournier, shy and genius artist, takes her under his wing and helps her create art for a wider audience. Second, in reality, Shaye Saint John is a rubber mask and deflated costume draped over a wheelchair when not worn by Eric Fournier, shy and genius artist. Battling alcoholism and overflowing with ideas, he uses the Shaye character to create art while deflecting the spotlight away from himself.” [Vice]

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Monday Links: Dog Burritos, Rated

by The AFC Staff on March 2, 2015

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Dog burritos. Corinna prefers the pug that looks like an Ewok. Paul prefers the puppy that is wrapped in an actual tortilla. Paddy wonders what the selection criteria we’re all using, and would agree with Paul if there wasn’t the worry that puppy could accidentally be eaten. Given that that’s the case, Paddy chooses the terrier wrapped in leopard print. [Sad and Useless]
After being cleared of phone-hacking charges, media maverick Rebekah Brooks is making headlines again. It is rumored that she will be rehired by Rupert Murdoch to head up the social-networking news site Storyful. Terrifying. [The Guardian]
What makes a movie bad ass? A thoroughly convincing essay on the subject. [The Weeklings]
Triennial reviews are coming out: AFC’s discussion of individual works includes this zinger from Corinna Kirsch “Panels leaning against pedestals. Where am I? An art fair?”. Over at artnet News, Paddy Johnson discuss the Triennial’s obsession with the figure. Holland Cotter at the New York Times says the show adds up to some of the most distinctive art of the past decade. Hyperallergic’s Thomas Micchelli finds the show lacks excitement, and its focus on technology given its ubiquitous presence “feels dated and even a little clueless.” Also at Hyperallergic, Benjamin Sutton found it too crowded. Art Agenda’s Andrew Stefan Weiner says the show looks like a Tumblr and has mixed feelings on its success. On the one hand there’s curatorial legerdemain. On the other, not all the works live up to artist and curator Ryan Trecartin’s example. ARTnews’s Andrew Russeth thinks the Triennial shows that “new ideas are on the rise,” and over at Christie’s, Brienne Walsh doesn’t think the show’s got enough cohesion. Given the number of cohesive moments identified by other critics, Walsh’s thesis is the most easily challenged of them all. [The Internet]
Paul Chan’s Hugo Boss Prize exhibition gets a nod from Holland Cotter at the Times. The reason why, though, remains a bit convoluted. “Mr. Chan’s work is always surprising and as smart as art gets, which means, among other things, that it’s smart enough not to always give us the art we think we want.” [The New York Times]
Yet another adventure in the life of the rich and famous. Swiss business magnate Yves Bouvier has been charged with fraud and money laundering for allegedly inflating the prices of Picasso, Modigliani, Gauguins; those works were then sold to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, who, if it matters to you, owns the Greek island of Skorpios, purchased from the Onassis family. [Luxembourger Wort]
Artists David O’Reilly and Kim Laughton have tricked news outlets into thinking that #HYPERREALCG, a Tumblr “showcasing the world’s most impressive & technical hyper-real 3d art,” consists of CGI-based work. It’s just “art.” [Metafilter, #HYPERREALCG]
In Bushwick, the Roberta’s Pizza Empire is crumbling. One of the three restaurant’s owners has split off, and is seeking $5.4 million for his stake in the company. [Brooklyn Magazine via New York Post]
Meet Andy Warhol’s family, the Warholas. They’re kickstarting a film called Uncle Andy—with your help! Now, for the low price of $2,500, you too can own a “Rusyn Tradition Decorated Ostrich Egg” painted by Warhol’s niece Madalen. Abby Warhola is apparently well trained in the art of the selfie. [Artforum]
Marina Abramovic is publishing a memoir. If you’re curious why the artist has decided to release a tell-all of her life in the former Yugoslavia, this is indeed about giving people “the courage to do the things they’re afraid to do in their own lives.” [Arts Beat]