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Friday Links: Richard Prince v.s. Ivanka Trump is the Beef We Wish We Didn’t Care About

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 13, 2017

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For his new show at Sean Kelly Gallery, Luis Casebere built scale models of Luis Barragán houses and photographed them, creating an optical illusion of the architect’s idealized spaces. I want to live in one of these. [Dezeen]
Walead Beshty’s FedEx Works are the stuff of art handlers’ nightmares. [This is Colossal]
Anyone looking for a job in Kansas? The Wichita Art Museum is seeking a new curator. [The Wichita Eagle]
Baltimore’s new Mayor Catherine Pugh has created a Safe Arts Space Task Force following the eviction of the DIY space The Bell Foundry and Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. We’re happy to see names such as Lu Zhang, Dan Deacon, and Stewart Watson on task force, but this thing kinda seems like a mess in general. Tracey Knuckles, “a consultant on Bloomberg Associates’ Cultural Assets Management team” (what is that?!?) cited “successful” policies in New York and London that Baltimore can learn from to preserve affordable live/work housing… because if any two cities in the English-speaking world have been successful at preserving affordable artist live/work housing, it’s those two? [City Paper]
Here’s some uncharacteristically good news from the real estate sector: now is the time to negotiate with your Brooklyn or Manhattan landlord. Apparently the rental market is starting to correct, and is experiencing some “stess.” [Curbed]
Hate read alert: Ivanka Trump may or may not own a Richard Prince artwork that appears to be a screenshot of her own Instagram account, and Richard Prince may-or-may-not have disavowed it (or it might be “fake” in the first place?). All of this potential drama is of course playing out on social media. [artnet News]
Here’s a list of museums participating in next week’s art strike on inauguration day. Prepare to be depressed. They’re all staying open except for the ones that had planned to be closed for other reasons. [ARTnews]
The gallery strike participation list is a lot less depressing. [Hyperallergic]
Artist and Standing Rock resident Cannupa Hanska Luger talks to Carolina Miranda about the protests. “We’re not just in protest of a pipeline. What we are trying to do is maintain a cultural practice.” [Culture: High & Low]
Looking for ways to get out of this political mess we’re in? The kids have some ideas. Flippable gives people on their mailing list daily tasks in preparation for the upcoming fight for seats in 2018. [Flippable]

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Friday Links: “The Fucked-up-ness of American Culture”

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on April 8, 2016

Barkley Hendricks, “In the Crosshairs of the States”

Iggy Pop was at the MoCA Detroit for the opening of American Valhalla: The Art of Post Pop Depression. The exhibition features photography from Andreas Neumann and Matt Helders, and will be tour the same cities as Iggy Pop’s concerts this year. [Billboard]

Could the German baugruppe model work here? German would-be homeowners can form LLCs to act as their own developers, building themselves custom, cheaper housing as opposed to buying off-the-rack condos. [Curbed]

Many in Toronto’s Downtown East are concerned that a new LGBTQ-focused sports center development in Toronto’s Moss Park may not serve the area’s large community of homeless people, sex workers and drug users. The Center is promising to “de-institutionalize” the neighborhood by having all community services under one roof, but the development coincides with an Edmonton developer buying up ten properties across the street to turn into three large condo towers. And so far, the condo development’s language—around “safety” and working “closely” with police “to advance law and order”—is raising concern and fears of displacement for the very community the sports center is supposed to serve. [NOW Magazine]

Barkley L. Hendricks has a new show of paintings at Jack Shainman, and in an interview with Lee Ann Norman, speaks to about his return to portraiture and “the fucked-up-ness of American culture”. [Hyperallergic]

The latest art world revelation from the Panama Papers? Turns out billionaire currency trader Joe Lewis bought the Ganz collection before the record-breaking 1997 Christie’s auction with the support of an offshore firm. Lewis bought 100 works from the collection six months before for $168 million, and then set up the Christie’s sale, which then fetched $206 million. [The Guardian]

James R. Miller is suing the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Sean Kelly Gallery, Skarstedt, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Guggenheim for copyright infringement. Miller claims he actually staged and shot four iconic Mapplethorpe “self portraits” and is seeking tens of millions in damages. [Hyperallergic]

Dushko Petrovich’s profile of Jerry Saltz is sadly only available in the latest print issue of Tablet, but M.H. Miller provides some highlights here, along with commentary: “Saltz, as one of the few remaining staff art critics in the country, has a lot of power in the art world. He is also a widely known public figure (uncommon for critics of any genre). Negative criticism of him is rare and largely kept private. I’m sure Saltz’s followers would happily—or, more likely, angrily—debate the profile on social media, though in a strange bit of irony for a subject whose persona is so entwined with his presence online, Petrovich’s piece is only available in print.” [ART News]

Earlier this week, I (Michael) asked “Is a graphic diamond a symbol we can attach whatever symbolic associations we want to?” Apparently, yes. Olafur Eliasson’s “Green Light” looks very much like the project “Diamonds Light Baltimore”, but this time, the diamond is about the refugee crisis, not police brutality. [artnet News]

“Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined, Really, here’s a guy who refused to sign onto the 9/11 health care act for the cops and fireman. Here’s a guy who talks about New York values.” Even conservatives in New York can’t stand Cruz. That quote’s from Long Island Republican Peter King, who also mocks the Texan’s cowboy boots. [New York Daily News]

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Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 Americans at Sean Kelly

by Reid Singer on June 6, 2011

Surprise: not everyone has something insightful to say about Robert Mapplethorpe.That's the lesson from Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 Americans, for which Sean Kelly asked fifty volunteers from outside the art world (one from each state in the Union) to each choose a photograph from the Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Better Than Nothing

by Paddy Johnson on April 28, 2011

This week at The L Magazine I discuss three Chelsea shows: Joseph Kosuth at Sean Kelly, Sascha Braunig at Foxy Production and Rochelle Feinstein at On Stellar Rays. A few words about Kosuth after the jump.

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Sean Kelly Gallery

Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 Americans at Sean Kelly

Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Better Than Nothing

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