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Now with No Backer, the South Street Seaport Museum Struggles

by Clara Olshansky on June 26, 2013

This week, the Museum of the City of New York announced they will pull out of their now 27-month (originally 18-month) project to put the South Street Seaport Museum back on its feet. Under the City Museum’s leadership, the Seaport Museum was finally emerging from its decades-long downswing, but that was before Superstorm Sandy hit in last October. Now, with $22 million worth of damage, the museum needs to find a financial backer or this historic Manhattan institution will fall into the hands of the New York attorney general.

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This Week’s Art Events

by Whitney Kimball on January 14, 2013

This week, we’ll be attending an underground animation screening, a ton of international exhibitions, and the re-re-reopening of the Seaport Museum.

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Weekend Links: The $ 440 Million Glitch

by Paddy Johnson on August 3, 2012

Jeff Koons was on Stephen Colbert Wednesday talking about his art. Koons says the art happens inside the viewer. Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian says there’s a touch of Ayn Rand to that sentiment, which I guess we’ll have to apply to artist Kevin Bewersdorf‘s work, too, now. Personally, I think Colbert missed an opportunity with this interview. Koons has spent years talking about how “methods of display reveal our ‘sense of self’ and how his choice of subject matter is often an attempt to assist us with ‘self acceptance’,” and that could have offered some real fodder. Instead he focused on how expensive Koons’ work is, a topic the artist is used to evading by now. [Hyperallergic]
This folk art show at The Seaport Museum looks great. We hope this means there’ll be more Folk Art/Seaport Museum collaborations in the future. [NYTimes]
I lost 2,000 words this week thanks to Wordpress, but it could be worse. Knight Capital says it lost $440 million thanks to a trading glitch. That’s 10 million a minute. [Dealbook]
Bad news for The Observer. Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director Elizabeth Spiers is leaving. So, too, is Observer Media Group president Christopher Barnes. [Man About Town]
Greg.org has a great post on Chris Marker’s transformation of some appropriated GNTV/Dubai State Media footage. [Greg.org]
Dramatic readings of Yelp reviews. [Gawker]
Corinna Kirsch put together list of a zillion (okay 12) art projects that involved food in some way. There are probably a few more that could be added, so let us know in the comment section. [The L Magazine]
Scott Macaulay’s recap of the Creative Capital retreat, in full. Love it. [FilmmakerMag]
Paul Bremer (yes that Paul Bremer) has retired to Vermont to paint watercolors. [Foreign Policy]
AFC’s Whitney Kimball is talking to actual New York interns in the weeks leading up to Bravo’s new reality show Gallery Girls. The show will highlight the careers of young women who will take internships in the art world. We’ve heard some rumors from people who’ve watched the first pilot that this show is actually embarrassing to watch. We’re worried. [The L Magazine]

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Massive Links: What Didn’t Happen at ArtsTech Last Night?

by Whitney Kimball on June 14, 2012

The VLA (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts) is having a benefit tonight, from 6-8PM, at 62 Greene Street. Be there. A lawsuit would otherwise cripple most artists, and volunteer services are a boon to the community. God knows we’ll need ’em. [VLA]
Support the Seaport Museum! After financial woes forced the museum to temporarily shut down last year, it looks like a shaky recovery can be made possible by support from the city and local community. On Saturday, June 30th, Amanda Palmer will give a benefit concert. General admission is $55, $40 for members. [Concert]
Twitter blew up last night with live coverage of ArtsTech, which sounded like the most comprehensive art talk ever endeavored. Paddy Johnson reported an overall success, with insight on digital archiving from Christiane Paul, Ben Fino-Radin, and Doug Reside. It looks like we won’t be disappointed: on Fino-Radin’s archive of ArtsTech tweets, there is literally a photo of digital curator Doug Reside revealing an original version of the Declaration of Independence. [ArtsTech video/ArtsTech Tweets/Hyperallergic]
Amongst the ArtsTech tweets on digital archiving, Ellen Knuti linked to the website for the movie Space Jam, which is still live. [@knutini]
Your work could be on a water tank! According to Kickstarter, famous artists and New York locals will decorate three hundred water tanks around NYC next summer. In the next few weeks, 15 of the designs will be chosen from public submissions. [Curbed/Kickstarter]
Marina Galperina’s essay on Russian driving is insane. From the looks of it, getting behind the wheel in Russia is like running blindfolded into a mine field; if you’ve seen Apocalypse Now, that’s basically what this is. Of course, it comes complete with video mash-up of the horror. [AnimalNY]
This morning’s first office debate: is there such a thing as not-assless chaps? Ass chaps? [Village Voice]
Tumblr of the day, via @annie_werner: [Cloaque.org]
Today’s TED talk is titled “Archaeology from Space.” [TED]
In case you missed it yesterday, the Bronx Museum received a $500,000 gift from the Ford Foundation to its acquisitions fund. This is good for the museum and the community. It plans to collect work by living artists with strong ties to the neighborhood. [NYTimes]

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Survivability Report: The American Folk Art Museum and the Seaport Museum

by John Gawarecki-Maxwell on January 17, 2012

2011 wasn't a great year for either the Seaport Museum or the American Folk Art Museum. The two museums have been in dire financial straits for the past several years, struggling to keep rising operating costs down while bleeding admissions and memberships. We took a deeper look at their finances to figure out what these museums’ prospects look like.

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Massive Links! Good News from the Seaport | Bad News from Buenos Aires | Not-Really-News from King Robbo and Banksy

by Reid Singer on September 8, 2011

The Seaport Museum sees brighter days ahead. Someone spray-painted a Buenos Aires Rodin, and the clean-up job might make things worse. Petitioners unite to get the Met’s Alexander McQueen exhibition on the road. AFC questions the newsworthiness of Britain’s street art rivalries by reporting on them more.

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This Week’s Art Events

Survivability Report: The American Folk Art Museum and the Seaport Museum

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