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Finding John Riegert at Pittsburgh’s SPACE

by Emily Colucci on September 1, 2016

PITTSBURGH–Who is John Riegert? And why are there 243 portraits of him in a current exhibition at SPACE, one of Pittsburgh’s main downtown galleries?

Organized by Brett Yasko, the exhibition, John Riegert, centers around 252 Pittsburgh artists’ interpretations of Riegert, a local artist and writer who acts as a singular subject to showcase the range of Pittsburgh’s creative community. Even with a staggering amount portraits scattered around SPACE, the exhibition somehow becomes less about Riegert as an individual. Instead, the show is more about presenting a democratic snapshot of Pittsburgh’s vibrant arts scene–one that exists outside the main American art world poles of New York and Los Angeles.

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Wednesday Links: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Never

by Corinna Kirsch on April 1, 2015

Put on your common-sense hat today because it’s April Fools Day. Play it safe, read the date. [Internet]
Google has gifted us with a Pac-Man game. Just head on over to Google Maps. [Google]
An oldie but goodie: Slate’s archive of media hoaxes. [Slate]
April 1 isn’t just for jokesters; it marks the beginning of National Poetry Month. To celebrate, @nypl, the New York Public Library Twitter account, is throwing a ~~party~~ Twitter Poetry Contest. [The Paris Review]
Believe it: Today Sotheby’s launches its first online auction with eBay. You’ll need to head over to the eBay/Sotheby’s landing page, which is separate from ebay.com. [Yahoo! Finance]
Page 218 in the April issue of Artforum will go down in history as the moment when female digital artists were accepted by the art-world mainstream. (We hope.)Writer Johanna Fateman surveys the digital scene, from Amalia Ulman to Ann Hirsch, and thankfully, finds that they’re not all the same. In all honesty, you should read this to understand why there’s so much work happening exclusively online—and there’s some telling interview snippets with some very smart artists. [Artforum]
Andrew Getty, one of the heirs to the J. Paul Getty fortune and part of the Getty trust, passed away at the age of 47. [Los Angeles Times]
When real and imaginary cultural figures collide, we get Andy Warhol/Where’s Waldo wallpaper. “Several of the people in the image reminded Flavor Paper creative director Jon Sherman of Warhol himself and, in similar style to Andy’s plays on pop culture, he decided to add an image of Andy shot on set of Chelsea Girls where he was wearing a striped shirt similar to Waldo of Where’s Waldo fame.” For $300. [Art Markit]
You really shouldn’t try to get pregnant in space. No, really. Don’t do it.[Motherboard]
Back here on earth, Arizona lawmakers passed a bill stating that doctors will need to tell their patients that chemically induced abortions might be reversible. Most doctors disagree. [The New York Times]

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Thursday Links: Did I Forget My Children?

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on September 25, 2014

Feminism’s biggest problem. [The Toast]
In a world where definitions change on a whim, Prada Marfa has been named an “art museum site” by the Texas Department of Transportation. [Associated Press via Ballroom Marfa]
Also in Marfa, a terribly expensive art project: artist Robert Irwin has received funding to go ahead with a new installation after receiving a $1 million gift. [Glasstire]
One of these four artists is about to be € 25,000 richer: Cory Arcangel, Camille Henrot, Thomas&Craighead, and Ulf Aminde. They’ve all been nominated for the 2014 Nam June Paik Award. [e-flux]
After Art F City covered the American Royalties Too Act (twice), now WNYC has added their two cents, interviewing a law professor at Ohio State University who argues that it might “drive sales to galleries and private sales, which would be exempt from the law.”[WNYC]
This KLM commercial has the airline employing a beagle to return lost property to its passengers. It’s pretty much the most joy-inducing video ever, though the buzzfeed investigative reporting team discovered that the airline doesn’t actually have dogs on staff. Whatever. It’s slightly misleading, but adorable regardless. (And you get to listen to Dutch, which always sounds lovely.) [YouTube]
Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, the co-owner and co-directors of Frieze have stepped back from their role and appointed Victoria Siddall as the new director of Frieze London and Frieze New York. Siddall already managed Frieze Masters. Sharp and Slotover say they are stepping back from the business so they can pursue other projects. Slotover says they aren’t opening a new publication or fair, so what’s next? Frieze auction data? [FT]
Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia student who has been carrying her mattress around campus in protest of the school’s tepid response to her rape, is not the only student suffering from this problem. A new Times op-doc reveals that universities routinely punish rapists with a slap on the wrist. [The New York Times]
“I work in a 24-hour kitten nursery.” [Imgur]
A good, long read on the downfall of the all-black sitcom on network TV. By now, it’s history. [The New Inquiry]
Free Art Friday, a treasure hunt on Instagram for free art. Good luck finding good art. [artnet News]
A photographer documents squatters inside a Venezuela skyscraper, where construction was halted mid-project in 1994 when a third of the country’s banks failed. [Hyperallergic]
Holy shit. An elevator into space could be possible. [OMNI Reboot via @Nullsleep]

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Wednesday Links: Amenities for Shopping

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on April 16, 2014

Last week’s inaugural Silicon Valley Contemporary art fair was full of art dealers scrambling to figure out what type of art techies might like. Some, like K&M Art, thought techies might want to unload their bitcoins for art. [Medium]
Monday nights you can choose between watching reality TV like Ru Paul’s Drag Race or wrestling entertainment like Raw. It doesn’t matter what you choose; NPR argues that both shows are “essentially one and the same,” both performance art about gender. I’d like to agree, but there’s too much of a focus in this piece on wrestlers performing masculinity and drag queens performing femininity; WWE is full of nearly naked sequined wrestlers twisted into pretzel positions with their oiled-up partners. [NPR]
Art collector and dealer Daniel Wolf and artist and architect Maya Lin have an old jail in Yonkers. They’re planning to transform it into studio space and a gallery. No word whether the collection will be made available public, but even so, the piece is pitched as though it’s about the budding art scene of Yonkers. The only other artist they were able to cite out there is David Hammons. The best part of the piece is when they describe the lack of basic amenities on the waterfront as “shopping.” [The New York Times]
Lawsuit filed against Brooklyn landlords claims they were quick to kick out black residents to make room for white ones. [Gothamist]
For new media lovers: Link Art Center has some sweet-looking art available at Paddle8. [Paddle8]
Lindsay Preston Zappas describes Math Bass’s show at Overduin and Co. as an exercise in visual merchandising. Ouch. [Carets and Stick]
Sarah Jessica Parker interviewed Alex Katz; she filled in for Leonard Lopate. [NPR]
Exhibition A interviews an art collector who’s also an astronaut. The interview’s full of space talk, not so much art talk. [Exhibition A]
Pierre Huyghe joins Hauser & Wirth. Not sure what this means for his New York gallery; he’s currently represented by Marian Goodman. [AMA]
This month’s issue of e-flux journal is mostly about sex. Sex! [e-flux]
Jaimie Warren’s new show at The Hole gets a lauding write up from the Huffington Post. Critic Priscilla Frank is a fan. [The Huffington Post]

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