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Terry Adkins

Black Is and Black Ain’t in Pace Gallery’s “Blackness in Abstraction”

by Emily Colucci on August 18, 2016

“Black is and black ain’t.” Walking through Pace Gallery’s current exhibition Blackness in Abstraction, I began to think about that title line from Marlon Riggs’s final film—taken from the prologue of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man. Even more than the pervasive “Black is beautiful,” this curiously ambiguous phrase hints at the multitude of meanings, voices, and questions surrounding blackness in the exhibition.

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The Whitney Biennial: A Format in Crisis

by Corinna Kirsch on March 20, 2014

Just like a reality TV show, the premise behind this year’s Whitney Biennial aims for high spectacle: What happens when you take three curators and ask them to put on three separate exhibitions at one of the world’s most prestigious museums? The world watches on, and we wonder what could possibly go wrong.

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Tuesday Links: That Time We All Smashed Ai Weiwei’s Vases

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 5, 2014

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld created a supermarket for supermodels at the Grand Palais in Paris. The food was not for eatin’, so Karl “nobody wants curvy models” Lagerfeld can still keep his reputation intact. [Gawker]
Sales reports from the ADAA are already coming in. So far, so good. [The Art Market Monitor]
A job opening for an associate curator of contemporary art at the Whitney has opened up. Sweet. [The Whitney]
This year the Whitney Biennial has one work at the site of the museum’s future home. Along the Hudson River you’ll find Tony Tasset’s shipping-container-looking monument containing the names of 392,485 artists. [Artnet]
Kenneth Cole has created a Google Glass app for narcissistic do-gooders. The app encourages simple acts of kindness (buy a coffee for a stranger, send someone flowers) and then photographing those accomplishments with the hashtag manupformankind. [Mashable]
The influence of John Coltrane on artist Terry Adkins was profound. Jessica Slaven interviews Adkins before his sudden death this year. [Paper Monnument]
The Spanish artist Eugenio Merino will show a series of sculptures of dictator heads in refrigerators. The Franco Foundation is suing him for a second time for the first work in this series, which used a depiction of Generalísimo Franco’s head as a punching ball. [The Art Newspaper]
Can someone explain what’s happening with New Inc, the New Museum’s forthcoming “shared workspace and professional development program”? Please? [A Plea]
The Ai Weiwei art-smashing game. [Aiweiwhoops]

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This Week’s Must See Events: The Biennials Are Upon Us

by Paddy Johnson on March 4, 2014

If fair overload doesn’t kill you this week, the events will. Get ready for the Whitney Biennial, the Last Brucennial, and a throwdown show by Anthony Antonellis at Transfer this weekend. Don’t count on sleeping this week.

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