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An Artist’s Guide to the Republican Primaries

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 8, 2016

Just how bad would one of the Republican candidates be for the arts in America? Ahead of the upcoming New York primaries, I decided to find out. It’s looking pretty bleak in the GOP, but at least this race has been as surreal and entertaining as a Ryan Trecartin tribute to Hieronymus Bosch. Below, I’ve researched each of the candidates’ histories and policies on the arts and affordable housing. If I’ve missed something, feel free to contribute in the comments, but keep it a little more civil than a Trump rally.

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Found! A Tom Otterness Sculpture in a Suburban Mall

by Corinna Kirsch on June 18, 2015

I found some weird-ass public art in The Woodlands.

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Tuesday Links: Moo! Inflatable Cows

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on January 20, 2015

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Really hoping this inflatable cow becomes a national thing. [Imgur]
An inflatable cow sitting atop a building. The Internet is filled with so many inflatable cows. Into it. [Flickr]
This is what the pandering art spectacle has come to: at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a tiny fenced-in ice area titled “Monet on Ice,” except the ice isn’t real, and there’s no Monet. [Glasstire]
This is “The Most Famous Middle Eastern Painting,” according to artnet News. [artnet News]
Name the city by its subway map. Only one city made the genius decision to create a circular line which runs through all the other lines. [Washington Post via Metafilter]
Yay! This month marks the return of the Fung Wah, the shittiest and cheapest bus company in the Northeast and possibly the world. Already they’re fucking up, not getting a permit for their pick up location. [Bowery Boogie]
London’s National Gallery will begin outsourcing its gallery assistants to a security firm. Why? Financial reasons. This also sounds like the plot of a movie: Twitter has all the #ngfanfic. [The Guardian, Twitter]
Somebody’s made a fake Faith Holland Facebook account and has been friend-requesting art world women. Watch out. [Facebook]
Guantanamo Diary, the only book released by a current prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, will be released today. [Hachette Book Group]

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Finding Humanity in the Humidity: An Art Trip to Texas

by Corinna Kirsch on July 18, 2014

There’s a type of summertime heat in the Gulf states that will turn even the hardiest of souls into a single ball of sweat. Not even air conditioning cannot save you. Summer’s really not the best season for art, and the galleries tend to know that; they slow down just like the rest of their sticky city-dwellers. And yet, a scant few do get out, and try to see art though most of the galleries have gone on vacation.

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Tuesday Links: What’s the Deal With These Trading Cards?

by Corinna Kirsch on March 18, 2014

Now you can buy trading cards of female net artists. But cheerleading, really? Sorry, but I would’ve preferred a deck that shows actual stats where artists get HP and special attacks, not “cheer highlights.” [Etsy, via Anthony Antonellis]
The International Center for Photography will close its Midtown museum in January 2015. [Artnet]
Greenpoint is about to get real. Real smelly. [Gothamist]
Cat want chocolate. [Imgur]
Jews on dogs, the complete history. [Tablet]
This weekend, activists put up fake 20-mile-per-hour signs in Brooklyn neighborhoods. [The Brooklyn Paper]
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has chosen the architectural firm of Annabelle Selldorf to head up the museum’s multi-million dollar expansion. [Culture Monster]
“[I]t was abysmal to be a black artist in Dallas over the last fifteen months,” writes Darryl Ratcliff, who breaks down the city’s exhibition ratio within the last year. [Glasstire]
Longreads: A personal history of how China’s Ministry of Propaganda has become Americanized. [n + 1]
In case you didn’t know, the New York Post has an archive of all their covers going back to 2002. So Photoshop. [New York Post]

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New York Goes to Texas: The Texas Contemporary Art Fair

by Corinna Kirsch on October 19, 2012

There’s plenty of reasons for starting an art fair, but you rarely hear the line about non-profits yearning for one. That’s the story behind the Texas Contemporary Art Fair which gets underway this week at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center (which intentionally looks like a big boat). Run by Brooklyn-based artMRKT Productions, the fair looks impressive, and reflects its growing reputation in the contemporary art world.

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New York Goes to Texas: The Texas Contemporary Art Fair

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