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The Best 25 Shows of 2015

by The AFC Staff on December 31, 2015

2015 was great for art. For all the bitching that went on about art fairs, the dominance of the market, and sub-par museum shows (cough, cough Björk), I saw more great shows than I have in my ten years working as a critic in New York. Rather than try to whittle our picks down to a few select shows, we wrote up every show we thought was truly exemplary.

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Wednesday Links: Law & Artwork Edition

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on December 23, 2015

This amateur portrait helped catch a murder suspect. I kinda like it. [Buzzfeed]

2015 was a scandalous year in the art world. [artnet News]

The Rubell Family Collection plays a good media game. As one of the 11 tax-exempt private museums currently scrutinized in the Senate Finance Committee’s investigation, they’re the first to go public about complying with the inquiry. The admission is then followed by what appears to be a summary of their yearly report, spun for their hometown paper. [The Miami Herald]

Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly read anything else about Martin Shkreli and/or the Wu-Tang album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, this comes along. Here’s an oddly fascinating look at the issues surrounding copyright and the legal status of Shkreli’s assets—which might just align to result in the free distribution of the music. [Motherboard]

I get the media is squeezing all they can from the holiday content farm, but this piece of fluff on Warhol and his affinity towards Christmas takes the cake for being so primely formatted for Google Trending. The only interesting tidbit is buried at the very bottom, on the lack of scholarship regarding the practicing Catholic’s religious painting. [artnet News]

Hyperallergic weighs in on the Rijksmuseum’s “Adjustment of Colonial Terminology” project we wrote about earlier this month. While the piece clarifies that much of the renaming is mostly applicable not to the original racially-charged titling of works but later additions or renamings by museum staff, it still seems totally arbitrary, in the sense that a new title like “Girl holding a fan” omits information that a former title like “Girl from the Indies” contains. And a commenter raises a good question: “So if I were a historian or curator and I wanted to see depictions of people from Africa and the African diaspora would I be able to keyword search that under the new system?” [Hyperallergic]

The Shade Room is probably my [Rea] favourite Instagram account for making the social media activities of black celebrities it’s gossip beat, and changed the way I consume my celebrity news. This profile on its founder, 25 year old Angie Nwandu, is inspiring, especially for this quote: “she’s a perfect avatar for this particular media moment: a young woman of color who knew nothing about the media business when she launched, still figuring it out as she goes along.” [Buzzfeed]

British architecture firm Heatherwick Studio has unveiled plans for Shanghai’s arts district. The scheme piles housing, trees, and other functions into a massive, lumpy, terrace-covered structure that looks like a mountain and curves around existing historic structures. I want to live there. [Dezeen]

A study by an economist suggests that artists’ most valuable works are NOT produced during periods of depression. [The Art Newspaper

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We Went to No Man’s Land: Women Artists from The Rubell Family Collection

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on December 21, 2015

At the Rubell Family Collection, dozens of contemporary women artists working in every conceivable medium left us very impressed.

Michael: Here, the blue-chip market and a private collector managed to accomplish something many institutions or independent curators haven’t—presenting an all-female show that feels as if it has nothing to prove.

Paddy: I still can’t get over how many monumental art works in this show so effectively dominated the space that you’d literally feel awestruck by their presence.

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To-Dos: Rashid Johnson’s Opening at Hauser and Wirth This Wednesday

by Art Fag City on January 9, 2012

A few Art Fag City friends have excitedly dropped “RUMBLE,” this week, the show of 34 year old Rashid Johnson, opening this Wednesday at Hauser & Wirth. We’re interested too, and for all the reasons you might expect. Since expanding their operations in London and Zurich to New York the gallery has have safely occupied a 69th brownstone, an area of town that seldom showcases the work of young artists. Unsurprisingly, the gallery itself bases a large portion of their business on well-established or downright famous artists at least a generation older than Johnson.

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To-Dos: Rashid Johnson’s Opening at Hauser and Wirth This Wednesday

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