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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The AFC Goth Benefit and More

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 17, 2017

The time has finally come. Our Goth Benefit is here. We’ll be converting Collapsable Hole into a goth wonderland, complete with drag performers, surprise guests, and options such as handcuffs for couples. (We’re also having a goth couple outfit contest, so plan accordingly). If last year’s benefit was any indication, this is basically going to be the party of the year.

Wednesday, nurse your hangover with a likely-nipple-tastic Betty Tompkins solo show at Marlborough Contemporary. Other highlights this week include Siebren Versteeg’s digital paintings at bitforms on Thursday, the annual Seven on Seven conference at the New Museum on Saturday, and Sunday’s open studios at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Don’t forget: Buy your Goth Opera tickets now!

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This Week’s Must See Events: Crack Some Nuts

by Paddy Johnson on December 7, 2016

This week starts off slow, presumably to give those of us who were at the Miami fairs a bit of time to recover. Today we’ve listed Ballet at the Brooklyn Museum and Faith Ringgold at MoMA and that’s it. Thursday, look out. Chelsea will be a zoo. We’ve listed Michelle Grabner and Andrew Kuo as picks, but there’s plenty more to see. Friday head to Bushwick. Every gallery and their dog is hosting an opening, including Parlour and Interstate. We recommend picking up a few Christmas presents at some of these galleries. Emerging art is very affordable, and your parents will either love it or give it back to you. Either way, that’s a win-win scenario.

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This Week’s Must See Events: Feminist Icons and the Mechanics of the Gaze

by Paddy Johnson on April 4, 2016

Need a break from relentless election coverage? Too bad. You’re going to have to wait until November for that—and definitely skip a few art events. And we don’t recommend doing that, because this week feminist icons Martha Wilson and Martha Rosler will speak at Pratt. Given that both their work smartly addresses politics, the subject is sure to come up in discussion and will likely offer a few illuminating perspectives. We’re looking forward to it.

Other highlights in our wheelhouse: tech shows! MVR 3 at Babycastles and Mark Dorf and Sara Ludy at SVA will have you covered. Also—the gaze! Anne Collier’s photographs at Anton Kern often picture the mechanics of reproduction—think image of an eye in paper cutter. They creep us out, but in just the right way.

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Tuesday Links: Gay = Gift From God

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on August 26, 2014

Saul Armendariz, the world-famous Mexican-American luchador (wrestler) known as “Cassandro El Exotico” at home in El Paso, Texas. Photo by Katie Orlinsky

“Being gay is a gift from god.” No, that doesn’t come from an evangelist, it comes from Cassandro, one of the most famous lucha libre wrestlers to wrestle as an exótico, the sissy, drag complement to wrestling’s macho elite. [The New Yorker]
The Studio Museum in Harlem has chosen three young artists (all 30 or younger) for slots in this year’s Artist-in-Residence program, a year-long residency that grants each artist $20,000 in fellowship money. Those artists are…drumroll, please! Sadie Barnette, Lauren Halsey, and Eric Mack. Lauren and Eric both received their MFAs from Yale. [Art Daily]
More news from the Studio Museum: Amanda Hunt, a CCA alum and curator at LAXART, has been hired as the museum’s Assistant Curator. Making waves. [Art Daily]
Miss the Emmys last night? Us too. Gawker has the highlights. [Gawker]
Within the span of 30 years, someone has had a baby that has grown up—maybe he received a PhD and got married along the way. 30 years also happens to be the length of time it took the Indianapolis Museum of Art to commission a Roy Lichtenstein sculpture. The project had been abandoned in the late 1980s due to cost issues. [NUVO]
Hrag Vartanian discusses the damage the wars in the Middle East are causing on archeological sites. [Hyperallergic]
Fakes plague the Chinese antiques market. In an effort to combat this problem, private reference libraries are being built to better establish provenance and scholarship. [The Art Newspaper]
57 percent of internships at nonprofits are unpaid, compared with 34 percent at for-profit businesses.[Al Jazeera America]
We knew it! The G Train isn’t the worst! It’s the 2, but we think the L easily outsucks the G, too. Readers? [Animal New York]
Amazon has bought Twitch. As for what this means for feeds of fish playing street fighter, we hope, nothing. [Vox]

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This Week’s Must See Events: Plant Consciousness and Tailgating

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Henry Kaye on June 16, 2014

Looks like another week of group shows and art fairs, this time involving Art Basel, Switzerland, a little Peter Coffin craziness and a pseudo-Nascar transplant in Bushwick

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