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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Anxiety on High

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 16, 2017

Let’s face it—the bulk of this week’s chatter in the art world isn’t going to be about Donald Trump’s Inauguration, but Marilyn Minter and Madonna’s talk Thursday evening at the Brooklyn Museum lamenting it. And that’s as it should be. Resistance to this new presidency is essential.
Friday, we’ll be participating in the #J20 Art Strike, so no content on our website will be available but for a livestream of Rachel Mason lip synching the inauguration as FutureClown. Those seeking to participate in the art protests can head to the Whitney where Occupy Museums will be hosting a “Speak Out”.

Other than that, we’re recommending a show about soul crushing anxiety and despair at LUBOV, and a show called “Infected Foot” at Greene Naftali, because sickness also seems like an appropriate theme for the week. Sorry to be depressing. Unfortunately, there’s no other honest way to paint the events.

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Monday Links: Sketchy Small Fingers

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on March 21, 2016

Meet Ralph Wolfe Cowan, the man who painted an “oil sketch” portrait of Donald Trump and was then hounded for 15 years to “finish” it. [Hyperallergic]
Psychologist Vittoria Ardino, president of the Italian Society for the Study of Traumatic Stress, looks at drawings left behind by Syrian refugee children in a Milan train station. Yes, this is as depressing as you’d expect. [NPR]
Bad news for parts of Bushwick and pretty much all of Ridgewood: the last leg of the M train will close for repairs next summer. This is to prepare the line for the expected overcrowding when the MTA shuts down the L train in 2017. [New York Post]
David Pagel slams Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis’s show at Gagosian’s Beverly Hills branch: “if Israel and Ellis collaborate again, do it on billboards. Or in magazines. Leave the canvas for painters.” [Los Angeles Times]
Tom Sachs has two exhibitions and one film opening this Spring. I (Michael) love Tom Sachs, but both of these things sound like Tom Sachs has run out of stuff to make out of other stuff. Now we’re left with boomboxes and tea ceremonies? What? Both of these sound like projects that would come about as the result of (two very different) commissions sponsored by a sneaker brand or Japan’s tourism board, respectively. [The Wall Street Journal]
Two major Asian collectors have announced plans to build major museums in South and Southeast Asia. One of them, Indonesian businessman Haryanto Adikoesoemo, is funding all by himself a 43,000 square foot museum that will be part of his new business and residential development in Jakarta’s western Kebon Jeruk district. The institution’s director says that the museum won’t revolve around Adikoesoemo’s collection. (Yeah, I know.) [Art Newspaper]
The TL;DR version of this feature on making it as a working artist in New York? Don’t expect to survive on the gallery system. It’s a long read, but the two depressing takeaways are as follows: Ryder Ripps compares himself to Donald Trump, adding credence to the theory that he has built his career success on being a troll, suggesting that the internet’s attention economics has finally trickled down into the art world. If you wanna get on top, embrace personal brand valuation (read: ego fascism). And even if you have gallery representation, you can still lose out: William Powhida, also profiled, says he’s represented by four galleries but lost 12k last year on his art. [Crain’s]

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A Look at Art Basel Miami Beach 2014

by Paddy Johnson on December 4, 2014

“When I look down these halls, it doesn’t make me think about anything”

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Venus Over Manhattan Delivers Art in the Form of Cars

by Corinna Kirsch on December 7, 2013

Take an elevator to the 7th floor of an open-air parking garage, and you’ll find Piston Head, an exhibition of over a dozen artist-designed cars, motorcycles, and trucks shipped from all over the world.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Performa Alternatives

by The AFC Staff on November 4, 2013

And there are so many.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Kitsch-Off, Film Festival, and a Weekend of Internet Jailbreaking

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on September 30, 2013

This week, the emerging art world owns its quirkiness. Cleopatra’s has a show about working out; Sara Cwynar builds a kitsch encyclopedia; and Ann Hirsch performs a two-person act set in a chat room.

Also, the New Museum prepares for its major Chris Burden exhibition (get in line now) and the New Yorker sells tickets for the New Yorker Festival this weekend (don’t get too excited). And through the end of next week, the New York Film Festival continues screening independent and critical films. We don’t know anything about film, so luckily, AFC’s resident filmmaker Rhett Jones made us a round-up. All that and more, after the jump!

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AFC’s Top 10: Whitney Kimball

by Whitney Kimball on January 3, 2013

2012 wasn’t such a sea of shit after all. Every month or so, as the pandering museum shows and art fairs and summer group shows and art writer resignations and auction records had me losing hope, one of these came along. Thank God for that.

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Circle Glasses: The Art World’s Gateway to Power

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on August 13, 2012

Do you have square glasses? Better put that paint brush down if your answer’s yes, because your art career is over.

Observe.

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AFC’s Top 10: Whitney Kimball

Circle Glasses: The Art World’s Gateway to Power

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