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Marilyn Minter’s “RESIST” Flag Hoisted Over the Bowery Today

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 14, 2017

Look up on Bowery today (and for the rest of the month) and check out Marilyn Minter’s “RESIST FLAG”. It’s the first of many coming to Creative Time’s headquarters.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Rejoice! Our Times Are Intolerable and Nasty Women Are Front-and-Center

by Michael Anthony Farley on January 9, 2017

New York’s week is characterized by two dominant themes: revisiting art history, and women owning “nastiness”. Monday, NYU’s Grey Art Gallery is launching Inventing Downtown, an ambitious look at how artist-run spaces informed the city’s radical aesthetics decades ago. Tuesday, Kate Hush illuminates archetypal feminine deception and betrayal at Cooler Gallery. She’ll be joined by legions of Nasty Women starting Thursday, when the Knockdown Center kicks-off a four-day fundraiser for Planned Parenthood featuring art, dance parties, and more. Alden Projects has a timely survey of Jenny Holzer’s early poster work that opens Friday, and White Columns is opening it’s 11th Annual, Looking Back. That’s but a sampling of the art history-mining going on this week. Stay nasty, New York, and remember that you always have been.

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The Pant Suits Come Off: Yesterday’s Action at Madison Square

by Paddy Johnson on December 20, 2016

It’s hard to imagine a day for worse news than yesterday. Andrey G. Karlov, a Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot dead while speaking at an art opening the Contemporary Arts Center in the Cankaya area of Ankara. In Berlin, an attack by terrorists killed nine after they plowed a truck into a Christmas market. And what many believed to be our last hope to save democracy, the electoral college, let America down: only two Trump electors defected in the electoral college, while four voted against Clinton. (Congress would have voted for Trump even if 37 voters defected, but the symbolism would have been significant.)

On days like this, it can be easy to lose sight of the work that is being done. Amidst all the set backs, there are people protesting and taking a stand. One such example came yesterday in Madison Square Park, when a small group of 10 women performers stood clustered in the cold wearing pant suits and holding scissors.

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I Went To The Jewish Museum’s “Take Me (I’m Yours)” And All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt

by Emily Colucci on December 7, 2016

A loud, tacky sign emblazoned with “Everything Must Go” would not feel out of place in the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition Take Me (I’m Yours). A rack of plastic goodie bags branded with the exhibition’s title hang in the show’s entrance, encouraging viewers to fill up on artist-made pins, T-shirts, used clothing, candy and a 25-cent ball of air from Yoko Ono. With this free-for-all curatorial style, the exhibit looks more like a display of samples than a contemporary art show.

That’s a bad thing. The whole show feels like a gimmick designed to lure people in the door by offering them free swag. Meanwhile, the Museum is presenting the idea that they are challenging the traditional relationship between art and its viewers, which not only isn’t true (it’s been done to death), it distracts from the sociopolitical critiques made by many of the artists in the show. Simply put, the show is a disaster.

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Tuesday Links: Is Ai Weiwei a Dick?

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on November 1, 2016

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19 years after legislation passed to establish Greece’s first contemporary art museum, it’s finally opening. Greece’s art scene sounds like a mess, but people are hopeful the new EMST can change that. [Al Jazeera]
There’s a one-legged Statue of Liberty with a crazy life story in Japan. Manaka Murakami, a student at Tokyo University for the Arts, is planning her thesis exhibition on the theme of the devastating 2011 earthquake. She tracked down the replica Statue of Liberty in a coastal town, which lost its leg in the tsunami, but was otherwise unscathed, and it’s going to be incorporated into her show. [The Asahi Shimbun]
Images from New York’s Halloween parade. Covering political themes this year we see a bad hombre, a brexit, some NRA zombies (a personal favorite), and a basket of deplorables. Other costumes include boobs, a naked guy, a plug, a broken computer, plenty of injured people and 2015. [Gothamist]
New York University’s 23 story sports center has got the green light. This is a lot of floors for ellipticals, so we hope they include a several story mountain in there or something. The building is of relevance to art folk, because it will also apparently house a performing arts center. The building will be divided into two towers. The project is expected to be completed in 2021. [Curbed]
Long, but interesting read: Jacoba Urist examines the changing role of college museums in the academic and art worlds. Universities are spending big bucks on exhibitions, starchitecture, and collections. Some are starting to rival their non-academic peers. [The Atlantic]
The Shanghai art collective Chi She has a new home in the West Bund Arts District. The building, designed by Archi-Union, was essentially “printed” by bricklaying robots and looks kinda like a pixelated buffering video of a warehouse. [Dezeen]
This report of a conversation between Ai Weiwei and Tania Bruguera does not cast a positive light on Ai. Bruguera asks him a question about the ethical implications of restaging a well-known photograph of a Syrian father holding his dead toddler and Ai responds by accusing her of not being a full political artist, just a “Cuban” political artist. [ARTnews]
How a Yoko Ono joke from The Simpsons ended up becoming an actual sculpture in her show at The Reykjavik Art Museum. [i-D]

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The Topless Cellist Finally Gets Her Due At The Grey Art Gallery

by Emily Colucci on September 14, 2016

Resurrecting the forgotten careers of women artists can make for bittersweet exhibitions. On one hand, it’s exciting when a visionary woman finally gets the attention she deserves. On the other hand, the institutionalized sexism that erased her creative input is thoroughly enraging.

Nowhere is this felt more intensely than in A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde 1960s-1980s, currently at the Grey Art Gallery. Organized by a curatorial team largely connected to Northwestern University (the show first premiered at their Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art), the expansive exhibition firmly establishes Charlotte Moorman as a performance art force alongside seminal Fluxus artists like Nam June Paik, John Cage and Yoko Ono. In a response to art historical misogyny, the show essentially returns her artistic agency 25 years after her death in 1991.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Painted Rooms, Painted Faces, Digital Everything

by Michael Anthony Farley on September 6, 2016

Well, we hope the art world had a good summer vacation because school is officially back in session. There are so many good shows opening on Thursday night in Chelsea we just couldn’t list them all—Matthew Barney at Gladstone, Rashid Johnson at Hauser & Wirth and Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read, to name a few.

We’ve focused on the absolute can’t-miss openings and those that might get overlooked below. From Wednesday night’s opening exhibition on the work and collaborative legacy of early digital/conceptual artist Alison Knowles at The Graduate Center to Thursday night’s absolute must-see double exhibition of Meleko Mokgosi [pictured] at both of Jack Shainman’s Chelsea locations there’s plenty to see and do.

But to offer a quick summary of where the most openings which nights, expect to spend Wednesday on the LES, Thursday in Chelsea, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday rushing from neighborhood to neighborhood. This should be a good week for Uber.

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Tuesday Links: Temporary Tattoos and Fugly Fabrics

by Michael Anthony Farley and Corinna Kirsch on August 9, 2016

Artist Menja Stevenson wearing a dress to match the bus seats. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Mind blown: the Olympics used to have medals for the arts!?! They stopped doing this in 1948, but how cool is that? [The Huffington Post]
If you want to watch the Olympics in virtual reality, you can, if you care about sports, own a $99 Samsung Gear headset, and download an app. [USA Today]
So the European Union has ruled that Dan Flavin’s sculptures are indistinguishable from light fixtures, and as such should be taxed at 20 percent, rather than the 5-percent rate for artworks. What? [The Guardian]
This cat is having a no-good, existential crisis kind of day after ripping up a balloon. [Imgur]
In our email inboxes: a note from SFMOMA that you can now purchase museum tickets online through January 2017. Are the lines really so long that tickets must be sought out so far in advance? Or does this just mean that museums are going the way of airlines, letting you plan out your vacation far, far in advance? [SFMOMA]
The Jewish Museum launches its first Kickstarter campaign today. The museum has set a goal of $30,000 for their fall exhibition, Take Me (I’m Yours), which will let visitors bring home artist-produced takeaways, like temporary tattoos by Lawrence Weiner or air dispensers (not sure what that will look like) by Yoko Ono. 400,000 of these small editions will be made in total. [Kickstarter]
Despite market turbulence, Sotheby’s actually saw an increase in year-to-year profits. This is mostly due to cost-cutting within the auction house. Sotheby’s CEO, Thomas Smith, identifies “a paradox” wherein there’s still demand from collectors for high-value works in a financially uncertain time, but that sellers are holding out and restricting sales volume because they believe this isn’t the best time to sell. Dear collectors, please consider putting more of that pent-up purchasing power into the primary market. [Business Insider]
Today marks the two-year anniversary of Michael Brown in Ferguson, and with it, the growth of #blacklivesmatter. [The Root]
This piece about why fabric on public transportation is so ugly is surprisingly a really interesting read. It even touches on the work of artist Menja Stevenson, who dressed herself to match different transit lines. [BBC]

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“Tierra de Esperanza” Is Yoko Ono Done Right

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 21, 2016

Last year, MoMA’s Yoko Ono retrospective bombed by taking the fun (and guesswork) out of her work. But in Tierra de Esperanza at Muso Memoria y Tolerancia, Yoko Ono shines with work that’s interactive, alternately playful and political, and sometimes bizarre.

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