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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Virtual Reality Exhibitions and Cyberdefense Workshops

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 17, 2017

The tight stuff and the right stuff at tonight’s special event with @babycastles –@di_mo_da @micahnotfound @moisesnotfound @akaprash @princessgollum and many more superstars 7-10pm Only @vrworldnyc #virtuallyexcited #actuallyexcited

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Well, this week starts off strong.
Monday we’re looking forward to checking out the new VR World NYC, which is hosting a virtual reality art show and concert until midnight. If that hasn’t sated your cyberpunk hunger, check out Lin Wang’s cyborg wigs tuesday at Gallery Sensei, the NYFA/NYSCA group show Facial Profiling at C24 Gallery on Thursday, or the “Digital Self Defense and Empowerment Workshops” happening all Saturday afternoon at the New Museum. We love when a week’s itinerary in IRL New York looks like a montage from Hackers

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Thursday Links: Good Month for Bros; All-Male Group Show, Sports-Themed Gallery Open

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 25, 2017

Joey Falsetta’s photo of Amanda Lepore (L) and Platon’s photo of a Philip Treacy headdress for Alexander McQueen (R) are two of the works on display at Modern Love Club’s “Men I Love and Other Things I Think About.”

One of the most unconventional art spaces in the East Village, Modern Love Club, has opened an all-male group show. The “gallery” is actually a matchmaking service’s storefront. Amy Van Doran, the matchmaker/gallerist has thus far been running the space as an exclusively female-artist-focused exhibition space. Now she’s tapped curator Gabrielle Sirkin for the tongue-in-cheek-titled show Men I Love and Other Things I Think About. None of the art seems to have anything in common beyond the fact that the makers have penises, but hey, that’s just the inverse of how all-women shows are curated most of the time. Beyond that, a lot of the work looks pretty good, if not overhung in the cramped space. It’s up through July 14th. [Cool Hunting]
Artist Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff is opening a new gallery in Chicago, All Star Press, that will feature exclusively art about sports. Is there even enough sports-themed art in the world to keep a gallery roster full? [dna info]
The Srihatta-Samdani Art Centre and Sculpture Park will be Bangladesh’s first major contemporary art museum, with 5,000 sf of galleries, 10,000 sf of residency space for artists, and acres of landscaped gardens. It’s the brainchild of collectors Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani, who have previously organized biennials and other events to draw attention to the impoverished country’s art scene. [Smithsonian]
A megaproject at 80 Flatbush will include much-needed studio space for artists in Downtown Brooklyn. Alloy Development is partnering with BRIC to renovate the building at 505 State Street into free studio space for artists in BRIC’s residency program—doubling the organization’s capacity. This is one of several good decisions Alloy has made in the 80 Flatbush project. It’s an all-too-rare case of a developer starting a project by speaking to neighbors first to see what an area needs. Here, that means preserving the existing historic buildings on the site as cultural space and building vertically to create space for new schools, neighborhood retail, and nearly 900 mixed-income apartments in addition to a profit-generating office tower. More developers should approach projects this way—if you get your neighbors on board with planning from the beginning, it’s easier to fudge zoning and avoid endless lawsuits. [Curbed]
In other development news, the ridiculous-hipster-amenity-laden luxury rental tower Urby (the new Jersey City skyscraper that looks like stacked boxes… it’s kinda cool) will be launching an artist in residence program with Mana Contemporary. Will resident artists have access to the DIY apothecary classes, saltwater pool, and morning meditation deck? One can only hope. [Dezeen]
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have failed to disclose their multi-million-dollar art collection in financial papers related to their roles in the Trump administration. The couple is claiming the collection is just for “decoration” and not an investment. That’s certainly a murky distinction—one the Trump clan seems to blur with cosmetic procedures as well. [artnet News]
Yay! Artists Space will be reopening in a new location in TriBeCa sometime in 2018. The nonprofit left their longtime home on Greene Street because the owner wanted to create a penthouse. Here, though, they’ll be leasing 8,000 sf spread over two floors from art lovers—their new landlords are Gerry and Martin Weinstein. Martin Weinstein is the cofounder of Art in General. [ARTnews]

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Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe Straddle NYC’s Past, Present and Future in ‘Paranoia Man In A Rat Fink Room’

by Emily Colucci on January 9, 2017

New Yorkers are prone to nostalgia. It’s a byproduct of the city’s rapid changes and frequently traumatic displacements, which is why art addressing these constant evolutions is almost always relevant.

The latest project confronting New York’s transformations is Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s Paranoia Man In A Rat Fink Room at Storefront for Art and Architecture. While gentrification is well-trod artistic territory, the show takes a fresh angle on the subject by representing, at once, the city’s seedy past, transitional present and sleek future. Beyond the city, the installation also indirectly but successfully points out the alternative space’s anachronistic placement within the open-air mall of contemporary SoHo.

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Wednesday Links: Trump Supporters Attack Queer Activists Outside Artists Space

by Michael Anthony Farley on December 21, 2016

Connor Hicks, Colin Ashley, Peter Soeller (photos by Patti Cruz, courtesy Peter Soeller via Hyperallergic)

A group of queer activists were assaulted by Trump supporters while leaving the Decolonize this Place closing at Artists Space over the weekend. One of the most troubling things about this story, which no one seems to be talking about, is that the attackers sound like off-duty police or military based on their description. [Hyperallergic]
The Denver Art Museum claims it will use a light hand during renovations of its iconic building. That’s great news—the structure is the only North American work completed by architect Gio Ponti and it’s a singularly weird masterpiece. [Dezeen]
In today’s awful political climate, it’s nice to hear about a (mostly) good guy. Senator Harry Reid and artist Michael Heizer have become allies in an effort to protect Nevada’s environmental assets, including Heizer’s massive earthwork “City,” [Los Angeles Times]
Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art is mired in controversy (with some opponents wanting the school shut down) after a student depicted prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a naked king with a noose around his tiny junk. [International Business Times]
Poissy, the Parisian suburb home to the iconic Villa Savoye, is getting a Le Corbusier museum. [artnet News]
Airline food that looks like a giant dick. [New York Post]
Someone is adding googly eyes to subway ads. Keep up the good work! [Twitter]

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Tuesday Links: Taco Bell on the Horizon

by Paddy Johnson on October 25, 2016

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ArtReview’s Power 100 list is out and we’ve barely heard a word about it since its release October 20th. Is this evidence that we’re over lists? The issue used to create a lot more buzz. This year there are 12 new entries and only one eyebrow raising entry—Katie Hollander and Nato Thompson of Creative Time. We’re of course super excited to see their new projects, but Hollander and Thompson are new in their roles of Executive Director and Artist Director, respectively. Both have been at Creative Time for a while now, but I’d like to give them at least another year before proclaiming their chops proven. [ArtReview]
Headline of the day: Art Dealers Move Out of the Gallery and into a Taco Bell. It’s also a great story. Stefania Bortolami of Bortolami Gallery, growing tired of the commercial art fair circuit, decided to take a new approach—”yearlong, not primarily commercial, experimental projects in cities that are museum- and culture-rich but are not considered art hubs.” That resulted in Eric Wesley installing his “burrito paintings” in an abandoned Spanish Colonial-style Taco Bell in Cahokia, Ill. [The New York Times]
And the Kerry James Marshall reviews are coming out: Christian Viveros-Faune is first out of the gate, and loves it. [Artnet news]
Construction spending on buildings is slated to hit an all time high in New York, at 43.1 billion. This is a result of private development companies building residential housing. But just because there is a lot of spending on apartment buildings doesn’t mean there are more apartments. In fact, the number of built units is down this year due to an increased focus on luxury apartments. [Curbed]
A report on the panel discussion “Decolonize This Space” at Artists Space, which focused on the gentrification of Chinatown in New York and beyond. Seems like the big victory for this event was the turn out, which garnered more than 200 attendees. The big question of the night was whether artists and gallerists can help stem gentrification, and from the report, it seems everyone agreed that the answer was “yes”. Pressure city council. Don’t displace long term residents. Represent asian artists. Some of these prescriptions sound a little facile, but hey, it’s a start. [Hyperallergic]
Portraits of stray dogs just before they are euthanized. [Four & Sons]
VICE Media is moving to DUMBO—55 Washington. [Curbed]

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Tuesday Links: Ripped Jeans, a Robo Arm and Yards of Silver at The Met Ball

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on May 3, 2016

The Met Ball is a black tie extravaganza that takes place the first Monday of every May with the goal of raising money for the Costume Institute. Each year’s theme responds to the department’s exhibition, which this year was “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology”. So, knowing that technology and the future was the theme, what did we see a lot of? Silver ball gowns. Mirrored ball gowns. Kanye wearing alien contacts and ripped jeans, and, most importantly, Zayn Malik’s robo arm. (or as Rea describes it, “Singularity accessories.”) [The New York Times]
Images from the Met show everyone was nominally there to see at last night’s ball. [Racked]
After 23 years on Greene Street, Artists Space will be leaving its current location at 38 Greene Street. The arts organization chose to buy out their lease because of the landlord’s decision for a penthouse renovation. Artists Space will be out of SoHo by end of June, and are looking for a new location they can lease long-term or buy that will accommodate both their exhibitions and its Artists Space Books & Talks program. [New York Times]
In other Manhattan real estate news, the IFC Center has threatened to leave its Greenwich Village home if it doesn’t get the zoning variance it wants for its expansion project. They are planning a 10 million dollar renovation and want the use of a vacant lot behind the theatre. It’s currently zoned residential and some residents would like it to stay that way. [Curbed]
Oh, poor Georg Baselitz! He’s sad because nobody likes him. The press has unfairly taken him to task for being a chauvinist, the art world is going down a fascist path of political correctness and he’s not been recognized for the greatest work he’s done yet, which is in his studio. Zero sympathy from all of us over here at AFC dude. You keep telling the world women don’t paint very well and we’ll keep telling the world you’re an out of touch artist who obviously hasn’t seen enough paintings by women to know what the hell he’s talking about. [artnet News]
The headline for Cristina Ruiz’s take on the art market’s embrace of seemingly forgotten French modernists says it all: “OFAs (old French artists) are the new YBAs”. [The Art Newspaper]
Six artists, including Dustin Yellin and Jen Hitchings, share what they love and loathe about art fairs. Yellin: “they’re like weird proms where you get to run into a bunch of friends.” [Hyperallergic]
Rock critic granddad Robert Christgau weighs in on the Ramones show at the Queens Museum: “given the band’s aesthetic, which was always rigorously formalist, maybe I shouldn’t prize this juvenilia. But it’s so smart, so nutty, so alive, so careless of the world conquest it was set on that it reminds me so poignantly of how much better my world was because the Ramones were in it.” [ARTnews]
Christiane Paul and Nora Khan have won the Thoma Foundation Award. The awards are $40,000 and $20,000 respectively. [ARTnews]
Abortion clinics aren’t just closing in red states. They’re closing in blue states too. According to this report, smaller clinics are for-profit, but the majority of the patients are too poor to afford the costs associated with the procedure. [FiveThirtyEight]
Venezuelan artist Marisol Escobar has died. The sculptor, who appeared in two of Warhol’s films, Kiss and Thirteen Most Beautiful Women, defied movement categorization due to her interest in pre-Columbian folk art. She had her first solo in 1967 at Leo Castelli, and was part of MoMA’s influential “Art of the Assemblage” 1961 show. [artnet News]

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This Week’s Must-See Events: Sext Me, Sext Me, Don’t Forget Me

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 19, 2016

Modern-day slavery, female representation and outsider art are the big themes of this week’s Must-See Art Events. Today, two talks (Cheryl I. Harris at Artists Space and the Normalities Austrian Cultural Forum) look at the market-enforced instability of ‘black’ spaces and the ongoing Balkan immigration to Vienna, respectively. Two solo shows — Betty Tompkins at FLAG Art Foundation and Carla Gannis at TRANSFER — could be seen together as first- and third-wave feminist responses to female representation. And the Outsider Art Fair at the Metropolitan Pavilion — coinciding with a Christie’s sale of outsider art on January 22 — suggests the formerly niche art market sector is finally going mainstream.

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