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Thursday Links: Politicians take to Grindr, this Time for Work

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on February 25, 2016

Huey Rey Fischer is a queer, vegetarian, Latino progressive Democrat running for state representative in Texas’ District 49, and he’s campaigning for millennial voters on Grindr and Tinder. [Slate]
Shameless SPRG BRK plug: Brooklyn Magazine’s Paul D’Agostino checks in with Paddy about AFC upcoming projects, including a group GIF show commissioned by Providence College that’s dropping late-March. More details to come, but in the meantime, if you haven’t bought your ticket to our March 15 benefit, get on it. [Brooklyn Magazine]
This video showing how rubber gloves are made is so fascinating and beautiful and a little creepy and you won’t want to stop watching it. It’s like an assembly line from the mind of Stanley Kubrick. [Facebook]
Vienna’s Bank Austria Kunstforum is planning a retrospective of controversial, deceased painter Balthus, who has been accused of paedophilia. Austria’s right-wing FPÖ party is none too happy about it. [artnet News]
A selfie-stick for your Macbook. [macbookselfiestick.com]
Someone has been uploading thousands of eerie Youtube videos that may or may not contain a secret message. [Atlas Obscura]
Not sure how Toronto-based art collective VS VS VS managed this, but it appears you can get a Google Street View Tour of their Port Lands studio. [@vs_vs_vs]
Talk about a giant leap for GIF art: Lorna Mills’ Mountain Light/Time — a GIF of a sunrise over a mountain — will be playing on Times Square’s electronic billboards as March’s Midnight Moment. [Times Square Art]
The second edition of my (Michael’s) monthly architecture/urban planning column “Degenerate City” is out. In this iteration, I discuss Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s plan to demolish buildings in impoverished Baltimore neighborhoods as an act of iconoclasm rather than actual policy. [City Paper]
Pedro Neves Marques reviews Stan Douglas’s “The Secret Agent” at Victoria Miro. [Art Agenda]
“I never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary” — the creator of Idiocracy. [The Hill]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Art Gets Back to Business

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on January 6, 2014

After weeks without, art openings return.

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Friday Links: Kunstfag City

by Paddy Johnson Matthew Leifheit Hannah Garner and Whitney Kimball on September 27, 2013

The Oslo National Academy of the Arts’ visual arts department is named Kunstfag. Can we be their media department? [Khio.no via Anthony Antonellis]
Goodbye Hennessy Youngman, hello Bob Ross. Yesterday Jayson Musson launched a new series “Painting toward Happiness,” where he teaches us to find the profound beauty in the everyday, through painting a photograph. [YouTube]
The French painter Balthus gets a mixed review from Roberta Smith for his show at The Met. “It proceeds in fits and starts; many of the paintings are interesting in one way or another but not especially original or even very convincing as totalities. The show is, in some ways, a study in kinds and degrees of failure.” [The New York Times]
Tumblr is wooing the art industry with Readymade, a new theme with a white cube aesthetic that LACMA and MoMA PS1 are already using. [BlouinArtInfo]
The Robert Indiana show at the Whitney was a pleasant surprise for Ken Johnson, who praised the work’s prophetic social commentary and rich ambiguity. “Beyond Love,” whose title makes clear the Whitney’s intent to transform Indiana’s reputation as a one-hit-wonder, is a vindication of the artist’s complex body of work. [The New York Times]
Today Mass MoCA officially opens its “Anselm Kiefer Hall Art Foundation” building. The exhibition will be open seasonally for the next 15 years, and it is housed in a specially constructed galvanized steel warehouse on the museum’s grounds. [North Adams Transcript]
Andy Adams of FlakPhoto.com talks about photography’s relationship to the internet, as well as recent curatorial projects on Wisconsin NPR. [WNPR]
In case you missed it last week, Carolina Miranda previewed Eli Broad’s new LA museum The Broad, an elaborate $140 million structure which is still under construction. Renderings promise a circular glass elevator, swooping ceilings, and enormous honeycomb windows. [ARCHITECT]

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Thursday Links: We’re Looking Into Getting a Castle

by The AFC Staff on September 26, 2013

For the last two weeks you could do a Google search for David Zwirner, and Donald Trump’s picture would come up. Someone on the Zwirner team appears to have corrected the google issue, but we got a screenshot! [via: tips@artfcity.com]
6 castles that cost less than an apartment in New York. [Buzzfeed] But the overhead must be insane. [Facebook]
Bullet profiles Macaulay Culkin’s art collective, which has something to do with drugs and wigs. [Bullet] Daily Mail has a photo of his Soho loft, a “playground workspace” which looks like Tom Hanks’s place from the movie Big. [Daily Mail]
Scholars rejoice! By October 2014, the Morgan Library’s expansive drawing collection of works from Dürer to Cézanne online. The public digital archive–of drawings and some versos–will be over 10,000 images vast. [Arts Beat]
A Balthus biography reveals the artist’s distaste for Sabine Rewald, the curator of his current show at the Met. And so the Met refuses to stock the book in its store. Apparently museums often opt out of stocking books that could compete with their hefty pricey catalogues. [Gallerist NY]
The world’s first inflatable concert hall looks a lot better than one would think. It begins its tour in Japan. [Spoon & Tamago]
Animal’s Marina Galperina and Kyle Chayka are presenting short-form video selfies at The Moving Image Fair in London. [Animal]
We’ll all have one earbud in at the AFC office today. “Ten Songs That Saved Your Life” is an online archive where you can stream custom playlists by the likes of Hans Ulrich Obrist, AA Bronson, Cory Arcangel, Robert Longo, Mike Kelley, Gerand Malanga and so many more. Spoiler alert: artists love Joy Division. [Ten Songs That Saved Your Life]
Empire Drive-In comes to the New York Hall of Science in Corona Park, Queens. From October 4th through 12th, take in a movie projected onto a salvaged wood screen while sitting on a pile of wrecked cars. [collabcubed]
The Fader reflects on last weekend’s PS1 Art Book Fair with a video. They liked the presentation by Dutch design school Werkplaats Typografie, Japanese punk zines, and James Franco. [The Fader]
Contrary to what you might think from attractions like “Rain Room” or packed Warm-Ups at PS1, the NEA finds a steady drop in arts attendance over the past decade (but they’re also counting Broadway). [New York Times]
Stephanie Smith’s boyfriend told her she was 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring. So she started a blog, and documented each sandwich she made for her boyfriend as she woos him into engagement. A joke gone too far? [The New York Post]
And just as the 10th anniversary of his death approaches… Madonna performed what is possibly Elliott Smith’s most tortured song at Gagosian Gallery on Tuesday as a performance art publicity stunt for her new film. The 10th anniversary of Smith’s death is next month. After singing down on her knees, Madonna then used the stage to denounce the prison system and call for a revolution of artists “who are not worried about whether their ass looks good—although it is important to have a good-looking ass…”[Gothamist]

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Reflecting on Yesterday’s Conversation About Dudes and their Shows

by Paddy Johnson on September 25, 2013

Turns out the internet has plenty to say on the subject of dudes and their shows. After Whitney Kimball published her piece rounding up all the male-centric shows this fall and the conversation that’s followed, we spent the better part of the day, continuing to take part in said discussion.

And I gotta say, the talk has been pretty good. Highlights after the jump.

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Reflecting on a Week’s Worth of Conversation About Dudes and Their Shows

by Whitney Kimball on September 24, 2013

Looks like Fall 2013 won’t be promising any new awakenings in the New York art world. This season, the institution leans harder than ever on its white male mainstays.

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Must-See Art Events: Jog Your Way to Art Butter

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on September 23, 2013

After a busy September, with weeks of mega-openings, there’s still plenty to do. Like make butter by working out with art duo PopSoda.

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Reflecting on a Week’s Worth of Conversation About Dudes and Their Shows

Must-See Art Events: Jog Your Way to Art Butter

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