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Thursday Links: Finding Lunch Might be Harder Than Usual Today

by Paddy Johnson on February 2, 2017

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Well, that was quick. Seventeen gallery shutters its new space after only two months in New York. Rumor has it Canadian financial backer Pierre Trahan withdrew his support after a feud with London dealer and founder of Seventeen David Hoyland. [artnet News]
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes are out. Better hope you’re not a Taurus. “You’ve been getting sloppy lately, and if you make any mistakes in the current, hyper-competitive cycle, you will pay dearly.” [Hyperallergic]
L.A. and New York–based artist Awol Erizku gets a nod in ARTnews, after having shot the photo Beyoncé used to announce her twins yesterday. (Also,Beyoncé is pregnant with twins.) [ARTnews]
Wow. Glafira Rosales, a little-known art dealer on Long Island that was behind $80 million in fraudulent sales and the demise of New York’s oldest gallery, Knoedler, avoids jail time. [The New York Times]
Today, Yemeni merchants across the five boroughs will close 1,000 grocery stores and bodegas between the hours of noon and 8 p.m. in protest of Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning travelers from Muslim-majority countries. I love this city. [Curbed]

POLITICS

It’s all bad.

Donald Trump woke up this morning and sent out a series of scary tweets threatening Iran. That was after yesterday, when he insulted Australia and hung up the phone on their president. [@EricGeller]
Senior Advisor to the President Steve Bannon is saying war in the South Sea of China is inevitable. And he of course has been promoted to NSC while the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence have been told not to bother attending the meetings. [The Guardian]
Sessions was approved yesterday to Attorney General. Looks like the only appointee with possible problems is Betsy DeVos, the woman who claimed schools need guns so they can protect themselves from bears. [The Internet]
Yesterday was a total shit show in general – a tweet that sums everything up, because there’s just too much to list. [@jeffmueller]
The Yemen raid was a total disaster and killed many civilians. It seems the raid’s plans may have been rushed and not properly assessed by the Trump administration. Yemen was lost as a base for the American military, a severe set back in the fight against Al Qaeda. [The New York Times]

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GIF of the Day: Faith Holland’s “Chelsea Manning Fan Art”

by Corinna Kirsch on August 19, 2016

chelsea manning resize If only I were in New Orleans right now. If so, I would be petting an alligator (because you can do that there), walking along the edge of the world (because you can do that there, too), and visiting 2 Freaky 2 Friday at Pelican Bomb Gallery X (which you still have time to do because the exhibition runs through September 18). The mostly femme and femme-identifying artists in the exhibition all explore images of celebrity in a sometimes critical, sometimes celebratory way that fits in so well with the AFC brand. A note on the exhibition from curator (and friend of AFC) Amanda Brinkman:

I grew up with a British mother and an American father in a small German town with a population fewer than 9000 people. Celebrities were my lingua franca and my guide to living like an American kid in the ’80s—something I was determined to do even halfway across the globe….I eventually threw away my New Kids on the Block sheets, but my interest in celebrities and what they can represent continues today. I’m routinely condescended to by intelligent people who “don’t even own a TV” and see stars as the ultimate waste of time and brainpower. But celebrities can help us theorize the relationship between the surface-level, lowbrow, and easily accessible and the deep, highbrow, and complex in incredibly fruitful ways.

In lieu of buying a last minute plane ticket, I’m posting excerpts from Faith Holland’s 2013 GIF series “Chelsea Manning Fan Art,” part of 2 Freaky 2 Friday. Peace out, y’all—it’s Friday night, so I leave you for the weekend with the now-classic Lady Gaga and Beyoncé video for “Telephone,” from which the GIF takes its lead.

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Monday Links: The Force Is Not With George Lucas’s Chicago Museum

by Rhett Jones on June 27, 2016

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Well, this can’t be good. New MOCA CEO Chantal Pontbriand has left MOCA after only eight months on the job. This is nothing short of shocking news for the organization, which in the course of a year has transformed its name, mission, and location. In March, she even announced that the organization would be expanding its footprint from three to five floors in its new location as well as a building across the street. It’s unclear whether those plans will stay in tact now that she’s departed. [The Toronto Star]
For the first time, Jesus tomb is getting refurbished and will be opened for an archeological dig. [Daily Beast]
George Lucas plans for a major museum in Chicago have been foiled by a two-year legal battle and he is reportedly looking for an appropriate location in California. People involved in the tentative planning say that San Francisco will probably be the first choice. [The Art Newspaper]
For those people who didn’t already hate golf, there is now a custom hoverboard that carries players around the course. It’s called the GolfBoard. [GolfBoard]
The strategy game Civilization 5 will be used in classrooms to teach kids about diplomacy and the ways in which Ghandi was a power hungry, nuke flinging sociopath. [Motherboard]
Jenny Holzer will mount her “first site-specific” work by carving her signature “poems on cliffs, monumental boulders and on bedrock” in Ibiza. [The Art Newspaper]
Legendary street photographer Bill Cunningham has died. Of the pieces we’ve read thus far, the Washington Post has been the best. Though the Times obituary staff did a fine job. [Washington Post]
Legendary writer and journalist Michael Herr has died. [Daily Beast]
Legendary Sculptor Tony Feher has died. Paddy Johnson recalls a talk he gave at Rutgers University and explains why his work is so significant. [AFC Newletter]
A round-up of some old school video albums that pre-dated Lemonade. Before Beyonce was putting Becky with the good hair on blast, Don Johnson was rocking sleeveless shirts on Max Headroom’s soundstages. [MEL]
Douglas Coupland is looking for a model that looks just like Van Gogh and will the person who looks the most like the famed artist $5k. [The Guardian]
Beloved record shops, Other Music and Rebel Rebel, both closed their doors this weekend. This is a nice opportunity to revisit Karina Longworth’s excellent investigation into what happened to Kim’s video collection. [Brooklyn Vegan]
Prince’s “Yellow Cloud” guitar has been auctioned. The lucky bidder spent $137,500. [Vulture]

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Is 2016 the new 1994? Feminism in the Art World

by Emily Colucci on May 26, 2016

Is recent art history repeating itself? An increasingly long roster of new all-women group exhibitions and their corresponding press seem to suggest so. From blue-chip stalwarts Hauser Wirth & Schimmel and Saatchi to smaller project and artist-run spaces to last night’s Marc Straus opening If Only Bella Abzug Were Here, are all-female group shows an indication of a permanent commitment to gender equality in the art world or is it just another doomed-to-disappear trend?

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Wednesday Links: Faking It to Make It

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on May 11, 2016

Within a 48 hour news cycle, Los Angeles-based band/romantic duo YACHT announced a private sex tape they made was leaked, then said they were going to take ownership and release the tape on their own website, and now it appears the whole situation was just an elaborate X-Files-esque alien sex hoax to promote their new music video. We have a lot of respect for singer Claire Evans — she contributed a great reading list to our Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies show — and the band has a history of trolling clickbait journalism. But given how prevalent revenge porn is online, was it gross for them to pose as victims and prey on our sympathies? Or was this fictionalized narrative no different from what’s seen on the Kardashians? [Pitchfork, Jezebel]
Last night’s results of Christie’s contemporary auction was a reassuring one for the New York art market. The sale totalled $318 million, with over 87% of the lots sold. Reserves were kept low, gaining praise from the auctioneer for being “tight, curated and profitable.” A highlight of the auction records set for artists like Mike Kelley and Agnes Martin was a Basquiat top lot (the 1982 work, “Untitled”) selling for $57.3 million (it was originally estimated at more than $40 million). [The Baer Faxt, The Art Newspaper]
The Trustees, Massachusetts’ conservation nonprofit, has announced a two-year public art initiative that will kick off this summer with commissioned outdoor installations by Jeppe Hein and Sam Durant. [Boston Globe]
Intersectional feminist dialogues went into overload over bell hook’s gripes with Beyonce’s Lemonade. There’s a smart critique in here about Beyonce’s visual album being a commodification of the black female experience. But that’s kind of a “well, duh” point, and I [Rea] can’t help but feel as if hook is kind of Camille Paglia in her second wave dismissal of pop culture, not to mention low-key transphobic in judging black femme feminists. [bell hooks institute, Janet Mock’s Facebook]
The New Museum will be expanding its Bowery footprint. The museum announced yesterday it has raised $43 million towards a $80 capital campaign to renovate it 231 Bowery neighbor and connect it to its current building at 235 Bowery. [New York Times]
Carolina A. Miranda thinks the new Eva Hesse documentary is the full-blown biography the ambitious artist has long deserved. [Los Angeles Times]
An art loving mechanic in France has scored a Renoir for $700. [artnet News]
On the occasion of their pop-up show of cheap multiples at Printed Matter, members of Colab reflect back on their groundbreaking artist-led projects from the 1980s, including the Times Square Show. [Hyperallergic]

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GIF of the Day: Gaby Cepeda’s Cornrow Crowns

by Rea McNamara on April 28, 2016

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Earlier today, I had the honour of speaking with curator Jacqueline Mabey and Bennington College students in a course Mabey is co-teaching on feminist praxis. The pop-up module is part of Mabey’s Utopia Is No Place, Utopia Is Process show at Usdan Gallery. The show, featuring works by artists like Lorraine Grady, Nicole Killian, Hannah Black, Ann Hirsch, Ella Dawn McGeough and more explores the notion of failed utopias from a contemporary feminist perspective. The course is running alongside the show as a way of opening the gallery up to explore the basic principles of feminist organizing. (It’s worth noting Mabey is one of the artists behind the Art+Feminism campaign to expand Wikipedia’s coverage of women in the arts.)

For a week that began with Lemonade, I appreciated having the opportunity to discuss Sheroes, a limited run event series I organized from 2011-2012 in Toronto exploring the iconography and cultures of fandom surrounding the “League of Legendary Ladies”. Every month, a different female artist, like Nina Simone, Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell, or Yoko Ono, were honoured with on and offline performances, sounds, installations and visuals. The series was a hub for a myriad of Canadian and international artists, all of whom were active participants in celebrating female pop superstars, who, throughout their careers, have pushed boundaries and persevered with goddess-like strength. (Yes, I evoked “goddess” — our tagline was “herstory done right.” The “campy 1970s feminist speak” overload was intentional.)

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Monday Links: The Inflatable Doll Gets It

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on April 25, 2016

Watch star of the Japanese independent wrestling circuit and former headliner for New Japan Wrestling Kota Ibushi fight Yoshihiko, an inflatable doll. Incredible. There are so many different themes in this performance: sexuality, the body, the spectacle, humor not to mention the possibility of triumph without defeat. Also, this level of wrestling is no joke. According to AFC sources, this is one of the most physically dangerous matches they’ve seen that didn’t involve ladders or jumping off buildings. The 4:30 mark is where things really get off the hook. [Youtube]
AFC alumnus Corinna Kirsch discusses the evolving stop-and-start Twitter personas of Jayson Musson (@therealhennessy), Genevieve Belleveau (@gorgeoustaps) and Shawné Michaelain Holloway (@cleogirl2525). [art21 Magazine]
Lemonade is here. In case you were out of town this weekend, Beyonce flash-released Saturday night her latest visual album. It’s a wild ride — the “Formation” video was definitely a #blackgirlmagic teaser that got blown out into southern gothic afrofuturism reflections on black American womanhood. Oh, and it looks like Jay cheated on her, but they’re still tight because she dropped this on Tidal (#BeckyWithTheGoodHair). [Facebook]
One of Zaha Hadid’s final works, an oyster-like maritime terminal at the southern port of Salerno, Italy, will be posthumously inaugurated today. [artdaily.com]
Looks like bankruptcy is now the least of dealer Perry Rubenstein’s worries. He’s been accused of fraud—Rubenstein sold a work by Takashi Murakami to Eli Broad and according to documents, paid $825,000 for the work, while Rubenstein told consigner Michael Salke that the buyer had paid just $630,000. [Artnet news]
“The details of Knoedler’s collapse offer a kind of clarity that is typically nonexistent in this business, raising all sorts of questions about whether the lack of transparency at the high end of the art market will be viable in the future.” M.H. Miller weighs in on the behind the scenes of the Knoedler trial, and its legacy. [ARTnews]
Hank Willis Thomas has co-founded a super PAC. While For Freedoms lacks the bank roll of Priorities USA Action, the artist-driven PAC won’t support or oppose candidates, and will focus on support a national advertising campaign spurring dialogue on issues like campaign reform, racism and gender equality. Works by artist like Carrie Mae Weems, Rashid Johnson and Marilyn Minter will appear on billboards and subway ads, eventually culminating into a group show at Jack Shainman. [New York Times]
Myrna Ayad is the new director of Art Dubai. The UAE-based critic, editor and consultant replaces Antonia Carver, who was recently appointed the director of Art Jameel. [Artforum]
For artist Maria Eichhorn’s at Chisenhale Gallery in London, she’s shut down the gallery and office for 5 weeks, 25 days, and 175 hours. The gallery staff are not working. So, what’s for sale? A lucky institution can buy the rights to perform this piece. [The Art Newspaper]
Okay, this looks like an amazing raffle: Buy a $25 ticket and you could win a one month residency at Taipei Artist Village—treasure Hill and one month at Bamboo Curtain Studio anytime between January and June 2017. Raffle proceeds support Residency Unlimited, so the reasons to enter this raffle are only good. [Residency Unlimited]

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Tuesday Links: Everyone’s Wearing Zika

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on February 9, 2016

When we wrote about Trinidadian artist Marlon Griffith’s mas-inspired art project in Toronto last summer, we talked about how carnival can operate as a form of political spectacle-slash-street theatre. So it comes as no surprise that there are many Zika virus-inspired floats and costumes at this year’s Brazilian carnival. [Quartz]
“But we all feel vulnerable to judgement. And scapegoating critics is a way we express that vulnerability.” An interview with Times film critic AO Scott weighing in on why critics are often portrayed as failed artists, and how Twitter has made criticism “more lively”. [Salon]
A Florida man was arrested for tossing a three-and-a-half foot alligator through a Wendy’s drive-thru window. (Don’t worry — the alligator was caught and later released in a nearby canal.) [WPTV West Palm Beach]
Will Harlem be the successor of Chelsea? Last year, Gavin Brown moved from his longtime West Village location to a former brewery in the Manhattanville neighbourhood. Now it looks like Elizabeth Dee will be inhabiting a two-storey space that was once the Studio Museum in Harlem’s original location. Dee confirms that at least 10 Chelsea dealers are angling for a Harlem move. [artnet News]
Monica Lewinsky has released solidarity-representing handshake emojis to combat cyberbullying and trolling. [Vanity Fair]
“With the release of ‘Formation,’ Beyoncé went from manipulating the pop culture music industry machine to usurping it. And that’s what freedom looks like when you’re a black female pop star in a capitalist country. As she sings in the last line of ‘Formation’ with an unwavering gaze below the brim of a low slung hat ‘best revenge is your paper.’” Academic Naila Keleta-Mae breaks down Bey’s latest meditation on female blackness. [Noisey]
Toronto’s Artscape has just released an open call for expressions of interest from artists, artist collectives and cultural non-profits for programming and tenant opportunities in its new Weston Hub. The development will be located in the city’s northwest Weston neighborhood, located near Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West. It’s slated to open in late 2018. [Artscape Weston]
The latest in Chicago’s housing crisis: a two bedroom in a newly erected luxury high rise near the demolition rubble of the Cabrini-Green housing project starts at $3,200 per month. [Chicagoist]
Kim Kardashian gets more retweets in three days than ISIS ever has. [Fusion]
Considering the internet as a mass-collaborative project. [Kunsthalle Wien]

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