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Friday Links: Creepy Dolls and Trolling Grandmas

by Rhett Jones on August 5, 2016

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This little girl used face swap with her doll. Nightmare fuel. [IMGUR]
The 90-year-old German woman who filled in the crossword puzzle Fluxus piece by Arthur Köpcke is now claiming (via her lawyer) copyright-protection for the “collaborative work” that she enhanced by completing. You really should read the full statement, this woman’s lawyer is hilarious. [Ars Technica]
Music producer Swizz Beatz is bringing his No Commission Art Fair to the Bronx. The fair provides free exhibition space and gives 100% of profits to the artist. The inaugural edition that was held in Miami featured 35 artists and sold over $1m in art. [artnet News]
Recently, President Obama became the first sitting president to publish an academic paper. Now, he’s published an article in Glamour about what feminism means to him. Will post-Presidency Obama become a blogger? We hope so. [Glamour]
Rhizome is looking to hire a software curator and an assistant curator of net art. If you’re the type of person who’s qualified for that, this is a rare opportunity. [Rhizome]
A very interesting piece about the culture and politics of the contemporary art scene in Brazil. It’s a thorough look at a place that’s going to be in the news a lot in the coming weeks. [Even Magazine]
This is some bullshit. The International Olympics Committee has expressly forbidden press from making animated GIFs. [The Verge]
Not one, but TWO art detective stories: The first is the story of how Arthur Brand tracked down lost masterpieces by Dali and Tamara de Lempicka. The second is a look at how researchers used a particle accelerator to identify a portrait beneath the surface of Degas’s “Portrait of a Woman.” [The Independent, The Guardian]
Speaking of art history researchers, a new documentary that goes behind the scenes with the people who study Bosch is opening today. It looks great. [YouTube]
Even though the museum is still facing millions of dollars in deficits and undergoing layoffs, the Met announced that its had record attendance this year. [The New York Times]

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Tuesday Links: Respect the President’s Penis Now, No Respect for Renoir

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 6, 2015

This ad for “urban jungle adventurewear” onsies appeared in my Facebook feed today. I guess you’re supposed somersault over the asphalt once you’ve put on this knitted suit. [Bezar]

Dealer, writer and artist Kenny Schachter thinks the press has been too hard on the art market and has thus decided to be kinder by only discussing the art market winners in his most recent column. He opens by slamming Phillips Auction house. Never change, Kenny. [ARTnews]

The controversy-wracked Museum of Fine Arts has a new protest problem: Ben Ewen-Campen hates Renoir and led a demonstration in front of the institution to share that opinion, complete with “GOD HATES RENOIR” signs. [The Boston Globe via BmoreArt]

Animaland is a now defunct theme park in New Brunswick Canada that described itself as a “sculptured zoo of creepy giant cement animals.” VICE has produced a feature and photo essay on the subject of Animaland and more broadly, the decline of the roadside attraction. Worth a read. [VICE]

The philosopher Alva Noë has an essay in The Times contextualizing art as one of many activities that define humanity, a species defined as “makers and consumers of technologies.” I didn’t exactly get any earth-shattering revelations from this, but it’s a nice read. [The New York Times]

Jes Skolnik “on the culture wars, and why ‘offensiveness’ is a bad yardstick” is something I wish everyone would read. I was going to pull out one specific quote, but really, this whole piece is brilliant and timely. [Medium]

Brazilian collectors have more purchasing power than ever before, but they also seem to have more idealism and genuine passion for the arts than their investment-minded peers in other markets, if this article is any indication. [Financial Times]

South Africans are angry about a Anton Kannemeyer painting about them being angry about a painting of South African president Jacob Zuma’s penis.This latest one depicts a big floating erection above an angry mob carrying a banner that says “RESPECT THE PRESIDENT’S PENIS NOW!” and has offended everyone, including the national government. The piece is a commentary on the overreactions to the first painting of Zuma’s penis by Kannemeyer, including a statement from the Nazareth Baptist Church: “this man has insulted the entire nation and he deserves to be stoned to death.” [artnet News]

Feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman has died. Her work is included in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York show opening this week. [artforum]

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Monday Links: Matisse Inspires $950 Fish Art

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 23, 2015

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“HUGE Watercolor of Salmon and Matisse cut-outs.” [Craigslist]
William Pope.L has mixed feelings about being on the cover of Artforum. [ARTnews via Hyperallergic]
Freddy, an artist-run gallery that now has an auction up on Paddle8, has a short interview explaining the reasons behind the anonymity of its administrators. “The anonymity has more to do with how the project is intended to function on the Internet. It’s not about some kind of airtight identity foil—there are plenty of people who know exactly who I am—it’s about the desire to present a project where the identity of the curator is of less importance than the work itself.” BID. As of the time of this writing, there are only 5 hours left to support this great organization! [Paddle8]
“We are no longer breeding cats. This website is for sale.” It’s a sad day when you try to buy a kitten online, but find that the site only exists to advertise a web domain. [kittens-forsale.com]
Erin Lee Carr published a playlist of songs loved by her late father, David Carr. The sweet, melancholy playlist of indie rock and alt folk and country should be required listening for anyone who needs thawing out of any winter mess. [Spotify via @erinleecarr]
Is the online market for art booming? Yes, if we go by the number of sites popping up to sell art. Artsper, the latest online marketplace for art, focuses on French galleries. [Spear’s]
Investigations into Brazilian oil giant Petrobras has had an unexpected effect on museums. Cultural support from Petrobras has dwindled, leaving the country’s institutions in limbo. [Frieze, behind the paywall]
Here’s the weirdest video you’ll watch all day. I haven’t finished watching all of Will Benedict and David Leonard’s “Toilets Not Temples” yet, but so far, I’m intrigued by this documentary about the globalization of food distribution—the emerging wine market in India, for instance—that blends sci-fi creepiness with cut-and-dry interviews. Includes naked people raining from the sky and a talking dolphin. [Vdrome]
Artist Trevor Paglen, also the cinematographer for the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour, reacts to the film’s win for best documentary at last night’s Oscars. [Twitter]
Celebrity-art blahblah: Hip-hop artist Chris Brown is also a graffiti artist of sorts. He spraypainted some luxury cars for Fine Art Auction Miami’s Urban Art Week, raising over $60,000. [Hot New Hip Hop]

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GIF of the Day: Jonathan Jones Knows Nothing About GIFs

by Corinna Kirsch on January 27, 2015

Ballantine Another classic complaint from Jonathan Jones.

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