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A New Memorial Day Tradition: Burn a Confederate Flag With Artist John Sims

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 31, 2017

This Memorial Day, John Sims hosted a fiery funeral for the Confederate Flag in Detroit. He aims to make this a cathartic annual tradition.

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Monday Links: Literally Everyone Wants Something Removed or Replaced

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 3, 2015

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An exhibition by black artists at the Tubman African American Museum in Georgia is causing quite the stir. The painting Preacher Pimp by Alfred Conteh has drawn ire from religious groups who want the artwork removed. [Macon Telegraph]
A separate news story attributes the artwork to Rudy Mendez along with a photo of a venn diagram where the words “Preacher” and “Pimp” converge over “Money” and “Flock”. Isn’t this one kind of better? [NBC 41 WMGT]
An opinion piece entitled Oxford Undergraduates and the ISIS School of Art Criticism is as full of fighting words as one would expect. Brendan O’Neil equates a petition to remove a statue of a British imperialist with the American movement for iconoclasm of Confederate symbols. O’Neil argues that both of these desires are no different than the cultural rampage ISIS is blasting through the Middle East. [Newsweek]
In related news, artists Brandon Joyce and Jessica Ciocci are calling for submissions for a new flag for the south, as the Confederate one clearly isn’t cutting it anymore. The best submission so far? A giant billowing Waffle House menu. [The Enthusiast]
The South Street Seaport’s vacant retail spaces are being rebranded as the pop-up Seaport Cultural District. Former tourist-aimed businesses that have been empty since hurricane Sandy are now being converted to temporary outposts of the Guggenheim and the art and tech center Eyebeam, among others. The scheme is being funded by the controversial development group the Howard Hughes Corporation. [The New York Times]
Read this excerpt from The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries in the Art World and marvel at the ballsy-ness of Ely Sakhai. The dealer acquired original paintings by the likes of Gauguin, Rembrandt, and Paul Klee. He would then commission Chinese forgeries and sell them along with the originals’ certificates of authenticity to collectors in Tokyo. The originals were sent to auction houses. Unfortunately for Sakhai, this led to awkward moments when both Christie’s and Sotheby’s were listing “identical” works in their catalogs as Japanese collectors attempted to flip his fakes. [Salon]
The Seattle Art Fair gets a blow job. “It’s really, really exciting for Seattle,” Interior Designer Brian Paquette told the Times. “No, seriously. This is, like, beyond amazing.” Paquette was excited to see a Louise Nevelson at the fair. That’s just one of seemingly countless glowing reviews of the fair. Apparently Seattle was suffering for not having an art fair in its home town. [The New York Times]
More Banksy in Detroit controversy: an especially sappy mural the street artist completed on the Packard Plant there in 2010 was removed by the nonprofit 555 Gallery. The gallery intends to auction the piece to raise money for education programming, despite promising that the mural would not be sold. [Deadline Detroit]
We doubt there’s a single artist who will get behind Magnus Resch’s conclusions in his new book “Management of Art Galleries”. The author, in trying to determine why so many galleries lose money in a time when so much money is pouring into the market, suggests that galleries don’t pay their staff enough and pay artists too much. The profit split, he says should look more like 70/30. Given that artists don’t pay their bills either, this doesn’t seem like a useful recommendation, but we appreciate the author’s willingness to table ideas no matter how ridiculous. (And he has a number of outright loony ones, including placing sparklers beside work that has sold at gallery openings to increase sales.) We haven’t read Resch’s book, but our recommendation for the field is to charge more for art, so that businesses can pay their expenses. [Bloomberg]
The ten most awkward things artists have said to art critics: from Warhol inquiring about Calvin Tompkins’s penis size to James Franco bashing Ben Brantley on Instagram. [artnet News]
Now on YouTube: A fan fiction sequel to Star Trek TOS episode, “Mirror Mirror” produced by Star Trek Continues. “The Fairest of Them All” is the third of four sequels produced and the one recommended by Metafilter user Wittgenstein. [Metafilter]

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Tuesday Links: All You Ever Need to Know to Feel Depressed

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on June 30, 2015

Bot poetry

An essay on bots and poetry that is so good. “These days people are writing poems about fucking on volcanoes. ‘We fucked on a volcano.’ How does that help? How does it do anything to solve anything?” [n + 1 via The Paris Review]
The Whitney’s board of trustees has elected a new president, Richard M. DeMartini, and two new co-chairs, Laurie M. Tisch and Neil G. Bluhm. While Tisch has a background in the nonprofit sector—heading her own fund dedicated to increasing access to art education, economic opportunities, and healthy food—DeMartini and Bluhm are both from the world of finance. Bluhm had served as the board’s president since 2008 and is the founder and president of JMB Realty Corporation—a luxury real estate interest that at one point was the largest property developer in the United States. [ARTnews]
More info about the board of trustees, but not from us: “Also militarizing the Baltimore Police Department is Defense Tech ammunitions, sold by Warren Kanders’ Safariland Group. A vice chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s board of trustees, he is a wealthy investor who for the last 20 years has profited from the suppression of civil unrest.” [Al Jazeera America]
Thank you, Karen Archey, for bringing up Jackie Wullschlager’s recent article in the Financial Times. Writing about the Tate’s exhibitions of female modernists like Sonia Delaunay, Barbara Hepworth, and Agnes Martin, Wullschlager concludes: “Yet none delivers the visceral thrill or intellectual charge of a great retrospective, because none of these artists really changed how we see or think. Has a woman artist ever done so? The stories here show that female artists tend to assimilate and adapt radicality pioneered by men.” There is absolutely no way that you can prove that female artists have not changed the way we see or think or that they have assimilated and adapted radicality pioneered by men—scientific principles would be welcome in art history—not to mention that plenty of exhibitions have shown the influence of women in art. We don’t even know where to start, but let’s try Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Sigh. [e-flux conversations]
A pair of paintings featuring the Confederate flag has gone on display at the Laguna Art Museum in Ocean County, California. In reference to the flag’s controversy and the wave of racial unrest sweeping the nation, the artist G. Ray Kerciu said, “I thought as an old man, we would be past all this stuff. But we’re not. It’s a great disappointment to me.” [Los Angeles Times]
While Greece’s economy is in a tailspin, artnet takes the time to notify us that there is absolutely no news about the troubled country’s under-construction Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. [artnet News]
The Great Wall of China is disappearing. By some accounts, almost 30% of the structure has fallen victim to plundering, erosion, and neglect. People are freaking out. [The New York Times]
Hyperallergic’s Robin Grearson reviews Stay in New York, Art F City’s affordable workspace conference, and calls it a “crucial first step.” It’s a great summary for those who missed the conference. [Hyperallergic]
Jerry Saltz explains why everyone should be nicer to gallery attendants…with a picture of Marnie from HBO’s Girls. [Vulture]
WHOA! For the first time ever, the New York Rent Guidelines Board approved a freeze on one-year leases. There’s a couple of caveats to which leases will be affected, but this is historic. [Curbed NY]

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J. Crew CEO to Sell Andy Warhol’s Former Estate With Confederate Flag

by Corinna Kirsch on June 24, 2015

It’s not every day that you see an $85-million listing for a Montauk estate once owned by Andy Warhol; the current owner of the five-home compound is J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler. Yes, that is a confederate flag hanging above the couch.

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