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Wednesday Links: Will the Children Who Sewed these Shirts Ever Make it to NASA?

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on December 30, 2015

Old Navy tells you to give up already. [artnet News]
The New York Times has published their annual round up of obituaries. Ellsworth Kelly and Mary Ellen Mark were the two artists whose deaths were cited, but it was a tough year over all. We lost Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, Times writer David Carr, baseball player Yogi Berra, and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. We need to find a cure for death. [The New York Times]
Painter Johanna Barron has been attempting to recreate the CIA’s collection of Washington Color School artworks based on rare photos and anecdotes. She doesn’t have a lot to go on: all of her Freedom of Information Act requests for images and descriptions have been mysteriously rejected. Don’t we, as the American public, technically collectively own the CIA and by extension its art collection? I can never figure out how our government is supposed to work. [Hyperallergic]
“I was having my second Frogasm of the night when dinner got weird.” That is the way to start a review. Pete Wells offers a report on Señor Frog’s in Times Square, a Cancun, Spring Break type restaurant that greets diners with its dress code signage, “Do not show underwear”. The whole piece is hilarious. [The New York Times]
Particle physics can be fun. Here’s a list of all of Richard Feynman’s diagrams, which can be drawn. [Quantum Diaries]
Is there such a thing as documentation porn? If there is, then I nominate the slideshow of images from Olafur Eliasson: Baroque Baroque at the Belvedere Museum’s Winter Palace of Prince Eugene. The solo exhibition, on until March, features works from two private collections, are installed in one of the most storied Baroque edifices in Vienna. [Artsy]
For the headline alone: “Bushwick Had the City’s Most Burglaries This Year Because Gentrifiers Forgot to Lock Doors”. [Brooklyn Magazine]
Vladimir Putin’s 2016 calendar is, as expected, bizarre and wonderful. One shot has him shirtless while fishing, the other cuddling a puppy. The image for March has him smelling a flower, with a wistful glance into the distance accompanied by the caption: “I like all Russian women. I think Russian women are the most talented and the most beautiful.” [Express.co.uk]
Related: it’s been a month so far, but the friendship between a Siberian tiger and a goat in the Primorsky Safari Park in the Russian Far East continues to endure. The goat, Timur, should have been tiger food but now enjoys long walks with Amur the tiger, sometimes playing tag and hide-and-seek. [Observer]
This looks like the most fun place on earth. The Cuban government gave musician X Alfonso permission to turn a state-owned factory in Havana into a late-night art gallery, performance/screening venue, and discotheque. In the not very-originally-named “The Factory” one might encounter $2 mojitos, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and art that actually sounds pretty good. [The Washington Post]
Here’s a different type of story involving art appreciation and pandas on camera than one is accustomed to hearing around the AFC offices: a man in a panda mask brazenly stole artwork from a Nebraska fast food restaurant. It’s all captured on surveillance cameras for posterity. [WOWT NBC Omaha h/t Hyperallergic]
In depressing news from earlier this month, a Virginia school cancelled classes after a teacher gave students an Arabic calligraphy assignment. [Gawker]

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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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Monday Links: All the Art and Hair Trends

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 16, 2015

The Pratt Show has been canceled. The 30-year-old annual juried exhibition for graduating seniors was axed by administration. Pratt students and faculty have created a petition letter, for what’s being called the #bringbackprattshow campaign. [Change.org]
An amazing Tumblr studying the appearance of algorithms in popular culture and everyday life. [#algopop]
Find all your Modernist art needs in the latest eBay corner, “All About Yves.” Exhibition posters, prints, collectibles, even the 2012 limited-edition Yves Klein Euro (yes, this happened) are up for grabs. Ebay might come under fire for failing to vet its artworks. For $190,000.00, you can purchase a nude Yves Klein bust that comes with a “lifetime exchange certificate.” Just in case you change your mind. [eBay]
A sign of the “haunted-house market, where a new scary event lurks around each corner”: Sotheby’s, the only publicly traded auction house, will not be paying a special dividend to shareholders until they find a new CEO. [Wall Street Journal]
Over the years, so much has been written about the late Francesca Woodman that it seems nearly impossible to find a new approach to her work. Critic Paige K. Bradley did, however, in her write-up of the artist’s current show at Marian Goodman. Cheers to that. [Artforum]
The Museum of Broken Relationships. [Collector’s Weekly]
Pixelated hair is a trend. [Bored Panda]
“The image used by Prince is not the first photograph of a Rastafarian to land the appropriation artist in legal trouble.” [Hyperallergic]
Here are a few artists who are using ASCII and other techniques to publish art on Twitter. [The Atlantic]
David Carr’s syllabus “Press Play.”<3. We’ll be spending a good chunk of our day pouring through articles we have yet to read. Essential reading for any journalist. [The Medium]
SpongeBob: Most-photographed image from Mexico City’s Material Art Fair. [San Francisco Art Quarterly]

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Friday Links: A Sad Day For No Bullshit Journalism

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on February 13, 2015

Zoo security drills prepare workers in the event of an escaped animal.

Media journalist and staunch New York Times defender David Carr died suddenly last night after collapsing in the newsroom. A video of one of his finer moments, grilling the journalistic stunt style of the VICE editors. “Just because you put on a safari helmet and looked at some poop doesn’t give you the right to insult what we do.” [YouTube]
The most honest, beautiful and horrifying account of addiction we’ve ever read, by David Carr. [The New York Times]
The best slide show we have ever seen. Zoo security drills for when animals escape. Incredible. [The Atlantic]
Record prices set for Ai Weiwei and Mark Bradford last night at Phillips London. [Baer Faxt]
Also, Christie’s has acquired Collectrium, an online database management system akin to ArtBinders that helps gallerists manage their inventory and track their sales. Wonder how Christie’s will use this software. [Baer Faxt]
I have no idea what the hell is going on with this booby performance costume at the #CAA conference, but I will be investigating further. [@nikkigphd on Twitter]
GIF artist Rebecca Mock has accused Diplo of ripping one of her GIFs to promote his new song. [Dazed Digital]
Weird. A listicle on the relationship details of art world power couples because Valentine’s Day. Many of those on the list are dead. Still, stories about people brought together by shared intellectual interests is better than the usual crap. [artnet News]

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Friday Links: “J” Is for Jesus

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on December 19, 2014

Get into the spirit of the season with creepy, overly capitalistic Christmas commercials from the 1980s. “Taste all the ways butter helps your holidays throughout the year!” [YouTube]
On the history of classical Roman torture in Hollywood film. [The Awl]
Adrian Chen follows Swedish journalist Robert Aschberg, whose TV show Troll Hunter confronts Internet trolls IRL. The point, according to Aschberg: “The agenda is to raise hell about all the hate on the Net.” [Technology Review]
Sound art 101: Know what a “gremlin” is. [Leonardo Music Journal]
Good news for the ICA: Political activist Barbara Lee has gifted the museum with over 40 artworks, many by female, international, and politically active artists. [Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston]
Mo’ money for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which has decided to start charging admission. [Hyperallergic]
A little history lesson on the Shanghai art scene in the 1980s: “[a]rt from the end of the Cultural Revolution through to the mid-1990s was insufficiently modern, fashionable, and avant-garde, and was at best expressing rebellion against a restrictive social environment.” [LEAP]
David Carr goes on WBUR to discuss the massive blow visited upon American freedom because, following terrorist threats, movie theaters unanimously decided not to show The Interview. Barely mentioned is the fact that trailers present the film as a buddy movie about a dictator who is STARVING PEOPLE, sending them to labor camps, and killing all who try to escape. Or the fact that this was not a case of government censorship but decisions made by private theaters who chose not to sell this product. But we as a nation suffer, because our comedies have been jeopardized. If the premise weren’t so ignorant, I’d put it on par with hate speech. We are a nation of assholes. [WBUR]
Jerry Saltz complains about not getting paid. This, from the man who just weeks ago, told artists to “[g]row up. Stop feeling deprived. You will never have enough money. You will never get enough love.” [Twitter]
A history of the candy cane reveals that they are not a “J” for Jesus, but the result of a fortuitous manufacturing malfunction. [The Smithsonian, via Metafilter]

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Monday Links: Email is the Cockroach of the Internet

by Paddy Johnson Andrew Wagner Whitney Kimball on June 30, 2014

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Whitney Kimball makes a case for artist resale royalties. Artists talk about why they’re so fucking poor. [Slate]
Peter Schjeldahl says that if you approach The Jeff Koons Retrospective with your eyes and mind open, you encounter Koons’s formidable aesthetic intelligence. [The New Yorker (behind the paywall)]
People are getting shot all over New York. [ANIMAL]
Now that Facebook sucks, email is supposedly the way to go. It’s being described here as the cockroach of the Internet – impossible to kill. [The Medium]
Oddly enough, David Carr over at The New York Times has written a piece on exactly the same subject that closes with a line comparing email to cockroaches. [The New York Times]
So much for the idea that Koons bankrupts himself to make his art. He’s getting a mega mansion on the Upper East Side, combining two mansions to create “one of the city’s biggest homes”. According to Page Six, the original plan included a pool and maids’ quarters but this was rejected by the Department of Buildings. Upper East Siders are complaining. [Page Six]
Speaking of neighbors complaining, residents of the gated Georgetown community Hillandale are complaining about Janet Yellen’s security detail. “Neighbors seem especially put off by the aesthetics of the security detail, in particular their blue uniforms and—in the words of one resident—’doughnut bellies.’” [Wall Street Journal]
A recent study in which Facebook altered the news feed of 689,000 of its users to see if moods were “contagious” found that, in fact, the social network can alter your mood. Zeynep Tufekci finds this very disturbing. [The Medium]
Yesterday’s Gay Pride March was led by a group of Boy Scouts. Though gay youth can join the organization, openly gay adults are still banned as leaders. [The New York Times]

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Monday Links: Poop Fetishes and Used Tampons

by Paddy Johnson and Anthony Hicks on January 27, 2014

Good morning everyone! Welcome to a day of schizophrenic weather (it’s warm now, but not for long), and random links. Let’s get to ’em!

We had a great conversation about the Mike Kelley retrospective at P.S.1 with Twitter folk. I am no fan of that show. [Twitter]
Q. When is an Uber car not an Uber car? A. When it runs over a child. [Bits via: @KarrieUrbanist]
Arts journalists need support. Sarah Kent writes about this year’s Art Foundation Awards (which will be announced this Thursday), which for the first time will award a writing prize. Times for writers, she thinks, are brutal. [BBC]
Tom Perkins, a founding member of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal, to lament the public criticism of the “one percent”. Apparently, this kind of criticism is similar to the Nazi attacks on the Jews. Cue the Internet outrage. Paul Krugman responds best to this one. [The New York Times]
A car bomb explodes outside of Cairo’s museums, destroying precious antiquities. The last line of the article also notes the death of at least four people and the injury of more than 70. [The Art Newspaper via: Dan Duray]
Is Jay Z a creepy monster? [Salon]
Poop fetishes and used tampons stole the show at Sundance this year. Must have been one hell of an after party. [Vulture]
A fantastic piece by David Carr on Ezra Klien’s departure from the Washington Post, and the uniqueness of digital publishing. For the media nerd readers. [The New York Times]

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The Year in Brief: Good Riddance To Mainstream Media

by Whitney Kimball on December 30, 2011

John Hockenberry, Jim VandeHei, Michael Wolff debate “Good Riddance to Mainstream Media” against Katrina vanden Heuvel, David Carr, and Phil Bronstein. This may not have been the groundbreaking internet video of 2011, but I thought about it often while reading this year’s (albeit art) internet highlights.

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The Year in Brief: Good Riddance To Mainstream Media

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