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Wednesday Links: Watch this Dog Eat Goldfish

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 23, 2016

This slow-motion video of a pug eating a Goldfish cracker is the most captivating thing you can watch this morning. [Facebook]

Uh, architect Moon Hoon has completed one of the strangest/creepiest museums we’ve ever seen, located outside Seoul. The museum comprises a series of lumpy silver buildings for a collector of Pinocchio dolls and memorabilia. [Dezeen]

Congratulations to Piper Shepard, a MICA fibers professor who was just awarded a $50,000 United States Artists prize. The nomination was anonymous, and she still has no idea who entered her name. [The Baltimore Sun]

Artists respond to the stand-off in Standing Rock, where Native Americans are fighting to protect their lands from the horribly ill-conceived Dakota Access Pipeline. [Hyperallergic]

Capitalist irony: a recently discovered East German stained glass window completed in 1982 for the Stasi secret police will go on sale in Miami for upwards of $20 million. The piece is the work of Otfried Wilhelm, chief master of glass for public works in the German Democratic Republic. The motif features Lenin, doves, and a hammer and sickle. [The New York Times]

A Salem State University exhibition has been censored after students complained that it featured a digital painting of Klansmen by Garry Harley. [necn]

David Hockney has been tapped to design a new stained glass window for Westminster Abbey in honor of Queen Elizabeth II. [Blouin Artinfo]

Because none of us are tired of being lectured to or told what to do these past few weeks, read “28 Ways to Change the Art World”. [artnet News]

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Wednesday Links: I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 24, 2016

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Mysteriously legible graffiti appeared on an abandoned hospital facing a luxury condo tower in Miami Beach yesterday:”YOUR MILLION DOLLAR HOUSES WILL SOON BE UNDERWATER.” Is this in reference to sea level rise or the city’s notorious problems with mortgages? [The Miami Herald]

We at AFC recently joked that we should start a new category for news stories: “Living in Dystopia.” Well, today we have one that’s so dystopian and paranoia-inducing it’s practically a public mental health threat. Persistent Surveillance Systems is a private company that has secretly been flying aerial cameras over the city of Baltimore to document everyone’s movements and selling their data to the police. It’s like “real-time Google Earth.” How dystopian is this? So dystopian that the first sentence of this factual news article is virtually identical to the first sentence of seminal dystopian novel Neuromancer. Really. [Bloomberg]

In lighter news, Dominic Wilcox has opened the world’s first art exhibition for dogs. The London gallery has paintings in dogs’ color spectrum, hung at their eye-level and interactive installations. [Bored Panda]

Noah Charney is concerned about “art in the age of digital reproduction,” chiefly, that 3D-scanned and printed forgeries are reducing our appreciation of original works, or even hand-made copies. [Smithsonian]

Peter Doig’s bizarre legal troubles seem to have been resolved. The artist was being sued by a former Canadian corrections officer who claimed to own a painting Doig painted as an incarcerated teenager. This, despite the fact that Doig was never in the prison where the plaintiff worked. The whole case is just so weird. [Yahoo]

The Economist asks “Is Hacktivism Art?” We answer: sometimes? It’s one of those things like farming, where someone can use it as an artistic medium but the vast majority are just doing it because they need to eat. And then for every good piece of activist/hacktivist/farmer art there are 10 just horribly ill-conceived copycats. [The Economist]

Oh what a tangled web. Yesterday we linked to a report of a court ruling against restitution in the case of Nazi-looted paintings at The Norton Simon Museum. Today we learn that the person trying to reclaim the art is the daughter of a Nazi. [Culture: High & Low]

Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer is killing it! He’s taken Mayor de Blasio on over his support of an out of scale development in Inwood which would include affordable housing units, but push more residents out of the neighborhood. And now he is blocking a new building development in Sunnyside that promises 100 percent “affordable housing”, but has numerous issues that have kept residents from supporting the development. This includes being out of scale for the neighborhood, being developed by a developer with other projects across the street known for their mismanagement, and not actually being affordable. [NY1]

We can’t even believe this headline is real: “Mouthwatering Qing Dynasty Sculpture of Braised Pork Belly Leaves Asia for First Time”. [Hyperallergic]

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GIF of the Day: Today is Alien Day

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 26, 2016

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Today, 4/26, is being hailed as “Alien Day” because LV-426 is the fictional name of the Alien homeworld. Alien is one of my all-time favorite movies and Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley remains one of the most bad-ass female protagonists of cinema history. Despite this, Reebok released it’s 426 limited edition Alien shoes based on her footwear only in men’s sizes. Really, dudes?

That’s not stopping plenty of people in Brooklyn from celebrating Alien Day with events such as discounted Alien-inspired prints at Williamsburg’s Bottleneck Gallery and a celebration/screening at Syndicated BK tonight at 10.

But dog GIFs are my favorite way to commemorate any fake holiday, so enjoy.

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Friday Links: Butt Bruises and Inroads to Tech Wealth

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on February 12, 2016

teamLab, “Flowers and People – Gold,” which Pace Gallery recently exhibited and sold (sneakily) in Silicon Valley

The Grand Palais in Paris will have to close for at least two years to undergo major renovations. That’s gonna put a crimp on annual events like the Monumenta contemporary art commission and Fiac Modern and contemporary art fair. [The Art Newspaper]

Pace Gallery has finally figured out how to sell art to Silicon Valley. In their latest tech-focused exhibition, none of the works are marketed as being for sale. Rather, visitors pay a $20 entrance fee to the show. Somehow, this has resulted in techies making offers to purchase many of the works. [The Wall Street Journal]

Does anyone really want a door sensor that will play the base riff from Seinfeld every time you open the door? [Yup That Exists]

Some of us at AFC are getting into running, so this article on to prevent running injuries is of interest. A new study shows that the rare runners who have not sustained injuries land far more lightly on their feet then the rest of us. Their advice: try to run landing on your toes (yeah right) and increase your cadence. [The New York Times]

This dog sounds like a goat. [Youtube]

We all know co-op prices in Manhattan are going up, but how much have they increased since 2000? Here’s a handy graphic that shows of all neighborhoods the value of Soho co-ops have increased the most over the last 15 years, by a staggering 186 percent. Yikes. [Neighborhood X]

Studio assistance. (comic) [Hyperallergic]

Pastel palette renderings of butt bruises caused by roller derby falls. [Hyperallergic]

The third annual Wikipedia Art + Feminism edit-a-thon is on this weekend! [Artnews]

Katie Hollander is the new Executive Director of Creative Time. For the past eight years she was the deputy head, so this may not represent a great change at Creative Time. Hollander replaces Anne Pasternak who left last year to lead the Brooklyn Museum. [The New York Times]

Artists Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam have had their work censored in a Bangladeshi exhibition after the Chinese ambassador urged/threatened the organizers. The piece “Last Words” comprises photographs of handwritten letters from Tibetans who have committed suicide by burning in protest of Chinese occupation. [The Washington Post]

I’ve always wanted to visit Lagos, Nigeria. Now, one can (sort of) in Washingto, D.C. through the work of Emeka Ogboh, who has a sound installation at The National Museum of African Art. The artist records the chaotic sounds of the metropolis as a method of preserving street life increasingly threatened by development. [Smithsonian]

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Thursday Links: Trump Supporter also a Fan of Provisional Painting

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on February 4, 2016

Andrew Laumann sent us this screen-grab of a Donald Trump ad featuring what appears to be a David Ostrowski painting hanging in the background of this right-wing lady’s supposed home. LOL. Click to enlarge.

“Go read this article, oops I mean celebrity press release, if you dare, and try to choke back the tears, oops, I mean vomit. This “toast of the art fair” is a ‘Mahatma Gandhi like figure’ who must have been ‘very uncomfortable lying on the pebble beach’ in imitation of the photo of the drowned Syrian refugee boy while the ‘soft evening light fell on his face’ and he stripped the boats of actual refugees for an art project because ‘the seashore is his studio.’ (What a luxury!) Ai WeiWei : calling you out for your nonstop exploitive victim porn, pretentious parade of attention-seeking bad art, and all the rest of your bull to the fucking shit! Enough.” Sean Capone on The Washington Post’s coverage of Ai Weiwei’s Syrian refugee project. [Facebook]

Wow! The 16-mile Brooklyn-Queens waterfront streetcar plan is actually moving forward with the de Blasio administration. The downside: it will likely take nearly a decade (who are we kidding? Probably longer), there’s no mention of it being separated from traffic (otherwise it’ll be worse than a bus), and it’s expected to pay for itself with property value increases (meaning the people most in need of better inter-borough transit will likely be priced out of the neighborhoods it benefits). [The New York Times]

A new pet craze in Japan: cubist grooming for fluffy dogs. Adorable. [MTV]

“When white critics face work that calls attention to their whiteness, it is the unconscious nature of that erasure of whiteness that causes anxiety.” Yaniyah Lee revisits the reviews of past shows for artists Divya Mehra and Jérôme Havre, and parses reviewers’ anxious responses to indigenous and diasporic works that challenge colonialist legacies. The key takeaway is how often critics’ project a contentious neutrality, and don’t often take into consideration their own subjectification process. [C Magazine]

Sad: the National Museum in Yemen has been destroyed as part of the fallout of the country’s civil war. The institution, which housed rare manuscripts and other artifacts, was incinerated in a fire. [Artforum]

Facebook’s newsfeed algorithms have diminished “organic reach” (that is, unpaid content viewership) substantially. This is terrible news for nonprofits (like us) who largely depend on social media to share content. This is why your feed is full of advertising. [International Business Times]

The next big thing in psychiatry? Treating severe depression with Special K. Researchers have discovered that the party drug quickly ends suicidal thinking and has a quick antidepressant effect, and it appears it’ll be soon endorsed by the American Psychiatric Association. [Washington Post]

Cubans will soon be able to access the internet desde su casa. Cuba’s state telecom is introducing a pilot project that will deliver home wi-fi to two Havana neighbourhoods. The country only introduced broadband internet access last year when they opened state-sanctioned puntos wifi. [Fusion]

Two huge net art exhibitions just opened in London, including Whitechapel’s Electronic Superhighway survey. The Guardian discusses those and the larger impact of the internet on cultural production. [The Guardian]

As part of her ongoing Art and Populism blogging series for Vienna’s Kunsthalle Wien, writer Rosemary Heather interviews Mohammad Salemy, co-founder of the New Center for Research & Practice. As a decentralized education platform, the New Center is attempting to bridge the gap between legacy institutions and “new knowledge production” and offer affordable graduate-level programs. [Kunsthalle Wien]

They just like us: apparently while Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme ran to the ground, Ruth Madoff coped by smoking a lot of weed. [Gawker]

Useful: How to remove glitter from your clothing, face and hair. (Answer: oil) [InStyle]

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Friday Links: Thievius Raccoonus is Real

by Rea McNamara on December 31, 2015

“People outside were cheering when he finally got the doughnut.” Credit: Buzzfeed

Toronto’s so-called “Thievius Raccoonus”, who descended from a ceiling tile in a coffee shop to victoriously steal a day-old donut, has been anointed the new #pizzarat. [CBC]
Aretha Franklin sang the shit out of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” during last night’s broadcast of the 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors. She caused its songwriter Carole King to have a meltdown, and brought one tear to President Obama’s face. Oh, and she also effortlessly dropped her full-length mink down on the stage in the midst of a soulful wail, because she’s the root of all queendom. [The Guardian]
Hyperallergic’s 2015 Powerless List is out, and depressingly, archaeologists scored the number one spot thanks to ISIL’s ongoing destruction of archaeological and cultural sites in the fighting in Syria and Iraq. Oh, and somewhat relevant to our own struggles, “Loved Ones of Art Bloggers and the Social Media-Addicted” came in at number fourteen. [Hyperallergic]
Rome airport employees have been arrested for being caught red-handed stealing art from travelers passing through Fiumicino airport. [artnet News]
“I advise everyone to scream and dive through the nearest window #EndOfTheWorld”. Mass internet hysteria occurred this morning when all of the BBC’s websites went offline. [Wired.co.uk]
Boise Art Museum has hired Nicole Herden as curator of art. Herden, formerly curatorial assistant of American and Western American art at the Phoenix Art Museum, replaces Sandy Harthorn, who is leaving after 39 years with the institution. [Artforum]
It’s dangerous out there for tech support. An IT worker was held hostage by an armed man until his computer was fixed; at one point, the man told the technician “I will kill you slowly if you don’t fix this computer.” The accused, 50-year-old Joseph Nestor Mondello on Arlington, VA, was arrested and charged with abduction. [CBC]
A really large royal atlas will be digitized by the British Library in London. Described by conservators as an “unsexy cause”, the atlas is part of a 50,000 map collection belonging to King George III. [The Art Newspaper]
“No one is personally gunning for you to succeed except maybe your mom so you better go try succeeding by your damn self.” There really should be more end of year listicles titled “Some Worthless Bullshit I Learned.” [The Awl]
Antonio Gramsci broke down back in 1916 what sucks about New Year’s Day: “You end up seriously thinking that between one year and the next there is a break, that a new history is beginning; you make resolutions; and you regret your irresolution, and so on, and so forth. This is generally what’s wrong with dates.” [Viewpoint Magazine]
Want to cry? Watch this video of an abused shelter dog being petted for the first time. Now go adopt a dog already, or hang out at your nearest dog bowl and marvel at how wonderful canines are. [Bored Panda]
Egypt is reviving plans to build an underwater museum in Alexandria to house its aquatic antiquities. [Observer]
A brief history of the Mold-A-Rama affordable art machine. [Hyperallergic]

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Tuesday Links: This Dog for President!

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 27, 2015

DONALD TRUMP DOG! [The Guardian]

Is there anything better than the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade? [Gothamist]

The NYPD Union is calling for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino because the filmmaker spoke at an anti police brutality rally in Washington Square Park, where he made the apparently controversial statement: “When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers.” The Union has no actual plan as to how a boycott of Quentin Tarantino is going to proceed, but they did respond by showing up in riot gear and arresting 11 demonstrators, including a 70 year old woman. [VICE]

CCS Bard has launched a new online student-run journal. We’ve only poked around on it, but it looks pretty great so far. The first issue is titled “The Artworld is Normal” and features artist-made pop-up ads alongside headier articles. [aCCeSsions]

James McAnally makes a lot of good points and asks a lot of good questions in “After the alternative is another alternative: A Radicalization of the Artist-Run”. There are now thousands of artist-run spaces putting on shows and facilitating other programming/services, scattered across living rooms and warehouses and garages in nearly every city. Are these actually an “alternative” cultural network, one which can exist in political difference with the mainstream art world and capitalist goals? (I imagined an analogy to punk houses) Or is the “artist-run” always viewed as a stepping stone toward the ultimate goal of commercial success and museum shows? I’d argue that depends a lot on surprisingly-relevant local conditions—for example, generally, New York’s artist-run spaces are stepping stones to mainstream success; Miami’s function in symbiotic opposition/co-option of the hyper-commercial model; and Baltimore’s have effectively become the city’s art world, eclipsing weaker institutions and commercial spaces in both volume of programming and exposure. [Temporary Art Review]

Gentrification in the Bay Area has reached such insane heights that it is now cheaper to commute by plane from Las Vegas than rent a one bedroom in San Francisco. Yes, really, though it is not recommended. [Business Insider]

Afraid of showing up to a Halloween party in the same costume as 10 other people? Google Labs has a new service that tells you what costumes are trending where, based on searches. In case you were wondering, New Yorkers are dressing as superheroes this year, which is a pretty common look nationally. The costume most uniquely popular in the Big Apple: Cinderella …which might make sense given the city’s obsession with glamour and growing class disparities. [Frightgeist]

The listicle we never knew we needed: eight of the best weed-themed artworks. [artnet News]

Beautiful landscape photography as seen through the lens of a nutsack. [Daily Dot]

What is the purpose of art? 9 curators, museum directors and artists weigh in. Not exactly an uplifting read. Many are concerned with war. [The Art Newspaper]

Painters or people who work on paper, these charts are so useful. Marc Trujillo has been experimenting with different art materials to test their lightfastness, among other qualities. Never buy white oil paint without looking at how yellow some of these brands will be in a year! [The Huffington Post]

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Pre-Party With Fourth of July Dogs

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on July 2, 2015

It’s time for you to leave the office and start pre-partying for the long weekend. To get you in the mood, here are GIFs of Fourth of July dogs. Their patriotism is so strong, their fur sparkles to the tune of “God Bless America.” Hopefully you’ll attend some parties with dogs invited to them. Parties are way better with dogs. You can play fetch with them. You can tell them to steal your enemy’s hot dog. Just don’t play fetch with them at a rooftop party. Never play fetch with a dog at a rooftop party.

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Thursday Links: I Seen a Rainbow Yesterday

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on June 18, 2015

Painting by Studio Museum artist-in-residence EJ Hill, “I Seen a Rainbow Yesterday,” 2013.

The world outside today is a hateful place. From a church shooting in South Carolina to another police assault on an unarmed teenager, we understand if you don’t have it in you to leave your bed. [The Internet]
But if you need lighthearted news to get through your tearful, existential crisis, the “Rescued Art for Rescued Dogs” project will auction off paintings in which artists have added dogs to “bad landscape paintings rescued from thrift stores and flea markets.” [The Recorder]
So many choice quotes in this article about the future of graffiti-art collectors in New York. Vinny Pacifico, a graffiti-art collector out of the Bronx, hopes to cultivate a market for graffiti like he did with his meat-packing business. “One day, people here are going to wake up to all this, just like they woke up 10 years ago and decided they wanted Kobe or organic beef…and when that time comes, I want the kind of market share in art that I now have in meat.” Also: developers love graffiti. “Graffiti is now being used for gentrification purposes,” Doyle auctioneer Mr. Madrigale said. “Its presence is meant to signal that a neighborhood is welcoming to artists.” [Crain’s New York Business]
Congratulations to artists EJ Hill, Jordan Casteel, and Jibade-Khalil Huffman for their appointments to the Studio Museum’s 2015 – 2016 artists-in-residence program. [ARTnews]
Donations to arts and culture organizations rose 9.2% in 2014, but lags behind several other categories in which Americans prefer to give like health- and religion-related causes. [Los Angeles Times]
Ralph Nader is opening a museum! [Wall Street Journal]
Why is art boring? I mean, really. [Quora]
A shot from inside the Whitney’s new Danny Meyer restaurant Untitled. I’m no food critic, but I ate there last night and fully recommend it. There’s a carrot dish that looks like a miniature high-rise village, and literally the best fried chicken I’ve ever had. It was juicy without being coated in fat. It actually seemed healthy. (Paddy) [Gothamist for pics.]
Rachel Dolezal emoji heads. [PBS]

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