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Tuesday Links: Cats Continue to Serve Public Good Online

by Paddy Johnson on December 20, 2016

Behind this kitten lurks something much more sinister.

A chrome extension that replaces pictures of Donald Trump with kittens. [Business Insider]
We’ve all seen this by now, but Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was shot while giving remarks at Contemporary Arts Center in the Cankaya area of Ankar. [The New York Times]
Andrew Russeth’s Top 10. My favorite list so far. Just the right mix of the expected and shit you didn’t even know was shown. [ARTnews]
Jonathan Jones’s Top 10. My least favorite list so far. It begins with Pablo Picasso and Hieronymus Bosch and ends with Douglas Gordon. Sure, sure on the old time-y stuff, but every contemporary art pick is tacky as hell. [The Guardian]
A look at the art on the 2nd Ave Subway line. Ugh. A tacky Vic Muniz picturing a girl and her runaway balloon. But there’s a good Chuck Close, so maybe it evens out. [The New York Times]
38 more units for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s affordable housing project. [Politico]

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Monday Links: The British Are Coming

by Paddy Johnson and Rhett Jones on July 11, 2016

Sophie Michael, The Watershow Extravaganza, 2016 courtesy of Seventeen Gallery

London’s Seventeen Gallery will be opening a space on Bowery in what some are seeing as a migration inspired by the International Center of Photography opening near the New Museum. Seventeen has a pretty nice lineup of artists, including Paul B. Davis, Sophie Michael and Oliver Laric. [Bowery Boogie]
In what is probably not a coincidence, a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo standing on the border of the U.S. and Mexico will be coming to Philadelphia just 2 weeks before the presidential election. We’re guessing it will be viewed quite differently depending on which candidate is elected. [Art Newspaper]
LACMA is acquiring 39 major lithographs from the legendary L.A. print shop, Gemini. The acquisition includes works by Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha and Frank Stella. [Los Angeles Times]
Douglas Gordon has completed a feature about the patriarch of experimental film, Jonas Mekas. It will premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. Not much is known about the piece but the festival’s director says that “Douglas Gordon offers us a truly sensorial experience, which challenges the concept of seeing, and links the idea of the present with that of memory.” Gordon’s previous feature work, “Zidane: A Self Portrait” was an extremely unique approach to portraiture and biography, so the idea of him taking on Mekas is pretty exciting. [Art News] [Opinions belong to Rhett, Paddy does not agree.]
The photograph of a weeping officer that became one of the most iconic images from the Dallas police shooting last week was by an intern at the The Dallas Morning News. [Columbia Journalism Review]
This mirrored library in Yangzhou, China looks like some sort of unholy marriage between the Starship Enterprise and Hogwarts. [Curbed]
Speaking of the Starship Enterprise, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has opened an elaborate, interactive Star Trek exhibition. Yes, it’s basically a commercial for the new series that launches next year. But, it’s also a chance to find out what position you’d be given as a Starfleet cadet. [New York Times]
Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art has a new CEO. Terry Nicholson, the former director of arts and culture of the City of Toronto, will replace Chantal Pontbriand, who left after only eight months on the job. This appointment seems like a step in the right direction. Nicholson has worked with the institution before and has a long history of successfully pulling projects out of the fire. [The Toronto Star]
The Brooklyn Museum’s anti-gentrification forum was rescheduled this weekend due to an air-conditioning outage that forced the museum to close. It will now take place Sunday July 26th. In the meantime, Ben Davis gives some context to the event and offers a few highlights to look forward to. [artnet News]
Making the rounds: This Warhol style screen print of Donald Trump, with the words “Vote Hillary” inscribed below. The piece is by Deborah Kass. [Facebook]
From Hugo Ball to Kanye West, The Times’ staff takes a look at the history of Dada on its 100th anniversary. [New York Times]
The best thing on the Internet right now: bearcam! We spent most of the weekend watching bears patiently wait for salmon to fly into their mouths in katmai national park, alaska Alaska river. It’s early morning, and as I write this there is only one bear on the cam and a million salmon flying through the air. A good breakfast will be had. [Explore]

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Inside Paris Photo: The Art Fair Almost No One Saw

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 19, 2015

Following last week’s terrorist attacks, the art fair Paris Photo was forced to close. This week, the organizers launched an online simulacrum of the exhibition. Exploring the largely-empty fair is eerie, awkward, and uncannily poignant.

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Wednesday Links: Cat Anuses Can be Beautiful, The Onion Can’t be Trusted

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on July 15, 2015

Tired of gazing upon your cat’s unsightly anus? Get Twinkle Tush, the sparkling gemstone that transforms your cat’s butt from an eyesore to a glittering spectacle. It costs $5.99. But its value is beyond measure. [Mashable]

It seems absurd to criticize The Onion for a lack of journalistic integrity, but their brand of fake news has always seemed harmless—maybe even well-intentioned, as opposed to the fake news of FOX, for example. But this sponsored post (which reads like The Onion’s normal content) is really troubling. It’s written from the perspective of an almond that threatens to consume all the world’s water, seemingly in reference to the controversy over the crop in drought-stricken California. The problem? It’s sponsored by Outback Steakhouse. The issue of almonds farmers’ water usage has been used as a smokescreen by the state’s beef industry, who are using the nut as a scapegoat during the drought. In reality, the vast majority of California’s water has been going to raising feed for livestock, a fact even relatively conservative Bloomberg and Business Insider acknowledge. Outback Steakhouse, not so much. If we can’t trust fiction, what can we trust? [The Onion]

The Smithsonian is posting a disclaimer outside its exhibition of the collection of Billy Cosby and his wife Camille, explaining that the show is “fundamentally about the artworks and the artists who created them, not Mr. Cosby.” The exhibition has been generating controversy as a museum show (funded by the Cosbys) will presumably increase the value of the alleged rapist’s art holdings.[NPR]

A painter in a small town in Iowa got a phone call from the police (at the request of the mayor) asking him to cover up a painting featuring breasts. Of course, the gun in the painting wasn’t controversial. [artnet News]

Looking back on 60 years of Documenta, and ahead to its new programming in Athens, a context that’s politically loaded as German-Greek relations have grown more complicated during the debt crisis. [Deutsche Welle]

The Council of Concerned Citizens, the right-wing group Charleston shooter Dylann Roof was associated with, launched an insane attack against queer painter Robert Sherer at the height of “the culture wars.” Almost twenty years later, Sherer discusses how the ordeal affected his career and practice. [ArtsATL]

After a brief stint at Genius.com the L.A. Times picks up Sasha Frere-Jones as its new culture critic. Prior to working at Genius, Frere-Jones was the music critic for the New Yorker. [L. A. Times]

The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs has selected Tania Bruguera as the MOIA’s first artist-in-residence. Appropriately, her work deals with the immigrant experience and is intended to advocate for identification for the undocumented. [Art Fix Daily]

Uh, what? In response to bad reviews for his new play, Neck of the Woods in Manchester artist Douglas Gordon picked up an axe and attacked the new walls of the £25m home venue where the show is being staged. [Manchester Evening News via Artnews]

I’m Making a Boy Band (IMMABB), the k-pop band and art project with no Korean members gets some attention over at Hyperallergic. The band’s founder, Bora Kim, a Columbia MFA Student, sits down with Hannah Stamler to talk about the project. [Hyperallergic]

Disapproval of weed smoking is on the rise amongst teenagers. [Jezebel]

Does Texas rot some peoples brains? Jade Helm 15 is an eight week military exercise and it’s coming to Texas. This has made some conservatives paranoid that Obama and martial law are imminent, so they are stocking up on ammunition and burying their fire arms. [The New York Times]