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Who is “Fuck Theory”? Find Out, Sundays This Month

by Michael Anthony Farley on January 5, 2017

We’re not sure exactly what to expect from Postmasters Gallery’s Lectures for the End of the World. The series features presentations from porn star/writer Stoya, artist/nightlife personality Juliana Huxtable, outspoken punk illustrator Molly Crabapple, and more. But none of these identity-centric artist/activist/writers will be speaking as themselves. They “will serve as live stand-ins” for “the pseudonymous philosopher FuckTheory.”

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: An Overdue Eclipse of Male Artists

by Michael Anthony Farley on October 3, 2016

While the Guerrilla Girls are in London chastising Europe’s man-centric art world, we’re happy to report an all-too-rare week in New York that’s dominated by awesome female artists. Tuesday night Esther Ruiz is unveiling an installation at BAM, and the much-missed queer space Spectrum gets resurrected as The Dreamhouse in Ridgewood, with performances from Juliana Huxtable and more. Thursday night at Anna Zorina Gallery, Nadine Faraj’s solo show celebrates going topless as an act of political defiance, and Friday Robin Kang’s weavings at OUTLET demonstrate that textiles are still relevant to tech.

Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg is having a banner weekend, with a Friday night documentary about gender-redefining icon Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and a Saturday night screening of an experimental feminist revenge flick from Kat Hunt.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Augmented Reality, Black Lives Matter, Bromoeroticism, and More

by Michael Anthony Farley on August 1, 2016

It’s August. Very few people are having openings. Which is okay, because you can catch up on some other activities. Such as reading and sports! Head to Printed Matter’s pop-up on Tuesday, then head down to Basketball City for a friendly game with the folks from NADA. Wednesday, the Con Artist Collective is having a $99 art sale in the spirit of a Lower East Side Bodega. Thursday, the New Museum has all sorts of techy delights as they unveil New INC projects and Carter Burden Gallery is hosting a trifecta of medium-specific shows. End the night at the Brooklyn Museum, where Juliana Huxtable will be DJing from within a Tom Sachs installation (uh, hello all my favorite things!). Friday, identity politics gets graphic with Sean O’Connor’s wallpaper-like paintings of homoerotic sports stuff at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Carla Cubit’s Black Lives Matter posters at chashama.

The Queens Museum is on-point with public programming on Saturday, from plastic bag portraits from Nobutaka Aozaki in Flushing and artist tours of Newtown Creek, where many plastic bags have been flushed. And Sunday, there’s Alma Thomas’s dreamy abstract watercolors uptown at the Studio Museum or some timely dystopian cinema at BAM. Thank you, institutions, for giving us stuff to do while the Chelsea crowd is off using “summer” as a verb.

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Improper Administration: Mike Hoolboom at Images

by Rea McNamara on April 25, 2016

If you live in Toronto and have friends in the arts, they were likely busy last week. Most of the local art world were attending the screenings, gallery shows and live presentations launched as part of the Images Festival. Now in its 29th year, Images is the largest North American annual festival for experimental and independent film and video.

Few screenings saw greater demand than Mike Hoolboom’s sold out Incident Reports. Even press, such as myself, were put on a waiting list. This wasn’t exactly a surprise: the Toronto-based filmmaker is an influential figure in the Canadian film and media scenes. He’s not only had a prodigious output that’s warranted retrospectives at festivals worldwide (including Images), but is a co-founder of the exhibition collective Pleasuredome and was the first artistic director of Images (2000).

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The Roving Eye

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on February 1, 2016

Yes, this is a Lorna Mills GIF.

Legacies, transitions and milestones loom largely in this week’s slate of events. Black History Month kicks off in Harlem tonight at the Schomburg Center with a panel featuring Juliana Huxtable and Kimberly Drew among others dwelling on Basquiat’s life and legacy. Further on the BHM-related tip, decolonial knowledge is dropped by Tabita Rezaire at MoCADA’s Window Gallery, and the representation of black and queer personhood is re-assessed in Sondra Perry’s selection of video works for MoMA PS1’s Sunday Session.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Save Yourself for the Weekend

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 25, 2016

This might seem like a slow week of screenings and talks, but it’s probably best to save your energy for the weekend anyway. There is a lot to do.

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Wednesday Links: Art That Kills

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 20, 2016

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We’re currently in the midst of Europe’s pagan ritual season, which means we’ve been gifted with photos of glorious commedia dell’arte-meets-Dίa de los Muertos costumes of people dressing up as devils or boars to honour the earth goddess or improve the crop yield. [Dangerous Minds]

Here’s an exhaustive survey of museum collections with some pretty depressing figures. It’s no surprise that the vast majority of artwork is never displayed, but it’s insane to think how much work by important or beloved artists has been hoarded into vaults, gathering dust. This chart, for example, tracks the holdings of 20 museums in 7 countries, focusing on the work of 13 major artists and it’s shocking to see how many crowd-pleasing names have been relegated to archival benchwarmer status. [Quartz]

Yikes: a recent survey by the UK’s Museums Association has found that one in five museums (roughly 18%) have had to either close a branch or reduce their exhibition space in the past year or be forced to in 2016. Given the sustained deep cuts British institutions have faced, this comes as no surprise; the survey reveals surprisingly that despite the cuts, museums have seen a 61% increase in visitors over the past years. [Artforum]

“[The Internet] encourages people to collapse any distinction between their work life, their social life, and their political life. ‘Hey, that person who tweets about the TV shows I like also dislikes injustice,’ which over time becomes ‘I can identify an ally by the TV shows they like.’ The fact that you can mine a Rihanna video for political content becomes, in that vague internety way, the sense that people who don’t see political content in Rihanna’s music aren’t on your side.” An essay on the ways the internet molds our politics. I agree with about 60% of the author’s thinking. [Medium]

In anticipation of Takashi Murakami’s personal art collection being shown at the Yokohama Museum of Art, comes the expected preview coverage to pique your curiosities (if you have any): he collects a lot of traditional Edo period Japanese art, antique store finds (old beer mugs was mentioned) and fellow blue chip artists like Anselm Kiefer, Maurizio Cattelan and Yoshitomo Nara. Oh, and if you’re wondering who snapped up Frank Benson’s 3D printed sculpture of Juliana Huxtable from last year’s New Museum Triennial — it was your boy Superflat. [Hyperallergic]

Yesterday a truck carrying work by Matisse, Chagall, Miro, Haring and Neiman was stolen from an industrial park in suburban LA. There aren’t many details about the case yet, but this looks like it will be a juicy story. [Los Angeles Times]

Photographer Leila Alaoui has died from injuries she sustained in the recent Burkina Faso Siege. At the time, Alaoui was on assignment for Amnesty International for a photo series exploring women’s rights. She also just recently had a solo show at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. [PetaPixel]

You’ve built up a sizable vinyl collection, and you get your new music fix from independently release cassette tapes. Well, guess what, discerning music fan? It’s not enough, because an Austrian audiophile company is attempted to resurrect another obsolete player: the reel-to-reel deck. [FACT]

Sketchy: Josh Baer reports in his weekly mailer that a collector purchased an Ed Ruscha print for 18,150 GDP at LiveAuctioneers from Duchovnys Art. He paid for the piece immediately and has still not received it. These are the names of the dealers he worked with: Sean Duchovny (duchovnysart@gmail.com); Sean Rudy (comeseegallery@gmail.com); Gio (youlovepopart@gmail.com); Christopher D. Morris. Don’t do business with them. [The Baer Faxt]

The US Government is putting 4 billion into self driving cars. They believe these cars will make the roads safer and will help the country transition as its population increases and more of its residents move to cities. [Dezeen]

The Met is planning an 180,000 sq foot expansion project to accommodate it’s modern and contemporary collections, which will be displayed at the former Whitney location on the UES in the interim. How many moms of Central Park are going to rally against this one? [New York Post]

OMG today’s cover of the Daily News. [Mother Jones]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The Creative Time Summit, Juliana Huxtable, and Cyborg Squirrels

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on November 9, 2015

This weekend, everyone will be (or should be) attending The Creative Time Summit in Bed-Stuy. Leading up to the all-day events this weekend, however, are a handful of promising openings. Monday, check out massive, rarely-seen works from abstract painter Friedal Dzubas in Midtown. Thursday, a Jeff Koons show at Gagosian attempts some metaphysical alchemy, and Friday morning, Juliana Huxtable’s new MoMA commission opens. Friday night we couldn’t be more excited for solo shows by Alex Ebstein and Meriem Bennani at Cuevas Tilleard Projects and SIGNAL, respectively.

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