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Rhizome Names Its New Executive Director, Pratt Upload Names Its Keynote

by Paddy Johnson on October 1, 2015

New York based New Media non-profit Rhizome.org announced this Tuesday that they have appointed Zachary Kaplan as their new executive director. That same day Pratt Digital Arts also named Lorna Mills as the keynote speaker for its digital media conference, Pratt Upload.

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An Incomplete History: Looking Back at Rhizome’s Professional Surfer

by Paddy Johnson on September 4, 2015

In 2006, Rhizome’s “Professional Surfer” felt like an important show. Surfing informed the practice of most artists I knew, and seemingly countless artist run blogs existed for the sole purpose of collecting weird shit. This included material like an animated GIF of a flag made in ASCII, MS Paint software instructions, and the largest camera lens you’ve ever seen. It was fun to watch and those with a knack for finding the obscure and truly bizarre were followed religiously.

The online exhibition describes itself as a show that “considers web browsing, aka ‘surfing’ as an art form.” Practically speaking, that meant presenting six websites by artists including Olia Lialina’s Pages in the Middle of Nowhere, Travis Hallenbeck’s Cosmic Disciple, Joel Holmberg’s Chillshesh, John Michael Boling’s 53o’s, and the group blogs Supercentral and Nasty Nets. Each present, combine or recontextualize found material from the web.

Nearly ten years later, we’re still remixing, blogging and collaging material, only we’ve moved to different platforms. Which begs the question: Given the relevance of “Professional Surfer” to today’s online culture, does it hold up as an exhibition and a historical document?

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Tuesday Links: Lost Penguin Now Found

by Corinna Kirsch on June 23, 2015

Good morning to my fellow New Yorkers. It’s going to be humid and hot, with some thunderstorms thrown in for good measure. Something for everyone!

The not-so-secret secrets of the Art Basel art fair: “Once the fair starts, jurors arrive each morning at 8 to make sure that galleries that have sold items the day before do not replace the empty spaces on their walls with inferior art. If they have, dealers could be shown the door.” But, I wonder, have dealers ever been kicked out of Art Basel? Anyone know? [The New York Times]
In advance of the Doctor Strange movie, set for a 2016 theatrical release, Marvel Comics has reinvented the character within its pages. One new detail? The Sorcerer Supreme is going to have a really big axe. [IGN via Entertainment Weekly]
Kant is experiencing a revival (maybe). Apologists for the philosopher have appeared in the summer issue of Artforum, as well as in Why Grow Up?, a new book by philosopher Susan Neiman. [Artforum, The New York Times]
After weeks of protest, MoMA union members approve a new contract. [Hyperallergic]
Artist Jordan Eagles has created a sculpture out of the blood of nine gay men in order to protest the FDA’s lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men from donating blood. [YouTube]
A missing penguin has been found. But a tiger and hyena are still on the loose! [Associated Press]
Those “pancakes and booze” art events are still taking place, I guess. [Craigslist]
Something I read this morning because it came up in my feed: “Emulate Pixar: The Way Forward for Christian Movies.” [Patheos]
Curator Lauren Cornell has been promoted to a senior management post at the New Museum. Congrats! [New Museum]

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In Praise of the Virus: Anicka Yi’s You Can Call Me F at the Kitchen

by Corinna Kirsch on March 24, 2015

Artist Anicka Yi’s You Can Call Me F takes our obsession with feminine cleanliness to a science-fiction extreme: Women have been reimagined as a “virus,” as a deadly problem. But it’s really hard to know that, if you don’t take a look at the press release first.

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Notes on the 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 26, 2015

In which Paddy and Corinna discuss the Triennial in thousands of words.

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Monday Links: Coloring Outside the Lines

by The AFC Staff on August 11, 2014

“Sparkle on bitches”. So begins the documentation of Christian Grattan’s portable coloring book station in Chelsea. Want the coloring book you see in that video for free? All you gotta do is give Artist Christian Grattan your name and address and he’ll send you one. His coloring book includes figures such as Andy Warhol, Karl Lagerfield, and Oprah. These are his heroes. [Sparkle Artist]
More people calling bullshit on Marina Abramovic. As if the fashion photo accompanying the piece picturing Marina holding a cup to her head weren’t enough evidence on its own. [The Guardian]
Anybody want to hear the story of a woman who helped make twenty two buildings permanently affordable in Manhattan? (Whitney did.) Makers of the documentary It Took 50…, the story of community land trusts in New York City, are speed-raising money on indiegogo to fund the rest of the film. Raise the money, or you’ll all be watching My Brooklyn from Philadelphia. [Indiegogo]
Months after the New York Public Library elected to “chart a new course,” the stacks at the 42nd Street Library remain empty, according to pro-library activists. [Save NYPL newsletter]
Rich artists in real estate: James Turrell is selling off his Gramercy Park pied-à-terre (ohhhh, fancy) in Gramercy Park for $2.85 million. Maybe he’ll be on track to finish Roden Crater with those funds? [Curbed NY]
A herd of pigs looking into a hole. [BBC]
Longtime School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty Barbara DeGenevieve passed away. Here’s a quick two-minute interview that shows her really frank, endearing personality at work. [Facebook via Ivan Lozano]
New Museum curator Lauren Cornell coins the term “techno-animism,” a phrase broad and arbitrary enough to describe any technologically-made work involving humans, plants, animals, bugs, mythology, cosmology, sexuality, evolution, environs, etc, etc. Email interviews with Jacolby Satterwhite, John Kelsey, Katja Novitskova, and Mark Leckey follow. [Mousse Magazine]
Pittsburgh’s August Wilson Center for African American Culture could be turned into a hotel. After the center defaulted on its loans for the building, their bank proposed selling it to New York developer 980 Liberty. Here’s the background piece and here’s the opinion piece. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
People have stolen 40 of Ryan McGinness’s abstract street signs, his public art project in partnership with the New York Department of Transportation. Chances are, a few of them will show up on eBay. [The Wall Street Journal]
New Yorkers have filed 7,031 complaints about the Mr. Softee jingle over the past four years. [The New York Post]
A whole bunch of shots from the Hermitage shouted out over Twitter. [@theBenStreet]
David Carr ruminates on the health of print media and concludes it’s on its death bed. He’s not sure anyone will even remember it. [The New York Times]
The basketball player formerly known as Ron Artest has decided to change his name to “Panda Friend” in honor of playing his next season in China. [ESPN]
When asked if Klaus_eBooks is a financially viable enterprise, its editor, Brian Droitcour, replies succinctly “No.” Their publisher, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, must have loved that. Droitcour goes on to discuss censorship, and the thrust of the project: ephemerality of media. [Art in America]
Kate Beaton’s comics about working in the oil sands. So good. [Kate Beaton]

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New Museum Curators to Fly Around the World

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on August 5, 2014

The New Museum sure is doing well in the fundraising department.

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Tuesday Links: Hell on Wheels in Miami

by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Matthew Leifheit on December 3, 2013

“Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz” will be the Chinese artist and former government detainee’s first exhibition to be held at a prison. [In the Air]
Greg Allen (@gregorg) reports on Miami’s Perez Art Museum and why local collectors have yet to show much support to the museum. Opening day is tomorrow. When it was announced that the museum would be named for developer Jorge Perez in the wake of a $35 million gift of cash and art, four board members resigned. While Perez chalks it up to racism, critic Tyler Green points out that the institution needs to improve its relationship with local collectors in order to grow its own collection. [NPR]
Laure Prouvost has been announced as this year’s Turner Prize winner, beating out David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for the £25,000 prize. She was the underdog. [BBC]
I love Ed Halter. Here he is, conversing with Lauren Cornell, talking about pop culture and art. “It’s like Pop Art in reverse: Warhol took the content of mass culture and brought it into art, while [Abramović and Lady Gaga] are using ‘art’ as content and spreading it through contemporary forms of mass media—but really they’re only producing a new form of kitsch, complete with mawkish sentimentality.” [Mousse Magazine]
Narcoleptic dogs are one reason why we know so much about the science of sleep. A breed of narcoleptic dogs was bred by Stanford scientists, and now there’s a range of poodles and dobermans who can fall asleep without more than the drop of a pin. [The New Yorker]
Kanye West is crazier than we thought. He thinks he’s more relevant than the President—because nobody cares what Obama wears. Hrag Vartanian points out this is untrue. (Paddy) [Hyperallergic]
Extravagant much? Matias Faldbakken, one of 24 artists chosen to display public art works at Miami Basel, is putting the Peterbilt big rig truck from Steven Spielberg’s hell-on-wheels film Duel (1971) in the sculpture park. [Channel 16 Florida]

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Wednesday Links: Gobble, Gobble, Gulp

by Paddy Johnson and Matthew Leifheit on November 27, 2013

Artist Cheryl Miller and Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, Maine are seeking approximately 44.6 million turkey drawings to complete Miller’s 46 million turkeys project. (Yes, she’s already received 1.4 million drawings). This number matches the number of turkeys consumed in America every year. Critical words from my mother, who is in town for Thanksgiving and watching me write the links: And the point? [In the Air]
Detroit’s creditors file in court to push for DIA art sale. 🙁 [Hyperallergic]
Getting ready for the Miami fairs? Here’s a full list of fairs. [Miami New Times]
Weather report: It’s raining in New York, but practically balmy out at 62 degrees. [The Internet]
Badlands’ trailer for their Hans Ulrich Obrist e-book “Think Like Clouds” (available this winter) is off the hook. [Youtube via @frieze_magazine]
From the archives: Lauren Cornell talks about why the art world has resisted the internet as a medium and why we shouldn’t. The article was written in 2011, and already feels a little like a time capsule. Kazys Varnelis talks about The Rise and Fall of New Media in the art world. [Frieze]
Because all things James Franco does should be mentioned: He’ll be starring in Broadway’s “Of Mice and Men”. [The Huffington Post]
Baltimore’s The Contemporary relaunches their website and programming December 3rd. I think this is going to be a big deal for Baltimore. [The Contemporary]

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