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Friday Links: Death on the Internet

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on August 29, 2014

David Greg Harth is one of those performance artists who asks people to do one thing, involving him, repeatedly. You can buy him a hamburger. You can write about him. You can have your picture taken with him at a photo booth. This last project is a futile attempt to get his picture taken with everyone he knows and doesn’t know in an old-school photo booth. I got my picture taken with him this week, but apparently one of the rules of participation is that you have to link to it. *Eyeroll*. [Every Person]
FAT CAT. This is what a 36-pound feline looks like. [Imgur]
Russia will be opening its first-ever “library dedicated to contemporary art in Russia” at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. (Really, they didn’t have one yet!) The collection currently comprises about 15,000 items. As a comparison, the Museum of Modern Art in New York’s library holds over 300,000 books about 70,000 artists. [e-flux]
There’s a new (short) essay on post-Internet art. In case you haven’t read enough about the topic, here’s a few more paragraphs for you! [Negative Jam]
University students in Egypt won’t be starting school on time. The Egyptian Higher Education Minister claims “dormitories are not ready to receive the students.” In 2013, student protests against the government often took place on university campuses. [Ahram Online]
Two Norwegian artists plan to open an an art academy in North Korea. [The Art Newspaper]
Following up on this week’s opening of the Folkestone Triennial, The Guardian reports on the gold hunt initiated by artist Michael Sailstorfer, minute-by-minute. Over 500 people showed up to dig for gold under the beach, supposedly planted by the artist, but so far no treasure has been found. Hmmm…. [The Guardian]
Death on the Internet: After 15 years, MSN Messenger will be no more. [The Verge]
Feminism as a dirty word in Atlanta’s art scene. [BURNAWAY]
Polygon catches up on a truly awful, troll-filled week for female video game developers and writers. Too many trolls on the troll train! [Polygon]
Relax, like this puppy getting a head massage. [YouTube h/t PAPER]

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Friday Links: Everyone’s Got to Bow to Somebody

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 25, 2014

Artforum’s profile on the Greek-born American sculptor Chryssa ends on a rather strange note. “One day in her studio, I noticed a gun. She pointed to it and said she was planning to shoot [Arnold] Glimcher. Sure she was being mistreated and ignored in New York, she shut her studio on lower Broadway for good and apparently returned to Athens.” Chryssa died earlier this year in Greece. (Above: Chryssa’s “Large Bird Shape.” Courtesy Albright-Knox Art Gallery.) [Artforum via Andrew Russeth]
“If elected president, Barack Obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from prioritizing Internet content.” That was in 2007. With news this week that the F.C.C. is considering “fast lanes” for commercial providers, let’s hope that he keeps to his promise. [CNET via Reddit]
Triple Canopy announces their 2014 Commission recipients: Kieran Daly, Primavera di Filippi & Samer Hassan, Sowon Kwon, Timothy Leonido, Frank Pasquale, Jared Stanley, and Gillian Walsh. Looking forward to seeing their projects. [Triple Canopy]
Next week, the Frieze Art Fair will come to New York yet again; talks will include a keynote by UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith and a roundtable between Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot and David Remnick of the New Yorker. We’re sure these talks will fill up quickly—their lecture hall is pretty tiny. [Frieze via Artsbeat]
Bill de Blasio has not yet addressed his promise to stop the Central Library Plan, and instead he’s kept $151 million in the budget for the renovation. Very fishy. [Bloomberg News]
Artspace provides their own rankings system for “10 of the Most Influential MFA Programs in the World.” Not sure if they talked to anyone at the School of the Art Institute (where Corinna went for grad school); their excerpt focuses on their MA program in Visual and Critical Studies, not an MFA program. Thankfully, Artspace lists off the ridiculous amount you’ll pay in tuition by enrolling in any of these programs: Bard costs $55,000 per year; Columbia costs 51,676; and UCLA sounds like a bargain at $23,465 for out-of-state residents. Sigh. [Artspace]
More on the ongoing battle between hedge funder and activist shareholder Daniel Loeb and the storied auction house Sotheby’s. Loeb has nominated three director candidates and now advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that shareholders vote for two of the three board nominees he has proposed, one of them being Loeb himself. [New York Times]
Hyperallergic has partnered with London’s Lost Lectures. Tonight, The Awl co-founder and blogger Choire Sicha will talk along with Photographer Barbara Nitke, street performers Flex (is King) + Deirdre Schoo and scientist Marc Abrahams. Should be an interesting night. [Hyperallergic]
At a White House event for kids, a 10-year-old girl hands Michelle Obama her dad’s resume, and says he’s been out of work for three years. [NPR]
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum just made a pile of money. They’ve confirmed rumors that they are getting the blockbuster Alexander McQueen show. [Artnet]
Kriston Capps continues his coverage on Washington, D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design. On April 7, the museum’s board, along with the boards of the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University were supposed to vote on how the Corcoran will be absorbed into these other two institutions. That deadline was skipped. [City Paper]

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Wednesday Links: A Good Day For Mavericks

by The AFC Staff on July 17, 2013

From Japan's Art Aquarium, image courtesy http://designyoutrust.com

Japan’s annual “art aquarium” is back with 5,000 fish in 70 aquariums. We gotta say, the art aquarium world is producing some pretty impressive work. [CNN]
“It’s like a huge electric nose.” Artist Amy Radcliffe has invented a camera for scents. [Huffington Post]
People are selling things like lizards and removed babydoll faces on Instagram– it’s like Etsy with a dash of Craigslist. [Wired]
Looks like the art world conversation about climate change won’t end with Expo. The Rauschenberg Foundation is teaming up with Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation for “Marfa Dialogues,” a series of exhibitions and events this fall. [The New York Times]
Very happy about this news: Health plan costs for New Yorkers is set to drop by 50 percent (and much more if you qualify for federal subsidy) [The New York Times]
More concerns raised about the plan to gut the historic Fifth Avenue library, met with the usual brush-off. We’ll hear more about it from the lawsuit. [The New York Times]
Famed figurative Maritime painter Alex Colville has died at the age of 92. Colville had a tremendous influence on many schools in the region, including Mount Allison University, where AFC’s Paddy Johnson went to school. [National Post]
The Smithsonian does not sound like a fun enterprise to work for. After unrelated worker protests at two museums last week, the Hirschhorn’s hemorrhaging board members. Constance Caplan becomes the seventh to leave over the past year, blaming a contentious work environment. [Washington Post]

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