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by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on January 16, 2015
- A chronological history of Lifetime movies, from the Tori Spelling classic Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? to more serious fare like Angela Basset’s celebrity biopic, Whitney. Former executives from the channel discuss when certain genres, like “teens in jeopardy,” became popular. [Washington Post]
- For those who don’t care about the Oscar snubs—here are the art nominees. Good Lord, Hyperallergic has reviewed them all. [Hyperallergic]
- OMG. Shellac lead singer and songwriter Steve Albini has a cooking blog. [Mario Batali Voice]
- Ben Davis has managed to make a convincing argument for Juan Muñoz’s Many Times at Marian Goodman, a feat I never thought possible. It’s a bunch of gray, laughing figures in resin cut off at the ankles. I always thought the work was boring, but Davis finds a little magic (a word he loathes) in the details. [artnet News]
- Kehinde Wiley, Xu Bing, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Pedro Reyes, will be honored with the 2015 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts. The award recognizes artistic achievement as well as commitment to the government-sponsored program Art in Embassies. [ARTnews]
- A review of the Riot Grrrl exhibition Alien She from a former riot grrrl. Critic Melissa Miller ends up writing a mostly positive review, but points out a necessary issue with any historical exhibition: “The drawback to this approach, however, is that it presents Riot Grrrls with one voice, with a ‘we’re all in this together’ attitude.” [Art Practical]
- ☆♕ A Grecian Inspired Roleplay for ASMR ♕☆ [YouTube]
- Beefy Mortal Kombat monsters, but with the female victory dances, like pole dancing. Aside: holy shit, Mortal Kombat got gruesome since the 90s. [YouTube via Metafilter]
- Wow, France’s Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin has promised Charlie Hebdo €1 million in funding to keep it running. Now the Pompidou and several other arts institutions are launching Charlie Hebdo-related shows and awards. [artnet News]
- Critic Martha Schwendener reviews Tyson Reeder’s current show at CANADA (which we like), and fills her review with a total of seven textbook-friendly artists to compare Reeder: Matisse, Bonnard, Renoir, Bonnard, Isamu Noguchi, and Andreas Gursky. You can talk about art without having to namedrop; like, you could talk about the art. [New York Times]
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by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on April 16, 2014
- Last week’s inaugural Silicon Valley Contemporary art fair was full of art dealers scrambling to figure out what type of art techies might like. Some, like K&M Art, thought techies might want to unload their bitcoins for art. [Medium]
- Monday nights you can choose between watching reality TV like Ru Paul’s Drag Race or wrestling entertainment like Raw. It doesn’t matter what you choose; NPR argues that both shows are “essentially one and the same,” both performance art about gender. I’d like to agree, but there’s too much of a focus in this piece on wrestlers performing masculinity and drag queens performing femininity; WWE is full of nearly naked sequined wrestlers twisted into pretzel positions with their oiled-up partners. [NPR]
- Art collector and dealer Daniel Wolf and artist and architect Maya Lin have an old jail in Yonkers. They’re planning to transform it into studio space and a gallery. No word whether the collection will be made available public, but even so, the piece is pitched as though it’s about the budding art scene of Yonkers. The only other artist they were able to cite out there is David Hammons. The best part of the piece is when they describe the lack of basic amenities on the waterfront as “shopping.” [The New York Times]
- Lawsuit filed against Brooklyn landlords claims they were quick to kick out black residents to make room for white ones. [Gothamist]
- For new media lovers: Link Art Center has some sweet-looking art available at Paddle8. [Paddle8]
- Lindsay Preston Zappas describes Math Bass’s show at Overduin and Co. as an exercise in visual merchandising. Ouch. [Carets and Stick]
- Sarah Jessica Parker interviewed Alex Katz; she filled in for Leonard Lopate. [NPR]
- Exhibition A interviews an art collector who’s also an astronaut. The interview’s full of space talk, not so much art talk. [Exhibition A]
- Pierre Huyghe joins Hauser & Wirth. Not sure what this means for his New York gallery; he’s currently represented by Marian Goodman. [AMA]
- This month’s issue of e-flux journal is mostly about sex. Sex! [e-flux]
- Jaimie Warren’s new show at The Hole gets a lauding write up from the Huffington Post. Critic Priscilla Frank is a fan. [The Huffington Post]
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