by Paddy Johnson on September 1, 2015
- So, the Temple of Baal in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, is now official kaput thanks to ISIS extremists. That’s the second ancient temple they’ve destroyed in a two weeks. [The New York Times]
- I dunno about this project: This October a series of “Black Lives Matter” street signs will appear around New York City thanks to the artist group Ghana Think Tank. Signs will contain messages like, “WHITE GUILT IS COMPLACENCY,” and “YOUR PRIVILEGE DOESN’T NEED CONSENT.” Thanks for the moralizing. [Hyperallergic]
- Not another reality TV show about art. This one is about blonde art advisors breaking into the art world and will air on Ovation. Brian Boucher has seen the pilot and based on his reports, I hope they cancel the show quickly. It’s called Art Breakers and it sounds terrible. [Artnet news]
- LiarTownUSA is just about the best Tumblr around. There’s a post of poorly drawn animal drawings—so many different perspectives all on one cat face—and of course, our favorite manipulation: Tom’s of Findland toothpaste; winterlog flavor. [LiarTownUSA]
- Will this Hillary Clinton email business never end? We’ve been reading headlines since March about this—we know. Everyone sends work email from their personal account. Sometimes we even delete them. Anyone else remember when the Bush White House lost and deleted five million emails in 2007? This seems like a larger problem than the news that approximately 150 emails submitted by Clinton were upgraded to “classified”. This is a witch hunt. [The Slot]
- This one’s for photo nerds: The differences between the human eye and the camera. Here’s a sample: In reality, our eyes are somewhat like a video camera in program or shutter priority mode with auto-ISO: we maintain smooth motion and increase the impression of detail by continuous scanning; to do that, the exposure time must remain relatively constant. [Ming Thein]
- I guess it’s time to get an opinion on Miley Cyrus’s new album, “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz”. [Miley Cyrus]
- Another Facebook user calls it quits. Rainey Knudson, Glasstire’s founder and publisher finds mortality and our wish to be remembered especially creepy on the site. [Glasstire]
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by The AFC Staff on August 22, 2013
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- The New York Times has assigned their war time reporter Graham Bowley to the arts beat. He’s rewriting an old story from four months ago about how everyone has to participate in art fairs, and middle-tier galleries are getting squeezed out of the market. Dealer Gordon VeneKlasen from Michael Werner Gallery is a primary source for the article because what? This is a dealer who’s been around for 21 years, and very few people in the contemporary scene seem to know who he is (us included). If they’re assigning reporters without the background to match their beats, I hate to think of what Times journalists are missing elsewhere. [The New York Times via: Magda Sawon]
- Lynne Tillsman introduces a beautiful short story by Jane Bowles, “Everything is Nice”. [Recommended Reading]
- Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento’s Art and Law program is accepting applications through October 4th. If this is a subject you’re interested in, then this is the course to take. [Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento]
- Bill Goldston, Bennet Grutman, and Darryl Pottorf are trustees of the Rauschenberg Foundation and claim that they are owed 60 million in fees. An expert hired by the Rauschenberg foundation estimates that they are asking for $40,000-an-hour wage. The trustees concede that they did not keep track of all the work they did while Rauschenberg was alive. [The New York Times]
- Artist Anthony Antonellis inserted a 1kb memory chip with an antenna into his hand so that he can transmit data anywhere he goes. [Animal New York]
- This is fun: Jonathan Jones’s “think piece” on sexism ultimately amounts to a public apology on behalf of all critics. “The bad guys are us, the critics. For art criticism is still a very male profession with very male values.” [The Guardian]
- Missing your daily art fraud fix? Turns out that $80 million of “never-before-seen” Rothkos, De Koonings, and Pollocks were fake. [Forbes]
- Israel’s top ten influential art people includes no artists and a public relations executive. [Haaretz]
- This. [Hot Dog Legs]
- Photographer Jill Peters made a portrait series of “Sworn Virgins”, Albanian women who live as men. According to Peters, back in the old days in the Balkans, if you wanted to “vote, drive, conduct business, earn money, drink, smoke, swear, own a gun or wear pants”, you had to be a man. [Petapixel]
- Studio Museum in Harlem names Resident Artists. [In the Air]
- The Berlin government’s building a $174 million museum to house the Surrealist art collection donated by Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch. [Bloomberg]
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