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Black Is and Black Ain’t in Pace Gallery’s “Blackness in Abstraction”

by Emily Colucci on August 18, 2016

“Black is and black ain’t.” Walking through Pace Gallery’s current exhibition Blackness in Abstraction, I began to think about that title line from Marlon Riggs’s final film—taken from the prologue of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man. Even more than the pervasive “Black is beautiful,” this curiously ambiguous phrase hints at the multitude of meanings, voices, and questions surrounding blackness in the exhibition.

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Friday Links: Matthew Barney’s Perineum and Alexander McQueen’s Skin

by Rhett Jones on July 22, 2016

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Barbara Gladstone Gallery will recreate, “Blind Perineum,” the performance that put Matthew Barney on the map 25 years ago. Gladstone has borrowed the original elements that were used in the performance in which Barney climbed around the gallery ceiling with ice screws and a harness. The anniversary show is scheduled for September 8th. [New York Times]
Robert Irwin is just finishing up a permanent installation at Donald Judd’s Texas outpost Marfa. It will be the first new permanent work in 16 years. It’s hard to tell from the photos what exactly this project is but it will be officially unveiled to the public on July 23rd. [The Art Newspaper]
The latest artist to jump into the Trump protest fray has built a wall around the Donald’s star on the Hollywood walk of fame. I know that this election has been hard on everybody but try a little harder people. Most of the protest art has been pretty weak. [BBC]
Heads up video artists, Japan is making its final VCR this month. It might be a good time to pick one up for that retro project you wanted to do or to back up those old tapes for posterity. [Mental Floss]
The internet was freaking out, yesterday, over this sculpture of a human evolved to withstand a car crash. His name is Graham and he’s pretty gross. [Jalopnik]
Kurt Cobain’s daughter, Francis Bean, is selling her art online. All we can say is it’s … affordable. [depop]
A design student, in London, wants to make a bag out of Alexander McQueen’s skin. The proposed project would involve using stem cells from the late designer’s hair to manufacture new skin. The student, Tina Gorjanc, is actually trying to patent McQueen’s genetic information and sees this as a larger piece of social commentary. [artnet News]
A number of big name artists will be taking over the prison that caged Oscar Wilde for an exhibition entitled “Inside.” Participants include Ai Weiwei, Patti Smith, Marlene Dumas, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Steve McQueen, Jean-Michel Pancin, and Wolfgang Tillmans. [artnet News]
John Stewart gets behind Colbert’s desk and lets it all out. [YouTube]

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Monday Links: Drunk Art History

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 4, 2016

Joel Goodman’s photo of drunk New Years Eve revelers in Manchester has been compared to a Renaissance painting. Twitter user Roland Hughes is the man who made it go viral. This is his story. [BBC News]

Someone stole a plaster study of Abraham Lincoln’s hands by the sculptor George Grey Barnard from the Kankakee Country Museum, about an hour south of Chicago. People are really, really upset about it. [The New York Times]

Robert Irwin has been making the press rounds in anticipation of the July unveiling of his $5 million “magnus opus” permanent installation at the Chanti Foundation in Marfa, Texas. The 13,000 square foot work, coinciding with the Foundation’s 30th anniversary, will be a C-shaped building with black and white scrim walls and a courtyard with Palo Verde trees and Stonehedge-like basalt columns. According to Irwin, it’ll be “a kind of walk-in Dutch landscape painting.” [New York Times, Wall Street Journal]

Art dealer/heir Guy Wildenstein went on trial today in Paris for tax evasion. The French-American is accused of hiding assets he inherited from his father in various trusts and holdings around the globe, such as artwork, horses, and a 75,000 acre ranch in Kenya where the film “Out of Africa” was shot. [ABC News]

NYC canine owners: Laurie Anderson will be giving a concert for dogs in Times Square this evening. [New York Times]

The recent Consumer Electronics show presented yet another install strategy for video and digital artists: an 18-inch display that rolls up like a newspaper. Turns out LG has been doing a bunch of “OLED” work in bendable, curving displays. [The Verge]

Coachella will be getting its own art world counterpart in April 2017: Desert X. The biennale will run during the music festival, and is being spearheaded by a non-profit whose board include Ed Ruscha, Coachella art director Paul Clemente, and former Palm Springs Art Museum director Steve Nash. [artnet News]

The UK government has created a £30 million fund to help preserve antiquities in global conflict zones. [The Art Newspaper]

On the ephemeral nature of Josh Kline’s 3-D printed sculptures, and how it challenges the work of the Whitney’s conservation department. [The New Yorker]

Joel Wachs, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, on how artists’ foundations offer an important funding alternative to the market or public sector. [Blouin Artinfo]

Oh no! A homecare worker has been charged with assaulting I. M. Pei last month. [Dezeen]

Brad Fiore takes a critical look at the paintings of art critic and artist Pedro Velez. He says he felt ambivalence towards the new paintings, now absent of the critical commentary he’s known for, but seems to think they’re more compelling in the context of his twitter feed. [Palliate Blog]

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Museums Are Cool, Too: 16 Shows to See This Summer

by Julia Wolkoff on July 18, 2013

Summer is here, and it’s hot. If going to the beach sounds painful, we’ve got a suggestion: museums. Thankfully, the air conditioned galleries of New York’s museums have plenty of worthwhile shows to check out. (Just don’t try to go to the rooftop gallery at the Met; they’ve closed that today due to the heat.) Below, we’ve rounded up a whopping list of 16 fantastic museum shows we’re going to check out.

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Notes on Robert Wilson’s Snow On the Mesa

by Paddy Johnson on March 18, 2011

What can a fine art critic say about dance? I’m not going to pretend I have much valuable to say about the craft itself — I know very little about the field — but from the perspective of someone who “looks” for a livingI was not without words for Robert Wilson’s Snow on the Mesa.

The opening night performance by The Martha Graham Dance company kicked off a week long look at the work of the choreographer and dancer Martha Graham (1894-1991) at The Rose Theater, Wilson’s work a portrait of the great artist. So what did I take home about Graham just from watching? A few notes from the performance, fleshed out from their original form.

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Notes on Robert Wilson’s Snow On the Mesa

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