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by Emily Colucci Rea McNamara on June 2, 2016
- Fourteen artists including Tacita Dean, Anthony Gormley, Wolfgang Tillmans and Bob & Roberta Smith have created posters in support of keeping Britain in the EU. The series was commissioned by Britain Stronger In Europe. [The Guardian]
- Related: what does the art market have to lose or gain in the June 23 referendum? Many agree that London artists and institutions would lose out on important EU funding and subsidies. Others believe that unnecessary EU legislation — like the artist’s resale right scheme, which was supported by artists but not the rest of the industry — has put the London art market at a severe disadvantage. [artnet News]
- Participant Inc.’s founder Lia Gangitano receives a much-deserved profile, recognizing how she has, according to David Colman, “brought witty, raucous and challenging works to the art world’s attention on a modest budget.” Our favorite part of the feature is artist and performer Vaginal Davis’ comment on Gangitano’s collaboration with difficult artists: “I am VERY difficult…I have a disdain for the wealthy and privileged. I offend easily, and am ready to throw down at the slightest provocation.” [New York Times]
- Yoga and controversial public sculptures don’t mix. The New York Department of Parks and Recreation is demanding the removal of the noose from Aaron Bell’s 16-foot sculpture Stand Loud, Stand Tall, which is supposed to represent, as Bell explains, “zero tolerance for any and all manifestations of hatred.” Slated to appear in Riverside Park as a part of the parks department’s partnership with the Arts Student League’s Model to Monument Program, the department became concerned because the park also holds “passive recreational activities such as yoga, pilates and senior movement.” [Artforum]
- The shortlist for Canada’s Sobey Prize has been revealed. The artists include William Robinson, Jeremy Shaw, Brenda Draney, Charles Stankievech and Hajra Waheed. The winner will be announced in November, and takes home a $50,000 prize. [Canadian Art]
- Following Paddle8’s merger with Auctionata, more than a dozen staffers have been laid off or left the online auction house. The departures continue with the exits of chief marketing officer Susan Cernek and Sarah Goulet, head of communications. [ARTnews]
- How will they split the collection? Real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his wife of 57 years, Linda Macklowe, are ending their marriage. It appears Macklowe is leaving the former curator and current member of the board of trustees at the Guggenheim for his new girlfriend, Patricia Landeau, president of the the French Friends of the Israel Museum. The couple has a huge postwar and contemporary art collection; valued at $1 billion, it includes works by Franz Kline, Gerhard Richter and Mark Rothko. [artnet News]
- Last month, the Senate Finance Committee sent a summary of their findings regarding the practices of tax-exempted private museums to the IRS. Julia Halperin obtained a copy of the report. Key findings include the fact that almost half the 11 museums surveyed — which includes the Brant Foundation, The Broad and the Rubell Family Collection — report fewer than 6,000 visitors per year, and none of them report loans of donated art back to the founders. [Art Newspaper]
- Another gallery is fleeing Chelsea, however this time, they’re going to Midtown rather than the increasingly popular Lower East Side. Anton Kern Gallery, which has been in Chelsea for 15 years, will head to a new location on 55th Street, between Madison and 5th Avenue. The gallery’s Chelsea space was sold in 2014 to a condo developer for $24.25 million. [ARTnews]
- What is left after a failed relationship other than a broken heart? A lot of random crap as the Museum of Broken Relationships shows in their recently opened Los Angeles location, which displays these previously adored artifacts such as a dinosaur piñata and a Betty Boop doll. The Museum was originally founded by Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić in Croatia as a way to deal with the “emotional collapse” of a breakup. [VICE]
- Will artists become obsolete as technology advances further? Google’s newest project Magenta, which will attempt to create original art and music through artificial intelligence, certainly raises that question. [Hyperallergic]
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by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on June 20, 2014
- This week at Artnet, Paddy talks about Iñaki Bonillas’s Dia Art Foundation web-based commission “Words and Photos.” It’s a hard-to-navigate word guessing game. [artnet News]
- The Broad is hosting a talk between comedian Steve Martin and artist Eric Fischl. Why? They’re buddies and Steve Martin’s been a longtime collector of Fischl’s work. It’s on Monday in Los Angeles, but you’ll be able to livestream it. [e-flux]
- Mallory Ortberg dug up a 1966 letter to the editors of Cat Fancy from Ayn Rand, explaining the philosophical value of cats to her. Since Rand wrote searing volumes on freeloaders, and is now the philosophical artillery store for Republicans who want to cut food stamps, it’s fascinating to see her make an exception for cats: because they amuse her. Bloggers discuss. [The Objective Standard]
- Even net artists get Internet anxiety. In Bedford + Bowery, Giselle Zatonyl talks about the way the Internet digests information into dog food and how people process their anxieties online. It makes me sorry I missed her show “Discrete Systems” during Bushwick Open Studios. Eight more days to see the show. [Bedford + Bowery]
- New York is so close to launching a pilot program for medical marijuana. And lawmakers are voting on the bill, which includes a “no smoking” provision, today. You can eat it, but you can puff on it. [New York Magazine]
- Sad but good: Detroit is auctioning off foreclosed homes on the Internet. They’re hoping to fend off the speculators by stipulating that buyers must pay to renovate the homes and live there. [City Lab]
- Noticed at Art Basel: Art collector flipping a purchase the same day he bought it. This is shitty. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
- Artpace calls for applicants to its San Antonio residency. They will accept one Texan artist, one non-Texan from the US, and one foreigner. [Glasstire]
- A banned Grey Poupon ad, for sandwich poopers! [Petflow, via Michael Anthony Farley]
- If we were in Philly this weekend, we know what we’d be doing: Force Field Project, an artist collaboration/festival of large scale installations and performances in unused spaces. I confidently recommend ceramicist, curator (and AFC friend) Sean Gerstley, who will be showing raku-fired raccoons. Get your tickets here. [Force Field Project, program guide]
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by Paddy Johnson Matthew Leifheit Hannah Garner and Whitney Kimball on September 27, 2013
- The Oslo National Academy of the Arts’ visual arts department is named Kunstfag. Can we be their media department? [Khio.no via Anthony Antonellis]
- Goodbye Hennessy Youngman, hello Bob Ross. Yesterday Jayson Musson launched a new series “Painting toward Happiness,” where he teaches us to find the profound beauty in the everyday, through painting a photograph. [YouTube]
- The French painter Balthus gets a mixed review from Roberta Smith for his show at The Met. “It proceeds in fits and starts; many of the paintings are interesting in one way or another but not especially original or even very convincing as totalities. The show is, in some ways, a study in kinds and degrees of failure.” [The New York Times]
- Tumblr is wooing the art industry with Readymade, a new theme with a white cube aesthetic that LACMA and MoMA PS1 are already using. [BlouinArtInfo]
- The Robert Indiana show at the Whitney was a pleasant surprise for Ken Johnson, who praised the work’s prophetic social commentary and rich ambiguity. “Beyond Love,” whose title makes clear the Whitney’s intent to transform Indiana’s reputation as a one-hit-wonder, is a vindication of the artist’s complex body of work. [The New York Times]
- Today Mass MoCA officially opens its “Anselm Kiefer Hall Art Foundation” building. The exhibition will be open seasonally for the next 15 years, and it is housed in a specially constructed galvanized steel warehouse on the museum’s grounds. [North Adams Transcript]
- Andy Adams of FlakPhoto.com talks about photography’s relationship to the internet, as well as recent curatorial projects on Wisconsin NPR. [WNPR]
- In case you missed it last week, Carolina Miranda previewed Eli Broad’s new LA museum The Broad, an elaborate $140 million structure which is still under construction. Renderings promise a circular glass elevator, swooping ceilings, and enormous honeycomb windows. [ARCHITECT]
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