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Be AFC’s Neighbor: Apply For Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 11, 2017

Applications are open for Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program. We’re a recipient, and it’s been great. Artists and cultural organizations should apply!

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Reading is Fundamental

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 8, 2017

Start your week off with a dose of Civil Rights history Monday at IFC, where fierce pussy is screening The Black Power Mixtape and Wednesday at ICP, where Hettie Jones will be talking about what Making America Great really looks like. Thursday, we’re looking forward to two book launches. Andrea McGinty will be releasing her Ah Yes Bad Things at Printed Matter and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is throwing a party to celebrate the catalog for their current exhibition Queer Threads. Friday night there are mysterious but promising exhibitions opening all over Brooklyn. Then it’s DUMBO open studios all weekend. End the week with a day trip to New Haven (seriously, it’s a painless train ride) where Bortolami’s ARTIST/CITY program has paired Tom Burr with a Marcel Breuer masterpiece that now finds itself surrounded by an IKEA parking lot.

The world is a strange and wondrous place. We’ll see you out in it.

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Thursday Links: Image of Angelina Jolie Bleeding Will be Offered at Art Basel

by Paddy Johnson on November 3, 2016

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Looks like the New York is poised to ram through the streetcar line that nobody needs but the development company Two Trees. The line serves all of their major development projects, and was a conceived of by a non-profit they founded to conduct studies the city could use to bolster their case for it. It’s supposed to be appealing because it will cost a fraction of the amount it would cost to build a subway—they estimate 2.5 billion—but the city plans to pay for it by increasing property tax. So gentrification is baked into this shitty, shitty project. [The New York Times]
A six million dollar lawsuit against David Zwirner and his gallery will go forward. Italian art dealer Fabrizio Moretti claims that Zwirner violated New York’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Law, when they allegedly changed the dimensions of a $2m Jeff Koons Gazing Ball sculpture after the dealer purchased a version in 2013. They also changed the way it editioned the works. The judges ruling does not look good for Zwirner. [The Art Newspaper]
Martha Rosler discusses the social pressures of being nice in the art world’s workplace. The new 24 hour a day work week demands it. All her points are valid, but there’s no mention of the flip side—the Facebook threads of artists on politics where your friends stop talking to you like they even like you, the endless trolling, and general combativeness that seems to be given for anyone who choses to use social media. [e-flux]
Who wants a portrait of Angelina Jolie, bleeding. It’ll be available at Art Miami this December. [artnet News]
Subway delays were up 21 percent in August as compared to last year. No shit. Apparently the number one reason for this is overcrowding and the only fix—a modernized signal system—is super costly and an incredibly long range project. Great. [Curbed]
A fascinating read. Here’s Marnie Weber on monsters. [Culture: High & Low]

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Covering The Waterfront: The DUMBO Gallery Round-Up Part 1

by Emily Colucci on October 6, 2016

Can art thrive in the land of startups and $10 coffee? Neither is known to be particularly art friendly, so the question seemed relevant as I headed over to DUMBO. Dotting the neighborhood are several non-profits (and a few for-profit spaces), many of which are beneficiaries of the space subsidy program run by Two Trees, the largest (and arguably only) arts-friendly developer in the city. The program offers these spaces rents at reduced retail prices. (Disclaimer: Art F City is a space subsidy program participant.)

This fall, the proliferation of non-profits in the neighborhood hosts more than its share of politically oriented shows. Following my last gallery round-up in the West Village, I decided to cruise the Brooklyn waterfront on a Saturday afternoon to see what these non-profits to offer for their fall shows. And I was not disappointed. Here’s what I found:

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Deadline For Applications To Be AFC’s Neighbor Fast Approaching

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 13, 2016

AFC is a lucky participant in Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program. That means we’re one of the arts organizations that benefits from more than 50,000 square feet of prime DUMBO real estate rented below market-rate to nonprofits, professional artists, and other groups who otherwise couldn’t afford the neighborhood.

We really love being between Downtown Brooklyn and the Lower East Side, and we’re probably some of the few people in the city who can say we’re lucky to have an awesome landlord. If you’re an artist or arts organization looking for a studio, office, or gallery and think you would qualify, we encourage you to apply for the program and be our new neighbors!

But hurry, the deadline to apply is Friday!

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply for Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program!

by Rhett Jones on June 29, 2016

Good news! The deadline to apply for the Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program has been extended until July 15th.

Here at AFC, we’re big fans of Two Trees efforts to grow the cultural community in DUMBO by providing affordable workspace for artists and organizations. As a participants ourselves, we can testify to the fact that the below market rents offered to awardees can be transformative. The workshops, open house and ongoing programming we run simply wouldn’t be possible without it.

Each year, the organization reviews applications for the 50,000 square feet of space it’s set aside to be rented at below market rates. Two Trees has subsidized space for artists like Jeanine Oleson and Eric Lopresti (both are IMG MGMT alumni) as well as non-profit organizations like Art in General, Triangle and NYFA. We want to see DUMBO continue to thrive as a destination for community-focused art. If for no other reason, because we work here and we like having good neighbors.

You can see the full guidelines and apply here. You have until July 15th and will be notified by October 1st. There are simply too few of these programs in NYC, so get in there. The only thing you have to lose is your far too expensive workspace.

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Tuesday Links: Apologies!

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on June 17, 2014

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“Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?” NY Mag follows Terry Richardson around and gives a thorough report on his skeezy, idiotic past. It’s a good primer on all the various lawsuits against him. [The Cut]
The Frick is getting supersized; Peter Schjeldahl approves. The position reads as arbitrary. [The New Yorker]
Joe Scanlan is a white male artist who hires black female actors to play his character Donelle Woolford, a hot young artist who gets a leg up in the art world because of her race. Needless to say, when “Donelle Woolford” was asked to participate in the Whitney Biennial, this led to a slew of protests; Yams, a mostly queer black artist/poet/musician collective, even withdrew from the Biennial. Now Ryan Wong claims that he is Joe Scanlan, and the character was created to deflect this kind of rampant deafness. We gather that this is a joke since Scanlan has a faculty bio on Yale’s website, but Wong’s analysis of Scanlan’s “apology” letter sounds familiar. [Hyperallergic]
Speaking of Joe Scanlan, Carolina Miranda’s epic summary is the last word on the Donelle Woolford. Her thorough, even-handed report includes some interesting quotes from Jennifer Kidwell, who plays Woolford, and has otherwise almost been left out of the debate entirely. [LA Times]
MoMA has added a downloadable app to its design collection; Bjork’s 2011 album “Biophilia” which was made available as an app with visualizations too. [Culture: High & Low]
This year alone, Germany doubled government funding for recovering Nazi-looted art to to 4 million Euros. [Deutsche Welle]
Jerry Saltz on zombie abstraction. Meh, we’ve all been talking about how process-based abstraction has taken over the art world for a while. Not too much new here. [Vulture]
Karen Rosenberg is amazed at Kara Walker’s curatorial ability because she likes both music and art. Rosenberg writes: “Who else would think to compare the Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Ten Crack Commandments’ and F. T. Marinetti’s ‘Manifesto of Futurism,’ as she does in her introduction to ‘Ruffneck Constructivists’?” [New York Times]
The Joan Mitchell Foundation has created a new artists’ retreat in New Orleans! But wait: The facilities still need to be built and will cost approximately $16.5 million. [Nonprofit Quarterly]
Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program is open to non-profits and artists with a strong exhibition record. The spaces are located in DUMBO and are offered at $12 per foot per year, with a three-year lease. That’s well below market. [Two Trees]
Yesterday, Paddy Johnson interviewed the Theo Westenberger Estate, which is giving out tons of money and resources for artists. (Photographers, we’re talking to you.) They’ve just announced the that Gaea Woods is the winner of their 2014 photo contest, which gives out $5,000 in unrestricted funds. [Facebook]

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Domino’s Defenders Propose Art Spaces, Not Condos

by Whitney Kimball on November 26, 2013

New ideas for old spaces.

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