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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Skip Most Fairs, See The Real Hennessy Youngman

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 1, 2017

Plan comfortable shoes for the week: it’s another inundation of art fairs and satellite events.

Thankfully, Frieze and SPRING/BREAK’s new Brooklyn offshoot are the only big fairs we’re recommending by now, so fair fatigue shouldn’t be too much of a problem. But of course, the city is packed with art star openings, book launches, and more brunches than you can shake a croissant at. We’ve done you the favor of skimming only the best of the best events this week though, to save you from too much overload.

Highlights include Roxy Paine’s creepy interiors at Paul Kasmin Tuesday night, Martin Roth’s Twitter-fed lavender farm at the Austrian Cultural Forum on Wednesday, and Jon Rafman’s screening and book launch at Printed Matter on Thursday. If you’re not fair-pooped after Friday, check out Salon 94’s demon-wrestling solo show from Jayson Musson (of “Hennessy Youngman” fame) on Saturday and Columbia MFA candidates paying tribute to Walter Benjamin at the Jewish Museum on Sunday.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Long Island Eclipses Manhattan

by Michael Anthony Farley and Corinna Kirsch on August 23, 2016

For years, people who make proclamations about “something being the new something” have said “Brooklyn is the new Manhattan.” Apparently that means it’s now also totally boring in August? New York’s two most over-exposed boroughs are having a slow week, with just a smattering of art events (but we are thrilled Vector Gallery is making a triumphant return to Manhattan Thursday night.) Brooklyn has a Wednesday night performance at The Park Church Co-op and a screening of the 1977 feminist classic Riddles of the Sphinx to look forward to Thursday, but really it’s the rest of Long Island that sees the most action.

LIC will be art-star-studded Thursday night for MoMA PS1’s Night At the Museum closing party. Then, the party moves out to Fire Island for BOFFO’s performance festival. All weekend, look forward to genre-bending work across the swirly disciplines of drag, dance, music, and fashion from artists such as FLUCT, SSION, M. Lamar, Pearl, and more. Seriously, we can’t recommend a trip to the beach more—there’s practically nothing to do in the city’s art scene this weekend and the Fire Island fest looks like it’s going to go be remembered as a total “had to be there”.

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Not an Alternative: “FORTY” at MoMA PS1

by Emily Colucci on July 13, 2016

Can alternative spaces and their anti-institutional goals ever be faithfully represented inside a museum? If MoMA PS1’s current exhibition FORTY is any indication, the answer is a definitive no.

What makes this realization even more awkward is that in this show, the alternative space and institution are one and the same. As its name suggests, FORTY honors the 40th anniversary of PS1 by looking back to its first exhibition Rooms. The show, like Rooms, is organized by Alanna Heiss who founded PS1 in 1976. The former alternative arts space was just one project launched under Heiss’ nonprofit Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc.

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Thursday Links: A Billionaire Art Center and Elite Sex Parties

by Paddy Johnson and Rhett Jones on June 30, 2016

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Ron Perelman is donating $75m to a new performance arts center that is planned for the World Trade Center site. It will be named after the billionaire. The center was originally planned to be designed by Frank Gehry, but when the project stalled, his designs were shelved. Good. Too much Gehry. A new architect hasn’t been chosen yet, but Perelman says that he’s considering designs by Joshua Prince-Ramus. [New York Times]
Pulse has put out an open call for video artists to be part of its Miami edition this year. Selected artists will not need to be working with a participating gallery to be featured. Those who are interested in submitting work for consideration have until August 31st. [artnet News]
The Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the winners of its annual Artists as Activist Fellowship. 10 winners will split $775,000 that will be distributed over two years. One project, by the performance group Los Angeles Poverty Department, will attempt to devise “informal community policing vehicles that maintain respect for the well-being” of the residents on Skid Row. [L.A. Times]
Following the massive viral success of its Bob Ross stream, the live video platform, Twitch, is launching another art-related program: watching people eat. Warhol would be proud. [Polygon]
Holland Cotter loves PS1’s Vito Acconci retrospective. He likes it so much that there’s pretty much nothing negative here. That means he gets to spend the entire review just talking about the work. It’s a good read. [New York Times]
Speaking of good reads, Hilton Als has an excellent, long profile of Nan Goldin. We recently were surprised to find that critics were able to say something new about her “Ballad of Sexual Dependence.” It’s almost as surprising to find new nuggets from her well-worn biography. This is a must. [New Yorker]
We’ve seen post-Brexit results from Phillips and Sotheby’s so far this week, now it’s Christie’s turn. Following the surprise withdrawal of a 1994 Abstraktes Bild that was expected to sell for about £14m, the overall night exceeded the low-estimate with a £33.7m take and 92% sell-through rate. As for why the Richter was withdrawn, the owner reportedly did not want to reduce the reserve price. Collector Alain Servais said “There is no direct relation to Brexit except—as for the whole art market—we are living in more uncertain times.” [The Art Newspaper]
Josh Baer reminds us that currency issues have little to do with prices paid at auction, “A weak pound lets buyers in other currency bid 10% higher, which works out roughly the same. The only time it “saves” money is if there is just one bidder”. [The Baer Faxt]
Just in time for Summer beach season, go inside an elite Hamptons sex party. Or don’t. [Marie Claire]
Prosperity Dumpling, the dumpling house patroned by many art lovers and beloved for its insanely cheap dumplings is moving. Apparently, news of its back alley and roach infestation sunk the business. Still, sad news that they weren’t able to clean up their act. They are now moving all the way out to Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. We had to look that up to figure out where it is (way out by Dyker Heights). [Bowery Boogie]

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What We Can Learn From Leo Castelli: Art Belongs in Universities, Museums, Even Montana

by Corinna Kirsch on May 22, 2014

A lesson in selling art that doesn’t involve relying on traditional art collectors.

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(Re)locating Public Sculpture in Chicago

by Jason Foumberg on March 4, 2013

A strange thing about public sculpture in Chicago is that it sometimes has legs. It’s not everyday that these bronze and stone objects grow a pair and walk out of view, but several recent examples of displaced sculpture draw attention to the sometimes strained relationship between public art and the public.

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The Road to Better Challenges: The Art Fag City/C-Monster Work of Art Proposal

by Paddy Johnson on July 19, 2010

Who wants to see better challenges on Bravo’s reality show Work of Art? Judging by critic Jerry Saltz’ 300 plus Facebook comments on the subject, I’m guessing most of us. Prompted by this clear calling, I teamed up with Carolina A. Miranda of C-Monster.net fame to propose a few suggestions for the Bravo Team.

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The Road to Better Challenges: The Art Fag City/C-Monster Work of Art Proposal

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