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  • Fold Loud (2007) - JooYoun Paek
    Source: Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest
    July 30

    Fold Loud is a (de)constructing musical play interface that uses origami paper-folding techniques and ritualistic Taoist principles to give users a s. […]
  • Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally Now on Display - Only Opportunity to See it in the U.S.
    Source: Recent News on Artdaily.org

    NEW YORK, NY.- After a long awaited settlement regarding the Portrait of Wally, a 1912 oil painting by artist Egon Schiele, the painting will be on vi. […]
  • Creation Myth
    Source: Mute magazine - culture and politics after the net
    July 28

    By Marina Vishmidt This March at Central Saint Martins, teachers and students from a seminal '60s/'70s experiment in art education gathered to recons. […]
  • YouTube – ITERATING MY WAY INTO OBLIVION by Carlo Zanni
    Source: Art Fag City
    July 30

    YouTube – ITERATING MY WAY INTO OBLIVION by Carlo Zanni – Carlo Zanni's movie set to a computer narration of Youtube's terms of service overlays a. […]
  • No More Kings
    Source: n+1
    July 30

    LeBron had been a great high school basketball player in Akron and had skipped college to go to the NBA. But he had not yet played a single game, and. […]
  • China's Firewall Stymies Google; Users Confused
    Source: Slashdot
    July 30

    eldavojohn writes "Massive confusion occurred last night for Google's Chinese search engine and ad services when Google's automated reporting system c. […]
  • Le Tableau: Curated by Joe Fyfe
    Source: ArtCat: Picks
    July 30

    TOP PICKCheim & Read547 West 25th Street, 212-242-7727ChelseaJune 24 - September 3, 2010Opening: Thursday, June 24, 6 - 8 PMWeb SiteLe Tableau places. […]
  • Go See – Montreal: Jenny Holzer at Fondation DHC through November 14th, 2010
    Source: AO Art Observed™
    July 30

    Artist Jenny Holzer, via Artnet Currently showing at the DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art in Montreal is an exhibition of works by Jenny Holzer. […]
  • Radio Web MACBA
    Source: Ubu Web


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  • Artists From The Gallery

    Eric Shaw, Room with De Kooning
    Eric Shaw, Room with De Kooning
    Jack Siegel - Casshole
    Jack Siegel - Casshole
    Jack Siegel - Buttons
    Jack Siegel - Buttons
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Jack Siegel - Standard
    Jack Siegel - Standard
    Jack Siegel - Make Out
    Jack Siegel - Make Out
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Eric Shaw, Untitled

  • The Future of Panel Discussions + The Glorified Docent

    April 26th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General

    I love panel discussions about panel discussions!

    Got this from Lee Wells on facebook.

    Held at EFA Project Space, April 23:

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    Holland Cotter wins 2009 Pullitzer Prize for Criticism

    April 23rd, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General

    This is from Flash Art, and should make a lot of people very, very happy:

    Holland Cotter has been awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Cotter is staff critic at the New York Times and although his writing has covered many subjects across the art world he is noted for approaching “non-western” art, helping the increased interest in the ’90s in contemporary art from India and China.

    Cotter also collaborated with the International Association of Art Critics, and earlier in his career worked as contributing editor of Art in America and as editorial associate at Art News.

    Cotter receives $10,000 as part of the prize and is noted for being the first art critic to receive the prize for 35 years.


    For more information visit: www.pulitzer.org

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    more real than art

    April 22nd, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General

    M,
    Claire Bishop begins her 2006 Art Forum article with a quote from Dan Graham: “All
    artists are alike. They dream of doing something that?s more social, more collaborative,
    and more real than art.”  If Graham is more or less correct, do you think it can be said
    that he is identifying some kind of neurosis or paranoia peculiar to socially engaged
    artists where non-art and non-artists are actually fetishized because their non-work is
    somehow more REAL than art?

    Best,
    P

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    Leo Fitzpatrick, FUCK Friends, tonight: April 17th

    April 17th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General

    leo_ass_invite_back

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    Cash for your Warhol

    April 17th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General, Non Art, The Art Market

    andy-warhol-jackie-1964-181013

    http://www.cashforyourwarhol.com/

    I read about this *project* this morning over at dealer Edward Winkleman’s blog (posted at 7:49 AM!!!) and was surprised to see that Rhizome had not already covered this eons ago (that’s a complement to Rhizome).

    Here’s what the website promises:

    No one can help you sell your Warhol fast like Cash For Your Warhol™! Sell your print or painting for cash regardless of the size, price, or condition. Cash For Your Warhol™ has been in business for several months so you can concentrate on moving on with your life.

    We can help you sell your art fast. Our nationwide network of investors has helped lots of art collectors in situations like yours. They can often make you a written offer within hours of contacting us, regardless of economic conditions, and have your problems solved within days.

    The next step is yours. And confidentiality is assured! Get in touch with us… and <snap!> you could be in contact with the buyer of your Warhol today!

    Contact info: cashforyourwarhol@gmail.com (24-hour service).

    The site is a very clever bit of commentary, akin to some of the net art in the book At The Edge Of Art (2006, Thames & Hudson).

    edgeofartIn the past I have found the pretend-functionality of net art projects like these to be a weakness.  The artist Dan Graham said, “All artists are alike. They dream of doing something that’s more social, more collaborative, and more real than art.” The connection for me has been that many non-artists are using technology to actually make a difference, in a committed sense and in earnest, without the pretense of artistic context, and without the acknowledgment that they’re going to walk away from it. In this way the “real world” often times outmodes the practices of artists engaged with the web.  This criticism could be misdirected; nonetheless Cash For Your Warhol is a cool idea.

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    Three contrasting discussions about contemporary criticism

    April 7th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General

    The following links lead to three lively online discussions — still active — about the current role of and challenges facing critics of contemporary art.  The first two discussions, on New York-based art critic Jerry Saltz’s public facebook wall and the Frieze Magazine editors’ blog respectively, are about the differences in responsibility between newspaper critics and writers/reviewers for specialist trade magazines like Art Forum, or Frieze.  The Frieze discussion, however, is a uniquely British one.  There is no comparison to the breadth of public exposure art criticism receives in England, even if, as some have argued, that public is a mythical, imagined one.  Sure, the U.S. has the New York Times, but large and loud British art shows receive coverage even in the tabloids.  Nonetheless, the critical atmosphere in newspaper journalism in England is disdained by some as being classist, dismissive, snarky, and occasionally racist.  The discussion on the Frieze blog is in response to a survey of the types of responses British newspaper journalists had to Nicolas Bourriaud’s Altermodern show at the Tate.

    The third link is to an April 3rd podcast (about 90 minutes in length (I misuse my time, obviously)) on 1up.com, a well-known videogame review website.  Usually these podcasts are a bit too insider-y to keep my attention, which is why I like to listen to them as I fall asleep at night, but April 3rd’s edition revealed the complex, but still fomenting and unresolved though processes game critics have about their responsibilities, their perceived audiences, the increasing legitimacy and variety of formats game criticism, etc.  I am a steadfast believer in the future of gaming as perhaps one last distinct artistic medium, in the traditional pre-1970s sense Lev Manovich discusses in Post-Media Aesthetics (I’ll link to that too), so this was an interesting conversation for me.  One of the game developers in the discussion is also clearly wasted.

    1) Discussion about Art Forum on Jerry Saltz’s insane facebook wall

    2) Frieze || Altercritics — scroll down for responses

    3) 1up.com podcast on game criticism — pop up in new window

    Post-media Aesthetics, from Lev Manovich’s website (.doc)

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    “What was the hipster?” panel discussion Saturday, April 11th

    April 7th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General
    From the n+1 website:
    April 6th, 2009

    n+1 Presents
    in partnership with the New School

    “What Was the Hipster?”

    An Afternoon Panel, Symposium, and Historical Investigation

    –This Saturday, April 11, 2009–

    Mark Greif (n+1)
    Jace Clayton (dj/Rupture)
    Christian Lorentzen (Harper’s)
    + Special Guests TBA

    Free and Open to the Public

    Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write the hipster’s history without contempt or nostalgia? Why do we declare the hipster moment over—that, in fact, it had ended by 2003—when the hipster’s “global brand” has just reached its apotheosis?

    A panel of n+1 writers invites n+1 subscribers and the public to join a collective investigation. Short presentations will be followed by audience debate, comment, and recollection, to be transcribed and published in book form this year.

    Saturday, April 11, 2009, 2 pm – 4 pm.
    The New School University, Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.

    Admission: No tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served. Please come early.

    Please forward to friends.

    www.nplusonemag.com
    www.newschool.edu

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    SXSW 2009 Film Trailer: RiP Remix

    April 6th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General

    This documentary on remix/mash-up culture and the crusade against it looks pretty good.

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    One Night Stand: anonymous art show — Envoy Enterprises

    April 5th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General, Exhibitions/Openings

    anonymous-show-envoy

    This is one of the cooler concepts for a show I’ve heard about in New York recently.  Here are the details:

    What would do if you could do anything you wanted and knew you could get away with it? 20 artists from New York, London, and Italy, working in a variety of media were posed this same question. They were asked to make works in which they banished self-censorship and were encouraged to make art that provokes, annoys, and insights outrage. By wearing the mask of anonymity they could put any feelings of consequence aside. The artists, in turn, made works that confronted racism, homophobia, unpatriotic acts, and the sexually taboo.

    Please join us Saturday April 11, 2009 at Envoy Enterprises for this one night show.
    Opening reception 6pm -9pm with performances by Tough Slutting at Home Sweet Home (directly bellow the gallery)

    envoy enterprises
    131 Chrystie Street, ground floor
    New York, NY 10002
    212.226.4555

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    Koons, Kelley, Koh — Mary Boone Gallery

    April 4th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Art in General

    Curated by Javier Peres

    April 4th to May 16th at Mary Boone Gallery

    Opening Reception tonight, April 4th, from 5 – 7 PM

    koons-kelley-koh

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