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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Long Island Eclipses Manhattan
“Strict Governing Hands,” choreographed by Monica Mirabile, 2014. Image from Superchief Gallery. Mirabile is one half of FLUCT, the performance duo closing out the BOFFO Fire Island festival on...
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AFC’s Fall Forecast: Goth Art Everywhere
Winter is coming. As the nights grow longer, shadows seem to creep into the city’s innumerable white boxes. Our prediction for what the Fall/Winter 2016 look will be in New York: goth as fuck....
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Friday Links: Goodbye, Gawker
Eyebeam announces the five recipients of its 2016–2017 artist research residency. Those lucky, talented artists are…Morehshin Allahyari, Nora N. Khan, Mimi Onuoha, Macon Reed, and Karolina Sobecka....
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Pink and Naked as a Pig, Donald Trump (Sculpture) Delights and Terrifies New...
So this happened today. Image courtesy of Indecline. Thursday morning, the Internet began flooding with reports of a UFO sighting in Union Square. Onlookers gawked at this UFO (unidentified fat...
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Thursday Links: Sick Pyongyang Trip, Brah!
Lucia Moholy, wife of László Moholy-Nagy, is pretty much the unsung hero of the Bauhaus. While her husband taught at the school, she took gorgeous documentary photographs of everything from...
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Wednesday Links: No One Likes Your Blood Art or Thinks Soylent Is Cool Anymore
“My Little Edward Scissorhands” by Jvermillionaire Robot taxis? Ford Motor Company announces plans to unveil a driverless vehicle for use in commercial ride-sharing by the year 2021. No plans yet as to...
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Vanessa Beecroft Continues to Prove She Doesn’t Deserve Comparison With...
Vanessa Beecroft, “VB66,” Mercato lttico, Napoli, 2010. We were going to write a blog post titled “Vanessa Beecroft is the Rachel Dolezal of the Art World” and then realized what an unfair comparison...
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Tuesday Links: Temporary Tattoos and Fugly Fabrics
[caption id="attachment_79512" align="alignnone" width="620"] Artist Menja Stevenson wearing a dress to match the bus seats. Photo courtesy of the artist.[/caption] Mind blown: the Olympics used to...
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Thursday Links: Happy New Ear!
The Australian artist Stelarc has grown a third ear on his arm. The implant will eventually include a wi-fi connected microphone that will broadcast what the new ear hears to a livestream that anyone...
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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Choose Between Wes Anderson Fan Art and a...
Jaimie Warren, “Self-portrait as Pennywise the Clown with the Blob, Jason, Freddy, Chucky, Leprechaun and Basketcase in re-creation of the Nativity scene from the Vyššì Brod Altarpiece (1350),” 2014 We...
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Thursday Links: Quality, Not Quaaludes
There’s a new investment firm that allows clients to purchase shares in an art collection “at a fraction of the cost” of actually buying art. The minimum investment? $10,000. Here’s our free advice:...
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Tuesday Links: Postcapitalism, Britney Spears, Satan, and AI Killing Machines
Paul Mason makes a convincing argument that we’re quietly teetering on the cusp of “postcapitalism.” Markets have failed, the correlation between labor and wages is shaky, and economies based on...
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Monday Links: #hottakes From Around the Globe
From art-school hip-hop acts to testicle-nailing performance artists: a brief survey of what’s being censored in Putin’s Russia. [Newsweek] London collectors Eskandar and Fatima Maleki have settled...
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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Authenticity as Commodity
Pore-free skin, of the kind you might see at Egress on Monday night. Freaky fairy tales. Digital misfits. Pore-free faces. In a society on the move towards being post-kale, there’s something to be...
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Friday Links: Nothing But Dynasty Fights
Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf wrapped models in dresses that look like broken paintings at Paris Couture Week. Will painting always return to the “hot chicks on canvas” genre? These are really...
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We Went to Regina Rex and 247365
The ever-changing storefront that is the entrance to Regina Rex. Michael: In part two of our LES outing, things are a little more fun. Regina Rex is showing translucent threads of dawn, Conrad...
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We Went to Soft Core at INVISIBLE-EXPORTS and Close to the Skin at Company...
At Company Gallery, a prone crash dummy serves as the centerpiece. Are those watering cans ascending the stairs to look out the window or commit mass-suicide? Michael: It’s always a surprise to see a...
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Tuesday Links: Cyberpunk’s Not Dead, It’s Our Reality
Nope, that’s not a still from “Blade Runner.” That’s just Beijing. [Gizmodo] I (Michael) have been off-and-on obsessed with cyberpunk over the years. People often tell me it’s no longer relevant....
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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Punk for Cyberpunks
What you’ll see at P.P.O.W. this week. This is one of those New York City weeks that gets off to a slow start and then builds up to a Friday night of frantically running around to see it all. It’s...
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Monday Links: Eat a Waterbed
The strange world of sunburn stock photography. Ow. How popular are different art businesses globally, according to Facebook likes? Apparently Americans like Christie’s more than Sotheby’s. [ARTnews]...
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