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June 19, 2013, 3:57 pm
A proposal for a huge new building housing international electronics giant LG’s U.S. headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, has drawn opposition from officials and preservationists in both the Garden State and New York, including the Metropolitan Museum, whose Medieval outpost the Cloisters is directly across the Hudson from the site of the proposed building, the New York Times reports. Critics are concerned that the building, which is set to rise some 143 feet, will surpass the tree line by several stories, thus ruining historic views of the Palisades, which were made a National Natural Landmark in 1983. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Metropolitan Museum, News, Preservation, The Cloisters
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June 19, 2013, 3:00 pm
During the annual summer migration of Upper East Siders to the Hamptons, the Atlantic coast of Long Island comes alive with a bevy of art fairs — including ArtHamptons, artMKRT Hamptons, and Art Southampton — museum galas — benefiting the Parrish Art Museum and the Watermill Center — pop-up exhibitions, and other fodder catering to the seasonal influx of über-rich Manhattanites. And this season, amid all the dining and decorum, ArtHamptons will debut an event that even the most jaded fair-weather Hamptonite will find highly enjoyable: Art polo. “What is art polo,” you ask? (more…)
Tags: Art Fairs, Art polo, ArtHamptons, Benjamin Sutton, News
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June 19, 2013, 2:11 pm
“Rebel Dabble Babble,” the final installment of Paul McCarthy’s takeover of New York (made in collaboration with his son Damon McCarthy), opens on Thursday at Hauser and Wirth’s West 18th Street complex. The show’s press release warns that sounds of coital grunting will greet visitors, but it doesn’t offer details on the vast filmographies of James Deen (pictured) and Heather Vahn, two pornstars who perform in video projections that are part of the large-scale installation. Below we give the performers their dues with a sampling of 20 previous works (in no particular order) by Vahn and Deen. (more…)
Tags: Hather Vahn, Hauser & Wirth, James Deen, News, Paul McCarthy, pornnography, Rebel Dabble Babble, Sara Roffino
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June 19, 2013, 10:15 am
What’s a recent Smith College art history grad with no job and an in-depth knowledge of German aesthetic theory to do? Well if you’re Lauren Kaelin, you move home and create When Parents Text, a hilarious blog-turned-book that chronicles the all-too-familiar texts of technology-challenged parents (like, Mom: do I use right click or left click to open a file? Me: ??? don’t you have a mac? Mom: how do I left click on a mac? it doesn’t work to use my left hand”). Now Kaelin is back with even more shrewd Internet entertainment in the form of Benjameme, a website devoted to the artist’s painted homages to the Internet’s most viral sensations. (more…)
Tags: Ample Hills, Anderson Cooper, Antoine Dodson, Ashton Cooper, Benjameme, Gangam Style, Grumpy Cat, Interview, Lauren Kaelin, Memes, News, Prancercise, Texts from Hillary, Walter Benjamin, When Parents Text
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June 19, 2013, 9:36 am
Turkish artist Can Altay’s “Inner Space Station” (pictured), a circular six-foot concrete bench, was installed at the entrance of Seward Park on New York’s Lower East Side in early May as part of an initiative by Protocinema, a nonprofit arts organization that organizes pop-up exhibitions in New York and Istanbul. Creative Time director of global initiatives Laura Raicovich told ARTINFO: “It is an invitation or a proposal. It is both introverted, and extroverted, inviting both contemplation and exchange.” For some downtown observers, the piece has been eerily prescient of the current international spotlight on Turkey and the civil unrest that has roiled the country in recent weeks. (more…)
Tags: Can Altay, Creative Time, Eileen Kinsella, News, Protocinema, Public Art, Turkey
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June 19, 2013, 8:49 am
Last summer Trevor Paglen launched an archival silicon disk micro-etched with 100 photographs representing human history into space. A few months after that, French street artist Invader propelled one of his signature “Space Invader” figures into the atmosphere. And most recently, Shepard Fairey helped design the mission patch for an upcoming outing to the International Space Station. But now artists don’t have to launch physical matter into space to send their work to other worlds.
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Tags: Ashton Cooper, GIFs, Kim Asendorf, Lone Signal, News
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June 19, 2013, 7:43 am
The city of Cologne announced on Monday that it would return Oskar Kokoschka’s “Portrait of Tilla Durieux” (1910) to the heirs of Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim. The Museum Ludwig, which has housed the painting since its founding in 1976, attempted to organize a re-purchase agreement with the heirs over the past several weeks, but was unable to do so. (more…)
Tags: Alfred Flechtheim, Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Nazi loot, Oskar Kokoschka
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June 18, 2013, 8:49 am
Publisher Artbook/D.A.P. has launched a new online interactive guide to upcoming exhibitions at American museums on its website, with links to the books it publishes or distributes. The feature functions similarly to Artcards, but for museums, allowing users to sort information about shows according to region — MidAtlantic, Midwest, West, Southwest, New England, and New York City, but no Los Angeles — date, or institution. (more…)
Tags: Artbook/D.A.P., Eileen Kinsella, News
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June 18, 2013, 8:18 am
Art dealer and retired Verizon worker Carolyn Stanford represents seven self-taught artists, all of whom are inmates in federal prisons serving time for non-violent crimes. Through her non-profit Inside Out Art, she sells their work as postcards and limited edition prints, returning all the profits to the inmates while covering the operation’s costs herself — Stanford recently took a part-time job. “They are very appreciative to have someone say, ‘That’s an awesome painting,’” she told DNAinfo. “To have someone say that, ‘When you come home, we’re going to do something positive.’” (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Carolyn Stanford, Inside Out Art, News, prison art
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June 18, 2013, 7:37 am
On June 4 Chicago’s latest public art project was completed with the installation of the city’s 100th partial Buddha head — created by artist Indira Johnson to appear as if it is sinking into or emerging from the ground — outside the Amor de Dios United Methodist Church in the city’s Little Village neighborhood. The outdoor sculpture campaign, dubbed Ten Thousand Ripples, aims to foster better quality of life in the city’s communities by sparking contemplation, conversation, and understanding. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Indira Johnson, Loyola University Museum of Art, News, Public Art, Ten Thousand Ripples
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