Friday Links: “The Fucked-up-ness of American Culture”
Barkley Hendricks, “In the Crosshairs of the States” Iggy Pop was at the MoCA Detroit for the opening of American Valhalla: The Art of Post Pop Depression. The exhibition features photography from...
View ArticleMonday Links: James Franco Calls AFC “Particularly Nasty”
It’s the 10th anniversary of the 2006 Youtube sensation “Shoes” by actor Liam Kyle Sullivan. Not sure the video tells us too much about the internet 10 years ago, though it is a good reminder that...
View ArticleWednesday Links: But Some People Do Care
Some view Peregrine Honig’s restroom signs as insensitive. Former Work of Art contestant Peregrine Honig’s “We Don’t Care” restroom signs—created in response to North Carolina’s discriminatory...
View ArticleFriday Links: The Breakfast of Champions
Credit: Extra Crispy How does Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith do breakfast? Neither cook, so according to this AM-focused interview with Saltz, he goes to a nearby deli and gets four cups of coffee,...
View ArticleTuesday Links: Teapot Not Enough Dick-Coverage for Australian Painting
Headline of the day: “Bob Ross Was a Tyrant and Hated His Perm, Says Former Manager.” [artnet News] Police were called to an art gallery in a small town in Australia over a complaint of a nude...
View ArticleMonday Links: Oh Yeah!
What we’re listening to: Yello’s, “Oh Yeah”. Yello musician Dieter Meier has a show up in Berlin right now, and we’re excited. [Galerie Judin] An increasing number of museum workers are heading to...
View ArticleNo Links: On The Donald Trump of Art World Social Media
Image via Jerry Saltz’s instagram. Artists Leah Dixon and Lauren Christiansen are taking issue with Jerry Saltz’s Instagram feed because they think he’s too interested in vaginas. They’ve titled their...
View ArticleWednesday Links: Foot Traffic is Down at 57th Street Galleries
Outside the Trump Tower Jerry Saltz discusses Andreas Gursky’s “Amazon”, a photograph taken inside an Amazon warehouse in Phoenix, as it pertains to the election. Saltz describes the photograph as...
View ArticleMonday Links: Artist-Run Spaces Evicted Nationwide, #Pizzagate Trolls Become...
Paintings such as this one, by art therapy patient Ria Pratt, are now being used by fake news websites as “proof” of the #pizzagate conspiracy theory, which seems especially unethical. The #pizzagate...
View ArticleFriday Links: The Art World isn’t Changing
Tomorrow is Canada’s 150th anniversary. July 4th’s coming up too, but we’re a little less excited about celebrating that this year given the healthcare debacle and this muslim ban bullshit. [The...
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