Tuesday Links: The 1960s, Today
It’s Truffaut (with a little bit of Godard), it’s Wes Anderson, and it’s a Prada commercial. [@gregorg, Twitter] So, with that Prada commercial it looks like nothing’s changed about the world since...
View ArticleWeekend Reads: A Plague of Plagues
ABMB Hooverville, 60" x 44", Graphite on paper, 2010 William Powhida with Jade Townsend. Image courtesy of williampowhida.com. Maybe it has something to do with the dismal economic forecasts, but it’s...
View ArticleJules de Balincourt Issues Call to Arms Against Bushwick Gentrification
Tired of being flushed out of their studios and homes, this time, artists have decided to fight for their stake in Bushwick. Artists William Powhida and Jules de Balincourt—both all-too-familiar with...
View ArticleArtists Talk Real Estate Tomorrow at Starr Space
Image courtesy Brooklyn Magazine As I’m sure everyone has been noticing, real estate prices in Bushwick have been rising, turn of the century cocktail bars have proliferating, and the artisanal cheese...
View ArticleMonday Links: Monuments and More
Long lost Michelangelo? New evidence surfaces that attributes a damaged statue of an young John the Baptist to the Renaissance master [NYTimes] Today, Thomas Hirschhorn opens a monument to the Italian...
View ArticleThis Week’s Must-See Art Events: Go Big or Go to the Beach
Ryan Schneider, “Sun In Your Eyes.” On view as part of “Bathers,” Morgan Lehman Incoming! Prepare for the vomit wave of summer group shows. Due to the high volume of openings there, we’re sticking...
View ArticleMassive Links: Stay in Brooklyn Edition
Julia Halperin discusses the work of Polish artist Ursula von Rydingsvard and the gentrification of Bushwick. [Bklynr] Paul D’Agostino talks to artist William Powhida about finding sustainably...
View ArticleFriday Links: Fiefdoms and Outrage
Ed Ruscha, "That Was Then This Is Now #1", 1989, acrylic on canvas 32 H x 46 W (inches) It’s probably best not to trust a site that can’t figure out how to spell MOCA properly and cites a source that...
View Article6 Must-See Discussions at Expo Chicago
Joel Sternfeld | McLean, Virginia, December 1978 | 1978. via participating gallery Luhring Augustine Expo Chicago launches next week and I’m already preparing. So far that means reading the website...
View ArticleThursday Links: Auction Horror Think Piece
"Study for the Nurse from the Battleship Potemkin", Francis Bacon, 1957 WSJ’s comparing buying a Bacon painting to buying the services of a sports player (“The Art of Fielding”). William Powhida points...
View ArticleEarly Bird Tickets to The Art F City Roast on Sale Now!
Date: February 17th, 2014 Venue: Postmasters Gallery, 54 Franklin Street, Ground floor, NYC. Time: Cocktails & light fare begin at 6:30 pm, Live Auction at 7:45 and an award ceremony and Roast at...
View ArticleThe Art F City Paddle8 Auction is Live!
Good news. The Art F City auction is live on Paddle8 and we’re employing every form of digital media to let people know! That means you’ve got through Monday, February 17th at NOON sharp to bid on all...
View ArticlePaddle 8: Felix Salmon, William Powhida & Nayland Blake
Felix Salmon, William Powhida & Nayland BlakeExperience: Three Seats at a Poker Game, 2014Courtesy of the ArtistsCurrent bid: $450 Color Wheel is a series in which we identify a trending color in...
View ArticleThis Week’s Must-See Art Events: Homemade Art Machines
This is not the calm before the storm. With the Armory Show, Whitney Biennial, and a whole slew of satellite fairs and biennials popping up next week, we thought this week would be full of light fare....
View ArticleThursday Links: We’re All Getting Older
Sarah Lucas at Gladstone Blake Gopnik has some nice things to say about William Powhida’s new show at Postmasters. [Artinfo] For those of you who have been following the missing Malaysian aircraft...
View ArticleWednesday Links: Urinating in Someone’s Mouth Not Considered Helpful
Always good to get a little context. Patricia Morrisroe, Robert Mapplethorpe’s biographer, on the reception of his work while he was alive: “At a time before gay marriage, when most gay men were still...
View ArticleDueling Reports: Is the Post-Art School Job Crisis Bullshit?
Artists Report Back, Animated from BFA MFA PhD on Vimeo. Does art school lead us to the fulfilling creative life we all hoped, or is it the most expensive possible qualification for a dishwashing job?...
View ArticleUNTITLED. Continues to Make Gains in Miami
UNTITLED installation view As an exhibitor of UNTITLED. last year, it’s hard to make any kind of informed comparison between this year and last. I spent the entirety of the fair in the Art F City...
View ArticleThis Week’s Must-See Art Events: Good Reasons To Put Pants On
The protagonist from “Goodbye to Language” For those of us who didn’t get out much last year, we get to head to the White Columns Annual for the last round-up of everything we should’ve seen. Also in...
View ArticleLiveblogging “Artist as Debtor”: a Conference on Artists Under Capitalism
Diagram courtesy of BFAMFAPhD Welcome to “Artist as Debtor,” a conference on the all-too-familiar topic of art-school debt. Throughout the day, our staff will be liveblogging some of the half-hour...
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