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Tuesday Links: Karl Lagerfeld’s $3,323 Colored Pencils

The KARLBOX from Faber-Castell.

The New York Times profiles Participant Inc founder Lia Gangitano. Why can’t everyone in the art world be this cool? [The New York Times]

Want to spend over $3,000 on drawing supplies? Try the KARLBOX. It’s a collaboration between Karl Lagerfeld and Faber-Castell and it’s just as ridiculous as it sounds. [CNN]

Laurie Simmons made a film called My Art, which seems vaguely-autobiographical and really, really bad. [The Hollywood Reporter]

A Menashe Kadishman sculpture in suburban Tel Aviv, Birth, has become a bizarre site of pilgrimage for Orthodox women who sit on it and pray for fertility. They claim the artwork has mystical powers, which is probably one of the most unique public receptions to a piece of contemporary sculpture. [artnet News]

According to the rumor mill, the new iPhone won’t have a headphone jack but it will be waterproof. Are that many people dropping their phones in the toilet? [The New York Times]

A battery operated sculpture featured in a Kanye West video that features 12 naked pop stars and political figures in bed together including Taylor Swift and Donald Trump does not cost 4 million dollars. The sculpture, currently on view at Blum & Poe in Culver City, was early reported by the Times to be for sale, but now the gallery press representative claims the piece is not for sale. Unless, of course, the right buyer comes along. We’re just going to go ahead and speculate that West, a self-described genius, is waffling on the sales strategy and price. [The Los Angeles Times]

For those who thought that the Gawker suit was a one off case: Roger Ailes is hinting at a suit against New York Magazine for their feature on him and the long history of sexual harassment allegations that have followed his career. He’s retained Charles J. Harder for the case, the lawyer funded by Peter Thiel for the Hogan Gawker case. [Politico]

Because of heightened security surrounding the US Open tennis championships, the neighboring Queens Museum has decided to close until 9/11. This sucks. [ARTnews]

Iceland is home to lots of utopian-looking modernist churches. Combined with the stark landscape, these would be great locations for a sci-fi movie. [Dezeen]

Developers Henderson Land are building a 24-story building in Hong Kong with the goal of leasing to high-end gallerists looking for quality exhibition space. Hong Kong has a notorious property shortage, particularly spaces suitable for art galleries. The new building has high ceilings and a crane for moving artwork, and tenants such as David Zwirner and Pace have already signed on. [Financial Times]

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Save Yourself for the Weekend

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 25, 2016

This might seem like a slow week of screenings and talks, but it’s probably best to save your energy for the weekend anyway. There is a lot to do.

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Monday Links: Best Marching Band Ever

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on November 3, 2014

The Ohio State Marching Band performs tributes to sci-fi films. Visually the band resembles ASCII Star Wars, but with references to every instance of sci fi in culture represented by tubas, trumpets, cannons, and fireworks. This is the kind of discipline and spirit I like to see representing America. [Laughing Squid]
On this week’s episode of Hello Kitty Cribs, watch a middle-age interior designer give a tour of his multi-room Hello Kitty shrine. [BBC]
Los Angeles Times art critic Carolina A. Miranda, who brought the statement “Hello Kitty is not a cat” to the Internet’s attention, gets a Hello Kitty tattoo. [Instagram]
“The abiding cliché of online sociality holds that one’s identity online is made up not of character traits…but of one’s likes and dislikes and the friends and acquaintances one is connected to.” Melissa Gronlund on how Rosalind Krauss’s theory of video art and narcissism stacks up with today’s Internet-inspired video. [Afterall]
London report: after a week-long protest in front of Parliament Square this past October, Occupy protesters are set to return in late November. For that next iteration, they’ve set up an open call for artwork. [Samia Gallery]
If you’re living in London, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter, expect heightened security checks at airports. Starting today. Fun! [The Washington Post]
Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man, is (very likely) responsible for inflating the Richter market. [The Telegraph]
“We’re pooping all wrong. And the toilets are to blame.” On the poor design of toilets. [Pacific Standard]
N00dies of us all over the internet this weekend. It has to do with art criticism. We’ll explain later. [Facebook]
Now there are lasers to shoot down drones. Where does it end? [The Verge]
For the journos: New York Magazine’s Vulture is looking for a senior editor. 2+ years experience editing online, and a deep love of television are required. [Mediabistro via Gabrielle Gantz on Twitter]
OH COME ON, ARTNET. These misleading titles, like the latest “Duane Michaels Shot Warhol, and Took Off,” are getting ridiculous. Click through to read a blurb about two fairly banal snapshots. [artnet News]

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Monday Links: I Wore This to Miami Last Year, So I Can’t Wear It Again

by Paddy Johnson on December 2, 2013

ahhh, palm trees [via dumpfm/deephunk]

As we prepare for Basel Miami, let us reflect on Aurel Schmidt’s approach: “It’s a great way for people in the art world to actually have fun together.” [T Magazine, 2009]
Manish Vora, co-founder of Grey Area, tells it like it is, “So much of the Basel fatigue is that a lot of the events are not that fun.” Pre-party Basel coverage has already started at NYT. This year’s concern? Celeb parties are a bigger draw than art parties. [The New York Times]

BUTT Magazine has taken down our favorite reportage from the fairs, but Choire Sicha quoted a juicy paragraph of it back in 2009. Even that much is worth the read. [The Awl]

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn gets a lauding profile from the New York Times. Marilyn Minter has the best quotes in the piece, “I was really attracted to her in the first place because she had black artists and women, and never made a big deal out of it,” she said. We also learn a little about a Minter painting called “The Singer”, which sadly won’t be at Basel this year. [The New York Times]

NADA’s offering tours to kids at Basel this year. [In the Air]

New York Magazine will go from publishing their magazine weekly to every other week. They plan to use the money they save to beef up the long form features in the magazine and invest in online content. [The New York Times]

Jay and Stuart Podolsky are landlords making a fortune by renting shelter spaces to the city. Their nicknames back when one such building was used as a hostel? The “terror lords”. Andrew Rice really did a great job with this story. [New York Magazine]

A revised bill for the Equity for Visual Artists Act, which would introduce artists’ resale rights to the art market will be floated in the Capital come January. With all the political gridlock there though, we don’t anticipate the bill passing anytime soon. [The Art Newspaper]

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The AFC Guide to Disliking Laurel Nakadate Without Hating Women

by Corinna Kirsch on December 6, 2011

I have a problem with Laurel Nakadate. It has nothing to do with her thighs, and everything to do with Craigslist and her lacy panties.

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Jerry Saltz Explains Why Andy Warhol Makes Rich Guys Go Gaga — New York Magazine

by Paddy Johnson on May 23, 2011

Jerry Saltz Explains Why Andy Warhol Makes Rich Guys Go Gaga — New York Magazine – This is a lot of talk about motivations I doubt are much deeper than a love of money.

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Jerry Saltz Beyond Thunderdome: Folk Art Museum Architecture Defended By Critics

by Paddy Johnson on May 17, 2011

Still more writers think critics Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith should not be blaming The Folk Art Museum’s architecture for its financial woes. First NY Mag Saltz colleague Justin Davidson piped in Thursday, calling it akin to “faulting Mercedes-Benz for making such lovely cars that minimum-wage workers go bankrupt buying them”, and now Paul Goldberger at The New Yorker says architects can only work with what they are given.

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Economic Thinker Paul Krugman’s Lonely Crusade for Liberalism — New York Magazine

by Paddy Johnson on April 26, 2011

Economic Thinker Paul Krugman’s Lonely Crusade for Liberalism — New York Magazine – Such a fantastic profile. From the closing: Part of the basic loneliness of economic study is that you are always looking back, at data sets that are already completed. And so you realize your vision of a perfect society just as it […]

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new York magazine

The AFC Guide to Disliking Laurel Nakadate Without Hating Women

Jerry Saltz Explains Why Andy Warhol Makes Rich Guys Go Gaga — New York Magazine

Jerry Saltz Beyond Thunderdome: Folk Art Museum Architecture Defended By Critics

Economic Thinker Paul Krugman’s Lonely Crusade for Liberalism — New York Magazine

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