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51 articles, 2016-07-23 06:15 1 Kanye West to Present Art Installation at Watermill Summer Benefit, Leonardo DiCaprio Hosts $45 Million Art Auction, and More (1.02/2) A daily round-up of must-read news from the art world and beyond. 2016-07-22 10:40 696Bytes www.blouinartinfo.com 2 Alexis Silk, 2016 Spotlight Artist Alexis Silk is breaking exciting ground with dramatic new works in blown glass and metal that are at once timeless and thought (0.02/2) provoking. Emerging from the intersection of the artist's fascination with the human figure, passion for her molten medium, and desire for conceptual expression,... 2016-07-23 06:00 2KB artexponewyork.com 3 DAY 3 AT ARTEXPO: CROWDS CONVERGE ON PIER 94 Saturday at Artexpo marked the show's busiest day yet, drawing (0.01/2) thousands of attendees eager for artistic invigoration to the halls of Pier 94. Boasting booth after booth of extraordinary paintings, sculpture, glassworks, and photography, the 38th annual Artexpo New York offered something for... 2016-07-23 06:06 1KB artexponewyork.com 4 On Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Lorna — Untitled (Blog) — Walker Art Center As evidenced by the wonderful interview between Lynn Hershman

(0.01/2) Leeson (b. 1941) and Juliana Huxtable (b. 1987) in Art Forum this summer, Hershman Leeson's pioneering media legacy continues to provo... 2016-07-23 03:01 905Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 5 DAY 2 AT ARTEXPO: SPECIAL KEYNOTE, LIVE ART DEMOS & MORE Friday at Artexpo brought throngs of visitors through the gates of Pier 94 to see artwork from over 400 exhibitors from around the world, comprising more than 1,000 artists in total. The doors opened early for the event's Keynote Presentation by Pam Danziger, "Marketing Art... 2016-07-23 06:02 1KB artexponewyork.com 6 AENY 2016 Recap: Highlights from an Incredible Year That's a wrap! Artexpo New York has taken the fine-art scene by storm yet again, and we've got the sales, stories, and gorgeous collection of photos and videos to prove it. We'd like to extend a huge thank you to everyone... 2016-07-23 06:04 2KB artexponewyork.com

14 Rick and Morty Dropped an Epic Season 3 Fight Scene Animatic at Comic Con Wubbalubbadubdub! It's a massacre. 2016-07-22 22:07 1KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 15 Buzzfeed to Launch Gift Guide Newsletters With Wedding Gift-Themed One BuzzFeed is getting into the gift-giving business with a batch of newsletters that will launch in late July. 2016-07-22 20:03 3KB wwd.com 16 Le Cheval Blanc Saint-Barth Obtains Palace Distinction The hotel is owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. 2016-07-22 19:55 1KB wwd.com 17 vasily klyukin envisions color-changing 'rose pavilion' vasily klyukin's 'rose pavilion' sees an abstract bundle of blooms contructed of semi-transparent glass and metal. 2016-07-22 19:30 1KB www.designboom.com 18 How to Create the 'Star Trek' Teleporter Effect for Your Own Sci-Fi Film With ‘Star Trek Beyond’ out today, PBS Digital Studio’s Joey Shanks shows fans how to create the teleporter effect. 2016-07-22 18:12 2KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 19 Anonymous Whirling Dancers Crash the RNC Protests | Insta of the Week Amidst aggressive signs with slogans like 'Trump Eats Farts', a swirl of anonymous dancers add whimsy to the protests. 2016-07-22 17:39 1KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 20 Melania Trump Wears Fendi on Day Four of the Republican National Convention Apparently the candidate’s third wife isn’t a big fan of American designers. 2016-07-22 17:27 1KB wwd.com 21 Target Launches Cat & Jack With Blake Lively, Rachel Bilson Blake Lively, Rachel Bilson, Jenna Dewan-Tatum and Camila Alves turned out at Brooklyn Bridge Park for the Cat & Jack Target launch. 2016-07-22 17:12 1KB wwd.com

22 Porn-on-Porn Photos and a Scuba Diver Shock Viewers at New Berlin Exhibit The scandal of the show's opening in Berlin was augmented by a visitor clad in a scuba diving suit...just enjoying the art. 2016-07-22 17:00 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 23 A Look at Mary Mattingly’s Floating Garden Project, ‘Swale’ Part artwork, part communal resource, “Swale” is a 130-by-40-foot barge containing a forest garden of edible and medicinal plants. Mattingly's aim is to merge art and policy. 2016-07-22 16:54 3KB www.blouinartinfo.com 24 Time Inc. Restructures Editorial Team — More Work, More Digital Time Inc. is reworking its editorial structure to play up digital with most of the leaders keeping their current jobs. 2016-07-22 16:54 2KB wwd.com 25 BMW raises the bar with its latest 'M5 competition edition' the 'M dynamic mode' of the stability control system DSC has been further aligned to sporty handling characteristics. 2016-07-22 16:45 4KB www.designboom.com 26 Artist Proposes Monument for Drug Dealers in Berlin The American, Berlin-based artist Scott Holmquist has started a petition for the erection of a monument honoring African drug dealers. 2016-07-22 16:02 3KB news.artnet.com 27 The Untold Story of Graphene, the Wonders of 2D Materials A new exhibition entitled “Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond” will run from July 23, 2016 through June 25, 2017 at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. 2016-07-22 16:00 1KB www.blouinartinfo.com 28 Why Are There No Robots in 'Mr. Robot?' | GIF Six-Pack We gathered robot GIFs to inspire Sam Esmail to put robots into 'Mr. Robot.' 2016-07-22 15:58 1KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 29 M+ pavilion opens in hong kong's west kowloon cultural district hong kong’s west kowloon cultural district (WKCD) has announced the completion of M+ pavilion, the first permanent venue for exhibitions and arts events in the emerging art hub. 2016-07-22 15:30 2KB www.designboom.com 30 China Becomes a Living Painting in This Neural Network Timelapse Drew Geraci used the Prisma app to create a hallucinatory animation. 2016-07-22 15:30 2KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 31 A Gender-Bending Music Video Gets Sexy With Holes in All the Right Places Go behind the scenes of an abstract love-making session filmed by Paul Trillo shot for DJ Pone’s track 'Heart Swing.' 2016-07-22 15:25 3KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 32 A Great Wooden Wave Surges Through This Tsunami-Inspired Installation Tadashi Kawamata captures the physical wonder and fatal fear of a natural disaster at Centre Pompidou-Metz. 2016-07-22 15:15 2KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 33 Junk Food Still Lifes Dissect Notions of Healthy vs. Unhealthy Foods The prolific artist Kenya Hanley creates portraits of food and pop culture figures. 2016-07-22 15:00 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 34 See and Spin #17: 3 Things to Read, 3 Things to Hear The most dangerous jungle. Trump's ghostwriter. Aussie psych. See and Spin: Where Real Arters dish on three things to read and three things to hear. 2016-07-22 14:50 3KB realart.com 35 James Turrell Illuminates a Memorial Chapel in a Berlin Cemetery The prolific light artist designed a light program which capitalizes on the city's stunning sunsets. 2016-07-22 14:50 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 36 Revel in the Beauty of Death With These Gem-Encrusted Monkey Skulls Check out Gerard Geer’s fantastical combinations of taxidermy and sculpture. 2016-07-22 14:30 2KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 37 Buffy, Merry Men, Dark Horse Presents, and Faith: This Week in Comics #27 Buffy the Vampire Slayer is back to beating down the “Big Bad” in this week’s comic roundup. 2016-07-22 14:00 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 38 Review: ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Attempts Miracle on Return to London Stage BLOUIN ARTINFO reviews "Jesus Christ Superstar," the former West End play that has been resurrected at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London. 2016-07-22 13:57 3KB www.blouinartinfo.com 39 Take a Peek Inside Queen Elizabeth II’s Closet at Buckingham Palace From her christening dress to her wedding gown through to the present, Queen Elizabeth II's most iconic looks are now on view in London. 2016-07-22 12:57 3KB news.artnet.com 40 5 Things To Know About Edward Hopper on His Birthday To celebrate the artist's birthday, artnet News rounded up five details about Edward Hopper's life and work. 2016-07-22 12:54 3KB news.artnet.com 41 Rashid Johnson Is Second Artist Ever Named to Guggenheim Foundations’ Board Artist Rashid Johnson has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. 2016-07-22 12:35 2KB news.artnet.com 42 Judy Blame at ICA, London Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday 2016-07-22 12:30 2KB www.artnews.com 43 Jeff Arnal Named Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center Jeff Arnal. PHOTO BY KRISTOFER THOMPSON The Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center in Asheville, North Carolina has appointed Jeff Arnal its executive 2016-07-22 12:12 1KB www.artnews.com 44 Radical Statements: Four Reviews by Laurie Anderson Anderson.©TIM KNOX During the early '70s, Laurie Anderson was a mainstay in this magazine's reviews section, often writing several reviews every issue. With 2016-07-22 11:59 5KB www.artnews.com 45 ‘The Love of the Image Is the Opposite of the Iconoclastic Gesture’: Massimiliano Gioni on ‘The Keeper’ at the New Museum Ydessa Hendeles, "Partners (The Teddy Bear Project), 2002. "PHOTO BY ROBERT KEZIERE “The Keeper,” an exhibition that showcases collecting and preservation in 2016-07-22 11:33 4KB www.artnews.com 46 Nanjing International Art Festival 2016 to Address Global Economy Nanjing International Art Festival (NJIAF) has announced the theme for its third edition, which opens on November 12 and will take place at a new venue. 2016-07-22 10:55 3KB www.blouinartinfo.com 47 Shepard Fairey Creates Anniversary Portrait Of Missing Teen Perry Cohen Street artist and activist Shepard Fairey pays tribute to missing teen Perry Cohen and his eponymous foundation with a new portrait. 2016-07-22 10:33 3KB news.artnet.com 48 Jake Gyllenhaal Returns to Broadway in Lanford Wilson’s ‘Burn This’ Gyllenhaal is set to add the role of Pale in Wilson's tempestuous 1980s drama to a growing theatrical résumé, extending to musicals like “Little Shop of Horrors." 2016-07-22 10:14 3KB www.blouinartinfo.com 49 Despite Death Threats, Modigliani Expert To Publish New Catalogue Raisonné Both Marc Restellini and Kenneth Wayne have promised exhaustive catalogues of the paintings of Amedeo Modigliani, whose market has soared. 2016-07-22 10:03 2KB news.artnet.com 50 Frances Bean Cobain Is Selling Her Truly Nightmarish Artwork Online The daughter of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain, is an artist, and you can buy prints of her disturbing works online. 2016-07-22 09:56 2KB news.artnet.com 51 Art Demystified: How to Authenticate a Contemporary Artwork In the high-stakes contemporary art world authenticity is one of the most contentious issues. artnet News explains what you need to know. 2016-07-22 08:35 2KB news.artnet.com Articles

51 articles, 2016-07-23 06:15

1 Kanye West to Present Art Installation at Watermill Summer Benefit, Leonardo DiCaprio Hosts $45 Million Art Auction, and More (1.02/2) Related Venues Gladstone Gallery On Stellar Rays Life on Mars Dodge Gallery Asian Art Museum Artists Damien Hirst Jeff Koons Pablo Picasso 2016-07-22 10:40 Taylor Dafoe

2 Alexis Silk, 2016 Spotlight Artist (0.02/2) Alexis Silk is breaking exciting ground with dramatic new works in blown glass and metal that are at once timeless and thought provoking. Emerging from the intersection of the artist’s fascination with the human figure, passion for her molten medium, and desire for conceptual expression, the work exhibits surprising maturity and depth. Technically, Silk is pushing the boundaries of what is possible, sculpting her glass figures entirely freehand while the glass is hot on the end of a blowpipe or punty rod. Her largest figures are close to half her body weight and take a team of six assistants to handle the glass while she is sculpting it. While making intrinsically beautiful objects, Silk explores issues of human nature, society, and the relationship of humans, nature, and industry. Her hanging figures are an eloquent exploration of objectification of the body. Since receiving her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, Silk has continued to study with glass masters such as Pino Signoretto, Richard Royal, and Boyd Sugiki. She has been working full time as an artist since 2006. Today she has work in museums, galleries, private collections, and fine art shows around the world. A much-anticipated programming element of Redwood Media Group’s other art shows, the Spotlight Artist Program is being featured for the very first time at Artexpo New York in 2016 and will continue to be a highlight at the show in future years. Alexis Silk is one of four esteemed artists selected for this year’s Spotlight Artist Program. 2016-07-23 06:00 lmullikin

3 DAY 3 AT ARTEXPO: CROWDS CONVERGE ON PIER 94 (0.01/2) Saturday at Artexpo marked the show’s busiest day yet, drawing thousands of attendees eager for artistic invigoration to the halls of Pier 94. Boasting booth after booth of extraordinary paintings, sculpture, glassworks, and photography, the 38th annual Artexpo New York offered something for everyone. Visitors to the show were captivated by live demonstrations from artists hailing from around the globe, and enjoyed Art Talks such as “The Journey of a Working Artist” by Crista Cloutier, “Six Spheres of Success” by Michael Joseph, “Stewardship: Insuring the Legacy” by Jeannie Stanca, and a discussion with three successful artists—Tristina Dietz Elmes, Julia Carter, and Jeanne Bessette—about their respective careers. Showgoers will get one last chance today until 6 p.m. to peruse the fine art displayed at this world-renowned show. Here’s the lineup of events scheduled for Sunday. Not in New York? No worries—you’ll get an inside look at what it’s like to be at the show with our exclusive videos. Check them out here! Last but not least, make sure to check out Artexpo New York on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for fun tidbits throughout the show and leading up to next year. And check back soon for a full show roundup, including top sales, a full list of award winners, and more! 2016-07-23 06:06 lmullikin

4 4 On Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Lorna — Untitled (Blog) — Walker Art Center (0.01/2) As evidenced by the wonderful interview between Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941) and Juliana Huxtable (b. 1987) in Art Forum this summer, Hershman Leeson’s pioneering media legacy continues to provoke and inspire contemporary artists. Here is a look at one of her daring technological accomplishments, which is part of the Walker Art Center’s permanent collection. And on […] 2016-07-23 03:01 By

5 DAY 2 AT ARTEXPO: SPECIAL KEYNOTE, LIVE ART DEMOS & MORE Friday at Artexpo brought throngs of visitors through the gates of Pier 94 to see artwork from over 400 exhibitors from around the world, comprising more than 1,000 artists in total. The doors opened early for the event’s Keynote Presentation by Pam Danziger, “Marketing Art in Today’s New Luxury Style,” during which the renowned speaker, author, and market researcher provided tips for artists and gallery owners in attendance. The day was filled with inspiring Meet the Artist events and live art demonstrations, giving attendees the chance to see featured exhibitors in action and learn about their paths to becoming successful artists. Showgoers also enjoyed mingling with exhibitors and other art lovers alike at the night’s two parties: the Meet & Greet Reception sponsored by Art Brand Studios, and the Focus on Design Friday Reception sponsored by Art Design Consultants. It was another fabulous day and evening at Artexpo —and we know Saturday and Sunday will continue the trend! Don’t forget to follow Artexpo New York on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to stay updated on all the fun happening at the show this weekend! 2016-07-23 06:02 lmullikin

6 AENY 2016 Recap: Highlights from an Incredible Year That’s a wrap! Artexpo New York has taken the fine-art scene by storm yet again, and we’ve got the sales, stories, and gorgeous collection of photos and videos to prove it. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who played a part, from our extraordinary exhibitors and generous sponsors to our ever-eager attendees. Read on to find out more about 2016’s show—we’re proud to say it was another phenomenal one! Moments to Remember Throughout the four-day weekend, attendees enjoyed a number of exciting events, from the VIP Opening Night Preview Party featuring the unveiling of this year’s Poster Challenge winner to inspiring Art Talks, Meet the Artist sessions, and more. Famed dance photographer Jordan Matter wowed us all with his live photo shoots, and painters from around the world gave us a peek at their creative process during live art demonstrations. On Friday, author and industry leader Pamela N. Danziger gave the Keynote Presentation to a rapt audience of exhibitors and trade attendees. 2016 Artexpo Award Winners Over a dozen artists and galleries were given special recognition during Artexpo this year for their work that went above and beyond. Here’s a full list of 2016 award recipients: Top Sales & Success Stories Here’s a sampling of some of our exhibitors’ top sales and feedback for the event. See more testimonials here ! Media Buzz Artexpo New York garnered tons of attention in media outlets in New York and beyond, with coverage including a shout-out in PAPER magazine, which dubbed our show as a “must-see,” a segment on CBS New York , and many others. We also reached tens of thousands of fans via social media, offering followers around the world up-to-the-minute event tidbits and photos on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram. Thanks to everyone liking and following us on our social media channels—we love keeping you engaged! Exhibit in 2017 Inspired by this year’s event to give exhibiting a shot yourself, or want to return to Artexpo after having a successful show this year? Apply for 2017 here , or contact our helpful sales team —they’ll be happy to help you. 2016-07-23 06:04 sdalton

7 From Startup to Industry Star: Litsa Spanos, President and Owner of Art Design Consultants Founded in 1992, ADC, Art Design Consultants, Inc. has grown from a one-woman operation started in a 500- square-foot basement to a successful multi-team-member venture running in a gorgeous gallery space with stunning views. The woman who made it all happen? Litsa Spanos. In the last 24 years, Spanos has not only built ADC to be the booming business that it is today, helping clients select the perfect artwork for their corporate or residential spaces, but she has also received several honors along the way, including the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce & WE Celebrate’s “Woman-Owned Business of the Year” award in 2013. The accolades couldn’t go to a more deserving person— Litsa gives back as much as she receives, supporting numerous regional non-profit organizations and causes in addition to nurturing her clientele, ADC team, and family. Always with her finger on the pulse of what’s next in the art market, Litsa provides a valuable perspective for trade buyers and artists alike. We got to talk with her about her path to success as well as her tips for those rising in the industry: What have been some of the challenges in your career, as well as some of the highlights? The challenges are similar to what all small businesses face—finding new clients or talent and then bringing everyone together in an impactful way. Highlights of my career include being named “Woman-Owned Business of the Year”; publishing a beautiful art-filled book (Blink Art Resource); landing incredible new corporate, healthcare, and residential projects; and being able to work with creative and talented people every day. Any pleasant surprises or memorable experiences on your path to success that you’d like to share? A pleasant surprise was finding our incredible location in downtown Cincinnati during the recession. It’s a light-filled, 10,000-square-foot gallery with sweeping views of the city. It beautifully showcases all types of art, from paintings and sculpture to photography and mixed media. Our clients never want to leave, and we are all inspired every day! What do you think are the most essential qualities one must have to succeed in the art world? Perseverance, the willingness to take risks, honesty, and ethics. What do you see coming up in the art market, trendwise? Many of our clients want something different, unusual, and unexpected. Artists need to think outside the box and create works that no one else has. Whether it’s a new way to print photographs or painting on unusual surfaces, think fresh, new, and exciting. Starting a conversation and creating an interesting dialogue between the buyer and seller is what makes sales happen! ADC has several exciting things coming up this year, starting with the launch of the 2016 Blink Art Resource at Artexpo New York. This stunning, image-rich guide for designers, galleries, and consultants features work from hundreds of exceptional artists in a wide variety of mediums for sourcing work with ease and efficiency. Ask Litsa about it at while you’re at the show, or check out the details at blinkartresource.com. In addition, ADC will be hosting the Artist Success Summit this June 3–4, an inspiring two- day conference and networking event that equips artists with everything they need to succeed in today’s competitive art market. For more on the Summit, visit http://adcfineart.com/success-summit-2. ADC also proudly sponsors Art Comes Alive (ACA), an annual fine art contest and exhibit that awards over $250,000 to the brightest and best artists working in North America. For more information, visit adcfineart.com/selling-artists-works. 2016-07-23 06:08 lmullikin

8 AENY 2016 – Art Talks & Seminars Planning your trip to the show? Be sure to attend one of our Art Talks or Seminars! Here are some highlights from our Education Schedule. For the full schedule click here. Award-winning photographer Doug Menuez will share his cautionary tale about taking a personal project and making it into a lasting legacy through print and exhibitions. Joining the conversation will be fine art photographer and gallery owner Michael Joseph of Artblend. In this talk, Cory Huff of The Abundant Artist will explain the difference between the ways that artists think art is sold and how artists who make a living from their work actually do it. Speaker, author, and market researcher Pamela N. Danziger is internationally recognized for her expertise on the world’s most influential consumers: affluent Americans. Join Jennifer Townsend from Larson-Juhl as she reviews the essential design elements for creating memorable rooms. As home building trends have evolved over the past few decades, home furnishings and design have kept pace. Custom frames have also adapted to relate to those changes. In just five key questions, we’ll uncover the strategies and secrets behind the successful careers of three fine art photographers. Generate sales, increase awareness, and brand your business as the premier destination for art and framing. Litsa Spanos, President of Art Design Consultants (ADC), will share creative marketing ideas that can take your art gallery to the next level. Crista Cloutier explores the journey of the artist, how one finds a voice, develops it, and uses it to create a professional career as a working artist. Cloutier uses her own background as an arts dealer, curator, publisher, writer, and artist to illustrate her message of the importance of practice, authenticity, and the coupling of tenacity with audacity. In just five key questions, we’ll uncover the strategies and secrets behind the successful careers of three artists. The “Six Spheres of Success” is a fact-proven concept in attracting art buyers and each of the elements that makes up a successful art career. The strategic plan is designed to help artist build a brand, nurture a long sustaining career, add value, and increase art sales. Get the scoop from an expert on what is needed in today’s world to protect your artwork collection. What is personal property? What is stewardship? And what is needed to protect your art investment? Stanca will answer all those questions in this informative seminar. Learn the data backup strategies, tools, and copyright protections necessary to ensure that your artwork is protected and available decades from now. In just five key questions, we’ll uncover the strategies and secrets behind the successful careers of five artists. To license or not to license—that is the question. How do you decide if licensing is right for you? In this seminar, we’ll cover where to begin in today’s fast-paced licensing world. Art is important; it challenges the status quo and leads to innovation and change. Crista Cloutier of The Working Artist encourages artists to claim their rightful role as leaders. 2016-07-23 06:10 lmullikin

9 What writers of color say we all should read now In her prize-winning book, “Citizen: An American Lyric” (Graywolf Press, 2014), poet and essayist Claudia Rankine tells stories of black men who have been pulled over by the police. “Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now,” she writes. “And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.” In the anthology “A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota,” 16 writers of color share their experiences from harassment to bigotry. And in his 2015 National Book Award-winning “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nahesi Coates writes a letter to his son about the “racist violence that has been woven into American culture”. How does one culture understand another culture? How can one culture understand another culture? Books are one way. Last week, Philando Castile, a black man, was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcoln Heights. In the wake of his death, Twin Cities writers, artists and teachers of color have suggestions for books that might help bridge that gap. “What helps me process the events of the last couple of weeks is connecting this struggle to the larger history in the United States. My students and I find solace in James Baldwin’s ‘ The Fire Next Time.’ His work provides the background necessary to contextualize these events to show that these are part of a historical pattern. It helps my students see that this isn’t a series of random events and if we look back far enough and recognize this history, then we can change it.” — Valerie Déus “Michelle Alexander’s ‘The New Jim Crow ’ is the one book that I would point to, more than any other, for anyone looking to truly understand where we are at as a society. The book breaks down, in irrefutable detail, how the prison industrial complex destroys black lives, affirming that police brutality is simply the most visible and extreme symptom of a much deeper systemic problem that affects millions of people.” — Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre "Here are a five books that I'd recommend, with the understanding that it is no book itself that will change our conditions, but these are certainly some books I'd say offer some profound analytical and imaginative tools. As for ordering, people can send an email to [email protected] and place an order on any of these titles. We send an email invoice for our orders that can be paid online. 1. " Those Bones Are Not My Child" by Toni Cade Bambara. Bambara's last work which looks at the Atlanta Child Murders of 79 - 81 through the fictional account of one family. She spent 15 years, all the way up until her death in 95, working on this gift of love while organizing with the families affected. Bambara was a true community scribe and I think this book teaches us to not look away, to not accept as natural and inevitable that "black children of the wageless poor will just at times be subject to violence. " 2. " Revolutionary Mothering: Love On The Frontlines," edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai'a Williams. This is one of the most important collections I have read in some time. In the tradition of, This Bridge Called My Back , Revolutionary Mothering, looks at mothering as a revolutionary social practice, a politics of necessity, a responsibility to each other. This book is magic. 3. " This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color," edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. This book is a groundbreaking text for women of color feminism, a coalition building text born out of the coalition building practice of the women of color and indigenous women who authored it. Necessary, so necessary. 4. " Black Marxism: The Making Of The Black Radical Tradition," by Cedric Robinson. Robinson gave us a complicated reading of Marxist theory, peeling back the layers, detailing the racial nature of capitalism. He articulated for us with inspiring detail a theory of black radicalism in everyday black people. 5. " Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years Of Movement Building with Barbara Smith," edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith. Barbara Smith is one of this generations pioneering voices in black radical politics and sadly far too little know of this profound co author of The Combahee River Collective Statement. This book gleans the wisdom of Smith's life and practice through documents, interviews and articles. I want all my loved ones to read this book. — Chaun Webster "What we need to read now is ' Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings' by Joy Harjo, who tells us how to be human together: W hat a wild dilemma, how to make it to the stars, on a highway slick with fear--- " Harjo's compassion for human confusion twins with her passion for music, that great mediator. There we were as if we were music.//You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislate/ the spirit of music to stop at political boundaries---//---Or poetry or art or anything that is of value or matters in/ this world, and in the next worlds.//This is about getting to know each other. " —Heid E. Erdrich “Mychal Denzel Smith’s ‘Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching ’ may be a difficult read for the uninitiated seeking insight into black millennial rage, but readers who can embrace its raw truth will come away with an advanced understanding of what it’s like to grow up black and male in modern America. “I often recommended ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X ’ as told to Alex Haley as a reminder that people are never just one thing. All human beings are vast and complex. All of us have a tremendous capacity for change, and often, what we’re told about a person is vastly different from who they are, vastly different from the truth of their life. “Sean Hill’s ‘Dangerous Goods’ is a great read. It offers insights on race that are, by turns, nuanced and subtle or direct and vivid. Sometimes the black experience is not the focus. Sometimes the subject is a bird or an unfulfilled crush. Still, it will leave you with an expanded sense of our awesome and terrible world and keener regard for humanity within it.” — Michael Kleber-Diggs “ ‘All American Boys’ by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely and ‘ How it Went Down’ by Kekla Magoon are young-adult novels that focus on white violence against black males; one results in hospitalization, the other in death. Different characters narrate the same situation from their respective social locations, pushing readers to consider how truth and fear are constructed. Ultimately, the novels offer a searing indictment on how whiteness and hypermasculinity operate to destroy black lives. — Sarah Park Dahlen “The great poet Nikky Finney once remarked that one of her goals as a poet was to create beauty out of the ugly. The poems in the anthology ‘Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky,’ edited by Tony Medina (Jacar Press, 2016), certainly accomplish that. This collection of work by a multigenerational, multiracial ensemble of poets addresses police violence against people of color, and is essential reading in these unbearable times.” — Bao Phi “I’d like to suggest ‘ Whorled’ by Ed Bok Lee. It’s a necessary reminder that love, too, needs to learn. It is a beautiful memory of our hurt, collective and individual, at the barrels of guns and in the words we spew, of America and the world’s long journey to each other, the falling apart so we can be together. Lee writes in: ‘If in America’: ‘If a tree falls in a forest, / does it make a sound? / If a rifle fires a shot in the woods, / whose body first hits the ground? If you believe in God, but not the good in everyone.’ There is wisdom in these pages. The poems not only identify the hurting, they arrive at a deeper understanding, fuel the hope of healing.” — Kao Kalia Yang “ ‘If Beale Street Could Talk, ’ a short but complex novel by James Baldwin, feels disturbingly contemporary even though it was published in 1974. It concerns lovers Tish and Fonny, who are fighting with their families and community to vindicate Fonny from a false rape charge, and the deadening grip of a rapacious criminal justice system. An uncompromising meditation on love and power, this brilliant novel commands the reader’s rapt attention throughout, and delivers Baldwin’s blistering insights into the psychology of American racism.” — Shannon Gibney “I recommend, in addition to the other books named, ‘The History of White People’ by historian Nell Irvin Painter. It will show, in meticulous detail and lucid analysis and powerful writing, how white people came to be invented and how whiteness evolved along with the historical flow of events in order to survive and maintain its potency. This book is liberatory. I especially appreciate its analysis of how white notions of beauty were legitimated by the ‘science of race.’ Beauty — and therefore value, what is valuable to see, what is worth looking at and regarding for pleasure, inspiration, appreciation — is important to how people of color are racialized and devalued and dehumanized. This book shows us that we see what we are taught to see — we can unlearn it.” — Sun Yung Shin “ ‘Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools,’ by Monique W. Morris. I just started reading it and already I can see that it is hugely important. We cannot ignore what’s happening to the girls. Also, ‘Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota.’ Published last year, it is an extremely relevant and important anthology of writings by Black Minnesota writers living and dead, urban and rural, about living while black in Minnesota. “Buffy Smith’s book, ‘Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education,’ is an important volume for folks who work in higher education.” — Carolyn Holbrook “ ‘Playing in the Dark: Whiteness & the Literary Imagination’ by Toni Morrison explores the ways canonical white American authors distort and caricature their black characters and project onto their black characters anarchy and routine dread, or conversely, ‘excessive, limitless love.’ Morrison demonstrates how these famous white authors cannot adequately depict black characters or adequately describe their consciousness. The failures of these white American authors are indicative of our society’s failure to see blacks and the continued white psychic projection that still plagues us in everything from police encounters to school systems to mass entertainment to everyday social interactions.” — David Mura “ ‘ Dreams from My Father,’ by Barack Obama. It is such a profoundly American story. It explains America, explains society, explains immigration, explains the importance of the places from where our families come, both here and abroad. It is an astute analysis of our culture and left me thinking that these insights and ideas are great but too true and cerebral for anyone like this to ever get elected to anything. “I don’t know if anyone has read David Rodiger’s ‘Wages of Whiteness.’ I have sampled it, but it is an astute understanding by a white male about privilege before the term got used like it is today.” — Clarence White “ ‘A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota,’ edited by Sun Yung Shin. This anthology contains powerful writing by many of my favorite writers. Each voice helps us step inside a different perspective, exploding assumptions and stereotypes with each page. To heal differences we have to admit they exist, then we have to listen.” — Susan Power “Bryan Stevenson’s ‘Just Mercy’ provides plain-spoken, concrete examples of what we mean when we say there is ‘systemic bias’ built into the way our justice system works, from top to bottom. Read it, absorb what it has to say, and you will understand.” — David Lawrence Grant “ ‘ Revolutionary Mothering’ by Alexis Pauline Gumbs is said to be a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together. And it is! Radical Real Raw talk rooted in knowledge, passion, and history. Available at Ancestry Books (Minneapolis) Support Local “Below are responses from my community. I was compelled to extend the question to some of the best and brightest. What a list!” — Shá Cage The list, from Christina Ham, Beverly Cottman, E. G. Bailey, Maria Asp, Alizarin Bo Sum Menninga-Fong, Ansa Akyea, Ariah Fine, Michelle Hensley, Alan Berks, Rebekah Crisanta De Ybarra: “Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World” (anthology) and “This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color,” edited by Sherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa. “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabelle Wilkerson (for understanding of The Great Migration — really important for understanding how the past century brought us to this point) “The New Jim Crow, ” by Michelle Alexander “Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance,” by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Wise Why’s Y’s,” by Amiri Baraka “Citizen,” by Claudia Rankine “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates “Things Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe “Angels with Dirty Faces,” by Walidah Imarisha “Learning to be White, ” by Thandeka “Racism without Racists,” by Eduardo Bonilla Silva “Homegoing,” by Yaa Gyasi “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born,” by Ayi Kwei Armah “Nickel and Dimed,” by Barbara Ehrenreich (perfect for intro-level white folks who think inequity doesn’t exist) “Strength to Love, ” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Whiteness of a Different Color,” by Matthew Frye Jacobson “Race Rebels,” by Robin D. G. Kelley “Race Matters,” by Cornel West “The Middle Passage,” by Charles Johnson “Black Skin, White Masks,” by Frantz Fanon “Killing the Black Body,” by Dorothy Roberts “The Fire Next Time,” by James Baldwin “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America,” by Kiese Laymon “Americanah,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Just Mercy, ” by Bryan Stevenson “Sister Citizen,” by Melissa Harris-Perry “White Like Me,” by Tim Wise @StribBooks www.facebook.com/startribunebooks 2016-07-23 03:01 Laurie Hertzel

10 Hold your breath, dance slowly—The making of a visual identity — The Gradient — Walker Art Center Exhibition view On the exhibition Curated by Misa Jeffereis, the exhibition Lee Kit: Hold your breath, dance slowly marks visual artist Lee Kit’s first U. S. solo show. Kit invites you to wander into soft-lighted galleries, hold your breath in quiet anticipation, and slowly sway from nook to nook to the melody of Elvis Presley’s […] 2016-07-23 02:59 By

11 360 Degrees of “Race for the Prize” — The Green Room — Walker Art Center Smoke guns and confetti cannons were out in full force during the final set of Rock the Garden 2016—and videographer Chuck Olsen of Visual was there to capture the experience in immersive, 360-degree video. Watch as Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips perform “Race for the Prize,” off the 1999 album The Soft Bulletin. (See if […] 2016-07-23 02:59 By

12 ideograf & paulina czurak design corner café in gdynia, poland tea for two? how about 2,740? that’s the precise number of custom- manufactured teacups that fill a wall of the deco-influenced ‘corner café’ in the polish city of gdynia. designed collaboratively by ideograf and paulina czurak design studio, the downtown coffee stop (swiętojańska street) combines twenties-era detailing with contemporary accoutrements. the project’s crowned jewel comes in the form of a solid wall composed of, as stated above, 2,740 ceramic pieces. due to installation needs, all had to be produced at the studios’ request — a signification of the close client-firm relationship developed throughout. wooden furnishings, vintage posters, and a custom logo work in tandem with architectural design, making ‘corner café’ a unique spot to grab a bite and drink. ‘corner café’ was created in collaboration by ideograf and paulina czurak design studio. designboom has received this project from our ‘DIY submissions‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here. 2016-07-22 23:05 www.designboom

13 Hermès Takes Guests on Mystery Tour for Annual Theme Party Attendees were instructed to meet at an address on the eastern edge of Paris, where they boarded buses for an unknown destination. Some 40 minutes later, they arrived in Ermenonville, a small town best known for its 18th- century garden, home to the grave of French philosopher and nature lover Jean- Jacques Rousseau. Guests were handed bottles of mosquito repellent before heading into the park, which is designed to resemble a natural environment with minimal human intervention. “Are you in touch with your inner berry?” asked a blue- jacketed attendant, wielding an oversize strawberry-shaped lollipop. Things became even more psychedelic from there. Dotted throughout the forest were dancers, performers and musicians. Some played single-note music, others sang haunting songs, while a woman in a tutu randomly grabbed passersby and made them gallop through the woods. It was all part of an elaborate performance directed by Frederic Wake- Walker, artistic director of Mahogany Opera Group and head of Mica Moca Project in Berlin, whose previous productions include “Lost in Thought,” billed as the world’s first mindfulness opera. Dinner was held under a semi-open tent with tree stumps serving as seats, as an orchestra played live music. The menu, devised by Michelin-starred chef Alain Passard of L’Arpège restaurant in Paris, featured vegetables from his kitchen gardens served in hollowed-out loaves of bread. Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of Hermès, said Rousseau saw nature as synonymous with harmony. “To reconcile ourselves with nature is to become reconciled with ourselves and with the world we live in, which is the home of humankind. This was Rousseau’s dream and this is also what we stand for at Hermès,” he said. “Once upon a time and at the beginning of Hermès, there is nature. Nature always, nature only, nature as an ideal, an ally and everlasting source of inspiration. May we learn to cherish and nurture our love of nature, for this is the essence of our house,” Dumas added. 2016-07-22 22:38 Joelle Diderich

14 Rick and Morty Dropped an Epic Season 3 Fight Scene Animatic at Comic Con Rick and Morty The first word from Rick and Morty Season 3 is here, and it's covered in rodent blood. The Rick and Morty panel at San Diego Comic Con apparently had a packed house, and visitors probably got to see a whole lot about our animated alcoholic anti-hero, Rick Sanchez. Luckily Adult Swim has dropped a tidbit of the next season for the rest of us, and holy shit is it awesome. When last we left Rick, he was strapped head to toe inside an a galactic prison complex, which you can explore on Instagram here. He had just given himself up for the betterment of Morty and the Smith family. "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails was playing. It was a sad moment. The new clip is nothing like that. Dozens of fan theories have sprouted up about if and how Rick will escape, but this clip implies that it may involve turning miniature and impaling, slicing, and bashing the living daylights out of a horde of rats. Watch the glorious footage below. More information about Rick and Morty Season 3 will likely disseminate in the aftermath of the panel, but we're happy with our bloodbath for now. Keep up to date with Rick and Morty news on the Adult Swim website. Related: The Painful Secret Behind Rick and Morty's Burps The 'Rick and Morty' Hotline Lets You Vent Your Season Finale Woes 'Rick and Morty' Adds 20 New Worlds to Instagram 2016-07-22 22:07 Beckett Mufson

15 Buzzfeed to Launch Gift Guide Newsletters With Wedding Gift-Themed One Buzzfeed has 12 core newsletters that go out weekly, amassing about 50 editions of newsletters a week. Unlike the daily morning newsletter, Buzzfeed’s ones about DIY and Food go out two to three times a week, according to Dan Oshinsky, director of newsletter for Buzzfeed. Thirty-five to 40 percent of subscribers typically open a lifestyle newsletter. And “on a week-by-week basis, hundreds of thousands” are opening an e-mail every single week, he said. About 10 to 12 staffers including market editor Jessica Probus are working on the newsletters for the site, which boasts 200 million unique visitors each month. “The goal is to have each edition go out twice a month. It’s wedding season and people are always looking for great, innovative gifts to wow their friends with. Most will feature five to 10 products,” said Oshinsky, adding that there will be an additional handful of posts that are shopping- related or relevant to the theme. The wedding one will feature wedding etiquette, “so you don’t just find a great gift to buy but learn more about how to be a great wedding guest.” Focusing on wedding gifts seems to be well timed, considering that Amazon released a survey Friday that listed the average price of a wedding gift at $49. It also underlined newlyweds’ preferences for offbeat gifts like Cards Against Humanity, nonstick bakeware and bamboo cutting boards. Oshinsky said driving traffic to the site “hasn’t played any sort of role” in Buzzfeed’s decision to get into gift guides. “Buzz has always been about telling stories, making content that people want to share. I remember the first time someone sent me the ‘What State Are You Actually Living’ in quiz. What we’re doing with all these gifts is taking that to the next logical step. It used to be just sharing content. Now you can use Buzzfeed to find things, products, gifts that you can give your friends and using us as a recommendation engine, which is just really, really amazing. Mostly, we’re always just looking on the newsletter team for new ways to build products that are useful and that serve our readers well. Everything else is really a secondary goal. We just want to do well for our subscribers and readers.” As for whether part of the impetus is to increase advertising, Oshinsky said, “In terms of the editorial team’s focus, no, not really. Certainly at Buzzfeed we’re a business and the business end comes into play down-the-road. Right now, the focus is really on launching a great product and figuring out how we can serve our readers.” Buzzfeed is also working on Olympics-related newsletters, but the specifics haven’t been hammered out. Last year NBC Universal invested $200 million in Buzzfeed, and NBC is counting on the site to help develop content that will reel in younger viewers during the Olympics. Buzzfeed’s president Greg Coleman was unabashed about how the company is giving advertisers access to its insights, which include multiplatform research and “learning tools,” during this spring’s NewsFronts presentation. Essentially, advertisers have the opportunity to “create, sponsor or integrate with Buzzfeed,” he said. 2016-07-22 20:03 Rosemary Feitelberg

16 Le Cheval Blanc Saint-Barth Obtains Palace Distinction More Articles By Located on Flamands Bay on the island of Saint Barthélemy in the French West Indies, Le Cheval Blanc Saint-Barth Isle de France has been part of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s luxury hotel portfolio since 2013. It’s run out of the company’s hotel management division, which includes fellow palace, the Cheval Blanc hotel in Courchevel. Two other French hotel properties — Le Peninsula Paris and the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes — were also newly minted as palaces. Created by the French Minister of Tourism in 2010, the palace distinction was designed to award official recognition to France’s finest five-star hotels. The two-phase selection process is based on a range of factors, from room size to environmental policies and financial performance. With three new members just named, the total number of official French palaces stands at 19. 2016-07-22 19:55 Katya Foreman

17 vasily klyukin envisions color-changing 'rose pavilion' whether they be in the form of a snake, sailboat or ancient greek statue, the architectural visualizations of vasily klyukin seek to defy ordinary structural standards. his most recent project translates a delicate and ephemeral element of nature into a striking and luminous building proposal for a cultural program in an urban center. ‘roses are the most beautiful flowers and a gift of those who are in love,’ klyukin describes. ‘in art, these flowers have inspired many painters — I want to interpret them in architecture to create an adornment for a city.’ klyukin‘s ‘rose pavilion’ sees an abstract bundle of blooms contructed of semi-transparent glass and metal. conceived to accommodate a flower shop, a spa, a modern art gallery or a museum of jewelry, the building offers a multi-sensory and immersive atmosphere, where all aspects of the flower are experienced and enjoyed. visitors are engaged by a ventilation system that emits a subtle floral scene in the evening hours. by night, the interior lighting changes color depending on desired mood. the bundle of roses appears as an ever-evolving spectrum of hues, where the glass panes delicately shift from red to yellow to white and blue, as well a multi-colored ‘bouquet’ of saturated shapes. 2016-07-22 19:30 Nina Azzarello

18 How to Create the 'Star Trek' Teleporter Effect for Your Own Sci-Fi Film Images courtesy the artist Star Trek Beyond is out today. In celebration, PBS Digital Studio’s resident DIY visual effects guru Joey Shanks is taking on the series’ famous “energize” or “teleport” effect. Shanks shot a previous episode where he created the teleport effect using long exposure and light painting techniques, putting people in chairs and slowly adding Christmas lights frame by frame until he achieved a vortex- like technique. In this episode, however, Shanks tried to mimic the origins of the effect from the 1963 Star Trek pilot. “Obviously, I’m a Star Trek fan, and growing up as a kid the energize effect from 80s films really had a big effect on me,” says Shanks. “I just thought they were really beautiful, elegant, and simple.” “From my research it started with them using aluminum silver shavings, and just dropping it in front of the camera, backlighting it with a really sharp spotlight and shooting it at 120 frames-per-second and then compositing it into the scene,” says Shanks. “Then I learned that they started messing around with Alka Seltzer, with glitter, a lot of different forms of liquids and particles in tanks. Just to show the audience this technique it’s super simple—even getting a lava lamp that has little glitter particles, you can pretty much create the exact same look they did originally.” After messing with Alka Seltzer himself, Shanks decided to get a bunch of reflective items like wind chimes and throw them out of focus. To make them slowly spin Shanks put the items on a disco ball motor. “When you see these things blurred out they look pretty and kind of alien- like,” he says. “When I composited it into the shot it worked pretty nicely. And since the new Star Trek film is out this week I thought it was a good time to release [the video].” Click here to see more of Joey Shanks’ work. Related: Believe It or Not, These Alien-Looking Things are Bubbles How to Create Physics-Defying Illusions with Water Get Hypnotized by a Man-Made Cosmos in 8K 2016-07-22 18:12 DJ Pangburn

19 Anonymous Whirling Dancers Crash the RNC Protests | Insta of the Week While frustration, vitriol, and legal-to-open-carry guns swirl throughout protests around the Republican National Convention, four anonymous artists also swirl, a rare expression bereft of words, opinions, or agendas. Strutting sporadically in the background of RNC coverage by The Atlantic , the Akron Beacon Journal , and other media outlets, the quartet are a refreshing break from the political tension. The dancers, "appeared to be downtown merely to evoke in the crowds a feeling of whimsy," according to The Atlantic reporter Conor Friedersdorf. In this Instagram photo captured by Mark Davis, they look like characters from Fantasia made flesh, come to soothe those tired of quipping, screaming, and arguing with each other for a week straight. If you know the artists giving our souls a break from the onslaught of aggressive imagery dominating the protests, please email us here . Related: The 100 Nude Women at the RNC Were Not Staging a Protest This Sculpture Simulates Politics with Angry, Indecipherable Beeping Trump Fanatics Reportedly Attacked an Artist 2016-07-22 17:39 Beckett Mufson

20 Melania Trump Wears Fendi on Day Four of the Republican National Convention More Articles By Apparently Melania Trump isn’t a big fan of American designers. The potential next FLOTUS chose Fendi for her day four look at the Republic National Convention in Cleveland on Thursday. The look, a silk and wool-blend dress with hand-embroidered mink and crystal detailing, is curiously similar (e.g. cream shift with voluminous sleeves) to the Roksanda dress she wore on Monday night when she gave her remarks that contained large portions appearing to be plagiarized from a speech by the current FLOTUS, Michelle Obama. Melania Trump reportedly purchased the Fendi look via Net-a-porter , eschewing the help of a stylist or a designer freebie. Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump has used the RNC platform to do what the family does best — promote her own brand — wearing ready-to-wear and footwear from her own collections on Wednesday night. 2016-07-22 17:27 Taylor Harris

21 Target Launches Cat & Jack With Blake Lively, Rachel Bilson “The Cat & Jack ad campaign was done by kids,” said Target chairman and chief executive officer Brian Cornell. “We wanted their energy and enthusiasm. The brand is off to a great start. I’m counting on it being a $1 billion brand.” Alves said she, husband Matthew McConaughey and their kids, just returned from spending six weeks in South Africa, where McConaughey was filming “Dark Tower,” an adaptation of the Stephen King novel. “We’re now enjoying summer time in California,” she said, walking toward the SoCozy tent. But not before plugging Yummy Spoonfuls, the new frozen organic baby food she cofounded and which is sold exclusively at Target. “If it’s apples, it’s just apples,” Alves said. “Adults are eating the berries and taking it to the gym.” 2016-07-22 17:12 Leigh Nordstrom

22 Porn-on-Porn Photos and a Scuba Diver Shock Viewers at New Berlin Exhibit Scuba diver at the opening, viewing Mitchell’s prints. All images courtesy of Dan Mitchell and Oracle Berlin. At the opening of Berlin’s Oracle gallery’s current show, New Dead City by maximalist Dan Mitchell , a person in a scuba diving suit mingled with guests, acting casual. Just in case Mitchell’s works, a selection of porn-on- porn text collages lining one wall of the small space, weren’t shocking and disorienting enough, the artist wanted to ensure that viewers felt really out of their element. “The scuba diver’s role is to turn the gallery into an alien underwater environment," Mitchell tells curator Saim Demircan, in an interview printed in New Dead City ’s catalog. "So you are either submerged or you have become another species like some sort of fish or aquatic being. The scuba diver is really there to emphasize the prints, which are designed to upset the viewer. I’m trying to capture the sense of being caught in this triumvirate of lifestyle, neoliberalism and spectacle, and get a similar kind of revulsion going on.” The exterior of Oracle. Oracle is a tiny gallery space in a non-traditional location: inside a fluorescent-lit, open-air hallway in West Berlin near Kurfurstendamm. Oracle might be hard to find down this alleyway arcade, but once you make it inside, Mitchell’s artwork makes it impossible to miss. Stuck on the gallery’s glass walls are bubbles, both of the air-in-water variety, and larger ones that contain zoomed-in stills of porn actors’ faces, strained and screaming. Stickers of these actors’ contorted hands also pepper the gallery’s windows. Inside, the scuba diver suit is worn by a mannequin, looking out the window. To the mannequin’s left, eight of Mitchell’s prints are hung on the wall, in two rows of four. The artist, who also publishes the sensationalist, “specialist anti-fear magazine” Hard Mag , has a recognizable formula: one graphic image, sourced from sexual, violent, or gross-out sources, overlaid with a vague, punchy slogan in bold, italicized text. Sometimes these are printed in Microsoft Word Art-style lettering, but in other cases, like in the works in New Dead City , they are comprised of another, just as graphic, image, creating a sensory assault that makes it difficult to either parse what you’re looking at, or what you’re reading. Vague clips of text, like “mass limp shrink,” “stuck in the now,” or “hyper bleak doom” are barely legible in the fleshy collages. Mitchell’s interest in porn, he explains in the interview with Demircan , is inspired partly by Susan Sontag’s idea outlined in The Pornographic Imagination — that, decontextualized, it’s difficult to distinguish whether someone is "gettin’ it," or having an epileptic seizure. The artist views this engagement in “willing madness” as the purest expression and exploration of humanity. Pornographic images, however, turn this willing madness into a capitalistic spectacle. As porn became more accessible online in the 80s, Mitchell explains, magazines pushed the spectacle to its limits, fighting the futile fight to keep people reading print. As for the overlaying text, Mitchell says he sources his words from “ultra left philosophy,” which he decontextualizes to blur their meaning, aiming to simultaneously disturb and attract the viewer. Mitchell's ideas are concisely outlined in the exhibition catalog but aren't really be gleaned just by looking at the works—criticisms of neoliberal “sharing” economies driven by brands like Uber and Airbnb, the monetization of lifestyles inspired by the Google-ian idea of 20% of your workday devoted to relaxing, and the internet-driven “spectacularization” of mundane, everyday life. In the end, his artistic spectacle is impossible not to pay attention to, and his ideas, especially for a certain class of freelancing millennials, are worth reading, but the ultimate success would be if he could find a way to express the latter purely through the former. New Dead City is on view by appointment only at Oracle until August 31, 2016. Find out more information on the gallery’s website. Related: The Internet is (Still) For Porn Sex Penetrates Art at the TECHNOPHILIA Exhibition Our Five Dirtiest Discoveries from Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair 2016-07-22 17:00 Alyssa Buffenstein

23 A Look at Mary Mattingly’s Floating Garden Project, ‘Swale’ Related Artists Mary Mattingly This Saturday, “Swale,” ecological artist Mary Mattingly’s new “floating food project,” opens to the public at Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx. Part artwork, part communal resource, “Swale” is a 130- by-40-foot barge containing a forest garden of edible and medicinal plants, including blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, dandelions, stinging nettle, comfrey, chamomile, and much more. Hydration is supplied by filtered rainwater and New York rivers water. Visitors are welcome to come and pick items for free, but people are also encouraged to bring food items of their own, creating a fully sustainable ecosystem. In a way, “Swale” was born out of a loophole. It’s illegal to grow public food in public spaces in New York City. So Mattingly moved her project to the water. “There’s so many great things about working on the water,” she said. “Skirting around those land laws is one of them.” Blade of Grass, an organization dedicated to the promotion of socially engaged art, provided funding. “Blade of Grass pretty much started the project going. Without that initial grant, it would have just been an idea,” said Mattingly, who collaborated on the project with artists Casey Tang, Amanda McDonald Crowley, and Karla Stinger-Stein, as well as a large group of educators, engineers, architects, and other professionals. Constructing “Swale” was an impressive feat. Mary and the rest of the team built an entire floating farm in about a month’s time — starting in late June — up in Verplanck, in New York’s Westchester County. The barge itself is a banged-up, 25-year-old steel hulk. It’s chartered, but on a rent-to-buy basis, so if the project goes on long enough, they will eventually be able to purchase it Previously used to transport sand and gravel, it is encircled by a four-foot-tall rock wall in which they had to cut holes to accommodate gangways. After a month-long stint at Concrete Plant Park, the barge will continue its tour of the city. On August 15, it will dock at Yankee Pier on Governor’s Island; on September 15, it will be moored at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park; and on October 15, it will be towed down to Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. Further stops are still being debated, although Mattingly said there are several options. Eventually, the barge will be moved back up to Verplanck for the winter. After that, the project’s future is up in the air. It could do another New York City tour next year. Or it could be installed permanently somewhere. It could even move on to another city. “It was planned for New York City. I was thinking about those land laws and how this could be a space in which to experiment and potentially change those laws,” said Mattingly. “But the idea can be transferred to other cities. The future of the project could be more policy-oriented. Trying to merge art and policy.” The time is certainly ripe. “Looking at how much we’re faced with as a city right now, it seems like resiliency is the best chance we have,” noted Mattingly. “To do anything that brings us closer to being a city that can provide for its people seemed worth fighting for.” 2016-07-22 16:54 Taylor Dafoe

24 Time Inc. Restructures Editorial Team — More Work, More Digital More Articles By As part of an ongoing restructuring, Time Inc. is rejiggering its editorial structure into four groups in part to sharpen its digital focus. The shifts come just one week after Alan Murray took on the role of chief content officer. In an e-mail to staff Friday afternoon, he outlined some of the changes including Lisa Arbetter’s appointment as interim editor at InStyle. Arbetter takes on some of the duties handled by Ariel Foxman, who surprised a dedicated staff by resigning as the magazine’s editorial director earlier in the week. Arbetter, editor of StyleWatch, will maintain that role while the company scouts a full- time successor to Foxman. Murray explained that all titles are being divvied up into four groups, each of which will be led by an editorial director who is being tasked with “finding new ways to work together to grow audience and our business across brands, new ways to take advantage of digital and video opportunities that may cut across brands and new efficiencies in how we operate across brands.” More work and more digital seems to be the marching orders for the new setup with most of the individuals affected keeping their current jobs. Time’s editor Nancy Gibbs is now editor of the News Group and People’s editor Jess Cagle is now editorial director for the Celebrity, Entertainment and Style Group. Chris Stone continues as editorial director of the Sports Group and Nathan Lump is the newly minted editorial director of the Lifestyle group. Alex Brez is now editorial operations and finance director for Celebrity, Entertainment and Styles and Sports groups. He will also oversee operations at People and Entertainment Weekly, reporting to Murray. Claire McHugh has been tapped as editorial operations and finance director for News and Lifestyle groups. She too will be doing double-duty, keeping her current job as editor of Health and will oversee the Time Inc. Food Studios in Birmingham. To try to maximize the digital side of things, Will Lee has been cued up as digital director for Celebrity, Entertainment and Style and Sports groups. He keeps his current job as digital editorial director of People and Entertainment Weekly, reporting to Jess Cagle. Edward Felsenthal is now digital director for the News and Lifestyle groups and remains digital editor for Time Inc., reporting to Nancy Gibbs. With the new regime in place, some suspect it will just be a matter of time before budget cuts and layoffs follow. 2016-07-22 16:54 Rosemary Feitelberg

25 BMW raises the bar with its latest 'M5 competition edition' BMW raises the bar with its latest 'M5 competition edition' BMW raises the bar with its latest ‘M5 competition edition’ the BMW ‘M’ division has developed an exclusive special edition of the successful high-performance business automobile, setting another highlight in the current BMW ‘M5′ model range. with power output increased to 600 hp and a maximum torque of 700 Nm, the ‘M5 competition edition’ ranks among the most powerful cars in the model history of the german brand. an ‘M’ dual clutch transmission featuring ‘drivelogic’ comes as standard, sprinting from 0 to 100km/h in just 3.9 seconds. a distinctive personalized look, the standard competition package and a comprehensive range of optional features render the BMW ‘M5 competition edition’, the production of which is limited to 200, an automobile of exceptionally high value. the familiar 4.4‑litre v8 engine featuring ‘M twinpower turbo’ technology is the powerful heart of the special edition. an increase in boost pressure as well as targeted modifications to the engine management raise the car’s performance vs. the production model by 40 hp to 600 hp. at the same time, maximum torque has increased by 20 newton metres to 700 Nm. the increase in power output harmonizes perfectly with the BMW ‘competition’ package, which noticeably enhances the car’s handling characteristics even further. the package includes a lowering of the vehicle by 10 millimetres and a firmer setup of spring and damper systems and stabilizers. in conjunction with this modified setup, the specific control setting for the active ‘M’ differential fitted as standard on all ‘M5′ models ensures further optimized traction. furthermore, the steering system with an ‘M specific servotronic function’ comes with a more direct control map, providing the driver with more precise response and further enhancing the car’s agility in bends. in addition, the ‘M dynamic mode’ of the stability control system DSC has been further aligned to sporty handling characteristics. as a result, the ‘competition edition’ guarantees typical ‘M’ driving dynamics at the highest level both in everyday traffic and on the racetrack. the dynamic sports car signalizes its potential even when at a standstill. the exclusive body colours –100 vehicles in carbon black metallic and 100 in mineral white metallic respectively – strongly emphasize the sporty, elegant lines. the 20-inch, forged and polished, double-spoke ‘M’ light alloy wheels in a jet black finish underline the car’s handling characteristics. ‘M’ branded performance parts in carbon such as the rear diffuser, the gurney on the boot lid and the mirror caps set further dynamic accents. the high gloss black kidney grilles and side gills bearing the lettering ‘M5 competition’ add the finishing touches to the car’s premium appearance. the interior also highlights the uniqueness of the automobile. for example, carbon interior trim strips with the logo ‘M5 competition 1/200′ indicate the model’s high-performance qualities and the fact that the special edition is just one of the 200 that have been built. the sophisticated interior ambience is strongly characterized by the full leather trim merino black with contrast stitching in opal white and floor mats in anthracite with leather merino opal white bordering. inside the ‘M5 competition edition’ both driver and front passenger sit in multifunctional seats, the comprehensive electric adjustment options of which guarantee a perfect balance between comfort and lateral support. here too, the white lettering ‘///M5′ embroidered on the headrests emphasizes the car’s uniqueness. further equipment rounds off the impressive appearance of the ultimate high-performance business sedan: these include the 1,200 watt bang & olufsen high end surround sound system, BMW head-up display, comfort access, lane departure warning or the optional driving assistant plus heated seats at the front. 2016-07-22 16:45 Martin Hislop

26 Artist Proposes Monument for Drug Dealers in Berlin The Berlin-based American artist Scott Holmquist has called for a monument to be erected in a park in the district of Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg in honor of African drug dealers. And he’s even gained political support. In a petition submitted to the Pirate Party—a leftist party advocating direct democracy and civil participation, which occupies four out of 51 seats in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district assembly—the artist writes, “Drug dealers perform a socially valuable service appreciated by many people— especially where they are easily reached, in the middle of the neighborhood, and especially in parks.” Related: Meet The Next Generation of Berlin Art Gallery Dealers Holmquist argues that Berlin’s African drug dealers are unjustly victimized and villainized. “The erection of a monument would be a sensible and important recognition of this high-risk profession,” he wrote, “and a potent reminder of the ongoing struggle against the consequences of colonialism.” In an email to artnet News he added, “The idea for the monument has two main levels. One explores the possibility of making any monument at all to a hero in our time. The second celebrates, dignifies and remembers people who have been subject to extreme bigotry, violence and persecution while they perform dangerous work at the forefront of social advancement.” The petition is currently being debated by the Pirate Party, according to Berliner Zeitung. Party spokesperson Felix Just told artnet News, “We welcome this proposal because it allows for the discussion about the conditions in Görlitzer Park to be expanded beyond a debate over criminality.” He explained, “The situation relates to many aspects of social life, such as flight and refuge, drug trafficking and smuggling, and dealing with asylum seekers.” He added, “A monument doesn’t always need to be equated to a distinction, it can—and should—stimulate thought and debate.” Unsurprisingly, not everyone supports the proposal. The area surrounding Görlitzer Park is one of the most problematic in Berlin. According to Berliner Zeitung there are currently ca. 500 open drug-related police investigations, and residents are deeply concerned and annoyed. Related: The Berlin Art Scene Explained by Five of Its Tastemakers Commenting on the online petition , one Berliner, Tom Cenic wrote “Be honest. How stoned do you have to be to submit something like this? Should we also erect a monument for Georgian burglar gangs? Or North African gropers? The Pirate Party increasingly appear to be a pseudo-party of crazies. Please come back to reality. Society as a whole is at stake, not your silly individual ideas.” Unfazed by the criticism Just confirmed that the Pirate Party will put forward the petition in the district assembly’s next legislative period in October. However he conceded, “I’m afraid this proposal doesn’t have particularly good prospects to be accepted because the politics and policy on drugs and addiction in Germany is unfortunately still very tense and are largely characterized by unfounded fears,” he said. “We still look forward to the debate on this subject.” Whatever the outcome of the political discourse, Holmquist remains undeterred. “I will erect a monument,” he said, “if only temporarily, in late 2017.” 2016-07-22 16:02 Associate Editor

27 The Untold Story of Graphene, the Wonders of 2D Materials Related Venues Museum of Science and Industry Artists Random International A new exhibition entitled “Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond” will run from July 23, 2016 through June 25, 2017 at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. The exhibition will narrate the story of graphene, the world’s first two-dimensional material. The first of their kind in the UK, the displays will be a combination of science, art, and history related to the allotrope, which is considered to be the strongest, lightest, and most conductive material in the world. The exhibition will display a specially commissioned art installation by Random International, an experimental collaborative studio that combines science and art to produce new and exciting work. This will be the collective's first public commission in the UK. 2016-07-22 16:00 BLOUIN ARTINFO

28 Why Are There No Robots in 'Mr. Robot?' | GIF Six-Pack Telenet Mr. Robot is an addictive anti-hero drama dominating the media cycle this summer, pulling off an innovative virtual reality mini- episode and cornering the audience of those interested in hacking, artsy filmmaking techniques, and narration-heavy storytelling. But isn't it strange that there are no robots in a show called Mr. Robot? We could have protagonist Elliot (Rami Malek) infiltrate a secret Evil Corp lab that's working on drones or killer androids, saving the day by hacking them to destroy themselves? Or maybe face off against a mysterious artificial intelligence? It wouldn't even have to be a full episode, just a subplot, perhaps to gain the trust of a new mercenary hacker squad or something. Luckily, there are still eight more episodes including a two-part finale in which the show has the opportunity to give us the robots we need. Here are some robots animated by a few of our favorite GIF artists, including A. L. Crego, Uwe Heine Debrodt, and J. D. Vélez. A. L. Crego Uwe Heine Debrodt J. D. Vélez FOX ADHD Peter Carlson Mattis Dovier BONUS: The Internet Comment Robot Simone Giertz See more GIFs on GIPHY. Related: 'Mr. Robot' Is Simulcasting a Virtual Reality Short Film—Then It's Gone 2016-07-22 15:58 Beckett Mufson

29 M+ pavilion opens in hong kong's west kowloon cultural district hong kong’s west kowloon cultural district (WKCD) has announced the completion of ‘M+ pavilion’, the first permanent venue for exhibitions and events in the emerging art hub. with a complex of theaters and performance spaces, WKCD will produce and host performances and cultural displays, providing 23 hectares of public open space, including a two kilometer waterfront promenade. an aerial view of the flexible event space all images courtesy of west kowloon cultural district authority and M+, hong kong the pavilion has been designed by the collaborative team of VPANG architects, tynnon chow from JET architecture, and lisa cheung. the design team was appointed to design the pavilion after achieving first prize in an international design competition in january 2014. the structure is located within the ‘art park’, offering a respite from hectic city life. the main exhibition space is elevated, allowing it to float above the foliage mirrored external walls both reflect the surrounding landscape and immerse the building within its setting. the pavilion’s main exhibition space is elevated, allowing it to float above the foliage. this allows artwork to be appreciated against the backdrop of the hong kong island skyline with views of victoria harbour. the gallery space features polished concrete floors and white walls. a tree is planted at the center of the scheme elsewhere, hong kong’s museum for visual culture — M+ — will be one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world. located adjacent to the park on the waterfront, and designed by herzog & de meuron, the museum building is scheduled to open in 2019. see designboom’s previous coverage of the project here. display panels at the ground floor lobby of the pavilion depicting the evolution of M+ 2016-07-22 15:30 Philip Stevens

30 China Becomes a Living Painting in This Neural Network Timelapse Screencaps via the author. Cinematographer Drew Geraci shoots a lot of timelapse intros. His work, which includes aerials and motion graphics, has appeared on David Fincher’s and Netflix’s House of Cards , as well as in intros for the NFL, PBS’s Frontline and HBO documentaries. His latest work is the mesmerizing short film, China: A Prisma Tale , for which the filmmaker shot an entire timelapse video with the popular Prisma app. Like Pikazo , the neural network behind Prisma turns videos or stills into works of art. That is, it applies filters to imagery so that it looks like, say, a Picasso or van Gogh painting, or gives it other well-known patterns and textures. The effect that Prisma has on Geraci’s video is gorgeous, making it look not so much like an arty timelapse, but rather like a hallucinatory animation. By Geraci’s estimation, his company District 7 spent 80 hours in post- production “hand-stitching” together 2,500 individual frames. “The result is an immersive experience that paints a completely different picture from reality,” Geraci explains in his video's description . “Each frame of the one minute and 20 second video had to be processed via the Prisma App which took almost 80 hours to complete. The processing/rendering was at the mercy of the servers. Most of the project had to be completed between 11pm and 4am EST because the app would freeze or shutdown due to overloaded servers or too many users on at the same time.” To create the neural timelapse, Geraci had to physically take a photo of the video on a 4K monitor using an iPad, then save each photo directly to the tablet. Once all of the photos were taken, Geraci used a PC to pull the images off the iPad and onto the hard drive for additional processing and editing. A tedious process, no doubt, but just like animating a film frame-by- frame, the work ultimately pays in beautiful dividends. Click here to see more of Drew Geraci’s work. Related: ‘Pikazo’ App Lets You Paint Neural Network Art Masterpieces Dive into Deep Dream Infinity in These Trippy Music Videos [Premiere] Google's Psychedelic AI Art Takes Twitter by Storm 2016-07-22 15:30 DJ Pangburn

31 A Gender-Bending Music Video Gets Sexy With Holes in All the Right Places Images courtesy the artist What is sex but a temporary assembly of bodies and their parts? Filmmaker Paul Trillo explores this in abstract detail in his highly surreal and erotic music video for DJ Pone’s track “Heart Swing (feat. Jaw).” Slowly, and with increasing frequency, the body parts of two lovers coalesce as they explore touch. “The song is clearly about longing for someone, needing someone to make you feel stronger,” Trillo tells The Creators Project. “Whether it's lust or true love. It's the kind of love from someone that makes the rest of the world disappear.” Trillo knew the video had to be sensual, but he wasn’t interested in the love-making of a softcore music video. He wanted it all to be much more implied. “I began framing this in the light of a one night stand, where you quickly reveal yourself in a very vulnerable way to a virtual stranger,” Trillo explains. “It's sort of bizarre how quickly people can jump from not knowing one another to becoming incredibly intimate. That's when the concept started to crystallize for me.” “The more they explore one another, the more hidden body parts begin to show,” he adds. “They eventually ‘get romantic’ and become one. I wanted to create this perception that while the man and woman are having sex, the gender lines become blurry.” Viewers will be unable to distinguish the male from female body parts, says Trillo. He believes this “removes the sex from the sex,” instead showing people fusing together and certain moment in time before breaking away, presumably never to see each other again. To create the erotic interactions between the sexes, Trillo outfitted dancers Tyler Phillips and Emily Terndrup in green screen suits. As they shot throughout the day, the team cut more holes in the suits. “The different parts of the body were chosen so that they were both recognizable and undefined,” Trillo says. “It also needed to be in the right places that move with the body without having the suit fall apart. I wanted it to be revealing without being sexy.” Click here to see more of Paul Trillo’s work. Related: A Mountain of CG Bodies Reaches Heaven in a Minimal Short Watch M. I. A's Explosive Video for the First Single of Her Last Album 'Paradise Lost' as a Video Game Music Video Is Incredible 2016-07-22 15:25 DJ Pangburn

32 32 A Great Wooden Wave Surges Through This Tsunami-Inspired Installation Tadashi Kawamata, Under the Water - Metz, 2016 For the past 15 years Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata has studied natural disasters and catastrophes, including the severe tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. In a wood installation at Centre Pompidou-Metz , Kawamata realizes the enormity of natural disasters—creating a wave out of pieces of wood. Under the Water hangs from the ceiling of a room in the musem, contorting the space and rendering viewers uniquely vulnerable. Kawamata, whose art explores various fields including architecture, city planning, and sociology, captures the "out of control" nature of disasters, combining their size and power with an intense sense of movement. A uniquely dramatic piece for Kawamata, Under the Water resembles both the destructive power of tsunami waves while also simulating a kind of protective structure. Light leaks through the pieces of fragmented wood, seemingly bathing the room in sunlight and shadow. Paradoxically, Under the Water resembles both a destructive force and a protective shelter, as well as the natural beauty of sunlight and the inevitability of darkness. The mismatched pieces of wood, nailed together, resemble the wreckage that occurs after natural disasters. Under the Water will be on exhibition until August 15th. The piece was created with the help of several organizations and people who collaborated with the Centre Pompidou-Metz and the artist. Tadashi Kawamata, Under the Water - Metz, 2016 To learn more about Tadashi Kawamata , visit his website. To learn about Under the Water , click here. Related: 100 Years of Earthquake Data Becomes An 8-Day-Long Orchestral Arrangement Japanese Photographers Reflect on Fukushima Earthquake Paintings Shake Up Western Appropriations of Japanese Art 2016-07-22 15:15 Francesca Capossela

33 Junk Food Still Lifes Dissect Notions of Healthy vs. Unhealthy Foods Kenya Hanley, Healthy Snacks, 2016. Courtesy of LAND Gallery. Cartoonish yet elegant drawings of delicious cakes in neat piles and meticulously organized bowls of fruit: this is the work of artist Kenya Hanley. For the past 10 years, Hanley has been a resident at LAND (League Artists Natural Design) Gallery , a studio that has dedicated itself to providing a space for artists, such as Hanley, with developmental disabilities. Hanley has been independently making work since he was a child, exploring notions of unhealthy vs. healthy foods, lists, music, and TV. Hanley often draws his favorite subjects — food, television actors, reggae musicians, and babies — in a grid-like manner across the page. On occasion, Hanley can be found drawing full meals on plates, calling them “menus. " He also enjoys alphabetizing food, organizing them according to his favorite TV show titles, which he writes underneath. Kenya Hanley, Healthy Snacks. Courtesy of LAND Gallery. Hanley uses art as a tool for communication. Although the artist is interested in healthy eating, he often draws unhealthy yet decadent looking snacks, cakes, and meat plates. LAND coordinator Sophia Cosmadopoulos tells The Creators Project, “I infer that this organization of food and people is soothing to him, and is a way for him to have control over and understanding of the things that otherwise might be overly stimulating or overwhelming to him. " She says, “ I think Kenya draws desserts because he wants to live out his desire to eat them without actually doing so," says Cosmadopoulos. She adds, "He is a huge fan of Reggae music and TV, and those topics are things he explores consistently in his work. His family is of Jamaican decent and I think that culture influences his work too.” Kenya Hanley, Menu, 2015, Mixed Media On Paper, 17"X14". Courtesy of LAND Gallery. Ever since Hanley entered LAND Gallery 10 years ago, he has been hard at work every day, at times declining field trips to work on his art to instead spend hours in his studio drawing. His work has been the subject of an exhibition at the J. Crew flagship store and has been a part of J. Crew's corporate collection. His pieces can also be found in The Museum of Everything in London as well as in several private collections around the United States. “At LAND, the artists usually enter the program with a pre-existing strong and consistent artistic voice," says Cosmadopoulos. "In fact, in the application process we include a portfolio review, and for the most part, each artist already has a cohesive body of work. LAND is an open studio, and the staff are very hands-off. The artist's work in the studio independently, choosing their own subject matter and materials and work at their own pace with little instruction. " Kenya Hanley, Rasta Men, 2016, Mixed Media on Paper, 24”x19”. Courtesy of LAND Gallery. Cosmadopoulas says, "Our artists may struggle to communicate and connect with others in more stereotypical ways, they are all able to find their voice through their art, which seems to be a universal language. When our artists are given the space and the tools to work on this medium, their worlds become boundless. " Kenya Hanley. Courtesy of LAND Gallery Find out more about LAND Gallery, and see more of Kenya Hanley's work, here. Related: Artists Hidden in Plain Sight The Avant-Garde Art Women of Ava Luna Allison Schulnik Pushes Claymation To Its Psychedelic Limit 2016-07-22 15:00 Lorelei Ramirez

34 See and Spin #17: 3 Things to Read, 3 Things to Hear See and Spin, where Real Arters dish on a weekly serving of three things you need to read and three things you need to hear. A Terrifying Journey Through the World’s Most Dangerous Jungle (Jason Moltagh / Outside Online ) The Darién Gap is a lawless wilderness on the border of Colombia and Panama, teeming with everything from deadly snakes to antigovernment guerrillas. The region also sees a flow of migrants from Cuba, Africa, and Asia, whose desperation sends them on perilous journeys to the U. S. Jason Motlagh plunged in, risking robbery, kidnapping, and death to document one of the world’s most harrowing treks. Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All (Jane Mayer / The New Yorker ) “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it: “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.” The Tamir Rice Story: How to Make a Police Shooting Disappear (Sean Flynn / GQ ) Maybe you heard about the Tamir Rice case and wondered: How does a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun on a playground get shot to death on-camera by the police without anyone getting charged? Put another way: How does a small group of government officials make this case disappear without a trial? Here’s how. Brand New / “Out of Range” / Out of Range (2016) Two years ago this month, in the midst of releasing no new music since 2009, a song titled “Out of Range” by Brand New leaked out of absolutely nowhere. The band never acknowledged the song or how it leaked…until now with its official release, which is a good thing because this is an absolutely exquisite b-side from the Long Island post-hardcore kings. Taking another welcome stroll down their more tender and quiet side a la “Jesus” or “Bed,” the track’s reflective lyricism is accentuated by warm, echoing guitars and layered vocals from guitarists Jesse Lacey and Vin Accardi. The songwriting is some of their absolute best, even featuring a nod to current tourmates Modest Mouse’s “Life Like Weeds” in the final breakdown. Now the question remains: will currently untitled LP5 lean towards the rousing releases of “Mene” and “I Am a Nightmare,” or the more introspective “Sealed to Me” and “Out of Range”? Jagwar Ma / “O B 1” / Every Now & Then (2016) The land down under is a big country, and there’s plenty enough psychedelic sounds to go around outside of Tame Impala. Enter Jagwar Ma with “O B 1,” the first single from upcoming sophomore effort Every Now & Then , the follow-up to 2013’s utterly infectious Howlin’. Produced by the group’s multi-instrumentalist Jono Ma and featuring Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint on drums, “O B 1” is a kaleidoscope of sound, with groovy, swirling electronic elements stacked on top of satisfying vocal harmonies. Be sure to watch the video as well, which is a rather trippy capsule of life on the road with Jagwar Ma. Sego / “Stars” / One Was Lost Now Just Hanging Around (2016) Like a slow summer roll down a lazy river, “Stars” from Utah duo Sego is a piece of music where the vibe is of perpetual sunshine. Painting a picture for the thrill of bunnyhopping low expectations, lush production melds the sensibilities of chillwave and dream pop with agreeable indie as guitars seamlessly weave in and out of each other. Put this one on, tune in, and then tune out. 2016-07-22 14:50 realart.com

35 James Turrell Illuminates a Memorial Chapel in a Berlin Cemetery What better way to memorialize the dead than with a serene, contemplative light installation by James Turrell? The prolific light artist currently has a show on view in Berlin, inside the memorial chapel of the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery. Turrell customized the interior architecture of the chapel to optimize the light program. The result, a one-hour light show designed to coincide with sunset, is spooky and peaceful, muted and playfully neon. For two hours around 9pm, when the sun sets in Berlin summers, the chapel’s LEDs play a game with the fading light outside. To accommodate the viewers’ low attention span, the viewing period, which includes a 30- minute art historical talk in German, is reduced to just one hour. As viewers enter the chapel, it glows in a rich blue. When the program begins, the altar slowly cycles through a number of color changes every two minutes. For the second half of the program, as the sun outside really begins to set, the altar continues to change colors, while the main section of the church also changes from blue to magenta. An optical illusion makes the sunset’s light, coming in through the opaque windows, appear amber when the chapel is lit in blue, and green when it glows magenta. After the program is over, the church appears even more radiant, now a glowing structure in the dark cemetery. The history of the chapel is foggy, but it’s estimated that it was originally built in 1927 or 1928. No documents remain that reveal how it originally looked. In 2015, however, Berlin-based architect Nedelykov Moreira remodeled the chapel, giving the interior a clean, modern, minimal look: the perfect stage for Turrell’s site-specific neon lights. The small chapel has a straightforward layout, with rows of pews flanked by floor-to-ceiling opaque glass windows, which are ornamented with glass fins that enhance the light installation. The design minimizes the shade to nearly none, and the LED lights are hidden inside the architecture, so light seems to appear from nowhere. At the front of the chapel is a rectangular altar, in front of a smooth, arched apse. For the Dorotheenstadt Chapel, Turrell designed 10 light programs. Eight unique static programs douse the space in shades of white light, while the altar is illuminated in different symbolic colors: red for the Pentecost, violent for the Advent, or white for Christmas and Easter. These are functional programs, on view only during memorial ceremonies. During normal days, a “daylight loop” cycles through 11 different-colored light moods. But on select days during sunset, the non-religious public can come inside and see the specially-designed sunset program. Besides the memorial chapel, the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery holds a monument to Nazi resistance fighters, and is the resting place of a number of 18th and 19th century German cultural figures, like author Bertholt Brecht, philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, or architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Turrell is quite literally shining a light on these and other contributors to Germany’s cultural and historical heritage. James Turrell’s light installation at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery Memorial Chapel is on view every Saturday and Monday, beginning 30 minutes before sunset. Find out more information on the cemetery’s website , and buy tickets here. Related: Early James Turrell Works Reveal A Master in the Making James Turrell Museum Tours in the Nude is a Thing The James Turrell Skyspace Experience 2016-07-22 14:50 Alyssa Buffenstein

36 Revel in the Beauty of Death With These Gem- Encrusted Monkey Skulls Neptune's Amethyst, all images courtesy of the artist. Australian artist Gerard Geer works with animal bones to combine skeletal articulation with sculpture. His most recent works feature rabbit, rooster, fox, and squirrel skulls, will be exhibited in Brunswick, Australia at BeinArt Gallery for a group exhibition called Luminosity & Dust. Deeply interested in the inner workings of life forms, Geer works with a variety of media to turn the fur, feathers, and skeletons of dead animals into polished sculptures which retain little of the decay related to their individual parts. A monkey skull is encrusted with crystals and placed inside a glass circular dome while mouse, chicken, and snake bones are recycled and become a beautiful small tree, placed inside of small glass and wood box. Winter. In 2013, Geer learned that his practice of collecting and reworking native animals, even though he was using roadkill, was against the law in Australia. Geer had planned to destroy his work in order to comply with the laws and avoid legal punishment, and to bring to light the complex intersection between art and law. Eventually, though, he was able to come to an agreement with the Department of Environment and Sustainability. He didn’t have to destroy his work, but he cannot sell or exhibit those pieces. Now, Geer only works with non-native species and uses mainly bone as his primary medium, as it is easier to maintain than feathers or fur, less hassle to sell internationally, and is more aesthetically pleasing to the artist himself. Blood rooster See more of Gerard Geer's fantastical taxidermy sculptures on his Instagram . Related: Desiigner’s Panda Mask Was Made by A Taxidermy Artist A Bird Skull Turntable Playing Bird Songs is Horrifying Fine Art Taxidermy Fuses Flora and Pheasants 2016-07-22 14:30 Francesca Capossela

37 Buffy, Merry Men, Dark Horse Presents, and Faith: This Week in Comics #27 Buffy and her fellow ‘Scoobies’ gear up for a final confrontation with this season’s ‘Big Bad’. Panel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 10 #29. Illustrated by Rebekah Isaacs. Screencap via the author. This week’s rundown of comics show exactly what the best middle tier comic companies put out each week. Not as huge as DC or Marvel, and not as tiny as some of the indie presses that readers will find on Comixology, comic companies like Image, Dark Horse, Valiant, Boom Studios, and Oni Press really shine week to week. They continually push the envelope, develop great storylines, and help represent progressive work in comics. This week in comics the focus is on a Buffy comic, an amazing re-imagining of Robin Hood, a collection of a publisher’s best small works, and Faith, the most kind-hearted superhero on shelves. Cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 10 #29. Illustrated by Steve Morris. Photo courtesy of Dark Horse Comics. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics continue the storyline of the beloved cult TV show with respect and reverence for the source material. This is every diehard fan’s dream, that their favorite show would live on (and on, and on). This issue of the “Season 10” arc has the Scoobies finally squaring up against the “Big Bad,” a bureaucratic demon who wants more power than he currently has. The tone of the show is still intact, with characters saying things like “we’re toast” as demons surge with power in the distance. Cover for Merry Men #2. Illustrated by Jackie Lewis and Marissa Lou. Photo courtesy of Oni Press. Merry Men is a bold re-imagining of the classic tale of Robin Hood. What if Robin and his band of merry men weren’t cast out by the Sheriff of Nottingham for being bandits, but were cast out for being gay? Well- illustrated, and with a momentous forward trajectory through the plot, Merry Men #2 even endeavors to give a bit of queer history of England, taking a break from the comic’s panels to tell the story of William Rufus. This comic can get violent at times (we see Robin as a fighter in the Crusades), and if readers are triggered by the mistreatment of gay characters this won’t sit easy at times, but it’s a brave retelling and interesting approach to the concept. These characters aren’t caricatures, they’re fighting men living on the outskirts of society. Cover for Dark Horse Presents #24. Illustrated by Geof Darrow. Photo courtesy of Dark Horse Comics. This comic collection would be well worth the asking price ($5.00) for the wonderful Geof Darrow cover alone. But this compilation is packed with great new comic chapters from some of the best artists and writers working in the business. Comic showcases are always a great way to jump into stories which might be new to a reader. This issue features a new Tarzan comic, a grim and bloody police procedural, a bombastic chapter in Michael T. Gilbert’s Mister Monster, and more. Jump in here, anywhere in this comic, to see what’s happening below the major title radar. Alternate Cover for Faith #1. Illustrated by Kano. Photo courtesy of Valiant Entertainment. Faith is a high-flying blast of a comic, and it’s so exciting to see the series move out of its four-issue mini-run and into a full-fledged ongoing title. Faith is the titular hero, a high-flying woman with psionic powers who blogs by day and fights crime by night. The best part about this comic is that she doesn’t fit the typical body-type mold of superheroes and it’s never really brought up or made into a big deal. That’s the kicker, not only is this comic nonconforming, but it thinks that the idea that there even is conforming or nonconforming is bullcrap, and not worth wasting time talking about. This is Faith, she’s a badass, love her or put the comic down. Related: This Week in Comics #26 This Week in Comics #25 This Week in Comics #24 2016-07-22 14:00 Giaco Furino

38 Review: ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Attempts Miracle on Return to London Stage Jesus enters in a gray hoodie like a refugee Kanye West in best “Yeezus” mode. Mary does a subtle update to “Could We Start Again Please?” – a song that could almost be about contemporary politics. Judas still sings his heart out. In short, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” in its time one of the most successful musicals ever on the West End stage, has been impressively resurrected at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, with a few time shifts from the 1970s. A sign on the way to the theater warns the audience about flares in the performance: certainly not flared jeans, though there should be a warning about Herod’s skintight gold panties that would make Kylie Minogue proud. While other Rice-Lloyd Webber musicals have played for decades, this one is ripe for a revival. Those of us who saw the original production at the Palace Theatre remember it fondly. “Jesus Christ Superstar” developed into a slick but moving show, with radio microphones tossed from singer to singer and spectacular effects. The Regent’s Park theater’s Artistic Director Timothy Sheader chooses to go with retro free-standing microphones, which the cast have endless fun with, using them as swords, walking sticks, and more. Tyrone Huntley is an impressive Judas with a wonderfully powerful voice, while Cavin Cornwall as head priest Caiaphas has the deepest bass: “For the sake of the nation, this Jesus must die.” Declan Bennett as Jesus aims for the falsetto at times, and wins warm applause for “Gethsemane,” though it is a little difficult to see why he arouses such passionate enthusiasm among his disciples and supporters. He is portrayed as a quiet, downbeat guy in a baseball cap rather than a charismatic visionary leader. The company of performers whizz around him making strange contortions, while he sits and stares into space with his acoustic guitar. This is a musical without any of the clunky spoken dialogue that binds together many shows. The campness reaches its height with “King Herod’s Song,” when Peter Caulfield disrobes from an enormous silver dress while delivering the lines “Prove to me that you’re no fool, walk across my swimming pool” and “Feed my household with this bread, you can do it on your head.” Herod uses a loaf of bread as a hat at this point – a nice directorial touch. The simple set designed by Tom Scutt is imaginatively used, with a large cross walkway being transformed into a Last Supper table, a catwalk, and finally, the setting for the crucifixion scene. While this finale doesn’t have the strobe effect used all those years ago, it is still specular, with a powerful rendition of “Superstar” and the final “John 19:41” as the coda. Hopefully the production is now past technical problems suffered in previews (power cut, show canceled) and before the start of the press night (faulty keyboard, delays), so “Everything’s Alright” seems an apt refrain. Even for the non-religious, “Jesus Christ Superstar” is something of a miracle, and deserves a permanent home on the London stage. In the meantime, there can be few better ways of spending a warm summer evening than seeing this show – you may even come out humming “What’s the Buzz.” 2016-07-22 13:57 Mark Beech

39 Take a Peek Inside Queen Elizabeth II’s Closet at Buckingham Palace Throughout her record-breaking 63-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II has been an international style icon. In honor of Her Royal Highness’s 90th birthday, which the Queen celebrated in April, the Royal Collection Trust is showing off a lifetime’s worth of fashion with over 150 of the Queens outfits—and 80 hats. Related: 30 of Our Favorite Portraits of Queen Elizabeth II to Celebrate Her 63- Year Reign “ Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style From the Queen’s Wardrobe ” opens this weekend at Buckingham Palace , with parts two and three at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh (April 20– October 16, 2016) and Windsor Castle in Bershire (opening September 17, 2016–January 8, 2017). The unprecedented peek inside the Queen’s closet includes the christening gown she wore as a baby in 1926, as well as both her Norman Hartnell- designed wedding and coronation gowns, which have never before been displayed together. Related: Secret Object Hidden in Fabergé Egg Discovered in British Royal Collection Another exhibition highlight is the Mantle of the British Empire, made by Marion Foale for Ede & Ravenscroft tailors in 1952. The Queen wore the striking red outfit, with its dramatic cape, for a 1969 portrait by Pietro Annigoni. Many outfits in the show have been paired with period shots of the Queen wearing them; the Mantle dress is accompanied by a small study created for the painting, the original of which hangs in London’s National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition will show the consideration that goes into each and every one of Her Majesty’s outfits. The beaded Angela Kelly dress the Queen wore during the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympic Games, for instance, was chosen because of its neutral color. Related: Celebrate the Queen’s 90th Birthday With Favorite Shots From Her Royal Photographer “The philosophy behind the design I believe is to have something in a color that wouldn’t be in any way representative of any of the countries participating,” Royal Collection senior curator Caroline de Guitaut told the Telegraph . In addition to revealing fashion’s diplomatic side—”very much a tool in the female sovereign’s power to use,” according to de Guitaut—the show speaks to the design prowess of British couturiers. See more dresses from the exhibition below. “Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style From the Queen’s Wardrobe” in on view at Buckingham Palace, London, July 23–October 2, 2016. 2016-07-22 12:57 Sarah Cascone

40 5 Things To Know About Edward Hopper on His Birthday Widely remembered as the premiere artist to capture the nation’s zeitgeist throughout the Great Depression, Edward Hopper ‘s candid portraits of America have secured him a seat in the art historical canon. As he said in an interview with John Morse for the Smithsonian Institution in 1959: “My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.” To celebrate the artist on his birthday this July 22 (Hopper would have turned 134 today), artnet News rounded up five details that paint a clearer picture of the artist and his life. 1. He married a fellow artist. Fans of Hopper may already know that his wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, was also his greatest artistic muse, serving as the model in paintings like Morning Sun (1952) and Room in New York (1932). What may be less-known about Nivison Hopper, however, was her own success as a celebrated painter. According to the Guardian , a review in the New York Times even made a special mention of her work in a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1924, among canvases by American legends Georgia O’Keeffe and John Singer Sargent. 2. Hopper’s most expensive work at auction is a portrait of Weehawken. According to the artnet Price Database , the artist’s record was set by a somber portrait of a sleepy township in New Jersey, which was scooped up at Christie’s New York for $40.5 million by a private collector in 2013. Hopper executed the painting in the winter months of 1934, describing the scene, which depicts a row of four houses near the Hudson riverbank, in a poem he penned: “Only the grass, the uncut dead grass, shows where the wind is.” 3. Despite the popularity of his oil paintings, the artist was also fond of watercolors and etchings. Though the artist is likely best remembered for his striking oil paintings of American life, Hopper was, in the beginning, more interested in watercolor and printmaking. In fact, the vast majority of his oeuvre is comprised of watercolor paintings, which portrayed everything from beaches to the facades of New England houses. Related: Edward Hopper Etching Hits High Mark for Print Sale Online 4. Josephine named his most famous painting. In a journal the couple kept used to describe his paintings, Nivison Hopper noted that the man in the dark suit in Nighthawks had a “night hawk (beak)” for a nose. Art historian Gail Levin, in her biographical book on the artist, confirms this speculation, noting that Nivison Hopper wrote the artist’s sister a letter, stating: “Ed has just finished a very fine picture—a lunch counter at night with 3 figures. Night Hawks would be a fine name for it. E. posed for the two men in a mirror and I for the girl. He was about a month and half working on it.” Related: Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ Dominates ‘Art Everywhere’ Voting 5. The Whitney holds the largest collection of his work. Following her husband’s death in 1967, Nivison Hopper entrusted her husband’s estate to the Whitney Museum of American Art. She passed away less than a year later, and bequeathed much of her own artistic production to the museum, bringing the total number between the couple to a whopping 3,000 pieces. The museum has mounted a handful of shows for the late artist in recent years, including a painting and photography exhibition in 2014, and a show dedicated to his drawings the year prior. 2016-07-22 12:54 Rain Embuscado

41 Rashid Johnson Is Second Artist Ever Named to Guggenheim Foundations’ Board Artist Rashid Johnson is the second artist to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. (Founding director, curator, and baroness Hilla von Rebay, an abstract artist who died in 1967, was the first.) The appointment was announced by the Guggenheim Foundation’s Chairman William L. Mack, and President Jennifer Blei Stockman, on Friday. “Widely celebrated for his compelling contributions to contemporary art, Rashid is a dynamic and accomplished practitioner whose work is represented in the Guggenheim collection,” Mack and Stockman said in a joint statement . “He is an expansive and independent thinker and we look forward to engaging with Rashid in this new leadership role.” After nearly five decades without an artist, Johnson’s invitation to join the board signals the foundation’s willingness to broaden the debate and dialogue surrounding the role of the museum in society, as the institution attempts to portray itself as artistically and culturally relevant. The multidisciplinary African American artist’s work includes painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance. He was included in the Guggenheim Museum’s 2015 exhibition “Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim,” which featured The Ritual (2015), an installation of books, a vinyl LP, a sculpture by the artist’s wife, and lumps of shea butter, Cosmic Slop (2015), a wall piece made of wax and West African soap inscribed with markings, and his short film The New Black Yoga (2011). This fall, the 39-year-old artist will show new paintings at Hauser & Wirth in New York in an exhibition titled, “ I’ll Fly Away ,” which presents “themes of history, escape, yearning, and redemption.” 2016-07-22 12:35 Associate Editor

42 Judy Blame at ICA, London Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “ Judy Blame: Never Again ” is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London through Sunday, September 4. The solo exhibition presents work by the British accessories designer, art director, and fashion stylist. Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER Installation view of “Judy Blame: Never Again,” 2016, at Institute of Contemporary Arts London. MARK BLOWER 2016-07-22 12:30 The Editors

43 Jeff Arnal Named Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center Jeff Arnal. PHOTO BY KRISTOFER THOMPSON The Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center in Asheville, North Carolina has appointed Jeff Arnal its executive director. BMCM + AC has just completed a three-year expansion. Arnal is a founder of the performance platform Free Range Asheville, and previously worked as a senior specialist at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. In a statement, he said: “It is an honor and privilege to have the extraordinary opportunity to promote and preserve the legacy of Black Mountain College; a legacy that continues to reverberate throughout the arts and cultural community today. From the beginning, Black Mountain College famously embraced dialogue, experimentation, and hard work in an open and inclusive community. I am eager to continue to turn over the many historic elements of BMC and examine how these threads are connected to the field.” Arnal will begin his new job on August 1. 2016-07-22 12:12 M.

44 44 Radical Statements: Four Reviews by Laurie Anderson Anderson. ©TIM KNOX During the early ’70s, Laurie Anderson was a mainstay in this magazine’s reviews section, often writing several reviews every issue. With her criticism receiving a shoutout from Alanna Heiss in MoMA PS1’s exhibition “Forty,” below are four reviews by Laurie Anderson from the ARTnews archives. “Reviews and Previews” December 1971 Elaine Sturtevant’s [Reese Palley] Studies for De Maria’s “New York Is Shit” is a series of large framed pieces of paper. “New York Is Shit” is penciled in longhand on one of them. “Tel Aviv Is Shit” is written on another. A third reads “Cologne Is Shit.” London, Paris, and Rome are also cited. Aside from possibly recognizing the truth of these statements, the up-to-date viewer (that is, reader) will also recognize the format as being an exact replica of a set recently done by Walter De Maria. Sturtevant is, of course, known for some of her earlier Pop Art replications—Jasper Johns flags, Andy Warhols, Frank Stellas, etc., and most spectacular of all, her mid-’60s re-creation, almost exactly in situ on the Lower East Side, of Oldenburg’s elaborate object-filled Store. Aside from the fact that art pilfering is usually more or less subtle and this exact duplication sets the practice in bold relief, Sturtevant has taken an extreme position in her attempt to free a particular idea from the name of its originators. Visually, the De Maria series is fairly dull. As a reaction to “brand-name” styles, it is a radical statement. “Reviews and Previews” February 1972 John Cage’s [Jackson] “Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel” has been described at length in these pages (Jan ’70). The “plexigrams” (executed in collaboration with designer Calvin Sumison) are elegantly worked, eight-decked sheets of plastic. The forms and letters on each seem to be suspended in a free space where the images are superimposed. The oblique references to things like Duchamp’s film Anemic Cinema and Large Glass seem to be an attempt to catch up with what Duchamp called his “delay in glass.” However, according to the laws of chance (given Duchamp’s reputation) his domestication into the realms of taste (if not intelligibility) was probable. In this context, Cage’s original scores, also in this exhibition, seemed to have more impact. Pages from his notebooks are concrete poems with notes that have been freed from their staves to float over the pages. Cage has paid homage to Duchamp but, perhaps by chance, his material work has more to do with Duchamp than his handsome but rather conventional experiments in graphics. “Reviews & Previews” December 1972 At Sonnabend , William Wegman showed photographs and videotapes of his studio hijinks. The photographs included Beauty Contest; 1st place; Hobbies: tennis, skating, housework; 2nd place; Hobbies: traveling and disguises , in which a woman doing an arabesque on skates holds an iron in one hand and a tennis racquet in the other while Wegman—in fake beard and dark glasses—walks by with a suitcase. There are also several superimposed photographs of his dog. Funnier than these—in a strictly deadpan way—are the videotapes. Wegman is a diabolically brilliant one- man situation comic. There are dialogues in which the camera focuses only on his mouth, to create two totally different characters. There is a song “sung” by his navel (which becomes an open mouth when his stomach is puffed out and a smirk when it is sucked in); there are a nose dance and a speech given by a “mental patient” whose mouth froze into a smile after electric shock treatments. Several sequences in which Wegman’s dog wears a long cloak and seems to be following an invisible tennis match are pretty funny. Unfortunately, like daytime TV, once you get into the punchline rhythms of the gags, they tend to get a little stock. “Reviews & Previews” March 1973 Lynda Benglis , best known for her sculptures in polyurethane foam, shows five videotapes at Paula Cooper (to March 10). In Noise , the faces of five friends are incidental to the play of static, snow and varying densities of dots and lines coupled with street sounds that determine (and undermine) quickly comprehensible audio-tactile space. Images are taped, played on the monitor, retaped, replayed, etc. until the image is removed several times. In Face Tape and On Screen , Benglis makes faces (à la Nauman), then retapes the tape several times so that several simultaneous images appear in varying degrees of clarity and intensity. In Home Tape, Revised , Benglis recorded family situations making use of instant replay and a subsequent commentary on the action—a kind of deadpan interior monologue. Precisely controlled and modulated, Benglis’s tapes work on several formal descriptive levels simultaneously. 2016-07-22 11:59 The Editors

45 ‘The Love of the Image Is the Opposite of the Iconoclastic Gesture’: Massimiliano Gioni on ‘The Keeper’ at the New Museum Ydessa Hendeles, “Partners (The Teddy Bear Project), 2002.” PHOTO BY ROBERT KEZIERE “The Keeper,” an exhibition that showcases collecting and preservation in various forms, opened this week at the New Museum. The show ranges from quirky hobbies (Harry Smith’s string sculptures, Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly drawings) to compulsive habits (Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings, which she hid until her death because she didn’t want them released while she was alive) to objects that could have easily been lost to history (artifacts from the collection of the National Museum of Beirut that were damaged during the Lebanese Civil War). In general, these are not works one would expect to find in a mainstream contemporary art museum. At the center of the show is a huge installation of Ydessa Hendeles’s Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) , a collection of more than 3,000 found family-album photographs of people posing with teddy bears. The images blanket the walls of the museum. “It is a sort of museum within the museum,” Massimiliano Gioni, the New Museum’s artistic director and the exhibition’s co-curator, said of the work, which is being exhibited in the United States for the first time. Hendeles started compiling the project “during this craze at the end of the 20th century,” Gioni said. “The diffusion of teddy bears.” (Remember Beanie Babies?) Gioni described the figure of the teddy bear as “a metaphor for the role of images themselves” and “this doll onto which humans have projected feelings and desires.” He explained that Hendeles’s parents are Holocaust survivors, and added, “This doll is created as a healing talisman to confront various traumatic events in the 20th century.” He said this was a kind of sub- theme to the show—how certain images become a way to come to terms with history. “The love of the image is the opposite of the iconoclastic gesture,” he said. (Hendeles, in her 2009 Ph. D. dissertation for the School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, wrote of the bears: “A teddy bear sits in a place between life and death as a trope, in a way that a toy truck and a doll do not. The latter are both literal representations. But a teddy bear bypasses this limitation and seems to be alive by virtue of the ease with which it accepts projections. It transcends the literalness of the object.”) The show’s inspiration, Gioni said, was Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk, who opened a museum in his hometown of Istanbul in 2012 called the Museum of Innocence (after his novel of the same name), which features everyday objects rather than grand historical narratives as represented by artistic canons. (National museums, Pamuk wrote in an essay called “A Modest Manifesto for Museums,” “present the story of the nation—history, in a word—as being far more important than the stories of individuals.” Pamuk will speak with Gioni at the New Museum on September 29.) “This idea of an individual museum,” Gioni said, “a museum that is less grandiose in its premises, but somehow closer to personal narratives, was a very inspiring idea. I thought it was interesting to look at individuals who have devoted their energy to bringing together meaningful or significant images. I’ve been more and more curious about how all of us sort of leave a trail of images behind in all of our lives. And I’ve become interested in how we can look at these images beyond the distinction of high art or low art or forgotten talent or outsider practice. It’s less about the definition of who an artist is. The exhibition is interested in creating a sanctuary.” 2016-07-22 11:33 M.

46 Nanjing International Art Festival 2016 to Address Global Economy Related Venues Museion Nanjing International Art Festival (NJIAF) has recently announced the theme for its third edition, which will move to a new venue from its previous space at the Nanjing International Conference Center. The theme for the 2016 edition is “HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply,” aimed at addressing and reacting to the current state of the world economy. Scheduled to take place from November 12, 2016 through February 12, 2017 at the Baijia Lake Museum, the annual Chinese art event is expected to be bigger and more international than last year, bringing together more than 800 works by 400 artists from around the world. The theme “HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply” has been devised by art critic, curator, and art historian Lu Peng, who has been appointed as the Festival’s chief curator. Letizia Ragaglia, Director of MUSEION, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano in South Tyrol, Italy, is the co-curator. Adding to the international element, the program will be supported by a global curatorial committee with members from South Korea, the US, Belgium, and China. The theme is a reaction to the global economy’s current situation, and the art created will address various issues happening around the world. Both the terms “scarcity” and “supply” are intended to encourage an economic interpretation, as the curator believes that in today’s globalized world, everything is influenced by the economy. He is also interested in how various political or economical events around the world highly influence Chinese contemporary art. Consequently, the art presented will engage with existing problems in our society and attempt to understand how to solve them. Lu Peng hopes that this festival will exhibit distinctive and unique artworks as a way to focus attention solely on the work and its academic value. The festival will also comment on the fact that there has not been any new and innovative art since the 1990s. “[The festival] deliberately focuses on artistic production from 1990 onwards,” said Letizia Ragaglia in a statement, as “1990 represents an important break in recent history.” Ragaglia adds that NJIAF will explore art from the past in order to redefine what is “contemporary” today. The festival was inaugurated in 2014 by Yan Lugen, art collector and Chairman of the NJIAF organizing committee. Both the previous editions of NJIAF received over 200,000 visitors. This year, the Nanjing festival will be hosted by Lugen’s own private museum, the Baijia Lake Museum, located in the heart of the Baijia Lake Community area. The Museum is said to be the home of the largest collection of Western art among private museums in China. What used to be a commercial building has been revamped into a four- story museum designed by award-winning architect Zhang Can, encompassing an exhibition space, a research center, and storage over the 20,000-square-meter space. With a population of 8 million people, Nanjing is frequently seen as the underdog city of China, located 300 kilometers from Shanghai. “Nanjing is a city full of history, and it is starting to develop its cultural voice,” said Yan Lugen in a statement. “The new Baijia Lake Museum will provide a beautiful setting for the festival. The museum will anchor our cultural developments.” 2016-07-22 10:55 Claire Bouchara

47 Shepard Fairey Creates Anniversary Portrait Of Missing Teen Perry Cohen As art fair executives Nick Korniloff and his wife, Pamela Cohen mark the one-year anniversary of the tragic disappearance of their 14- year-old son Perry Cohen, who was lost at sea along with his good friend Austin Stephanos, street artist Shepard Fairey has stepped in. The striking image below, done in Fairey’s signature graphic style, is intended to honor the missing teen as well as to support the nascent Perry J. Cohen Foundation , the nonprofit organization founded by his parents to support the advancement of boating safety, marine and wildlife education and preservation, teenage entrepreneurship and supporting the arts. Related: 14-Year Old Son of Nick Korniloff Missing at Sea Fairey who is known for his activism and philanthropy, said, “I was honored and happy to create art for the Perry J. Cohen Foundation not just because I’m a parent, but also because boating has been a passion for our family for generations. I hoped to capture Perry’s likeness, but especially a bit of his spirit and love of the water.” Pamela Cohen told artnet News that when she and Korniloff “looked at the initial artist proof that he forwarded, we were blown away and brought to tears.” Fairey said he hopes the imagery “may help in a small way to bring attention to boating safety and Perry’s life and love of the outdoors.” Related: Swoon Taps Swizz Beatz and Shepard Fairey for Artist-Run Event Korniloff recalled introducing Perry to the artist’s work at one of the numerous fairs he founded as part of the Art Miami group (where Pamela is a director of marketing), and then taking him to Wynwood Walls in Miami’s design district to see a large mural that Fairey had created. The group hosts art fairs in cities including Miami, New York, and the Hamptons in eastern Long Island. “Perry was a big admirer of Shepard’s work,” said Korniloff. “To have an artist, friend, and colleague, whose work is in many important institutions honor your son is surreal and a significant statement.” He added: “We are completely honored and humbled by his most generous gesture.” Cohen and Stephanos embarked on a fishing trip on the morning of Friday July 24, 2015, and were in touch with their parents early in the day. They were last seen heading out of Jupiter Inlet. The United States Coast Guard conducted an exhaustive search and rescue mission that lasted eight days and covered 55,000 square nautical miles. They suspended their efforts a full week later, on July 31. This past spring, a boat found roughly 100 miles off the coast of Bermuda in March was confirmed as the single-engine, 19-foot boat on which the teenagers were last seen. Pamela Cohen penned a heartbreaking letter about her son’s disappearance and what her family has endured in the past year that was published in the Palm Beach Post. You can read it here. 2016-07-22 10:33 Senior Market

48 Jake Gyllenhaal Returns to Broadway in Lanford Wilson’s ‘Burn This’ The casting is intriguing, to say the least. Jake Gyllenhaal was recently announced as the lead in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s tempestuous 1980s drama “Burn This,” slated to open next spring. Gyllenhaal will be taking on the role of Pale, a high-octane New Jersey restaurant manager who bursts into the Manhattan loft that his gay, just- deceased brother, Robbie, shared with Anna, Robbie’s longtime dance partner and choreographer, who is in deep mourning for him. In the original, 1987 production, John Malkovich brought searing heat to his brawls with Joan Allen’s Anna (a role for which she won a Tony Award). Writing in the New York Times, critic Frank Rich observed, “Mr. Malkovich's Pale is a latter-day Stanley Kowalski, a blue-collar animal out to claw through the genteel veneer of the downtown esthete Anna.” In 2002, Edward Norton imbued the role with his own brand of intensity in an off- Broadway revival. Like Malkovich and Norton, Gyllenhaal is adept at conveying sensitivity in a tortured persona, a talent he has put to good use as the star-crossed gay lover in the Ang Lee film “Brokeback Mountain” and, in his Broadway debut, as the romantic tragedian in Nick Payne’s brainy “Constellations.” Whether he will find lighter shades of Pale to some degree depends on the rest of the cast, which has not yet been announced — in addition to Anna, the play’s characters include Larry, Robbie and Anna’s witty gay roommate, and Burton, her low-wattage boyfriend. Still, even if the actors for these parts remain unknown quantities, the blazing material is sure to find an able and apt director in Michael Mayer, who won a Tony Award for the erotically charged musical “Spring Awakening.” Set to open March 6, 2017, the revival will mark the beginning of a new life for the Hudson Theatre, which was built in 1903, but has not hosted a play in 50 years. The intimate playhouse underwent a major renovation under the ownership of the Ambassador Theatre Group, the international arts organization that established a beachhead on Broadway in 2013 with its acquisition of the Lyric Theatre, currently home to Cirque du Soleil’s “Paramour.” Gyllenhaal has been an increasingly prominent player in New York theater since 2012, when he starred off-Broadway in Payne’s “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet.” After “Constellations,” he appeared as Seymour in the special Encores presentation of the musical “Little Shop of Horrors.” And, during one of the commercial breaks of last June’s Tony Awards telecast, he joined Sean Hayes in a duet rendition of “A Whole New World.” Gyllenhaal will continue to exercise his musical chops this fall when he essays the role of George Seurat in benefit performances of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George,” which will co-star Annaleigh Ashford as the artist’s muse, Dot. Originally supposed to be a one-off for the City Center Annual Gala on October 24, it sold out so fast that two more performances, on October 25 and 26, were added. Could a musical debut on Broadway be far behind for the versatile actor? 2016-07-22 10:14 Patrick Pacheco

49 Despite Death Threats, Modigliani Expert To Publish New Catalogue Raisonné French scholar Marc Restellini has braved death threats over his efforts to authenticate works by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Now, in the wake of the record-smashing $170.4- million sale of one of the artist’s nudes at Christie’s New York in May, Restellini is back after having previously abandoned an effort to compile a catalogue raisonné, or exhaustive inventory, of Modigliani’s paintings, reports the Art Newspaper. His Institut Restellini will publish one online by year’s end, says the paper, though he had previously been threatened for declining to record certain works in his publication, which could damage their values, reported the New York Times in 2014. Restellini is also the founder of an international network of private museums, each dubbed the Pinacotheque. Related: Art Demystified: How to Authenticate a Work of Contemporary Art And he’s not even the only one touting a new Modigliani publication. Kenneth Wayne , a curator with extensive museum experience, also promises to compile a definitive inventory, says T AN , via the nonprofit Modigliani Project. Wayne has held curatorial positions at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery , in Buffalo, New York, and was deputy director at New York’s Noguchi Museum , according to a bio on his website. Paris museum curators and directors Brigitte Léal ( Centre Pompidou ), Sophie Krebs ( Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris ), and Cécile Girardeau ( Musée de l’Orangerie ) will contribute, under the stewardship of Michel Menu, the chief conservator of the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France , Paris, writes TAN . Related: David Nahmad Denies Modigliani Painting Is Nazi Loot The battling publication projects come to light amid a feverish market for the artist’s works. A Modigliani sculpture, a head rendered in stone, fetched $70.4 million at Sotheby’s New York in November 2014; some 13 Modigliani works have sold for north of $20 million in as many years, according to the artnet Price Database. Two dozen works by the Italian master have come to auction in 2016 alone; nearly four dozen came to the auction block in 2015. 2016-07-22 10:03 Senior Writer

50 Frances Bean Cobain Is Selling Her Truly Nightmarish Artwork Online Frances Bean Cobain, born of rock music royalty, has embraced a different branch of the arts. The daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, and Hole singer Courtney Love, Cobain is selling prints of her brooding, cartoonish artwork ranging from $200 to $400 each, reports Pitchfork. Related: Wife of Former Band Member Sells Rare and Intimate Photographs of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana “Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light. I thought every piece was funny, but I’m delighted to discover that it was only funny to me,” Cobain told Interview magazine in 2010, upon the occasion of her first solo exhibition, held at Los Angeles’s La Luz de Jesus Gallery. The show, titled “Scumfuck,” took place when she was just 17 years old, and working under the pseudonym Fiddle Tim. In 2012, one of Cobain’s drawings was included in the group show “ LA MiXTAPE ” at Los Angeles’s Dark Dark Science , but a rumored solo show at the gallery, which appears to have closed following “MiXTAPE,” never materialized. Related: Grunge Legend Kurt Cobain’s Art Will Hit the Road in New Traveling Exhibition Now 23, Cobain is making another go of it with the current sale, taking place at online market place depop . “Selling Prints of my Art. Normal sized prints are available now and some special editions will be sold at a later date,” Cobain wrote, signing off simply as “Frances.” Cobain’s artistic bent may come from her father, who created the album art for Nirvana albums and was an avid visual artist, working in painting, drawing, photography, and collage. Last month, Cobain and Love announced plans to launch a touring exhibition of the late musician’s artwork and personal possessions. Related: See Kurt Cobain’s Most-Prized Possessions in New Show at KM Fine Arts As for the younger Cobain, her current inventory includes seven works, each more nightmarish and disturbing than the last. It’s not clear, however, how active her art-making practice has been over the last six years, as five of the pieces were part of the “Scumfuck” show. See more of Cobain’s work below. 2016-07-22 09:56 Sarah Cascone

51 Art Demystified: How to Authenticate a Contemporary Artwork Authenticity is one of the most important properties of an artwork. After all nobody —in most cases—wants to buy a fake. However when the stakes are high, the process of authentication can be complicated, and fraught with difficulties— especially when the artist is dead. And in the contemporary art market authentication of high-priced works has become contentious. “You take a chance,” Richard Polsky, of Richard Polsky Art Authentication told artnet News. “The risk is that when a collector or dealer submits something and they’re wrong, not only are they going to lose money on the deal they’re working on involving that piece, they risk their reputation too.” Related: Authenticity Fight Over Keith Haring Paintings Raises Complex Questions For example, “If you gave your painting to the Warhol people,” he explains, “if it was rejected, they would take a rubber stamp, and stamp the word ‘denied’ on the back of it. Then you were really out of luck, because you signed a piece of paper agreeing that they had permission to do that.” The problem is that some wealthy collectors aren’t prepared to take no for an answer. Over time, they started taking artists’ foundations to court over their decisions, prompting many foundations, such as the Warhol Foundation, the Basquiat estate, and the Haring Foundation to cease offering the service. “They’ve all been very frustrated over the years by lawsuits,” Polsky said. “The Warhol Foundation probably put it best when they said, ‘we want to spend money on art and artists, rather than on lawyers.’” Related: Manhattan Gallery Faces Lawsuit Over Fake Warhol Prints The authenticator explained that respecting the artist’s intent is key. “The problem is once an artist dies, of course there’s no way of going back and asking ‘did you make this? There’s nowhere to go with it. So an authenticator like myself then has to make the decision. Is this what the artist wanted to represent him? Or did he do it for other reasons?” To illustrate his point, Polsky recalls an anecdote featuring Willem de Kooning , “the great painter lived out in the Hamptons,” he says. “There was a wooden outhouse with a wooden toilet seat on the property, and one day he went out there, and he painted it. And years later some art dealer somehow got a hold of this and tried to sell it as a de Kooning, when you and I both know de Kooning didn’t intend for that to be one of his paintings, he was just having fun.” Polsky concludes, with resignation, “This is what happens in the art market —crazy things.” 2016-07-22 08:35 Associate Editor

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