AFC Weekly: Some Negative Reviews for Your Inbox

ArtReview’s Power 100 list is out, so that’s going to be a day wasted in listicle chatter. This thing isn’t any less flawed than those page-view friendly rating slideshows ArtINFO puts together twice a month but it does include one listing we think is worth raising an eyebrow over. That eyebrow goes to dOCUMENTA (13) Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who nabbed the number one slot this year. Her position warrants the rating, but given what we’ve seen recently, how she got there is anyone’s guess.

Jason Foumberg does not like “This Will Have Been” at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, James Panero disavows the New Museum, and Adrian Searle deals with some curdled milk.

In which we tell you what’s trending over Twitter today: Richter.

If there was one takeaway from the Bronx Museum’s 40th Anniversary, it’s that museums should have more music. You don’t hear this level of noise at MoMA.

Another ArtReview Power 100 List kicks off today, setting in motion the now annual tradition of quibbling over the top slots. This year, like every year, the list leaves room for shock, jest, and flak over who can muscle their way into the art world’s top ranks. It’s the type of list that leaves you scratching your head: What makes Kunsthalle Zürich’s Beatrix Ruf more powerful than MoMA’s Glenn Lowry? Is it possible to be young and powerful? Poor and powerful? We spoke with ArtReview Editor Mark Rappolt about this year’s list, and how its international jurors tend to reward those working on a global scale.

Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years looks more like a fashion showroom than an art exhibition. For the past eighteen years, the Bernadette Corporation has taken a rebellious stance toward art: they’ve designed clothes, published magazines, customized terry cloth towels, altering just about anything that’s not a painting on canvas. What makes me doubt BC’s project, comes from how they don’t give a damn; anything goes with their corporate ethos because the world as we know it is a shithole.

Is your art a little too weird for the establishment? Do you like to wear a few too many kinds of plaid at once? Has your mother ever expressed worry about your future?

If you’ve said “yes” to any of these questions, it’s time to submit your work to Flux Factory’s open call for submissions.

“You can do anything in photography if you can get away with it.” wrote Paul Strand, a photographer who in 1915, painted out a figure that cluttered the composition of “City Hall Park.” That quote appears somewhere in the middle of Dushko Petrovich’s essay on the history of digital photography, and I love it. It speaks to the philosophy that the quality of the image should dictate its form, which even in the context of image manipulation, is its own kind of artistic purity

It’s hard to ignore the glow from The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artist-In-Residence alumni when visiting the museum. David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall and Julie Mehretu are just a few of the museum’s now famed past residents, so it’s easy to start thinking about who might be the next star. Of all three artists-in-residence—Njideka Akunliyi, Xaviera Simmons, and Meleko Mokgosi—Njideka Akunliyi gets my pick for who might eventually join the ranks of Hammons and Mehretu.

Here are a couple picks from this week’s art events events at the L.