Friday Links: Frothy Word Salads

• Stop making fun of China’s knock-off architecture. [The Atlantic Cities]
• “The contemporary art market is far ahead of the stock market at least in terms of its frothiness, but, I’m starting to see music sheets on how cheap equities remain based on a traditional, but academic yardstick like the risk premium,” writes Martin Sosnoff. So much of this sentence doesn’t make sense—what is frothiness? There are two more pages where that comes from. [Forbes]
• In the latest issue of e-flux, Martha Rosler takes on Artspeak. This “gobbledygook”, like Triple Canopy’s popular International Art English spoof from 2012,  is a joke, but, for Rosler, that’s not a reason to give it the brush off: “jokes are often a cover for hostility, and the more elaborate the joke, the more powerful the hostility may be”. Also to look forward to, plenty of of piquant, Rosler-esque anecdotes ranging from restaurant menus to Gullivers’ travels, all in order to get to the sham of our current word salad.  [e-flux]
• The Indianapolis Museum of Art wins a major award from the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and with it, a rebuke. Tyler Green has a great report on how the AIC’s award is meant to pressure IMA President Charles Venable into re-evaluating the targets of his cuts. [Modern Art Notes]
• The Hirshhorn’s Director Richard Koshalek resigns amidst allegations that the board was not wholly supportive of his vision. That vision spans the range of museum expansion, from “bubble” architecture by the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to large-scale projects, like a new education center and Richard Serra installation. According to City Paper’s Kriston Capps, the museum board will determine the bubble’s fate later this month while Koshalek will serve out his term through the end of the year. (Personally, we’d like to see a naming contest of the bubble before the project gets scrapped.) [City Paper]

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