Jonathan Boulware, the new interim president of the South Street Seaport Museum, seen here in 2011, just after he joined the museum. Photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer for Downtown Express
- Jay-Z shot a new rap video at Pace yesterday. He danced with Marina Abramovic. Alanna Heiss jumped on a scooter as he performed. This sparked comments about the death of performance art. Okay.
- PS1 Curator Klaus Biesenbach says over Twitter that he thinks the video was a spoof of the art world. Hate to say it, but his words are more thoughtful than those of Jerry Saltz.
- An antiquity exhibit at the Cleveland Museum has been canceled on claims that it is hurting Italy’s economy. The exhibition, “Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome,” features 145 pieces, two of which are particularly large tourist attractions. The autonomous Sicilian government wants them back. [NYTimes]
- The South Street Seaport Museum has received a hunky interim director, Jonathan Boulware, and three board members from the Bloomberg administration. You gotta hand it to Bloomberg, who really seems to be doing as much as he can to keep the museum alive. [Downtown Express via In the Air]
- Elizabeth Smith has been appointed the first executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. [Baer Faxt]
- What’s it like to be a woman in Syria working on the frontlines as a freelance journalist? It’s totally and utterly crazy town. An account highlighting the complete lack of compassion of editors, journalists and of course, anyone involved in the war. Then there’s the comment section, wherein we see countless depraved responses. Prepared to get depressed about humanity. [Columbia Journalism Review]
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