Thomas Cole completed Portage Falls on the Genesee in 1839.
- Looks like The Emerson Foundation might have troubles selling a large painting by Thomas Cole in its collection at the Seward House Historic Museum. Valued at $18 million, the foundation could make significant financial gains through its sale. But the great grandson of Seward, Ray Messenger, has gone to court to stop it, and now The New York Attorney General’s Office has questioned the foundations justification for the sale saying it still had “obligations under the Will to maintain and support the Seward Memorial” [ArtsBeat]
- The partial demolition of an artist compound in Shanghai owned by artist Yuan Gong occurred thanks to an unregistered billboard. The situation sounds a lot like the state-sanctioned demolition activist artist Ai Wei-Wei was subject to in 2011, but Gong thinks the government’s motivation is, in his case, purely economic. “The Chinese government is living by selling stolen land,” he said. [Hyperallergic]
- What could possibly be worse than the imminent James Franco production of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying? The ensuing “now a major motion picture” book with the actor/director sulking on the cover. [Keith Uhlich]
- After a day of the press complaining about Sikkema Jenkins & Company’s press release for Leslie Hewitt, we’ve got a show review from the New York Times. Hewitt arranges old snapshots on top of pages from old magazines, placed on a wooden floor and then photographed from above. Her work looks at how African Americans have been left out of the picture. Anyway, Martha Schwendener likes the work, explaining that photograph’s aesthetics are interrupted by volatile content. I don’t see why that’s so extraordinary—the front page of the Times typically shows us that too—but a writer can only do so much with 300 words. [The New York Times]
- Generating Utopia is a data visualization that turns your most frequent sign-ins into mountains. Oooh. [Animal]
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