- Work of Art star Sara Jimenez played a “surrogate Marina Abramovic” in Lisa Kirk’s exhibition “left Behind”. According to Kirk’s description before the show, Marina would “be taking selfies, looking at herself in the mirror.” Kirk later added that she would be wearing a long red gown, drinking special elixirs, and making “psychic circles.” [In the Air]
- The New York Times Super Bowl Visitors’ Guide has a “Where to go to avoid the Super Bowl” section this blog finds useful. [The New York Times]
- The Detroit Institute of Art has said it will raise $100 million of its own funds, adding to the $370 million already pledged by by a group of private foundations to help save the museum. [The New York Times]
- Jonty Claypole, the Head of Arts Television Production at the BBC, writes about Peter Watkins’s films, with a focus on Edvard Munch: A Film’s Legacy, a documentary he believes is one of the greatest artist biopics ever made. From the sound of the it, the film is about as avant garde as it gets, but Watkins believes it wasn’t radical enough. A great long read. [Frieze]
- The Lower East Side gallery Le Salon D’Art is closing and selling for $70,000. If that sounds unbelievably low, it’s because they’re selling the business, not the space. This has not worked out well in the past. [Bowery Boogie]
- Another heir of a World War II refugee seeks to recoup lost art, this time from the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. [TAN]
- Christian Viveros-Faune reviews Stan Douglas’s six hour looping rock documentary at David Zwirner. The money observation: “What [Douglas] ultimately wants to know is: Can today’s copy become a useful metaphor for reality?” [The Village Voice]
Thursday Links: More Good News for Detroit and Abramovic Impersonations
by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on January 30, 2014 Massive Links
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