- The LA Times’s Deborah Vankin got into James Turrell’s Perceptual Cell at LACMA, which has a year-long waiting list and a $45 ticket. I think it was worth it. [The LA Times]
- Making the rounds: An interview with collector Stefan Simchowitz, in which he discusses what makes art different now, (“it’s not just the artist who produces the work but the spectator and audience that essentially refines it”), and why he’s such a good collector, (he has “Sterling Ruby, Joe Bradley, Tauba Auerbach, Oscar Murillo. I have one of the great collections of my generation, of emerging contemporary art.”) LOL. [Artspace Magazine]
- As a result of poor fiscal management, Robin Forman, Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, released a letter to the Emory College community stating that Emory University would close their Visual Arts Program, as well as the Department of Educational Studies, the Department of Physical Education, and the Department of Journalism. They also suspended admissions to graduate programs in Spanish, Economics, and the Institute of Liberal Arts (I.L.A.)––Emory’s flagship interdisciplinary Ph.D. program. They did all of this back in September, without consulting the students or faculty. [art&education]
- Is the Internet dead? How does its size and lack of coherence affect users? Jason Farago explores. (Readers who aren’t fluent in Spanish will need to use Google translate for this link.) [BBC]
- Phyllida Barlow’s commission for the Tate Britian opens today. It’s about time. This artist only started receiving her fair dues in her 60’s. She is now 70. Here’s a profile. [The Guardian]
- Another UN report on how climate change is going to lead to mass slaughter. In the wise words of Gawker, “Basically, we’re fucked.”[Gawker]
- Not sure that health insurance will save you from the mass starvation predicted by the UN, but it will certainly help should you get injured in a flood. Better sign up today; it’s your last chance day to do it. New Yorkers, sign up here. [New York State of Health]
- 445 photobooth images taken over decades by an anonymous man from the midwest are now on view of a man at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. This reminds us there is a smaller, but significant, collection of photobooth images taken over the decades by Brian O’Doherty at P! [Rutgers News]
Monday Links: Basically, We’re Fucked
by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on March 31, 2014 Massive Links
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