- Lesbians finally have a dating app just for them. “It was about realizing that all of these dating structures that exist have all been created, basically, just for men,” says “Dattach” founder Robyn Exton. Dattach was designed to mimic Pinterest, and it has built-in conversation prompts and ways to weed out the predatory man posers. [BetaBeat]
- Corporate personhood gains the right to religious freedom now that the Supreme Court has allowed Hobby Lobby the right to refuse contraception to employees. This, at the cost of women’s rights. Read Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s commonsense dissent here. [The Wire]
- Here are five reasons why the Hobby Lobby’s decision is bananas. [The Medium]
- You no longer have to go to the Domino Factory to join in on the selfie mania. Relive Kara Walker’s Sugar Baby from the comfort of your home with the Subtlety Selfie Generator. [Subtlety Selfie Generator]
- MoMA New York names Michelle Elligott Chief of Archives. [Art Review]
- The auctions aren’t slowing up. Last night at Sotheby’s, a Francis Bacon sold for $42.4 million, while a painting by Adrian Ghenie sold for $2.4 million—more than four times its original estimate. But Sotheby’s attempts to upsell Peter Doig’s painting with a rainbow in the middle of it for at least $15 million didn’t work; one dealer grumbled that it was akin to a Hallmark greeting card. Oof. [New York Times]
- The influential artist Douglas Davis passed away on January 16th of this year. Here is a thoughtful obituary from ArtForum that discusses the artist and his work. [Art Forum]
- Museums may be getting more and more hokey to draw in crowds, but this is a lot. A Game of Thrones show, featuring costumes and props from the HBO series, opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney today. Apparently, there is a six-hour long wait to get in. [The Guardian]
- Art activist Elizabeth Sackler will head the Brooklyn Museum board. She succeeds John Tamagni (tuh-MAG’-nee) who will remain on the board. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Ooops. We forgot to include the Louis Vuitton Foundation museum in our mega-list of all the Frank Gehry-designed museums in the world. The Vuitton museum’s set to open on October 26. [Vogue]
- Ai Weiwei takes on Land Art? His latest work is a collaboration with Navajo artist Bert Benally to create two large earth drawings. If you want to see it, prepare yourself for a trek: it’s in the midst of New Mexico’s Coyote Canyon. [Artnet]
- A satisfying analysis of Jeff Koons’s retrospective by Rodrigo Canete, who takes issue with Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith for critical disdain without deep analysis of pop art context. Smith’s review was actually fairly complimentary, and Saltz concludes his review with comparisons to Pop Art. But this needed to be said: “[B]y embodying the alpha male super rich male artist, Jeff Koons is making evident his own weaknesses, and that is the point…creating a whole system of narcissistic social values.” He thinks that Koons is bringing forward Lichtenstein’s concerns and using the idea of inflation to connote inflated prices, ego, and weakness. It’s a nice change from the diss-lodging. [Love Art Not People]
- Another critic points to the “hot air” reference in Koons’s work. Christian Viveros-Faune is not going to let you forget how much fucking money is involved in the Whitney show, no matter how swept away you get in the vapidity. On the Play-Doh pile: “The content, if it exists, couldn’t be more facile. The important categories in judging this work is its stated emptiness or the content which everybody seems to fill it with, which is money.” [Artnet]
- Now go watch Robert Hughes’ “The Mona Lisa Curse” on YouTube. [YouTube]
- This golden retriever / husky puppy looks just like a teddy bear. [Cute Emergency]
- Wowza quote of the day about sex with an art dealer: “…obviously Zwirner and I have to have sex in public…” From Carl Swanson’s Oscar Murillo profile in New York: pic.twitter.com/EcifDdQLAQ — Andrew Russeth (@AndrewRusseth) July 1, 2014
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Is Rodrigo Canete’s analysis in written form as well, or is it just the video?
Not that I can find on his blog, but if this emerges, we will link it up.
thanks
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