- People have lost all faith in print publishing. Gannett, the company that owns 81 daily newspapers including USA Today, has decided to separate its print and digital ventures into two separate companies in order “to shield more profitable business lines from the decline in print advertising,” reports USA Today. Their shares have gone up like crazy since the news broke. [Gawker]
- Thank you, artnet News, for this headline: “Art School Defends Failing Student’s Poo Sculpture”. The student is accusing the University of Arts London of failing her because her unsavory ceramic poop would have deterred higher-paying students from applying to the school. School denies. [Artnet News]
- Dan Duray reports that Berlin-based online auction platform Auctionata is considering acquiring Artspace. According to an internal email sent by CEO and founder Chris Vroom, Auctionata will be visiting their offices to “discuss potential synergies with the collaboration.” Ooooh, synergy. [Artnews]
- The New Yorker comments that PS1 and the Rockaway Artist Alliance’s “Rockaway!” Festival will aid Hurricane recovery. I would say, that’s a stretch. Local businesses most evidently helped are organic Brooklyn taco trucks, the MTA, and Patti Smith. [The New Yorker]
- Science proves that doodling “allays boredom”. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Good news and bad news. Good news first: Tim Wu, the man who famously coined the term “net neutrality” and is a famed advocate for neutrality is looking to throw his hat into New York’s Democratic Primary. Zephyr Teachout, a fellow law professor and activist, asked him to be her running mate in a long-shot challenge to incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo. He is upset about net neutrality being legislated out of existence. Now for the bad news: Cuomo has challenged the petitions that Wu needs to get on the ballot, saying they are invalid. Now he’s raising money to fight the legal distractions. [The Verge]
- Ben Sutton delivers a fabulous overview of the Museum of Biblical Art’s show “Back to Eden”. The show looks like a weirdly sexed up creation myth, with Biblical-themed work by Barnaby Furnas, Sean Capone, and Alexis Rockman. Looks like a must-see. [Artnet News]
- Oh, God. “Art Everywhere” is the world’s largest art exhibition, putting art on “as many as 50,000 digital and static displays in all 50 states”. Lots of people seem to believe that art’s ability to communicate is amplified by volume. [ArtDaily]
- The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is lending out a lot of their masterpieces in exchange for dough. That’s prompting some criticism—what if the work gets damaged while on the road? Not sure why this is such a no-no if the program exposes more people around the world to great works of art. [Boston Globe]
- 53,000 applications were filed for a mere 89 apartments in East Harlem artist-focused subsidized housing. [Hyperallergic]
- Crocheted dicks. [Huffington Post]
Tuesday Links: Edenic Art and Dying Print
by Paddy Johnson Andrew Wagner Whitney Kimball on August 5, 2014 Massive Links
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