- Here’s your Monday morning duckling! [Imgur]
- Tips on how to keep your art-filled marriage hot, and tips on what to do after the divorce: “‘The love of art grows exponentially after the appraiser’s report comes in,’ especially if items have grown in value, says Dallas-based lawyer Ike Vanden Eykel.” [Wall Street Journal]
- Inappropriate use of “post-internet” art alert! [The Daily Beast]
- Roberta Smith discusses Emma Sulkowicz’s “Carry That Weight.” Sulkowicz was raped in her Columbia dorm room in 2012, and until the man who attacked her leaves the school, she will carry a mattress with her everywhere she goes on campus. [The New York Times]
- Jerry Saltz believes that Tino Sehgal has a monopoly on child actors in an art piece, claiming that Allora and Calzadilla’s new exhibition at Gladstone “borders on plagiarism.” The article reaches a crescendo of ridiculousness in its final lines, as Saltz decries the work “not art”, but someone’s idea of other people’s art. Labeling a work derivative should only require one line—if it’s a problem it is simply evidence of a common or weak idea—it would have been good to have read a critique of the work on its own terms. [Vulture]
- The High Line’s final leg of construction comes to an end, and lo, Michael Kimmelman praises its view as a “heartbreaker,” a tour de force spanning more than just the Hudson River. Kimmelman doesn’t just revel in aesthetics; he brings up the entire bumpy past of the High Line, from corporate funding to a boom in condominium development along the High Line. [The New York Times]
- The People’s Climate March drew an estimated 311,000 demonstrators in New York yesterday. The climax of the march is described as a moment of silence that occurred early afternoon pierced by a whistle followed by hundreds of thousands of marchers whooping and yelling. [The New York Times]
- Yes, many people waiting in line for the new iPhone 6 were not buying it for themselves. Filmmaker Casey Neistat focuses on the “Chinese mafia” who were grabbing up the phones this weekend. [Gothamist]
Monday Links: Make Way for Duckling
by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on September 22, 2014 Massive Links
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