Helen Toomer, director of PULSE, aligning stripes with Victor Vasarely
- Who to follow for the art fairs: Robin Cembalest and Katya Kazakina have the best picks from the ADAA and Spring/Break art fairs. Both events opened last night. Also of note: an incredible Victor Vasarely painting from Helen Toomer and a freaky, evil clown mixed-media from Wesley Stokes. [Instagram]
- Be on the lookout for Artrunner.com. It’s the online exhibition complementing Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, a veritable Who’s Who of digital art darlings (Cory Arcangel, Josh Kline, Seth Price, and Tabor Robak among them) and their forefathers and -mothers (Frank Stella, Louise Lawler, and Richard Prince). We’re intrigued, but it could be a real mess. Launches on March 12, 2015. [Galerie Max Hetzler]
- Ben Davis goes to the Björk show first and calls it like he sees it: “MoMA has laid a colossal egg.” [artnet News]
- I still really want to go to this book launch for Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else on Friday—with all of these great people we already listed in this week’s events post. When did curating take over your art world? [Cabinet]
- Jeff Koons admits to being patriotic. All this and more from Corinna Kirsch, reporting on the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies. [The Art Newspaper]
- An account of what I wish were my recent trip to Cat Island. It’s worth noting the caption on the sixth image down from the top: “A clowder of cats on the wharf.” [The Atlantic]
- Very excited to read dis new issue from Dis Magazine on big data. So much to read, with plenty of artist projects too—from glass-breaker Addie Wagenknecht to Trevor Paglen, who’s literally sent art to the moon. [Dis Magazine]
- For the serious geeks only: IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities is currently accepting abstracts on the future of digital methods for complex datasets. [Dr. Jennifer Guiliano]
- France is not like the United States. Yes, that is quite an understatement. And this latest episode in French museum politics proves just that: France’s Secretary General, Serge Lasvignes, has been appointed head of Paris’s modern and contemporary art museum, the Centre Pompidou. [Art Media Agency]
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her dress looks like the kickass LED display @ ryder ripps’ Alone Together show!
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