A photo from the Tumblr ourpublicprivates next to a photo from a New York Times profile on Mike D’s townhouse.
- Someone is using Beastie Boy Mike D’s uniquely-styled Cobble Hill townhouse as a set for Tumblr porn. [Gothamist]
- Oh! Apparently the Tumblr couple are art lovers as well. Here’s a sort-of-SFW post with photos of their bums in the impressionist gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ourpublicprivates]
- There is a really strange modernist floating McDonalds abandoned off the coast of Vancouver. Someone please buy/steal this for us so we can have the coolest office/studio/party house in the history of art/maritime fast food. [She Budgets]
- The Internet is abuzz with conspiracy theories surrounding the Bilderberg Conference, a secretive meeting of the world’s most rich and powerful in the Austrian countryside surrounded by armed guards. When I looked for a reputable news source to find out what this is really about, I found this uncharacteristically sensational BBC video… so I guess we really should be getting ready for the New World Order takeover. [BBC News]
- Dasha Zhukova, founder of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow on the institution’s new Rem Koolhaas building and the Russian public’s softening skepticism about contemporary art. [Bloomberg]
- Canadian PM Stephen Harper visited the Vatican. He and the pope talked about the environment and the abuses of Canada’s indigenous population in Catholic boarding schools. [CBC]
- A German artist who goes by the name “1010” has painted a massive crater in the périphérique, the loathed beltway that separates Paris from its working class suburbs. [designboom]
- Ai Weiwei is having his first solo exhibition in China since his 2011 detention by the state. [International Business Times]
- If you’ve ever wanted to own a Tracey Emin, now is your chance. The artist will be selling artwork priced under £1,000 out of the trunk of a car. [Event Magazine]
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With all of the excited articles pouring in about the Garage Museum, none of them seem to note that Dasha Zhukova’s husband (the 12th richest man in Russia, according to wikipedia) is very, very involved with Vladimir Putin and his government. The stated “changing attitude toward contemporary art” is utterly apolitical jargon. She should be understood as the ventriloquist dummy of a government that’ll detain you for doing a lame performance with a sewing machine or put you in jail for dancing to rock music.
How are these articles more or less than western journalism and art criticism doing PR work for a corrupt, incestuous and oppressive regime?
Thanks for bringing that up. I had no clue about Dasha Zhukova, but I guess we should all assume that anyone with influence in Putin’s Russia is somehow in bed with him. Did you see that we covered Nadya Tolokonnikova’s ordeal today too? http://artfcity.com/2015/06/12/today-pussy-riots-nadya-tolokonnikova-was-detained-by-police-for-performance/
Yeah and I appreciate that. I think coverage of the museum and her being detained belong in the same sentence.
could you maybe tone down the porn on this site? every day theres something overly sexual and its fairly disruptive as i am using this website as part of my classroom materials (11th grade)
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