- Miley Cyrus will be collaborating with underground net artists and artist Jen Stark for the VMA’s this year, which she will host. Prediction: Jerry Saltz will write a think piece lauding whatever she does. Anyway, here’s an interview she gave to the Times totally stoned. Read it if you dare. [The New York Times]
- Stefan Simchowitz and his dealer/partner Ellis King are suing the 28 year old Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama for deauthenticating nearly 300 signed art works. As Greg Allen tells it, the Simchowitz King position sure is rich. Simchowitz claims he made his career with a Dublin show in 2015. At that point Mahama had two shows at Saatchi, a London residency, participation in DAK’ART, the largest African biennial, an announced show at The Mistake Room in Los Angeles, and announced participation in the Venice Biennale, but sure, that Simchowitz show in Dublin made Mahama. Then there’s the art itself. Simchowitz’s 300 works are drawn from a sprawling installation of jute sacks which he purchased for approximately $138,000—he has a history of buying large works and cutting them up to make buckets of money—and he’d already sold 17 of those works for $16,000 each. So, he’s already made close to $450,000, which means the suit is merely a complaint that he didn’t make 20 times his investment. Anyway, Allen suggests that Mahama flood the market with these things and devalue the work entirely. Haha! [Greg Allen]
- North Korea’s new airport in Pyongyang has all the latest technology, including an Internet room…with no Internet. It seems the room exists primarily to create the illusion of a modern airport, as the country itself allows its citizens virtually no access to the web. [Associated Press]
- Why are paintings of the baby Jesus usually so creepy? Maura Callahan investigates, and highlights some especially terrifying ones in the Walters Art Museum’s collection. [City Paper]
- In other “children in museums” news, Osaka students can dress up like poo and navigate a sewage-themed interactive exhibit that features a giant toilet slide. [CCTVNews]
- The Times publishes its second piece this week on hydration rumors. The first put to rest the myth that drinking eight cups of water a day was a necessity, the second catalogues a few high school football students who drank too much Gatorade and died. All we need now is a piece about how dehydration has been shown to lower cancer rates and the story loop will be complete. [Well]
- New York City’s taxi drivers are getting an Uber-like app to help compete with the rise of popular, more-affordable ridesharing services. [Fortune]
- Yes, this is a real headline from the BBC’s health report: “Young goths ‘at risk of depression’”. [BBC News]
- A new retrospective of Keith Arnatt’s work sparks old discussions over the art world’s historically cold shoulder to photography as fine art. [The Guardian]
- This photo essay looks more like New Orleans than New York, but “Bungalow Brooklyn” is facing many threats from development, sea level rise, and blight. The borough’s historic bungalow districts mostly date from the early 20th century as summer homes. Today, many of the tiny houses are storm damaged, squatted, or vacant as developers sit on them. The upshot? If you’re a crafty aspiring homeowner, they’re probably the only place in the borough where you can buy a home for less than $200,000. [Curbed NY]
- The mass exodus of galleries from Chelsea to cheaper digs in the Lower East Side continues. [The Real Deal]
Friday Links: Museum Poo on a Slide
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 28, 2015 Massive Links
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