- Why does ISIS blow up archeological buildings and temples in Iraq and Syria? Turns out it’s a big cover-up for the looted art and historical objects they then sell on the international antiquities market. [The Independent]
- Sotheby’s and Artsy are collaborating on an online-only sale of contemporary art next month. With a focus on works valued at $50,000 or less that meaningfully engage with technology — confirmed artists include Richard Prince and Cory Arcangel — this marks Artsy’s first sale with a major auction house. [New York Times]
- According to this account, a Roxane Gay and Erica Jong discussion at last week’s Decatur Book Festival in Georgia was a very awkward demonstration of white feminism and the denial of privilege. [The Guardian]
- The reviews are starting to roll in for the Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s sprawling, politically-tinged Istanbul Biennial: Adrien Searle calls it a meditation on “the “ongoing tides of human misery”, Amah-Rose Abrams praises Bakargiev for properly capturing the city’s long history of emigration and asylum. (Not mentioned: whether or not the press kit was a repeat of Documenta 13.) [The Guardian, artnet News]
- Christopher Stout Gallery is opening on Meserole Street in Bushwick with a “program of showing subversive and difficult art.” [Hyperallergic]
- Is there any headline more nauseating than “Meet the Art Dealer to Billionaires Who’s Making Collecting Cool Again”? [Bloomberg]
- Right-wing vandals have struck Anish Kapoor’s controversial “Dirty Corner” at Versailles with anti-semetic graffiti. Kapoor doesn’t want the piece to be cleaned. He will “not allow … intolerance to be erased.” Why? [artnet News]
- Jacob Appelbaum, Edward Snowden confident and Ai WeiWei Seven on Seven collaborator, has his first solo show opening in Germany this week. This fascinating interview offers an interesting take on the history of surveillance in Europe; Appelbaum calls the holocaust Europe’s “first big data project”. [we make money not art]
- Who wants to go to Mars? We might be a few years from making those trips happen, but you can sign up to have NASA will put your name on a chip and send that to Mars. Not quite the same thing is it? [NASA via: @corinnakirsch]
- The best parody Instagram account we’ve seen: Socality Barbie. This account places a hipster Barbie in various scenes—coffee shops, mountains, bars that have antlers hanging on the wall—applies the perfect filter and voila. It’s the captions that really make the account though. Under one shot of Barbie on a mountain the text reads, “It’s been such an amazing experience being able to travel all over and use my photography to impact people’s lives. Seriously can’t believe how many mountains I’ve climbed and beautiful views I’ve captured.” [Wired via: Metafilter]
- What day has the largest number of openings and where are they concentrated? A useful graphic shows us that some what predictably, this Thursday will be the biggest night. 79 shows open that evening, most of them in Chelsea. Wednesday and Sunday are the big nights for the Lower East Side with 29 and 20 shows opening respectively. [ARTnews]
- VICE journalist Mohammed Ismael Rasool, along with two colleagues, was arrested in Turkey on terrorism charges while covering the violent conflict between the Turkish government and members of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party. The other two journalists have been released and are back in London. Here, they make a plea for Rasool’s release. [VICE]
- Valid #BackToSchool thought: “if sedentary lifestyles are killing us, if sitting is the new smoking, why does education continue to be about sitting still in class?” [@JesseHirsh]
Tuesday Links: Art Cool Again Thanks to Miracle Dealer
by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on September 8, 2015 Events
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