- It’s a big day in Canada: Election day! Voter turn out is expected to break records and the election even made the front page of the New York Times today. Canadians, you know what to do: Vote conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper out. [The Internet]
- Further on the Canadian election tip, longtime Canadian arts journalist Martin Knelman weighs in on how all parties during #elxn42 campaigning avoided any focus on cultural issues, despite the fact that there are 671,000 cultural workers in Canada. (And the sector as a whole contributes $46 billion to the country’s GDP.) Let’s hope the — fingers crossed — minority government makes an effort to protect federal arts funding. [Toronto Star]
- “If we don’t have artists, we don’t have art.” A report from this past weekend’s Arts Gowanus rally. [Hyperallergic]
- The Daily News also reported on the protest over the mass eviction in Gowanus during GOS. [The Daily News]
- During London’s Frieze week, discussion turned to the topic of gentrification and the familiar nostalgia for the cheaper, wilder years of the 1970s/1980s—an era widely represented in the work on view. How bad is London’s gentrification crisis? Within the next 5 years, a third of the capital’s artist studios are threatened. [artnet News]
- “What comes after conflict? Art, I guess.” Right now, it appears as if Columbia’s Artbo is the best fair to attend in South America, thirty years after the war on drugs had engulfed the country. Despite the success of the fair, it appears that the recent devaluation of the local peso has led to fewer sales. [Amuse]
- How weird does the Moscow Biennial sound? Very weird. If London and New York have too much wealth, Moscow now finds itself with too little. Squatters are back, the budget-slashed biennial is exhibiting with plywood floors and sharing a bathroom with a McDonalds, and Russia’s surreal politics complicate everything. [ARTnews]
- Which brings to mind the headline “From Athens To San Juan And Detroit, The Most Beautifully Bankrupt Places To Jumpstart Your Art Career (GOLDMINE Members ONLY)” This, and other gems are available on the Tumblr ArtWet, from Artinfo’s Scott Indrisek, which is essentially The Onion for the art world. It is hilarious. [ArtWet]
- Alberto Burri’s “Grande Cretto” has been completed after 30 years. The massive earthwork is a memorial to a Sicilian town that was leveled in an earthquake in the 1960s. [The Art Newspaper]
- Are these really the ugliest dogs in the world? [Wired]
- Sounds like it be a dream to do a residency at the former home of artist Doris McCarthy, where artists can spend a month focusing on working in isolation at her 12-acre cliffside home in Scarborough, Ontario. [Toronto Star]
- Can the epic trolling that is the Renoir Sucks at Painting movement stop now? It’s getting old now. [Hyperallergic]
- A long and surprisingly sweet story about antique dildos. [Lit Hub]
Monday Links: We Want a Minority Goverment
by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on October 19, 2015 Massive Links
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