- The art market is a fickle, frenetic creature. Maybe it always has been? Historian James Hamilton, author of the new book A Strange Business: Art, Culture, and Commerce in Nineteenth Century London argues that we might understand today’s art economics better by looking at the triumphs and failures of the business of art in the past. [History News Network]
- Can’t wait to talk about what rich people are buying this week. The contemporary auctions began yesterday at Phillips and will run through Thursday. Phillips brought in just over their low estimate of 64 million with 66.9 million. Josh Baer described the results as in line with the quality of the work. [The New York Times]
- A retrospective of the late Martin Wong’s work is presently on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. This seems to be in keeping with the trend of nostalgia for the grittier pre-Giuliani city at so many institutions and galleries—or at least for representations of it. Wong’s paintings are full of dilapidated buildings, seedy hotels, and even some kissing firemen. [ARTnews]
- Here’s a painting of GOP Presidential hopeful, Ben Carson with Jesus. [The Guardian via Hyperallergic]
- Mayor Bill de Blasio has a new plan to speed-up evictions of NYCHA tenants with criminal records. Under the new policy, public housing residents will be evicted two weeks after being arrested. This sounds like a horrible idea that might leave little room for appeals and will likely exacerbate the city’s homelessness crisis. Given the NYPD’s history of unlawful arrests and racial profiling, this is likely going to hurt more vulnerable people than protect low income residents from “dangerous criminals”. [Curbed]
- ArtPrize Dallas has been cancelled. The event, which invites residents to vote in a public art contest anyone can enter has been wildly successful in Grand Rapids. However, Dallas, which would have held its first event in the spring of 2016 had troubles. Executive director Ariel Saldivar cited fundraising issues as the problem, but the letter announcing its closure does little to hide Saldivar’s bitterness about the process. Was there was more going on behind the scenes? Saldivar writers that “despite the visionary understanding of our supporters, there were a few who saw the concept as threatening to the status quo.” [MLive]
- Mélanie Joly, the new Liberal Minister of Canadian Heritage says that she will double the Canadian national arts budget from 180 million to 360 million, thus restoring the cuts to arts funding by the Conservative Party during their tenure. [CBC]
Monday Links: Ben Carson in a Bathrobe. Ben Carson with Jesus.
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on November 9, 2015 Massive Links
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