- 80’s aerobics edited to Windom Earle’s Books on Tape – Super Dr. Lots of hip thrusting here. [YouTube]
- Constant Dullaart has been named the recipient of this year’s Prix Net Art, a $10,000 prize for digital work awarded by Rhizome, Chronus Art Center, and Tsinghua University Art and Science Media Lab. [Artforum]
- Developers in San Francisco must spend 1% of a project budget on the arts—either by commissioning an artwork or by contributing to the city’s Public Art Trust Fund. The problem is, nearly every developer opts to spend that money on artwork for building lobbies rather than contribute to the fund. Now, some consider the fund as a missed opportunity to address the city’s artist displacement crisis in the face of rising rents. [San Francisco Examiner]
- Oh God, Sony’s new, free streaming television service Crackle is premiering its first original content: a serial drama about the artworld called “The Art of More”. It’s about an Iraq war veteran who graduates from looting the Cradle of Civilization’s antiquities to the sexy, debaucherous life of a major auction house, where he must navigate an obstacle course of art world clichés. Seems plausible, right? [Variety]
- Good news/sad news: Paris museums reopened yesterday as details emerge about the victims of Friday’s terrorist attacks. German art critic Fabian Stech was killed in the Bataclan, as was 32-year-old French artist/professor Alban Denuit, music journalist Guillaume Decherf, 43, and the architect Quentin Mourier, 29. Moroccan architect and university teacher Mohamed Amine Ibnolmobarak, 29 was also killed in the attack on a nearby bar. [The Art Newspaper]
- Here’s more information about Fabian Stech, 51, who wrote for Artforum and Monopol, specializing in contemporary Chinese art. [Monopol]
- Relatedly, I can’t think of a more timely book than Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, by Hal Foster. It’s a collection of art criticism that contextualizes writers’ responses to artworks with events contemporary to their writing: Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, etc.. reminding us that artwork, and the way we view and write about it, is never in a vacuum. [Financial Times]
- Be still my heart! A new store, appropriately named Pigment, has opened in Tokyo. It’s walls are lined with 4,200 different pigments in glass jars along with other oil painting supplies. [Colossal]
- The tears of joy emoji — ?—has been chosen as the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year. It beat out “lumbersexual”, “Brexit” and “refugee”. [The Washington Post]
- It’s hard to imagine a better match then Will Cotton, painter of all things sweet and tasty, and Martha Stewart, the all star homemaker (and crook). Cotton painted Stewart for the cover of Martha Stewart Living this month. [Artnews]
- Getting a lot attention: How Apple is giving design a bad name. According to this article, their products are no longer easy and intuitive to use—particularly on mobile. In my experience that’s definitely true. Anyone else tried the Apple watch? Great product, but the customization needs for this thing to even work are insane. [Fast Company]
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