- Chicago-based artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has created 3-D portraits of Chelsea Manning using biological data taken from Manning’s DNA. The work is being shown right in Davos as part of a V&A exhibition in collaboration with the World Economic Forum exploring technological advances. [The Art Newspaper]
- The Met has a long, weird history of cluelessness about modern art. Now, there’s a way-overdue cultural sea change ahead of the new contemporary wing’s opening. [The New Yorker]
- Gentrification strikes again, this time in Dublin’s Smithfield area. Higher rents are pushing out arts space Block T, leaving about 120 artists, designers and developers without space. [Dublin Inquirer]
- Related: Gentrification is ruining London’s once-famous nightlife. [Vice]
- Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish, collectively known as Hotel Art, just installed a guerrilla show in a Far Rockaway ATM vestibule. [ARTnews]
- James Franco has volunteered his “painting skills” for a new charity drive. If you donate $10 to AIDS prevention nonprofit (RED) in the next day, you will be entered in a drawing for a free trip to sit for a portrait by Franco in Los Angeles. [Facebook]
- POSTmatter’s editors file a dispatch from London Art Fair, and notes the large number of new and emerging international galleries showcasing installations tapping into digital culture. Highlighted artists/projects include Jacob Applebaum’s surveillance photo portrait series at NOME Gallery and Furtherfield’s presentation of their Play Art Data Money video game. [POSTmatter]
- Vilnius, Lithuania is getting its first museum of contemporary art, with a focus on the late-and-post-Soviet eras. The building is being designed by Daniel Libinskind and funded by the private sector. [Yahoo News]
- One of Canada’s most influential art dealers, Av Isaacs, died last week. He founded the Isaacs Gallery in 1961 which became one of Toronto’s leading commercial spaces, representing artists like Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland and Greg Curnoe. [Canadian Art]
- I love this story. Mark Grotjahn got over an artistic rut in the 1990s by exchanging paintings of handmade signs for actual signs from small businesses around LA. These are on view at Karma Gallery until February 7th. [Vulture]
- Ferris Bueller’s bedroom has been recreated for the Gladstone Hotel’s Come Up The My Room art and design exhibition in Toronto. [CBC]
- Chicago’s Field Museum has brought out of storage half of the bronze sculptures created by Malvina Hoffman. Originally unveiled in 1933 as part of the “Races of Mankind” exhibition, the works were hailed at the time as “the finest racial portraiture the world has yet seen”. They works were pulled from display in 1969 because of its problematic ideas around genetics and racial types. They are now part of a new exhibition re-addressing Hoffman’s legacy and “the vexed history of dubious scientific ideas” her works were positioned within. [New York Times]
- Good news! Right-wing climate-change-denier David Koch has resigned from the Museum of Natural History’s board of trustees! [ARTnews]
- LOL! There’s a luxury concierge festival to ferry and pamper rich hippies to and from Burning Man. I’d love to see how the 1% of “the gift economy” live. [BoingBoing]
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