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- Isn’t this a depressing summary of today’s competitive culture, and the corresponding pressures and expectations loaded on the next generation? “Children aged between three and five are DRAGGED across the finish line by Austrian mums and dads desperate to see them win kids race.” [Daily Mail]
- Vienna’s Essl Museum, a private institution that has a collection of over 7000 works from the Austrian postwar period, will be shutting down on July 1. After years of being privately funded by the Essl family — which runs a chain of DIY stores, Baumax, that have suffered financial difficulties — the institution was forced to shut down after the Austrian government refused to contribute to its operating. [Artforum]
- Donald Trump has a long history (or lack thereof) with the arts, from rejecting a Warhol commission (it wasn’t color-coordinated to Trump Tower’s lobby) to calling Chris Ofili’s Madonna “degenerate stuff.” All that being said, I’d imagine the arts in America would fare worse under Cruz. [ART News]
- Photographer Helena Price is on a mission to prove that Silicon Valley employs people other than white and Asian tech bros. [The Guardian]
- Calvin Tomkin’s Ragnar Kjartansson is getting a lot of play, especially for its candidness about the economics of his practice, and how the video art his gallerists are selling is then used to fund the durational performances and collaborations. The sales of his videos, sold limited edition, fetches the Icelandic artist an annual income of $150,000. While this pales in comparison to the top tier blue chip money painters get, that’s still pretty good for a video artist to get. [New Yorker]
- Well, it’s a smart Record Store Day content farm, at the very least: art critic Howard Halle reviews the LP covers of the limited-edition vinyl pressings. [Time Out]
- A Swedish supreme court has ruled against Wikimedia, claiming images of public art are not public domain, but belong to the artists who created the original works. Would a policy like this in the US make “Cloud Gate” selfies illegal? That’s the silver lining of this otherwise terrible decision. [Hyperallergic]
- From June 28-September 29, New York’s Public Art Fund will launch an exhibition in City Hall Park inspired by the Walter Benjamin essay, “On language as Such and on the Language of Man.” The group show will include the first public artwork by Tino Sehgal. [Blouin Artinfo]
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