Shelley Niro’s “The Rebel” (1991). Credit: Canadian Art
- Andrew Russeth loves the SFMoMA building, but reports that the initial hang is uneven and full of blue chip art by white men. [ARTnews]
- This is the best Prince video I’ve seen on the net since his death. Sheila E is amazing. [Youtube]
- Carolina Miranda visits the Met and reports on the museum’s annual rooftop commission, this year by the overrated artist Cornelia Parker. Parker has recreated the creepy house from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Miranda seems to have had a reasonable time, but concludes that the house Universal Studios recreated for their studio tours does the job better. [Culture: High & Low]
- Good grief. Here is an astonishingly ornate carpet made of paper. [Colossal]
- This is a Canadian art world listicle I can get behind: “10 Indigenous Artworks that Changed How We Imagine Ourselves.” Richard William Hill launches a monthly column based on research for a book, making a compelling argument that 1980s-1990s works by artists like Shelley Niro (see above) and others gave a much-needed contemporary dose to Indigenous representation that subverted the expectations of art audiences. I would also argue this coincided with a huge cultural equity overhaul in the Canadian institutional funding system. [Canadian Art]
- Are the stolen art scandals finally catching up to Geneva? Not according to the Art Market Monitor’s Marion Maneker who takes issue with what he calls Bloomberg’s “scare mongering non-story”. The title, “Art Collectors Quite Scandal-Hit Geneva”, and content suggests that over the past six months, art collectors have been pulling their works from Geneva’s free port storage facility in response to the charges of money laundering and tax dodging. But Maneker notes that Bloomberg’s very own reporting tells us that, in fact, very few collectors have pulled their work from said storage. [Bloomberg, Art Market Monitor]
- Normally, we don’t link to recipes here, but this one comes with a headline we can get behind: Best Eaten Alone With No Pants: Kimchi and Spam Fried Rice. [Serious Eats]
- Oooh. Livecam season is beginning! In NYC there’s a livecam tracking two falcons on Water street that are about to hatch five baby falcons! [WNYC]
- Creative Capital’s 2016 Arts Writers Grant Program is now accepting applications. Deadline is May 18th. [Artswriters]
- According to new research published by the Freelands Foundation, only 25% women artists scored big solos at London’s major museums from 2014-2015. Depressing, but not surprising. It appears, however, that female philanthropist-driven initiatives are having impact, like the New Museum’s Artemis council, or London-based collector Valerie Napoleane’s Valeria Napoleane XX programme. [The Art Newspaper]
- “Aren’t we beautiful? Where are you from? I hear Toronto! I hear Puerto Rico! I’m from the earth! From my mother’s womb!” A dispatch from Denver’s annual Women Grow conference, which connects and supports women in the weed business. [Jezebel]
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