- Well this is depressing. Here’s a map that shows which neighborhoods in New York City gentrified the most between 1990-2014. WIlliamsburg/Greenpoint saw average rents increase a staggering 78.8%. There are only seven areas in the entire city that aren’t classified as “gentrifying” or already “higher income” and they’re all so inconveniently located. Fuck. [Curbed]
- An artwork by Staten Island high school students Meghan Callahan-Scarcella and Andrea Gonzalez has been removed from an exhibition at Susan E. Wagner High School. The pair collaborated on a photo collage of anti-rape messages written across female students’ backs. Ridiculously, the school administration claimed this was obscene and that the piece be taken down. [National Coalition Against Censorship]
- Vogue went to Frieze to photograph “street” fashion, which to be honest, was a lot more interesting than most of the art. Somehow, they missed the attendee accessorizing with stiletto boots and a newborn baby. [Vogue]
- It’s official: the top tier of the art market is contracting. Sotheby’s annual impressionist and modern sale plunged a year-to-year 61%, totalling “only” $144.5 million. Compare that to last year, when Christie’s sold just one Picasso painting for $179.4 million. This year, about a third of lots didn’t even sell. [Bloomberg]
- Meanwhile at Christie’s, at least something generated interest. Maurizio Cattelan’s sculpture of Adolf Hitler sold for $17.2 million to an anonymous bidder via surrogates on the phone. Everyone’s guessing who the lucky new owner could be. François-Henri Pinault, Christie’s owner who is opening his own Parisian museum? Perhaps Qatari Sheik Khalifa Al-Thani, who just dropped millions building his own museum to fill? [Page Six]
- Nate Freeman explains the long, surreal history of Jordan Wolfson’s latest creepy robot installation, now on view at David Zwirner. Is this thing beautiful? Horrible? We’ll have to see it ourselves, but we now know it was birthed in a Southern California industrial park that looks like an airplane hangar. [ART News]
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