- Artists and curators overwhelmingly do not support the Brexit. [Frieze Magazine]
- “If the medieval herald, a town crier, existed today, it would likely be a brand ambassador for Airbnb, or maybe a freelance creative-infiltrator shouting aphorisms about being self-made. Sammak’s works are a constellation of urban surpluses and negations, mapping out the city-as-paradox illustrating separate spaces and times the infiltrator and the native occupy. The high-rise and the nail house facilitate starkly different livelihoods for their respective occupants. Town Crier is a successful testament to the malignant practices of the gentrifier. The modern city project isn’t aesthetic revitalization, it’s disaster relief.” —F.T. Hinton on Borna Sammak: Town Crier at American Medium. This show sounds, and looks, really good. Sammak recreates candy-colored signage and detritus from a slightly more over-the-top version of contemporary Brooklyn. [aqnb]
- Douglas Coupland speculates on the future of tech, art, and the long-anticipated event horizon where they both collapse in on one another. Chiefly: what if there are no more big, revolutionary advances coming in either field? Maybe we’ll never have another moment as transformative as Warhol or smartphones. And maybe (likely) we shouldn’t be looking to Silicon Valley—whose cultural proclivities are conservative or kitschy—to define/shape the future of art. [e-flux]
- Have we reached peak think-piece-ery? Here’s a letter-to-the-editor/reply from the author (over a review of Nicole Eisenman’s new show) that is so disposed to the semantics of identity politics that the art and the artist are almost absent from the conversation. Is the reality of contemporary art discourse just listing the demographics of artists and writers and critical theory references? I can’t even figure out what this is about, except for that fact that the painter is queer and female and the author is Asian. [Hyperallergic]
- TSA New York’s annual Flat File program has put out a call for entries. Submit 4 images of small, unframed work by July 31st for the chance to be shown in the gallery in December and have your work kept on file for sale through next year. [Tiger Strikes Asteroid]
- John Reuter, a man who has been working to stave off the extinction of one of the world’s largest cameras—the 20×24 inch Polaroid camera—is throwing in the towel. He cites lack of demand. Chuck Close is interviewed for the piece and is not happy. [The New York Times]
- What kind of bullshit is this? In early June New York’s City Council passed a measure that would impose a time limit on the public review process at the Landmarks Preservation Commission—(one year for individual properties, two for historic districts). Protestors are asking Mayor Bill DeBlasio to veto the bill. [Curbed]
- Artist Jumana Jaber and her family, including her son, a dissident musician, were able to flee Syria with the help of the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund. Now she teaches at Montclair State University (and make great assemblage-paintings) and her family can be as outspoken about the Syrian regime as they wish. This is exactly the kind of story we should be hearing more of out of the crisis. Sadly, their J-1 exchange visitor and companion visas will expire and they need to go through the insanely complicated process of applying for refugee status. [PRI]
- Alissa Walker hails “The Floating Piers” in Sulzano, Italy as “Christo’s First Truly Important Work of Art.” Yes, many of Christo’s other pieces have been beautiful, but these temporary bridges could be a prototype for climate-change-related disaster relief, including a temporary bridge between Williamsburg and Manhattan during the Sandy-necessitated L train shutdown. [Gizmodo]
- Missouri is installing energy generating photovoltaic tiles along a section of Route 66. These street pavers were invented by Scott and Julie Brusaw, a couple who claim that replacing all of America’s roads and parking lots with their pavers would generate more than three times the country’s electricity consumption in 2009. Let’s hope this process goes well. [Curbed]
Tuesday Links: All In
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on June 21, 2016 Massive Links
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