- Yesterday, almost immediately after we published a piece in which Whitney Kimball states “I think it’s safe to say by now that plants are no longer a trend; they are a medium (except for potted palms)” the Mexico City art center/residency Casa Maauad posted the above image on Facebook. It’s titled “They are these or they may be others/ #PLANTS (2015) Meme digital” from Cristina Garrido, whose exhibition “Un acuerdo tácito” opens there later this month. The plant invasion is real. Even potted palms. [Facebook]
- Continuing their “Making it in New York” series, WNYC asks “Are Artists Abandoning NYC?” The answer: yes. And also, no. Plenty of artists are decamping for cheaper places, but the city’s artist population just keeps growing as new waves of debt-saddled art school grads arrive to pay more and more, replacing the disenfranchised who leave. What a depressing cycle. [WNYC]
- Yesterday, revelations leaked from an investigation into Michael Jackson’s child molestation charges included the discovery of animal sacrifice photos, weird porn, and drugs started trending across social media. And also art books. Apparently the police were concerned that MJ was using images from artists including Jake and Dino Chapman, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley, Elizabeth Peyton, Takashi Murakami, Larry Clark, Rineke Dijkstra, Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince, Gilbert & George, and others to “groom” young boys by exposing them to explicit material. [Hyperallergic]
- Tomorrow, Terence Koh will be broadcasting the names of Orlando shooting victims into space, as part of a performance at Andrew Edlin Gallery. What if this is the first evidence of life on Earth an alien civilization receives? [Observer]
- Okay, this blog post is from 3 years ago, but I’m reposting it because I just saw it and I wish it had been required reading in art school. It’s a pronunciation guide to artists’ names. For example: “Ugo Rondinone – OO-go Ron-di-NO-nay”. God, this is so useful I’m surprised there’s not an app for that. [Artspace]
- The man who made Ashlee and Jessica Simpson has a new creative endeavor: photography. Meet Joe Simpson, the pop stars’ father who picked up his old hobby after his divorce and now has a terrible-looking show in a Los Angeles gallery. Dear LA: things like this are the reason it’s taken so long for the East Coast to take you seriously. [Format]
- Washington art incubator CulturalDC sold its downtown office space, including the home of Flashpoint art gallery. That means there will no longer be a single gallery left in “Gallery Place”. Oops. [Washington City Paper]
- I’ve mentioned before that I really love the new Tate Modern addition by Herzog & De Meuron. Now, you can watch a time-lapse video of its construction, which is insanely hypnotic. [Dezeen]
- Le Consortium, a nonprofit art space I’d never heard of in Dijon, France is apparently the secret carreer-making venue for tons of famous artists. [The New York Times]
- HaeAhn Kwon, the lone holdout student still enrolled in the trainwreck MFA program at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design, has withdrawn. That means the school successfully alienated and lost an entire year of students. [Los Angeles Times]
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