- Hot times, summer in the city. Due to an air-conditioner outage and temperatures expected to be in the nineties, the Brooklyn Museum will be closed this weekend. [New York Times]
- Eric Shiner, the director of the Warhol Museum, will be leaving to join Sotheby’s. He has held the position since 2011 and will now be Senior Vice President of the new Division of Fine Art. [Artforum]
- Frieze is getting shorter next year. Organizers say that the 2017 edition will only be four days rather than the usual five in order to reduce the burden on galleries. Ben Davis reports on the various factors going into the decision. [artnet News]
- Jeffrey Deitch has officially announced his plans for reopening the 18 Wooster St. location that was previously home to Deitch Projects. The new/old space will kick off with a series of performances by Eddie Peake that will run September 8-10th and it will not be running on a standard gallery model of representing artists. Despite the very public and acrimonious conflicts that were part of his time as head of the LACMA, Deitch says, “I rented the Wooster Street gallery to the Swiss Institute for five years, and figured that would cover my journey to Los Angeles. I always intended to come back.” [The Art Newspaper]
- In advance of its official 2020 opening date, The Main Museum of Los Angeles is offering public programming through “Beta Main”, a sort of preview of what to expect when the new institution opens in its official digs. [Los Angeles Times]
- The Second Avenue Subway’s 86th Street station is going to feature huge mosaics by Chuck Close. This is good news if you’re a Chuck Close fan, I guess. [Curbed]
- Fairphone—the Dutch phone manufacturing startup that hopes to make the electronics industry less evil—is getting attention even from The Wall Street Journal, print bastion of capitalism. [The Wall Street Journal]
- The Guggenheim’s exhibition Åzone Futures Market is essentially an exchange for a new cryptocurrency developed collaboratively. Even after reading this twice, I’m still not sure what this means. Is the message behind all these artist forays into financial markets that no currency makes sense and the economy is totally arbitrary? [Hyperallergic]
- Memes generated by an AI are the best memes. Meet Shitpostbot 5000, the internet’s least self-aware content generator. [Geek.com]
- Brooklyn’s Trestle Gallery is seeking a new Curator in Residency. [Trestle]
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