- David Bowie’s art and design collection is heading to Sotheby’s. This is the first time the legend’s collection has been made public, and it’s a treasure trove. Bowie collected mostly 20th century painters and designers, including Basquiat and Duchamp and a 60s stereo system from Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (above) that looks straight out of A Clockwork Orange. [BBC News]
- Dennis Cooper’s blog, which he has kept since 2002 and is considered an important piece of experimental literature, has been deleted inexplicably. Google deleted both the author’s Blogger account and Gmail, erasing over a decade of work including an incomplete animated GIF novel. It’s terrifying that corporations now control the fate of so much cultural output and can erase it on a whim. [ARTnews]
- “Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11” opens September 12th at The National September 11th Memorial Museum. The exhibition will be the museum’s first foray into curating art rather than historic artifacts. [The New York Times]
- Ryan Mendoza purchased two more homes in Detroit for an artwork. This time, the facades are lit with LEDs in bullet-sized holes that spell out “CLINTON” and “TRUMP.” This sounds dumb. [Detroit Free Press]
- The City of Miami is considering legislation that would make developers set aside a percentage of a building’s construction budget for on-site artwork or pay into a public art fund. The city of San Francisco attempted a similar program, but recent reports indicate this has just lead to a lot of artwork in building lobbies and relatively little cash in the public trust fund. When given an option, the private sector tends to put “public” art where it has the most benefit to themselves. A mandatory contribution to neighborhood public art funds is a far better idea. Besides, do we really want developers curating what our public art looks like any more than they already do? [Miami Herald]
- Yale has asked the state attorney to drop charges against Corey Menafee, a dishwasher employed by the university until he was fired for shattering a historic stained glass window depicting slaves. [artnet News]
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