Monday Links: Learning to Love the Vulgar

Chris Mottalini tried out the new I-1 instant camera from Impossible Project and the MoMA design store.

“The vulgar is a version of the discerned, or scapegoat of good taste.” Adam Phillips on the exhibition about vulgarity he is co-curating with his partner Judith Clark at the Barbican. [The New York Times]

Want to keep up with the L.A. arts and culture scene? Carolina Miranda has been covering the scene for several years now at the L.A. Times for her blog Culture: High & Low. Now, she’s also penning a weekly newsletter (sign up at the bottom) filled with links to L.A. Times arts coverage and beyond that’s worth signing up for. Prior to Culture: High & Low, Miranda maintained C-Monster, a blog that firmly established her as the original links master. [L.A. Times]

After 30 years, Tyree Guyton has decided to dismantle his famed “Heidelberg Project”, a massive public artwork. The found-object installation brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to East Detroit, so many people are concerned about its uncertain fate. [Detroit News]

The Impossible Project and MoMA Design Store have partnered to launch I-1, the first new instant camera to use Polaroid technology in decades. It’s controlled by a phone app and lends unprecedented control over instant film processes. Here, six photographers test it out in and around NYC. [Curbed]

This is great news! There’s an experiment to pedestrianize Downtown Manhattan. [Wired]

When public art is a trainwreck… literally. Roger Hiorns proposal for an installation at a British train station looks like a bunch of overturned train cars, and a lot of people are not happy about it. [Express and Star]

Alec Baldwin thought he was purchasing a painting by Ross Bleckner he’d long coveted. But, he was in fact, buying another one like it, but not the same. Mary Boone, Bleckner’s dealer, insists she told Baldwin he was purchasing a copy. Baldwin insists he was misled. Now there are lawyers involved and press coverage over the dispute. [The New York Times]