- All the major auction houses have moved their impressionist and modern sales three weeks into November to avoid overlapping with the US election. Dan Durray reports that “Stephen Suttmeier, a technical research analyst at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, has concluded that since 1928, the S&P 500 index has dropped 2.8% on average during election years without an incumbent president seeking re-election.” [The Art Newspaper]
- Looks like Electric Objects has some competition. Introducing Meural, a display for digital art in which a simple hand gesture can change the image on view. Meural can be oriented in portrait or landscape—Electric Objects requires a hack to orient images in landscape view—but the frames themselves are a bit tacky, as is their library. They’ve got some work to do. [CNET]
- “How ballots get designed is really a combination of local election officials and what their printers can do, if it’s a print-based ballot, and what the computers can do, if it’s an electronic voting system.” says Dana Chisnell co-director of the Center for Civic Design, a nonprofit aimed at developing best practices for election materials. Good lord. [NPR]
- Weird. This is what a more accurate world map looks like. [Spoon & Tamago]
- Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith announced this morning that the auction house will post a net loss of $54.5 million for the third quarter. Only 7 percent of Sotheby’s sales take place in the third quarter, so they normally take a loss at this time, but the numbers still suck. The decline works out to be roughly 8 percent. [ARTnews]
- Ben Davis offers up a comprehensive listicle of art that “mattered” during the 2016 election cycle. If it hit a headline, it’s in this list. [artnet News]
- Developers really don’t care for the affordable housing plan as it is and activists don’t think affordable housing is gonna do much of anything. The latest: Fortis Property Group will not seek permission to rezone the site of Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, thus enabling it to build market-rate condos without any price-controlled housing for lower-income residents. [Politico]
Monday Links: The Art World Responds to Election Day
by Paddy Johnson on November 7, 2016 Massive Links
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