- Fascinating/sad: ten illustrators discuss their work for the election, produced when they assumed Hillary Clinton would win the presidency. There’s even a GIF in there. [GQ]
- Jeff Koons is donating a giant public sculpture of a hand clutching tulips to the city of Paris, in memory of the victims of last year’s ISIS attacks. [The New York Times]
- Looking for an actually lucrative use for your sculpture BFA? People are paying big money for ultra-realistic, ultra-creepy baby dolls. [Mashable]
- Snøhetta’s plan for a pedestrianized Times Square is nearly complete. The plazas are expected to be mostly realized just in time for New Year’s Eve, the ultimate test of crowd control (awful, awful crowd control). [Curbed]
- Ever heard of the Rent Stabilization Association? Sounds like they’d support rent stabilization, but they’re really just a bunch of fat cat developers who want even more money. They’ve put out an anti-DeBlasio ad which casts a man with a thick New York accent pillorizing the major for collecting rent from tenants, but disallowing those with stabilized buildings to do the same. He even appointed committee members to the rent stabilization board. Good grief. These landlords need to suck it up. There’s hardly any affordable space left in New York. Give a tenant a chance. [YouTube]
- Speaking of rent stabilized buildings, one loophole the Rent Stabilization Association failed to point out, is an MCI, which allows landlords to make building repairs and bill their tenants for it. Now there are all kinds of reports of landlords not making those repairs. [Village Voice]
- Just in time for ABMB, the ICA Miami is finally slated to move into its new home by Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos. This is great news, because the provisional space they’ve been using (an office building owned by a museum supporter) kinda sucks as a context for art-viewing. But this new building is surprisingly underwhelming as a work of architecture. Maybe it’s subversive, on some level, to be the least-flashy new building in the Design District, overshadowed by starchitect-designed purse stores. [artnet News]
Tuesday Links: Creepy Jeff Koons Sculpture Heads to Paris
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on November 22, 2016 Massive Links
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