- Helen Marten has won the 2016 Turner Prize for her assemblage sculptures. This win seems to be attracting more criticism than normal. ARTnews editor Andrew Russeth took to twitter to say Anthea Hamilton was robbed. And on the conservative end of things, British MP Michael Rove complained that Marten’s work did not live up to the prize’s name. [Hyperallergic]
- Oh man. Artsy landed an interview with Ivanka Trump (Update: The post is from three years ago.). Nominally, the point was to ask her about her art collection. (She likes Cy Twombly and Christopher Wool, and a bunch of young male artists too—Wade Guyton, Nate Lowman, Alex Israel, Dan Colen, Joe Bradley). The larger point of the interview seems to be brand schilling. She fluffs up the Artsy name, which she claims democratizes art thanks to the accessibility of masterpieces and then talks about her new lifestyle brand projects. “There is a lot of synergy between the Ivanka Trump brand and the Trump Organization and our goal is to continue to enhance that for the consumer.” [Artsy]
- Andrew Uroskie review of Chrissie Iles “Dreamlands” exhibition at the Whitney is a bit hard to follow, but there are some smart nuggets. For example, he sees the show as an attempt to test cinema’s transformation of modern perception and subjectivity and identifies three enduring themes: the dissolution of a sense of place, the changing character of documentation, and the transformation of the self through the creation of alternate phantasmatic realities. [4columns]
- A fire in an Oakland warehouse killed at least 36 people, many of them artists. The artists were occupying the building illegally and there’s been some speculation that the blast may have been started by an electrical fire. The residents had been priced out of the San Francisco Bay area. [The New York Times]
- Listen to Hrag Vartanian’s three part series on Standing Rock, where thousands of water protectors and their allies have congregated to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. [Hyperallergic]
- This is handy: A holiday tipping guide for your building staff. [Curbed]
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