send nudes descending a staircase
— Friedrice Nietzsche (@tinynietzsche) January 9, 2017
- “Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if you kick us all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts… which are NOT the arts!” Meryl Streep, during her emotional Golden Globes acceptance speech about the importance of empathy, freedom of the press, and how horrible Donald Trump is. Scroll down to the bottom of the linked article for a video of the whole thing, it’s worth it. Meryl Streep is a fucking treasure. [Rolling Stone]
- Over the weekend, Michael Lutin released this month’s horoscopes for the art world. These are really, really weird and oddly specific. Apparently this isn’t going to be a good month for my career. [artnet News]
- Hull, the UK City of Culture for 2017, has unveiled a massive wind turbine blade as a public sculpture by artist Nayan Kulkarni. I guess this is the kind of thing you have to experience in real life to have an opinion beyond “wow, that’s big!” [Express]
- Adam Langer argues that all the cited precedents for great art coming out of awful circumstances don’t matter much if there’s no funding for artists from Trump’s NEA. Hear, hear! [Salon]
- Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has personally removed a painting he found offensive from the Capitol building. The artwork was created by a high school student from Missouri in response to the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of the Ferguson police. Apparently Congress is inspired to act when cops’ feelings get hurt by teenagers, but not when cops kill black teenagers? [Teen Vogue]
- From gentrification and preservation battles to starchitecture and new ferries, here’s what to expect from New York’s 2017. Mostly, this list is useful because it tips you off to which affordable housing lotteries you should be entering. [Curbed]
- This story was published about 6 months ago, but it’s been trending like crazy the past few days, likely due to this headline: “Hyerim Shin questions cuteness with dog-stretching device”.[Dezeen]
- Dallas, TX digital art trailblazers And/Or Gallery has uprooted to sunny(er?) California, following a seven year hiatus. [Dallas News]
- The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Goethe-Institut have commissioned 12 artists to speculate on the future of Europe, 2,000 years from now. A lot of Brexit angst seems to be brewing. The exhibition opens next month, and looks to be an extremely strange, tech-heavy show. [The Art Newspaper]
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