- BALTIMORE! The Mayor’s Safe Arts Space Taskforce is meeting tonight. It’s so important that advocates for maintaining affordable live/work spaces come to these things. [The Mayor’s Facebook]
- Why were so many female artists written out of art history? It’s an unfortunate fact of most museum collections, but the Guerrilla Girls are making a dent in the art-historical glass ceiling. [The Guardian]
- Right, on! NADA is donating half of its ticket sales this year to the ACLU. Acronym orgs unite! [artnet News]
- Katie Alice Greer, singer of the D.C. punk band Priests and a solo artist under her initials, K.A.G., talks about why all art is political. Lots of great comments in this interview, but this really stands out, “To me, successful art isn’t someone wagging their finger at you or spelling it out on a chalkboard. I mean, maybe it is, if it’s literature or the written word. Successful art you have to unpack, because it’s interrogating you or what your idea of reality is, or what the world means, or is very beautiful or very complicated, very ugly.” [The Creative Independent]
- The city wants to build housing over top of Sunnyside Yards, the massive train yard. This would represent a huge new neighborhood in Queens, but the feasibility study, which paints a rosy picture for this new development, doesn’t include any mention of increased transit options or new hospitals. Also New York State governor Andrew Cuomo controls the MTA portion of the yard and the Feds (Trump) control the Amtrak portion. We may not see this plan come together for another a 100 years. [Crain’s New York]
- A brief (read, long and comprehensive) history of art collectives in New York City’s Chinatown. [Hyperallergic]
- The SPRING/BREAK art fair says good-bye to their old haunt at the post office, and will take over two floors of an office building in Times Square. [ARTnews]
Tuesday Links: Good Art, Defined.
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on February 7, 2017 Massive Links
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