- Joseph Keckler will be chatting with Lisa Levy between 2-3 pm on Radio Free Brooklyn about his work as an opera singer and the AFC Goth Opera benefit. Tune in. [Radio Free Brooklyn]
- The Artist Studio Affordability Project has spent years promoting the Small Business Jobs Survival Act, and New York’s City Council still can’t manage to pass a bill that is unilaterally in the interest of New York City residents. Kirsten Theodos helpfully breaks down all the bullshit arguments against this bill, and explains why it should be passed. [The Villager]
- The impossibility of managing entry into foreign countries aside, let’s see cities come up with zoning for Clouds Architecture Office latest proposal—a high rise suspended by an asteroid that circles the earth. Large drones could help people get in and out of the building, the firm says—or simply parachuting down. Um, sure. This is less a dream than it is a PR stunt, (which we have dutifully linked to). [Curbed]
- Contemporary art is more popular than ever in US Museums. Now, more than 50 percent of temporary exhibitions launched showcase contemporary art. That’s a significant shift—20 years ago, Impressionist shows ruled the land. [The Art Newspaper]
- An interview with Whitney Biennial curator Christopher Lew about the Dana Schutz controversy and the Biennial as a whole. [artnet News]
- More on the debate over the Fearless Girl sculpture that is placed facing a bull in the financial district. Critics, including Hyperallergic’s Jillian Steinhauer, think the sculpture makes a disingenuous statement. “If you’re talking about a financial company that has a history of fraud and screwing people over, a lot of those people are going to be women…If you think of feminism as a larger project of empowering women across all classes, not just women on Wall Street, it’s kind of bullshit for them to be putting up this front of, ‘Oh, we love women. We want women leaders.’” I guess, but I’d say this is better than what the alternative this criticism would seem to suggest—a sculpture depicting the exploitation of women by financial companies. No one is going to rubber stamp that, so they might as well lead by example. [Campaign Live]
- On Kawara’s One Million Years (Reading) will launch at the Venice Biennial this year. The piece involves a pair of people reading from a two-volume book by the late artist that lists, in chronological order, one million years into the future and one million years into the past. They need volunteers. [ARTnews]
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