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by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 13, 2014
- Haven’t heard about relational aesthetics in a while? Nicolas Bourriaud, progenitor of the movement, has been anointed curator of the 2014 Taipei Biennial. [e-flux]
- The New York Times Editorial Board brings up a topic we’ve known for some time: A college education no longer guarantees financial success after graduation, creating high unemployment rates among recent grads. And while we’re seeing job growth, it’s mostly low-wage jobs that there’s more of. So now that the Times knows this, it is fact for all. [The Opinion Pages]
- More animal friends! [Imgur]
- Jesus Christ. Apparently blackface costumes are still popular in Germany. [Vocativ]
- “I think it may be that LaBeouf had to improvise after the fact in order to re-frame [his] misdeeds as an ongoing artistic statement.” Sounds about right to me. [Vulture]
- Those tired of art auction news will be delighted to hear about SellYouLater™, a site that gets rid of the verbal puffery and reduces the auction hype to stats, all in chart form. [SellYouLater]
- Artist Margaret Wharton has died. [Chicago Tribune]
- I expected to hate this list of the Guardian’s “top ten sexiest works of art ever” a lot more than I did. [The Guardian]
- Late Penthouse founder Bob Guggione’s erotically-curated art collection is being battled over by former Wall Street banker Jeremy Fromer and FriendFinder, because of Guggione’s debt troubles late in life. As for why we care? I don’t really know. [The Art Newspaper]
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by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 11, 2014
Image courtesy Tara Moore.
- Lean In has a solution to combat awful stock photos of women. With the help of the Getty, they’re releasing “empowering,” stereotype-defying stock photos. Tattooed mom holding her toddler? Check. Silver vixens? Check that box, too. [The Cut]
- Here is some lovely and rare footage of the old Penn Station to really drive home how much of a garbage nightmare the current Penn Station is. [Gothamist]
- Yuck. Plans have been hatched for another mega-museum, this time for a display of Central America’s Mayan artifacts. Nothing screams Mayan culture like an oppressive cement storage space. [Hyperallergic]
- 60 artworks have been removed from the Saltzburg home of the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, whose collection of 1,280 works includes Picassos, Renoirs, and Monets. [The New York Times]
- At Monday’s Phillips contemporary sale in London, seven out of 32 lots failed to sell with a buy-in rate of 22 percent. The night’s top sales came from a predictable gang of “you know who’s” like Yayoi Kusama, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, and Christopher Wool. Also doing well: Nate Lowman. Yawnnn. [ArtInfo]
- Klaus e_books releases Ann Hirsch’s “Twelve” on iPad after the app’s removal from the iTunes store. [Klausgallery.net]
- After a flood of empowering stories about selfies, finally we get one that’s truly a neg. The Atlantic spotlights the “selfie with homeless people” meme. [The Atlantic]
- Shirley Temple has died. [Vulture]
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by Anthony Hicks Corinna Kirsch Whitney Kimball on February 3, 2014
Brave the cold just a little longer, for we have so much art to see this week. Talks abound, from B. Wurtz on the history of sculpture to Winkleman Gallery’s panel on African-Americans in Soviet culture. We have openings, like a feminist sound art retrospective at CUNY and Greenpoint’s winter open studios night. Round out Sunday with a Genesis Breyer P-Orridge film-screening and book launch at PS1 and we’ll call it a week. Just grin and bear it.
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