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by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on December 16, 2013
The European Crystal Chandelier Store (Image courtesy of Bowery Boogie)
- Woot! W.A.G.E. (Working Artists for the Greater Economy) is throwing a symposium to brainstorm and write policy for getting artists paid by non-profits. [W.A.G.E.]
- Departing Mayor Michael Bloomberg will take his administration’s policies on the road with a new global consulting corporation; he’s recruited more than a dozen aides from the current administration, including Kate Levin, the Department of Cultural Affairs commissioner to advise other cities on how to be like New York [The New York Times]
- Squirrels: Why are they here in our parks, staring at us, seeing right into our hardened city hearts? Escaped pets. [Gizmodo]
- The Boston Globe comes out with its five-month-long report on the Boston Marathon bombings. What results is an engrossing peek into the lives of the Tsarnev brothers, though I say that with reservation; the piece frames the family’s problems as some epic tragedy, with the pressure-cooker bomb being like Chekov’s loaded gun that finally, inevitably goes off. Then there’s a problematic series of sentimental watercolor portraits based on photographs from the suspects’ lives. [Boston Globe]
- Asher Penn: Curator, artist, Sex-publisher, and now entrepreneur! Available Works is the latest website for selling art over the Interwebs; artists, galleries, and “sellers of all kinds” can sell art online, and there’s a social media function to it, too. Sounds like some mix of Saatchi, ArtStack, and even eBay. [Available Works]
- Real estate prices have not peaked, though the climb has officially reached the Lighting District. The Crystal Chandelier store has closed, and the landlord is now charging $18,000/month for the storefront space. What’s next? The Bowery Boogie thinks nightlife. [Bowery Boogie]
- It looks like Holland Cotter got around this year. His year-end roundup spans Shanghai, Venice, Philadelphia, and New York. Detroit gets a mention, with some actual advice: “If it proves that the worst seems about to happen, the art world should get itself out to Detroit en masse and put its communal spirit to good use: Form a human circle around the building and, in one voice, just say no.” We’ll take that suggestion literally. [New York Times]
- Here’s another human circle opportunity, and it’s happening in just a few hours! A group of scholars include Pulitzer Prize winner Edmund Morris, and music critic and arts editor Annalyn Swan, filed a second lawsuit against the New York Public Library to prevent it from ripping out the stacks and replacing them with Internet access. Edmund Morris’s affidavit makes an especially good case for why this is a threat to our intellectual future (he’s a historical writer, and has researched a large portion of his books there). “[I]f the current administration goes ahead with its announced intent to replace the solid stacks with the vacuousness of public space, we will sadly a depository with a greater sense of historical responsibility.” Go to cheer him on today at noon at the 42nd street library, or tomorrow at 11 AM at 60 Centre Street, Room 341. [Save NYPL, via @savenypl]
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by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on December 6, 2013
The only NADA slideshow that matters.
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by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on December 6, 2013
The best and worst of Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, in photos.
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by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on December 6, 2013
- “It’s really a gay program, is what it is.” Art advisor Thea Westrich gives some surprising descriptions of galleries she likes at ABMB, like Matthew Marks. [T Magazine]
- A good samaritan has offered the Detroit Institute of Arts $5 million to protect the museum’s collection. This is nothing to help cover the city’s $18 billion in municipal debt. [AP]
- Christie’s just released the monetary evaluation of DIA’s collection; its “fair-market value” falls between $452 million and $866 million. $450 million is the amount of aid the U.S. sent to Egypt in 2012, the settlement amount of Mel Gibson’s divorce, and the upfront cost of getting a gold mine up and running. [Detroit Free Press]
- Here’s a Christmas tiding to warm the heart: unemployment is down to 7 percent !!!!!!!!!!!!!! If that’s an accurate number, then it means we’re on our way to economic stability. Felix Salmon gives a tentative thumbs up. [Reuters]
- Expensive paintings don’t make for better paintings; but it is good to know that collectors can sometimes feel okay about buying work by female artists. A large painting by the late Joan Mitchell reached a hammer price of 3.1 million Euro at the Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale in Paris. [Baer Faxt]
- It is not okay for a female CEO to call her underlings employees “Penis.” Not even “Mr. Penis,” mind you—just “Penis” for a first name. How rude. [Daily News]
- Our Color Wheel series is relevant as ever. Pantone has announced its “color of the year.” It’s purple. [Paris Review]
- Noah Gallagher from Oasis sounds like an idiot and an asshole. In an interview with Rolling Stone he whines about prettymuch everything and slams Arcade Fire for coming out with a double album he’s never heard. “Who has the fucking time, in 2013, to sit through 45 minutes of a single album? How arrogant are these people to think that you’ve got an hour and a half to listen to a fucking record?” What’s the point of anything? Why bother making music, or art, or literature? [Rolling Stone]
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