Art Club 2000’s “Untitled (Conran’s I)”, 8×10”, C-print,1992-93. (Image courtesy of http://www.betweenbridges.net)
- Somebody thinks collectors buy Gap (or should want to buy Gap). [Gallerist]
- Karen Rosenberg is really excited about the fact that the Met’s rooftop garden just got a new Dan Graham pavillion– which, as far as we can tell, is an S-shaped piece of glass flanked by two hedges. Comparisons are drawn to the Gothic Temple at Stowe. Even the catalogue is “small but excellent”. We gotta see this. [The New York Times]
- Worst curatorial idea ever? The Rijksmuseum recently invited an “intervention” by the authors of “Art is Therapy”, by writer/TV presenter Alain de Botton, and art historian/philosopher John Armstrong. As Adrian Searle describes it, the result is giant yellow post-it notes telling you how to feel next to the work of Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Jan Steen. [Guardian]
- Gavin Brown has a new website. It’s even harder to navigate than their tumblr was. [Gavinbrown.bz]
- China’s “museum boom” has churned out 4,000 museums. Or, at least, large impressive museum buildings; “…setting up quality exhibition programs and finding an audience is dealt with later.” [CNN]
- If you got accepted to Cooper Union this year and turned it down, @freecooperunion wants to know about it. [twitter]
- Great discussion on Paddy Johnson’s Facebook page on the celebrity art phenomenon. [Facebook]
- The nitty gritty from Jayne Johnson, an associate director at Lehmann Maupin, on how to prepare for the Frieze art fair. [Artnet]
- Kyle Chayka, once a wee art blogger, has been covering technology all over the web lately, even with a recent cover story for Newsweek. In his latest, he writes for the Guardian about a Minority Report-like program called Creepshield, facial recognition software which identifies sex offenders on online dating sites. [Guardian]
- Oliana Lialina’s “Notes on Being a Net Artist” harkens back to the Guerilla Girls’ “The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist”. [Rhizome]
- We’re not the only ones who are tired of museums and galleries putting the bottom line before the art. Henry Stewart reminds us that Ai Weiwei still stands for something to some people, and putting his work on refrigerator magnets does not help. [The L Magazine]
- The Brooklyn Botanic Garden plant sale starts today. Brave the rain! [The Brooklyn Botanic Garden]
