Melissa Eder understands color.
- The Björk stops here: “I Liked the Björk Show at MoMA, Haters,” writes Julianne Escobedo Shepherd. Rather than continuing to berate the show’s curator Klaus Biesenbach for filling MoMA with mannequins, Shepherd actually describes some of Björk’s newly commissioned work, specifically her 10-minute video, “Black Lake.” Not many people were able to sit down amongst the crowds of viewers and actually watch this footage of Björk emerging from the iridescent lava caves of Iceland. According to this reviewer, “Björk has given birth to herself.” [Jezebel]
- “The 10 Most Talked About Art Essays for February 2015” are worth talking about. February’s officially over, so now’s a great time to look back and load up your Instapaper. Ben Davis draws our attention to some of the best art thinkpieces of the month, including “Towards a Theory of the Dick Pic” by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, in case it didn’t send the first time. [artnet]
- “Radical Color,” a new online exhibit of photography curated by Jon Feinstein and hosted by Humble Arts Foundation is good enough to be somewhere besides just the internet. Actually, it’s simultaneously on view at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland. Photography is a physical backup of light. Why not back it up to the cloud? [HAFNY]
- Zackary Drucker announces a funding campaign for the Flawless Sabrina Archive, and Vice profiles Mother Flawless Sabrina herself, “wend[ing] through the last fifty years of American history like a queer Forrest Gump.” And yes, she did know William Burroughs, Edie Sedgwick, and Jackie O. [Vice]
- Islamic State militants can’t decide whether to smash or sell off all of the ancient Iraqi and Syrian artifacts they come across during a typical day of looting. Apparently their monetary value can be traded in for propaganda value, via an exchange called: smashing things. There’s this new video of some guy knocking a priceless mask off the wall with a sledgehammer. If you break it, you can’t buy it. [New York Times]
- “How Iraqi are you?” asks Hayv Kahraman’s second solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery. Her paintings draw from Maqamat al Hariri, a 12th century text about 12th century everyday life in Iraq—that and photographs of herself. If you want to see ten Hayv Kahramans depicted holding hands in a circle, please do. [HuffPo]
- How American are you? Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan are getting a Museum. Except it’s in some Brooklyn couple’s apartment hallway. [Blouin Art]
