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- Eunsong Kim and Maya Isabella Mackrandilal call out the Whitney Biennial’s whiteness and political grey areas. They’re particularly pissed about Donelle Woolford, the fake black female persona created by Joe Scanlan, who went as far as trying to get his avatar into the Studio Museum. They’ve written a manifesto, which opens:
1. Diversity is not the inclusion of those not from New York. Diversity isn’t more white women. Diversity isn’t safe art. Diversity isn’t black bodies put on display by white artists. [The New Inquiry, h/t @PDRVelez]
- If you use the Internet, beware. A bug has made it easy for people to hack sites which use OpenSSL. Here’s a list. [github.com]
- Five reasons not to raise venture capital. (Artsy, are you listening?) [Model View Culture]
- Jean Georges: Still four stars. A glowing review, but I like Pete Wells’s tiny acknowledgement near the end of the piece, that as good as any restaurant is, “the game can always be played at a higher level”. True, for all fields. [The New York Times]
- A trove of Nazi-looted art has been released back to its current owner, the now very suspicious-looking Cornelius Gurlitt. The collection’s provenance remains under scrutiny. Oh, art news. [The New York Times]
- Basically, the best Animated GIF Site ever. [Qil.me]
- Anyone else remember Kate Mulgrew, the only female starfleet captain in the Star Trek TV series franchise? This enlightened actor is now narrating a documentary called “The Principle”, which claims that the sun revolves around the earth. The film is in part bankrolled by ultra-conservative and anti-Semitic Robert Sungenis. Mulgrew has already released a statement saying she’s not a geocentrist and was misled by the filmmakers. [The Superficial]
- Sounds like art gyms are sweeping the nation; there’s one now in Houston with memberships starting at $150/month. [Glasstire]
- United States Artists, a major arts funding group, is relocating from L.A. to Chicago. It’s unclear how much of a coup this is for the city of Los Angeles—do their 50 artist awards of 50K slant towards artists in the city? Whatever the case, Hyperallergic seems to think the loss is significant. [Hyperallergic]
