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Arthur Köpcke
by Rhett Jones on August 5, 2016
- This little girl used face swap with her doll. Nightmare fuel. [IMGUR]
- The 90-year-old German woman who filled in the crossword puzzle Fluxus piece by Arthur Köpcke is now claiming (via her lawyer) copyright-protection for the “collaborative work” that she enhanced by completing. You really should read the full statement, this woman’s lawyer is hilarious. [Ars Technica]
- Music producer Swizz Beatz is bringing his No Commission Art Fair to the Bronx. The fair provides free exhibition space and gives 100% of profits to the artist. The inaugural edition that was held in Miami featured 35 artists and sold over $1m in art. [artnet News]
- Recently, President Obama became the first sitting president to publish an academic paper. Now, he’s published an article in Glamour about what feminism means to him. Will post-Presidency Obama become a blogger? We hope so. [Glamour]
- Rhizome is looking to hire a software curator and an assistant curator of net art. If you’re the type of person who’s qualified for that, this is a rare opportunity. [Rhizome]
- A very interesting piece about the culture and politics of the contemporary art scene in Brazil. It’s a thorough look at a place that’s going to be in the news a lot in the coming weeks. [Even Magazine]
- This is some bullshit. The International Olympics Committee has expressly forbidden press from making animated GIFs. [The Verge]
- Not one, but TWO art detective stories: The first is the story of how Arthur Brand tracked down lost masterpieces by Dali and Tamara de Lempicka. The second is a look at how researchers used a particle accelerator to identify a portrait beneath the surface of Degas’s “Portrait of a Woman.” [The Independent, The Guardian]
- Speaking of art history researchers, a new documentary that goes behind the scenes with the people who study Bosch is opening today. It looks great. [YouTube]
- Even though the museum is still facing millions of dollars in deficits and undergoing layoffs, the Met announced that its had record attendance this year. [The New York Times]
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by Rhett Jones on July 15, 2016
- The Lowline, a controversial project that plans to create a bizarre underground park in the Lower East Side, has gained its first official approvals from City Hall. For its detractors, the park represents another step towards gentrification. For its supporters, the park is a way of opening up public space in a dense area of the city. For Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, its “some crazy, smoking-dope stuff.” She likes it. [Curbed]
- Activists in Boyle Heights, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Los Angeles, want the art galleries to pack up and get out. The organizers view the gallery owners as pawns in “planners and politicians and developers” efforts to “art wash” gentrification. Some gallery owners are upset, while others are attempting to join in the dialogue. We’ll keep an eye on this story as it develops. [LA Weekly]
- A 91-year-old woman was arrested at the Neues Museum Nürnberg on Thursday. Charges of vandalism were related to the fact that she “solved” a crossword puzzle that was part of a work by the Fluxus-artist Arthur Köpcke. Something tells us the Fluxus people would like this story. [artnet News]
- The New Museum’s newest show, The Keeper, is an attempt to explore why we collect things. It’s packed, floor-to-ceiling with 4,000 objects from two dozen collections. It opens next Wednesday. The Times talks to the curators about this unusual show. [New York Times]
- Check out the convoluted history of the McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ it” jingle. It’s fascinating that even people that worked on the campaign at a high-level don’t seem to know for sure who wrote it. [Pitchfork]
- Hyperallergic breaks down some OKCupid data. Among the findings: liberal artists don’t think orgasms are the most important part of sex. It’s all about the journey, not the destination. [Hyperallergic]
- We know surprisingly little about NYC’s rat population. For instance, it’s estimated that there are somewhere between two and 32 million rats in the city. We’re just not sure. Researchers have begun to chip and surveil them, hoping to get a better understanding of how they operate. The end goal is to find more effective methods of control. [Motherboard]
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