Artist Alexander Taylor will be launching a Rhizome-backed project to archive .3gp format cell phone videos from the early 2000s.
- From cell phone videos and unstable programs to aging laserdisk players and archival prints of Corey Arcangel codes; read all about the surprisingly fascinating world of digital art preservation and restoration. [Fast Company]
- The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies has released a state-by-state report on projected per-capita art appropriations for fiscal year 2016. So where are an artist’s best chances of getting funding? Unsurprisingly, urban Northeastern states like New York, Maryland, and Massachusetts spend way more on the arts per person than conservative states. Though the islands have us all beat: Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands spend more money per capita on the arts than any U.S. state except Minnesota. And although the District of Columbia’s arts funding is down this year, it still spends a relatively whopping $22.30 per person on arts appropriations—more than anywhere else in the country. Surprisingly, the West Coast is about as bad as the deep south when it comes to underfunding the arts. [NASAA]
- There’s a new art historical documentary coming out on the land art “cowboys”. [Hyperallergic]
- Anish Kapoor’s sculpture at Versailles was been vandalized yet again. [Europe1]
- According to the Australian government’s radicalization kit — a counter-terrorist booklet helping teachers identify radicalized students — if you’re a green activist into alternative music, you’re a target. [The Guardian]
- Anonymous collective Laboria Cuboniks has compiled a Xenofeminism recommended readings list. [Uberty]
- Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts suffered a major flood last week that damaged a large portion of their archival holdings. [Sony Centre’s Facebook]
- On India’s undervalued modern and contemporary art market. [Barron’s Penta]
- Photos from the “rough and rowdy” 1970s Florida roller rink scene. [Orlando Weekly]
- For five years, there’s been an “art embargo” passed by the Russian government that forbids Russian museums or state archives lending cultural material to the United States. This all stems from a lawsuit by the New York-based Jewish organization Chabad in the hopes of securing artifacts it claims belongs to their people from Russian state collections. It’s a long story. Anyway, The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis found a very contemporary solution to the hurdle this presents curators. For the exhibition Faces of War: Russia in World War I, Russian scholars digitized photographs, recordings, and artifacts that the American institution then reproduced, all without breaking the embargo. [StarTribune]
- “Even as progressives, we don’t think about how to experience the universe through pleasure. And the problem is that fun and leisure have become the domain of white people. And that’s how white supremacy works.” Faviana Rodriguez and other diverse burners breakdown the overwhelming whiteness of Burning Man. [The Guardian]
- Honey Lee Cottrell, photographer and filmmaker who pioneered lesbian erotica died Monday September 21 of pancreatic cancer. She was 69 years old. [Feminine Moments]
- We have now reached the point where deskilled telecommuters are supposedly so nostalgic for IRL McJobs that they need to play a VR job simulator game. [Fusion]
- An oil painting and drawing by Francisco de Goya—collectively valued at €5 million—have been stolen from a home outside Madrid. [artnet News]
- Ain’t no drama like globe-trotting oligarchy drama! Now an American art consultant, Sandy Heller, has been subpoenaed in the lawsuit between Russian collector Dmitri Rybolovlev and Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier, who is accused of overcharging Rybolovlev. Has anyone else had a hard time following this case? Expensive art was too expensive? What? At any rate, there could be a fun drinking game where we all sip champagne every time an exotic rich people tax haven is name-dropped in the story: Frozen assets in Singapore! Jail in Monaco! Freeport art storage in an undisclosed location! Lunch in St. Bart’s! [The Wall Street Journal]
