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by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 16, 2015
- The Pratt Show has been canceled. The 30-year-old annual juried exhibition for graduating seniors was axed by administration. Pratt students and faculty have created a petition letter, for what’s being called the #bringbackprattshow campaign. [Change.org]
- An amazing Tumblr studying the appearance of algorithms in popular culture and everyday life. [#algopop]
- Find all your Modernist art needs in the latest eBay corner, “All About Yves.” Exhibition posters, prints, collectibles, even the 2012 limited-edition Yves Klein Euro (yes, this happened) are up for grabs. Ebay might come under fire for failing to vet its artworks. For $190,000.00, you can purchase a nude Yves Klein bust that comes with a “lifetime exchange certificate.” Just in case you change your mind. [eBay]
- A sign of the “haunted-house market, where a new scary event lurks around each corner”: Sotheby’s, the only publicly traded auction house, will not be paying a special dividend to shareholders until they find a new CEO. [Wall Street Journal]
- Over the years, so much has been written about the late Francesca Woodman that it seems nearly impossible to find a new approach to her work. Critic Paige K. Bradley did, however, in her write-up of the artist’s current show at Marian Goodman. Cheers to that. [Artforum]
- The Museum of Broken Relationships. [Collector’s Weekly]
- Pixelated hair is a trend. [Bored Panda]
- “The image used by Prince is not the first photograph of a Rastafarian to land the appropriation artist in legal trouble.” [Hyperallergic]
- Here are a few artists who are using ASCII and other techniques to publish art on Twitter. [The Atlantic]
- David Carr’s syllabus “Press Play.”<3. We’ll be spending a good chunk of our day pouring through articles we have yet to read. Essential reading for any journalist. [The Medium]
- SpongeBob: Most-photographed image from Mexico City’s Material Art Fair. [San Francisco Art Quarterly]
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by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on May 22, 2013
- The Whitney Museum has a new cheeseball logo. They’ve also redesigned the site. That much, is a considerable improvement. The site however, loads slow. [The Whitney]
- Museums for everybody! Abba gets one, so what the hell, Paula Deen Museum. [LA Times]
- Paul D’Agostino interviews the Bushwick Open Studios [BOS] organizers about what’s in store this year. Most of it reads like PR, but we weren’t aware of BOS’s CinemaSunday programming, so it’s worth a read regardless. Apparently there will be a screening for the “”The Pizzatrope,” a how-to guide for combining early animation techniques, gifs, and pizza.” [The L Mag]
- The IRS is unhappy with Glafira Rosales, the Long Island dealer who sold abstract expressionist paintings many now believe to be fake to Knoedler gallery. Knoedler closed two years ago, when they received their first lawsuit over the authenticity of the paintings. Now Rosales is charged with falsifying tax returns and failing to disclose a foreign bank account to the IRS. [In the Air]
- BREAKING: Complex reports that Pratt’s giving its hundreds of resident cats the boot this week, prompting an outcry from nearly 1700 community cat lovers on Change.org– to no avail. Two cats have been granted amnesty. The hundreds of others will live with the school’s engineer Conrad Milster. Keep the cats. [Change.org, Complex]
- GIF inventor Steve Wilhite used his life time achievement award speech time at the Webby Awards to let the world know he’d like us to pronounce the file format as he intended, “JIF.” Us GIF nerds have known this for years—it’s on the Wikipedia page—but I don’t think even a high-profile speech is going to turn this boat around. “GIF” makes more sense. [Animal]
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