by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on October 31, 2016
- “Utopia” is the theme of this year’s London Design Biennale, and people are looking to “the global south” for inspiration. In the Chilean booth, for example, there’s the Star-Trek-like control room from a 1970s attempt to build a nation-wide proto-internet for then-socialist Chile. It looks even cooler than it sounds. Too bad the CIA overthrew their government and the project never came to fruition. [Dezeen]
- Here’s the surprisingly-entertaining backstory of a once-controversial public sculpture in the Capital’s Judiciary Square. If you’ve ever wondered why there’s a golden statue of a naked woman with a deer amidst the District’s stern-looking monuments, here’s why. [The Washington Post]
- Walking around Savannah College of Art & Design, one would never guess the college was only established in 1978. That’s because Paula Wallace, who founded the institution, had the foresight to buy up a bunch of Savannah’s then-dilapidated historic buildings to create a campus. [Curbed]
- Here’s one “charity” Donald Trump has actually given money to: the National Museum of Catholic Art and History… even though he’s not Catholic, and according to this post, the “museum” might be a scam run by the mob? What? [Wonkette]
- For the Wes Anderson fans in the audience, there’s a new show of Wes Anderson inspired art at Spoke Art. Most of it looks terrible. [Geek]
- So tempted to make a trip to Pittsburgh for the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hélio Oiticica retrospective. It sounds awesome. [Vogue]
- Remember how the subject of how curators had become the art world’s new power brokers dominated all art conversation five years ago. Well now that ArtReview has named curator Hans Ulrich Obrist the art world’s most “powerful person” the Times seems to have caught on. In 2012, ArtReview named curator Carolyn Christov-Barkargiev the most powerful, but I guess she didn’t count because Obrist? Anyway, it’s 2016, curators are hot, and the Times is ON IT. [The New York Times]
- Ok, this headline/subheadline is pretty outrageous-sounding: “Amid Zika Scare, Art World Insiders Fear Discrimination While Planning for Miami Fairs: Welcome to the new reality for the art world’s most seductive fair.” But there’s a very real fear that pregnant art world workers might face employment problems this year. [artnet News]
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