Museum Workout
- Workout at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass of the Barnes Dance Company. This sounds so cool—and the video is a hoot— but I don’t suppose the Met has change rooms and showers? Classes run through February 12th. [NPR]
- An article that satisfies curiosity: what artists do as their side jobs. I wish they’d spoken to Lisa Schilling. She’s a food stylist and the master of what’s called a “cheese pull” in pizza commercials. [ARTnews]
- Six artists living in the US who now face uncertain futures thanks to Trump’s travel ban. [artnet News]
- 2016 shows an uptick in the violation of artist rights. [Hyperallergic]
- Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss their top five shows in Austin and Houston. [Glasstire]
- An interview with Theaster Gates. Love this closer, “I think that the problem is that in the absence of a certain kind of black leadership, we fight each other instead of fighting the system. And I want to implicate myself in this: I cannot afford to just be an artist in this moment. I have to use my art and my brain to try to imagine solutions not only for the museum, but for the city — for black people. I can’t afford to lock myself in the studio.” [Culture: High & Low]
