by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on July 31, 2014
- Harun Farocki has passed away. We’ll have our write up on that later today. [artnet News]
- The Bank of Canada needs a better fact-checker, and quick! The wrong mountain was named on the country’s $10 bill. [The Globe and Mail]
- So many journalists have taken up talking about art funds as if they were entirely new. Jori Finkel, writing for The Art Newspaper, went digging through the Getty’s archives to tell a compelling story about the first successful art fund, organized by AndréLevel. Good job, Finkel. [The Art Newspaper]
- Michael Kimmelman’s riposte to the Frick’s proposed expansion: “The Museum of Modern Art’s demolition of the American Folk Art Museum building…is probably what finally tipped some invisible scale of public tolerance against the culture of market capitalism and arrogant growth. The city’s truest anti-MoMA, the Frick becomes the latest front in a larger battle to prevent nonprofit outposts of civilization from falling prey to the bigger-is-better paradigm.” [The New York Times]
- A very cool job opportunity: Pelican Bomb, a contemporary art blog in New Orleans, is hiring a full-time managing editor. [Pelican Bomb]
- How long can politically minded arts organizations like Creative Time continue to bat off positions on issues like gentrification and the BDS movement? Yates McKee offers a thorough analysis of the political dilemmas of art after Occupy. [Waging Nonviolence]
- Corgis sleeping. [Imgur]
- Frieze London announces the fair’s performance section: “UNITED BROTHERS will present a dilemma to visitors, by offering soup cooked by their mother using vegetables grown in Fukishima.” So, you either eat the soup, or refuse in case you’ll get radiation poisoning. Not a bad outgrowth of relational aesthetics. [Frieze]
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