by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on April 29, 2013
- A tumblr dedicated to shots of art being installed is way better than it sounds. [installor.tumblr.com]
- A rather disturbing Teddy Bear operation. [Ze Frank, Youtube]
- Transart, the Unschool Art School is promising a debt-free MFA on re-title.com. That claim is misleading though: What they actually offer is a “debt-free” payment plan. [Transart]
- Statue of Liberty gets facial recognition software to detect people’s race from a distance. The company that installs this is literally called “Total Recall.” [Slate]
- Weather is once again blamed for bursting Paul McCarthy’s giant inflatable dogshit sculpture, the latest in a series of shitty mishaps for this work. :/ [GalleristNY]
- Creative Time gets an ad in the form of a feature on Anne Pasternak in the NYTimes Style section. It’s for their upcoming benefit this Tuesday. [NYTimes]
- Who green lighted this New York Times fluff piece on the gender disparity in art collecting? Judith H. Dobrzynski surmises that, while it’s tempting to blame the high proportion of bigtime male collectors on the distribution of wealth, men make the big purchases, loudly, because of the “hunting instinct.” (As proof of women being quieter, she points to Alice Walton’s not naming the Crystal Bridges Museum after herself…unlike, say, Peggy Guggenheim? Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney?) This is anecdotal, but the flea market has no such gender lines. Men also have more money. [NYTimes]
- Try proving you’re a human now. [Crapcha]
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