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by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 19, 2016
- The above image courtesy of the Woodwork and Furniture Makers Facebook group. Lots of conversation over there about tools and techniques. [Facebook]
- A University of Luxembourg study predicts that the art market is about to correct itself in a big way. Basically, prices have escalated way beyond reason and are about to crash. [artnet News]
- The $31.8 million sale of the air rights above the Art Students League’s historic headquarters has roiled tensions between its leadership and almost 4,000 voting members. Nearly 300 members have now signed a lawsuit challenging the procedure that led to the sale, which will allow for the construction of one of the world’s tallest residential towers. While overturning the 2014 sale — which will bring in much-needed revenue for a real estate rich, cash poor non-profit — is impossible, members are angry about the League’s handling of the sale, rising administrative costs, not to mention the fact that leadership hasn’t gone public with how they’ll spend the money. [New York Times]
- A survey conducted at London Art Fair has found rising rents to be the single biggest concern among gallerists. Another related problem: lack of studio space. But everyone seems pretty confident that the British art market is doing just fine anyway. [The Art Newspaper]
- Amalia Ulman’s epic, five-month performance for Instagram “Excellences & Perfections” is heading to exhibitions in both Whitechapel Gallery and the Tate Modern. It’s a big pay-off for a project that alienated many and threatened her career. Throughout the piece, Ulman assumed and documented a vapid lifestyle of conspicuous consumption and narcissism along a script based on tabloid/reality TV tropes—all performed for the camera with no indication it was a work of fiction. [The Telegraph]
- The Kemper Museum’s current survey of new Finnish paintings is apparently very good. [Hyperallergic]
- A former Mormon has curated an online archive of rare old Mormon educational videos, and as expected, the videos are weird and amazing. “I Can Do It, Coach”, for instance, is about a Mormon track star who refuses a glass of wine from his slovenly coach (natch, in his bed). The title for another speaks for itself: “Eyewitness News at 600 B.C.” [Fusion]
- The best real estate news we’ve seen in a long time: The feds will now ID anonymous buyers of luxury Manhattan real estate in the hopes of curbing the flow of illicit money into the city. This will prevent scandal plagued buyers from using shell companies to purchase space valued at more than 3 million. [The New York Times]
- “PowerPoint is just one example of the oft-overlooked conditioning of knowledge production … Twenty-first century occasions for speech are structured by a platform that enforces the paradigm of one-slide-at-a-time.” Damn the PowerPoint and its technological determinist death-grip on our daily life! [Computational Culture]
- Great news: Dad Magazine will soon be published as a book. [The Toast]
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