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Dakis Joannou
by Paddy Johnson on October 4, 2016
- First order of business: Hyperallergic redesigned and it looks SO GOOD. The images are huge. The design is simple. It’s easy to read. With this new website, Hyperallergic is clearly the best looking art website out there. (AFC still has them beat, though, in the wallpaper category.) [Hyperallergic]
- Good lord, this animated GIF show “Looped Dreams” curated by Rhizome and GIPHY sounds terrible, as reported by Wired. The idea, here, was to show GIFs and their physical counterparts. But Wired reporter Liz Stinson says the physical work all looks better than the GIFs. [Wired]
- Kohl’s has donated over 1.5 million to the Milwaukee Art Museum. This was reported by, get this, Fox News. [Fox News]
- David Byrne and his collaborator Mala Gaonker have put together a show called “Neurosociety” at Pace Gallery. I don’t get it. Apparently it puts neuroscience to work by testing “our ability to predict elections by judging the competence of faces” and revealing “how our sense of an object’s size depends on our sense of our own size.” Does anyone else understand this? [The New York Times]
- Museums are organizing shows for private collectors. It’s amazing how quickly things change. Remember when the New Museum launched “Skin Fruit”, an exhibition showcase Dakis Joannou’s collection and the outrage that followed? It’s hard to imagine that kind of hoo-haw over a show like that now and it’s only six years later. [The Art Newspaper]
- A summary of the New York City Hearing on keeping the city affordable to small business. I was there for part of it, and it seemed like there was zero consensus on what do about the problem. Thank-you city council members. Patricia Dorfman, from the Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce has money quote. “It feels as though a great tsunami is coming towards us: big real estate dominating the city. You’re talking about life rafts and water wings when a tsunami is coming.” [Gothamist]
Try throwing some paper planes across the world on your mobile phone. [paperplanes.world]
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by Michael Anthony Farley on February 16, 2016
- Everything I read about Whitechapel Gallery’s Electronic Superhighway show makes me feel like I’m such a loser for not being in London right now. The exhibition traces the surprisingly long history of art and technology. [Wired]
- And future curators/archivists of digital media: Rejoice! Southampton University researchers have developed a technique of storing data in laser-nanostructured quartz that can preserve your files for 14 billion years. [Gizmodo]
- Yes! DJ/writer (why is this such a popular combo?) Liz Ohanesian has put together a crash course in the best goth albums “For People Who Don’t Know Shit About Goth Music” and it is amazing. Where did this weird “Fade to Grey” video even come from? [LA Weekly]
- Jerry Saltz has some pretty choice words on the selection of not-quite-architect Joe Weishaar and schlocky neoclassical sculptor “Master Artist Sabin Howard” as the auteurs of the $40 million national World War I memorial in Washington, DC. [Facebook]
- Staten Island’s borough president James Oddo just got the last laugh in a battle with developers. Savo Brothers purchased a historic property the community wanted preserved and demolished structures and old-growth trees despite opposition. Oddo then used his office to name the new streets “Cupidity Drive,” “Fourberie Lane,” and “Avidita Place,” which translate to “Lust for wealth,” “deceit,” and “greed,” respectively. [Curbed]
- I was going to describe listicle “Secret Getaways Of The Art World’s Super Rich” as a hate-read, but it’s actually much more like reading the transcript from a SNL Stefon skit. “Greek Cypriot billionaire and collector Dakis Joannou throws annual parties and invites people onto his Jeff Koons–designed yacht, Guilty. Among his most talked about parties was a lavish affair with some 400 guests gathered around a communal table, more than 300 feet long, along a rocky path above the Argo-Saronic Gulf.” [Forbes (where else?)]
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