Liquor distilled from a piece of a Beuys sculpture.
- Three artists did a performance where they distilled liquor out of a piece of a Joseph Beuys’s sculpture, “Fettecke.” Beuys’s widow called the performance “crap and stupid.” [artnet News]
- In scary, apocalypse-y news of the day, a new study says that we’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. [USA Today]
- If you want a sense of just how hard it is to talk about the Israel/Palestine situation, last night’s “10 Days/10 Ideas” workshop was a good reminder. We hear that instead of Skyping in artist Khaled Jarrar, the event was shuffled around between venues until finally landing in a bar. Fortunately, Deborah Solomon interviewed him. [WNYC]
- Given how contentious that small event seemed to be, it’s not surprising when Christian Viveros-Fauné points out that the New Museum’s Here and Elsewhere, a survey of art from the Arab world, is “New York’s first museum exhibition of art from that region.” He thinks it’s long overdue. [Artnet News]
- Another beautifully meditative Triple Canopy piece on archived images of motherhood. [Triple Canopy]
- It’s happening: Rising rents are running even the larger dealers out of Chelsea. Casey Kaplan and Betty Cunningham join the wave, Rozalia Jovanovic reports, though others like Lisson and Gallery 303 have opted to resign long-term leases. Apparently, ground floor retail space south of Houston has gone up 37 percent in the last year. Holy. Mother. Of. God. [Artnet News]
- Rumors are spreading of a Williamsburg Shake Shack. [Free Williamsburg]
- Labour leader Ed Miliband uses the phrase “image-based politics” to describe the social media-friendly look of David Cameron’s campaign; signalling a change in style, this comes with an unflattering photo of Miliband eating a bacon sandwich. It’s reminiscent of John McCain’s smear ad comparing Obama to Paris Hilton. [The Guardian]
