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by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 6, 2013
- Take a look around New York this morning. Does it look any different? No, but we do have a new mayor. [The Internet]
- Speaking of mayors, have you heard that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smokes crack? And yet, his popularity in the polls increased after a video of him smoking crack was released. At one point, there were witnesses. They’re all dead. [The Internet]
- The Dallas Museum of Art received an anonymous $9 million gift; $5 million will go toward digitizing its collection, and the remainder will fund its free admission policy. So there are ways for museums to keep admission costs free, eh, Major Museums in New York? [Artforum]
- Now that Anthony Antonellis and Arjun Srivasta have been revealed as the founders of Net Artist Daily they’ve been interviewed for DisMagazine by Nicholas O’Brien. [DisMagazine]
- We’ve grown a little weary of the breathless news stories on lost and found art, but Michael Kimmelman breaths some new life into the story of found treasures that were once the victims of Nazi looting. The article was sparked by the discovery of some 1,500 masterpieces in Augsburg, Germany. [The New York Times]
- Brooklyn Heights Cinema, New York City’s oldest movie theater, will not be given a green light to revamp its historic building. The Historic Districts Council doesn’t like the part where the current building would be demolished and made to look “more like a new TriBeCa or SoHo loft than a Brooklyn Heights building.” [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
- Vanity Fair compiles a list of the six “greatest” living artists. They polled 100 “art-world worthies” to find that the greatest consists of, for the most part, very old white men: Gerhard Richter tops the list, followed by Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, and Ellsworth Kelly. [Vanity Fair]
- Great Britain has entered into a kangaroo hostage situation. The National Maritime Museum has kept two paintings on view by George Stubbs since 1773, the first ever painting of a kangaroo and a dingo, respectively; however, these paintings weren’t actually owned by the museum, and in 2012, a buyer—from overseas!—purchased the two paintings. In the time since, the museum has rallied for “saving these for the nation,” and just this week, they received a £1.5m donation from someone who lives in Great Britain to do so. Go Patriotism! [The Independent]
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