Alexander Calder, “Waves,” 1973.
- Problems continue to rack up at Louise Blouin Media. The New York Post finds an anonymous source who claims Art + Auction Senior Editor Julie Baumgartner resigned over a flooding in the publication’s offices that resulted in a mold outbreak. Louise Blouin refused to pay for the clean up. [New York Post]
- Poet Charles Wright has been appointed the nation’s poet laureate. You can read one of his sad poems here. [TIME]
- Anti-minimalism artist Sterling Ruby is now a fashion designer. [T Magazine]
- Here’s your new doomsday scenario: We’re running out of IP addresses! [Ars Technica]
- Out in Marfa, Texas, Ballroom Marfa has “postponed indefinitely” its drive-in theater project. Co-founders Fairfax Dorn and Virginia Lebermann cited fundraising as an issue. It always is. [Glasstire]
- Is it okay to take Instagrams at Auschwitz? [The Awl]
- Tired of responding to texts? Set up the bell hooks answering service and let everyone you know you’re a feminist who doesn’t like to text back. [The Hairpin]
- “Can you tell me, is Petra Cortright a feminist?” asks a curator who doesn’t get what’s happening with the under-30 generation; specifically, she doesn’t understand all the hype surrounding the DIS Magazine aesthetic, citing the work’s general lack of political or theoretical awareness. In defense of the young, Artforum claims that “…the culture propelled by DIS and affiliated parties like GHE20G0TH1K felt like a life-affirming, gender-fluid, multiracial utopia.” Please point me in the direction of this utopia because I have yet to see it. [Artforum]
- Do not hire a Chinese artist to make knock offs of someone else’s sculptures—you will get your comeuppance. Real estate developer Igor Olenicoff was sued by sculptor Don Wakefield over six sculptures that he claimed looked just like his; Wakefield received $450,000 in damages. [Artnet news]
