by Paddy Johnson on March 9, 2016
Lorna Mills’s Midnight Moment at Times Square
Canadian artist Lorna Mills gets a write up in CBC for her Times Square billboard installation. Love this excerpt: “I’m a Canadian artist and I’ve just put a mountain in Times Square? That kind of made me laugh,” Mills tells CBC Arts, erupting with infectious laughter, appropriately enough. “We just never go wrong when we export charismatic landscapes.” True, true. Can we all talk some more about the Group of Seven, please? [CBC Arts]
The art world is a hot bed of incestuous relationships and intrigue. Some commercial galleries are complaining that museums expect them to sponsor shows that include work by artists they represent. But museums say their expenses are sky high and can’t afford to launch the shows without this support. These financial realities may explain why nearly a third of the major solo exhibitions at museums in the United States between 2007 and 2013 featured artists represented by just five galleries. As you might have guessed those galleries were the big ones: Gagosian, Pace, Marian Goodman, David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth. [New York Times]
Love this: The Rauschenberg Foundation will ease copyright restrictions on work by Robert Rauschenberg. Among other things this means royalty-free use of his images to museums and educational institutions who use Rauschenberg’s art in promotional materials. [Culture: High & Low]
Martha Tedschi, currently the deputy director of the Art Institute of Chicago will leave to take on the role of director at Harvard Art Museums. [Boston Globe]
Here’s an ostrich chasing some cyclists. Weird. [Youtube via: metafilter]
NYC is getting new buses that have been outfitted with wifi and charging ports. [Curbed]
Mayor Bill de Blasio promised an unprecedented era of transparency—he would be the first mayor not only to disclose meetings he had with lobbyists, but that all city officials in executive agencies publicly disclose their meetings with registered lobbyists. This would take place on a monthly basis. Well, we’re two years in and we haven’t seen any disclosures. So much for that promise. [Capital New York]
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by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on February 29, 2016
Do you like art fairs? If yes, you are in luck! If not, get the hell out of New York City this week. Art fairs are multiplying like Gremlins, and mutating as they spawn. We now have specific art fairs for everything: paper, video art, solo projects, Asian art, curator-driven booths, independent artists, dykes, shiny things, boring shows… there’s something for everyone.
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