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Indianapolis Museum of Art
by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on December 19, 2014
- Get into the spirit of the season with creepy, overly capitalistic Christmas commercials from the 1980s. “Taste all the ways butter helps your holidays throughout the year!” [YouTube]
- On the history of classical Roman torture in Hollywood film. [The Awl]
- Adrian Chen follows Swedish journalist Robert Aschberg, whose TV show Troll Hunter confronts Internet trolls IRL. The point, according to Aschberg: “The agenda is to raise hell about all the hate on the Net.” [Technology Review]
- Sound art 101: Know what a “gremlin” is. [Leonardo Music Journal]
- Good news for the ICA: Political activist Barbara Lee has gifted the museum with over 40 artworks, many by female, international, and politically active artists. [Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston]
- Mo’ money for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which has decided to start charging admission. [Hyperallergic]
- A little history lesson on the Shanghai art scene in the 1980s: “[a]rt from the end of the Cultural Revolution through to the mid-1990s was insufficiently modern, fashionable, and avant-garde, and was at best expressing rebellion against a restrictive social environment.” [LEAP]
- David Carr goes on WBUR to discuss the massive blow visited upon American freedom because, following terrorist threats, movie theaters unanimously decided not to show The Interview. Barely mentioned is the fact that trailers present the film as a buddy movie about a dictator who is STARVING PEOPLE, sending them to labor camps, and killing all who try to escape. Or the fact that this was not a case of government censorship but decisions made by private theaters who chose not to sell this product. But we as a nation suffer, because our comedies have been jeopardized. If the premise weren’t so ignorant, I’d put it on par with hate speech. We are a nation of assholes. [WBUR]
- Jerry Saltz complains about not getting paid. This, from the man who just weeks ago, told artists to “[g]row up. Stop feeling deprived. You will never have enough money. You will never get enough love.” [Twitter]
- A history of the candy cane reveals that they are not a “J” for Jesus, but the result of a fortuitous manufacturing malfunction. [The Smithsonian, via Metafilter]
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by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on May 24, 2013
- Stop making fun of China’s knockoff architecture. [The Atlantic Cities]
- “The contemporary art market is far ahead of the stock market at least in terms of its frothiness, but, I’m starting to see music sheets on how cheap equities remain based on a traditional, but academic yardstick like the risk premium,” writes Martin Sosnoff. So much of this sentence doesn’t make sense—what is frothiness? There are two more pages where that comes from. [Forbes]
- In the latest issue of e-flux, Martha Rosler takes on Artspeak. This “gobbledygook”, like Triple Canopy’s popular International Art English spoof from 2012, is a joke, but, for Rosler, that’s not a reason to give it the brush off: “jokes are often a cover for hostility, and the more elaborate the joke, the more powerful the hostility may be”. Also to look forward to, plenty of of piquant, Rosler-esque anecdotes ranging from restaurant menus to Gullivers’ travels, all in order to get to the sham of our current word salad. [e-flux]
- The Indianapolis Museum of Art wins a major award from the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and with it, a rebuke. Tyler Green has a great report on how the AIC’s award is meant to pressure IMA President Charles Venable into re-evaluating the targets of his cuts. [Modern Art Notes]
- The Hirshhorn’s Director Richard Koshalek resigns amidst allegations that the board was not wholly supportive of his vision. That vision spans the range of museum expansion, from “bubble” architecture by the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to large-scale projects, like a new education center and Richard Serra installation. According to City Paper’s Kriston Capps, the museum board will determine the bubble’s fate later this month while Koshalek will serve out his term through the end of the year. (Personally, we’d like to see a naming contest of the bubble before the project gets scrapped.) [City Paper]
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by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on March 5, 2013
- Across the country, the job market still sucks. In a cost-cutting measure the Indianapolis Museum of Art has slashed 11% of its staff positions. The blame has been placed on the museum’s dwindling endowment. [Indiana Public Media]
- Tyler Green then slammed Indianapolis Museum of Art director Charles Venable for laying off 21 people and then tweeting about his lunch at an “opulent Beijing eatery.” This is the type of targeted, meaningful criticism we like to see from Green. [ARTinfo]
- With Land Art, we think of art and dirt. Nicholas O’Brien, on the other hand, thinks of digitally produced work, and in his latest piece for Bad at Sports, he does a bang up job defining the difference between “place” and “space” on the web. [Bad at Sports]
- Yes, Studio 360, we are fully aware that teakettle-Hitler portraitist Charles Krafft is a Holocaust denier, but we doubt he was anyone’s “favorite artist”. [Studio 360]
- In Skate’s new Art Market Hangout, Artsy, Paddle8, artspace, and others discuss the “meaningful benefits” in the “value chain” of displaying and selling art online. It’s “greater liquidity.” Stick a knife in me, Sergey. [Skate. Temperamental link.]
- Oh man. The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) is being threatened with a provincially mandated amalgamation. Dalhousie, a behemoth university, well-known for its law program, is the looking like the most likely candidate. The school has a 17.4 million dollar debt. Over the last 40-some years, NSCAD has been a shaping force in the Canadian and American art scene. (My article on NSCAD faculty member Gerald Ferguson, here.) [Globe and Mail]
- Yesterday, Carolina Miranda tweeted gender disparity in the literary world, in pie charts. Nobody’s innocent. [cmonstah]
- Greg Allen wants you to drop him a line if you or anyone you know was in the Poindexter Gallery show in 1958-9, and have a checklist or installation photo. He’s trying to document the early history of Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased DeKooning drawing, which he believes may have been completed by Jasper Johns. [Greg.org]
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by Will Brand on March 28, 2012
- The Indianapolis Museum of Art scored a bit of a coup last year when curator Lisa Freiman was chosen to curate the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. How best to cash in? By straight-up cashing in, hiring Freiman out as an art consultant to a museum trustee. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re doing anything immoral; “immoral” would be if Freiman recommended a trustee buy up an artist immediately before they got a show at the museum. Except, yeah, that happened too. [BLOUINTyler BLOUINGreen]
- Felix Salmon has a good piece at Reuters examining the secondary market (or lack thereof) for Damien Hirst. Salmon argues that Hirst has created a market largely based around himself as seller, limiting opportunities for resale and generally acting more like Prada than Richter. The finale: “Collectors are not getting rich off [Hirst’s] work. But he is.” [Reuters]
- Wandering around Wikipedia last night, we came across some wikipromotion for Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, the artistic one amongst the Bahraini royal family. It’s a heroic biography. Read about his development of Individualism (it ends in -ism, it’s serious guys), his early interest in horses, and his time as the Undersecretary of Immigration. Listen, we’re not saying you can’t do a little self-promotion, but this is over the top. Besides which, you’re a Shaikh—there’s gotta be a better way. Remember when Phillips de Pury put on a show with Leyla Aliyeva, the daughter of Azerbaijan’s dictator? Get on board that train! [Wikipedia]
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