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by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on April 29, 2016
- Andrew Russeth loves the SFMoMA building, but reports that the initial hang is uneven and full of blue chip art by white men. [ARTnews]
- This is the best Prince video I’ve seen on the net since his death. Sheila E is amazing. [Youtube]
- Carolina Miranda visits the Met and reports on the museum’s annual rooftop commission, this year by the overrated artist Cornelia Parker. Parker has recreated the creepy house from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Miranda seems to have had a reasonable time, but concludes that the house Universal Studios recreated for their studio tours does the job better. [Culture: High & Low]
- Good grief. Here is an astonishingly ornate carpet made of paper. [Colossal]
- This is a Canadian art world listicle I can get behind: “10 Indigenous Artworks that Changed How We Imagine Ourselves.” Richard William Hill launches a monthly column based on research for a book, making a compelling argument that 1980s-1990s works by artists like Shelley Niro (see above) and others gave a much-needed contemporary dose to Indigenous representation that subverted the expectations of art audiences. I would also argue this coincided with a huge cultural equity overhaul in the Canadian institutional funding system. [Canadian Art]
- Are the stolen art scandals finally catching up to Geneva? Not according to the Art Market Monitor’s Marion Maneker who takes issue with what he calls Bloomberg’s “scare mongering non-story”. The title, “Art Collectors Quite Scandal-Hit Geneva”, and content suggests that over the past six months, art collectors have been pulling their works from Geneva’s free port storage facility in response to the charges of money laundering and tax dodging. But Maneker notes that Bloomberg’s very own reporting tells us that, in fact, very few collectors have pulled their work from said storage. [Bloomberg, Art Market Monitor]
- Normally, we don’t link to recipes here, but this one comes with a headline we can get behind: Best Eaten Alone With No Pants: Kimchi and Spam Fried Rice. [Serious Eats]
- Oooh. Livecam season is beginning! In NYC there’s a livecam tracking two falcons on Water street that are about to hatch five baby falcons! [WNYC]
- Creative Capital’s 2016 Arts Writers Grant Program is now accepting applications. Deadline is May 18th. [Artswriters]
- According to new research published by the Freelands Foundation, only 25% women artists scored big solos at London’s major museums from 2014-2015. Depressing, but not surprising. It appears, however, that female philanthropist-driven initiatives are having impact, like the New Museum’s Artemis council, or London-based collector Valerie Napoleane’s Valeria Napoleane XX programme. [The Art Newspaper]
- “Aren’t we beautiful? Where are you from? I hear Toronto! I hear Puerto Rico! I’m from the earth! From my mother’s womb!” A dispatch from Denver’s annual Women Grow conference, which connects and supports women in the weed business. [Jezebel]
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by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on February 29, 2016
- Brazilian artist Ana Smile has pissed off Catholics by repainting religious figurines as pop culture characters like Maleficent or Batman. [Dangerous Minds]
- There’s a nonprofit in San Francisco that hires drag queens to read to children in libraries. [SF Gate]
- In other Bay Area news, Google’s weird AI has its first art exhibition. Should we all be bracing ourselves for more terrifying psychedelic dog landscapes? [Wired]
- When a new pigment hits the marketplace, all bets are off. Last year, it was the accidental discovery of a new blue pigment by chemists at the Oregon State University. This year, it‘s vantablack, and it looks like Anish Kapoor has already rained on the parade by buying the exclusive rights to a black so pure it’s absorbs 99.96% of light. This has pissed off other artists — does a blue-chip artist really deserve exclusive rights on a pigment? — and one of them, painter Christian Furr, is already planning a whole series using the shade. [Daily Mail]
- The Hnatyshyn Foundation has launched a new awards program that will give 150 cash awards totalling $1.5 million to Indigenous artists in 2017. [Canadian Art]
- Gerhard Richter has penned an open letter decrying the closure of the Museum Morsbroich near Cologne. The German institution, frequently named the best museum in North-Rhine Westphalia and has hosted shows in the past by artists like Yves Klein, Rosemarie Trockel and Richter himself, is closing as part of municipal cost-cutting measures. Worst, it appears the city wants to sell the museum’s collection. In his letter, Richter rightfully states that “a public art collection is not a financial investment that can be plundered depending on the cash situation. It is a piece of art history and represents the cultural memory of its trustees.” [The Art Newspaper]
- Institutions around the world are deaccessioning pieces at a breakneck speed. This can help museums pay off debts from expansion projects, but is also “the cultural equivalent of burning the furniture to heat the house”. [Maclean’s]
- Who knew 10cc’s “The Things We Could Do For Love” could be used as the soundtrack for an animated musical sequence on chapters 19-40 from the Book of Exodus? This comes from Nina Paley’s upcoming animated film Seder-Masochism. [Vimeo]
- Tilt Brush is a VR drawing/painting program that looks like it’s probably so much fun to use that I’m afraid to try it. Here, the writer says we’re waiting for a maestro of the medium. Based on our experiences at DiMODA, I think it’s Jacolby Satterwhite. [The Verge]
- The Met has made at least one signage change that people might like: the “recommended” $25 admission will now be “suggested”. [The Guardian]
- Art world headline of the day: Why Casey Jenkins is vaginal knitting your online abuse into art [ABC News]
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