Hans Ulrich Obrist gets a New Yorker profile, with the subheading “The curator who talked his way to the top”. In a nutshell, yep. More on this after I actually read the piece. (This was just published). [New Yorker]
OH COME ON. A video of the cronut guy now unveils his latest invention, a “frozen s’more”. “If you push yourself beyond what you know, you always end up with something unique and special.” Cue footage of the s’more on a stick. Phillip Niemeyer, you have work to do. [New Yorker]
Holy shit. Shia LaBeouf was raped in an art gallery by a crazy woman during his performance “#IAMSORRY”. [Vulture]
Holy shit. Piers Morgan calls LaBeouf “pathetic” for coming forward, and accuses him of lying, on no basis. [Twitter via The Independent]
Ben Fino-Radin is working on a “massive” JODI project in Rotterdam, two years after their retrospective at the Museum of Moving Image, curated by Michael Connor. [Twitter]
Ebola is sweeping Sierra Leone, “with the number of cases quintupling in Freetown alone in the past two months”. [The Guardian]
An ancient device used to calculate astrological motion, and created in around 60 BC, is described as a “forerunner to computers”. It had over 30 gears. [IFL Science, via Carla Gannis]
The online art seller 20×200 has a Cyber Monday sale! Patrons who spend over $100 get 30% off. [20×200, via Corinna Kirsch]
Plus, there’s our own Cyber Monday sale. Any donation over $50 earns you a panda pasties print. We’ve only got 75 of these puppies, so donate now. [Art F City]
Overworked Thai farmers are taking meth to keep working.[Al Jazeera, via Marina Galperina]
Lindsay Howard’s exhibition “C.R.E.A.M.”, at Art Micro-Patronage, examines a few approaches to the problem of monetizing net art. I, in turn, am going to examine “C.R.E.A.M.”, in entirely too much detail. Let’s talk about net art.
Thomas Demand’s “public art” project includes putting photographs inside hotel rooms. Putting art above hotel beds isn’t exactly public art. [The Art Newspaper]
Tomorrow night, net art pioneers JODI will premiere a hyper-hybrid performance/dance/mobile app. If you want participate as a performer, i.e. shake around, you’ll need an iPhone 4; otherwise, you’ll just have to sit back and watch like the rest of the plebes. [Rhizome]
Robert Smithson, like Donald Judd, wrote some amazing art criticism in his day. Smithson’s criticism is cranky; he calls people out for their “bovine formalism.” [Art Agenda]
Jackson Pollock is so famous that correspondence between his family members has been published in a book. No surprise, the letters are totally boring. An example of Papa Pollock’s bland chestnuts of wisdom to his son, Jack: “[B]e fully awake to everything about you.” [Brain Pickings]
Why have we waited until 2012 to have presidential-themed condoms? [The Daily Intel]
Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch, which is forever cursed to be known as “formerly Max Protetch”) has a new director: longtime Marlborough director Eric Gleason. We’ll wait to see if there’s any massive overhauls to Gleason’s new gallery, similar to the rebranding he did at Marlborough at the end of his term there. [Artinfo]
What’s the worst thing that happens to you after you die? Your FBI records become public. [Gawker]
Museums are still suffering economically. In this letter, a curator begs the city’s finance director not to fire her. [The Daily Norwalk]
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