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Kim Schoenstadt
by Michael Anthony Farley on July 20, 2017
- Israeli student Rotem Bides has generated a major controversy after allegedly stealing items from the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site in Poland for an artwork. The university has since cancelled the exhibition, and Bides may face prosecution from Poland as well as disciplinary action from the school. [The New York Times]
- The Roddenberry Foundation is giving out 20 fellowships worth $50,000 each to activists fighting to make the world a little more like Star Trek. You can apply for projects related to civil rights, climate change and environmental justice, immigration and refugee rights, or LGBTQIA and women’s rights. Hurry, applications close on July 25th! [The Roddenberry Fellowship]
- Whoa. Keanu Reeves is partnering with artists to launch X Artists’ Books, a new publishing platform that will focus on “unconventional, interdisciplinary and collaborative” print projects. [Los Angeles Times]
- The conservative Steamboat Conference is going to feature a one day pop-up exhibition of George W. Bush’s paintings in Colorado. There’s nothing particularly noteworthy about this beyond the fact that I never miss an opportunity to bring up GEORGE EFFING BUSH’S WEIRD PAINTINGS. [artnet News]
- The final U.S. iteration of Now Be Here, the photography project that documents thousands of women in the arts at the same time, will take place at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. The project is a collaboration between the NMWA, LA-based artist Kim Schoenstadt, and D.C.-based artist Linn Meyers. Female-identifying artists, curators, and gallerists in the DC/Baltimore metropolitan region are invited to participate, and can register here. [Google Forms]
- Police in Spain have recovered three out of five Francis Bacon paintings (valued at nearly $30 million) stolen in Madrid in 2015. They managed to track down the photographer who took photos of the stolen paintings when the images appeared on the market. The case is considered Spain’s largest ever contemporary art heist. [BBC]
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by Michael Anthony Farley on October 11, 2016
Anton Rodriguez
- Barbican resident and photographer Anton Rodriguez has launched an ambitious project to document every one of his 2,000 neighbors’ apartments in the famed brutalist landmark. Mostly, this makes me want to move there. [The Guardian]
- Lawyer Pierce O’Donnell is suing his business associate, art adviser and New Age spiritualist Maitreya Kadre, because they bought a painting together that may or may not be a Jackson Pollock. Apparently she keeps the painting locked up in a storage facility, and has been stymieing attempts to authenticate it. What? [Los Angeles Times]
- Jeffrey Uslip has unexpectedly resigned as curator at CAM St. Louis. His departure comes on the heels of a racially-charged debate over a Kelley Walker exhibition that many found insensitive in the context of a city with so much recent race-based unrest. [artnet News]
- Were the early 90’s an exemplary period of shoestring-budget, groundbreaking curation? Molly Gottschalk argues that the cash-strapped art world of 2016 could learn from the past, as young gallerists weathered the bursting 1980s bubble with innovating programs not reliant on speculation. Of course, rents in art capitals were a fraction of what they are today. How much freedom do non-blue-chip galleries really have when one month of commercial rent in contemporary London or New York is equivalent to what they might’ve made in a year in 1991? [Artsy]
- The Queens Museum’s new exhibition Chance Ecologies features artists considering the patches of “wilderness” that have reclaimed vacant lots around the borough’s booming waterfront. [Curbed]
- “As a serious music journalist I am proud to note that my article about Insane Clown Posse for Baltimore City Paper made it to Faygoluvers.net and now a bunch of Juggalos are trying to prove how not-sexist they are by calling me a bitch” -Lexie Mountain, on the backlash her hilarious, insightful account of a night deep inside “The Dark Carnival.” [City Paper]
- If you’re bummed you missed the group photo of hundreds of women artists at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles, have no fear. On Sunday, October 23rd, Kim Schoenstadt and assistant curator Carmen Hermo will be restaging an East Coast version of the photoshoot at The Brooklyn Museum’s Beaux-Arts Court. [The Art Newspaper]
- The Times’ Style Magazine briefly profiles Paula Cooper, who’s apparently quite the real estate trend-setter, among other accolades. [The New York Times Style Magazine]
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