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Kitty Scott
by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on December 17, 2015
- AFC’s Michael Anthony Farley lands the Number 1 position in City Paper’s Baltimore Power Rankings this week, beating out Democratic Presidential Nominee Bernie Sanders and Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. This may be the first time we’ve seen an art critic afforded so much influence. We approve! (Also, go Michael!) [City Paper]
- Kitty Scott, currently the curator of modern and contemporary art at the AGO, has been named the co-curator of the 2018 Liverpool Biennial. And in related news, it was announced last week that she’d be the curator of Geoffrey Farmer’s Canadian pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. [Artforum]
- “It is such a simple joy to feel the real rhythms of the city and see this perfect public sculpture, especially in an age when public space seems more and more turned by developers into private arcades for the privileged.” Jerry Saltz is a huge fan of Deborah Kass’s OY/YO sculpture, but conflicted about how mega developers are likely underwriting this new “golden age of public art”. [New York Magazine]
- A Miami art handler’s experience on that depressing hurry-up-and-wait end to the fair crazy: the de-installation. [Two Coats of Paint]
- Are we at all surprised that the big pharma collector who bought the Wu-Tang Clan album and tried to jack the price of a live-saving HIV pill has been arrested by the FBI for fraud? [Bloomberg]
- As expected, the new director of Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is playing down the censorship controversy surrounding his hiring. While Bartomeu Marí has acknowledged that the MACBA incident was a “mistake”, he’s yet to meet the demands of South Korean artists and curators to address how he’ll contend with government censorship, a big problem for South Korean cultural institutions. [Hyperallergic]
- This interview with anonymous feminist collective Laboria Cuboniks accessibly unpacks their politics of alienation and the “illogical universalism” of the White Euro-Male perspective. Occupy the centre! [Kunsthalle Wien]
- Palestinian Canadian artist Rehab Nazzal was shot by a sniper last week while doing research in the West Bank. Shot in the leg while documenting a “skunk weapon”—basically a truck used by the Israeli Defense Forces that sprays a foul-smelling mist for crowd control—she’s in stable condition. Last year, an exhibition of her work at a gallery in Ottawa’s city hall was condemned by conservative politicians and even Israel’s ambassador to Canada, igniting a public art debate. [Canadian Art]
- Nars Foundation has a year-end benefit campaign you can donate to. They are raising money for their residency program and have brought in over $1000 of their $7000 goal. [Generosity]
- Military visions of the future are terrifying. DARPA is creating vampire drones – drones that sublimate into nothing in direct sunlight. (Isn’t that what Stealth planes already do?) Other projects include an empathic system that allows robots to identify emotional states on the field, the development of super strong lightweight materials (meh, okay), oh yeah, and communicating using nothing but our brains. [IFLScience]
- In other miracle science news, red wine apparently has the same effect on the brain as an hour at the gym. I’d love to see the sample size of that group. [The Huffington Post]
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