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by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on July 13, 2017
- A sign that really rich people are getting richer: the public spaces in their new condos are decorated with art by the latest up and comers. These are the kind of stories that make me want to poke my eyes out. (Who cares if rich people buy things and why do they always have to buy the same things?) [Artsy]
- A round-up of the nation’s “best” glamping opportunities. I had no idea Glamping was so expensive. Keep in mind you’re basically sleeping in a tent but one that rents for as much as $1500 a night. In New York, that price comes with an increased chance of getting lyme disease. [Curbed]
- The Tate Modern has put together a show of black American art made in 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and it’s now making waves. [Reuters]
- Something about this Joel Mesler confessions column reminds me of The Awl’s “The 40-Year Old Reversion” a story about privileged Park Slope mothers who do drugs, drink too much and cheat on their husbands. Mesler is looking back at a life riddled with anxiety, compulsive spending and regular blackout drunk binges, but then, as now, he does so through the lens of an upper middle classer. His problems are and were real, but are also clearly cushioned by cash, and it’s hard not to begrudge that. (It’s worth noting that the Reversion story is infinitely better, because it attempts to get beyond the experience of one person.) [ARTnews]
- Amazon has filed a patent for underwater storage and fulfillment facilities. I’m a little skeptical that this plan is anything more than a PR stunt. They claim the facilities would help counteract “inefficient use of space”, because, um, what? It seems like management of an underwater space involves far more logistics in terms of getting stuff in and out of the depot. We’d like a Jeremy Bailey response to this please. [Dezeen]
- Google’s doodle today honors Eiko Ishioka, on what would’ve been her birthday. The late Japanese visual artist has won a Grammy and an Oscar in her career as an art director and costume designer. [Al Jazeera]
- Las Vegas is still waiting for its much-delayed art museum. In the meantime, galleries have taken to staging large-scale exhibitions as pop-ups in warehouse spaces. Now, the team behind the city’s forthcoming Art Museum at Symphony Park are trying to make some permanent gallery spaces out of old warehouses. [Las Vegas Weekly].
- As galleries continue to drop like flies in New York and London, gallerists are looking to alternate models. Some are doing nomadic programming in other galleries and splitting costs/proceeds, some are doing pop-ups, online businesses, house shows, and even using a boat as an exhibition space. [The Art Newspaper]
- Someone beheaded a statue of the Hawaiian sea goddess on the grounds of the Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo. The sculpture by Fred Soriano is valued at $15,000 and the artist says it can be restored if the head is recovered from the thieves. [Ledger Enquirer]
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by Michael Anthony Farley on April 7, 2017
- Las Vegas is trying for a contemporary art museum… again. The city has had two art museums come-and-go in recent history. [Las Vegas Review Journal]
- Choreographer Ann Carlson has found herself in the crosshairs of conservatives over her seemingly inoffensive project “Doggie Hamlet”. The piece involves dancers, sheep, and sheep herding dogs. It admittedly sounds extremely silly at first glance, and of course the Right Wing is pissed that some NEA funds went into its production (by way of New England Foundation for the Art’s National Dance Project). Dance critic Gia Kourlas weighs in on the debate. [The New York Times]
- The Wildensteins, the eccentric and controversial family of art dealers, have sold their UES townhouse/former gallery for $79.5 million. That’s now the most expensive house ever sold in New York City, which makes sense, because you would have to be both disgustingly wealthy and totally insane to spend that kind of money. [Daily Mail]
- Speaking of insane and wealthy: Damien Hirst’s Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable has to be one of the oddest, most ambitious projects we’ve ever heard of. Hirst has spun the tale of a freed slave, who 2000 years ago became an art collector. His ship sinks, bringing all of his treasures with it. Hirst has spent somewhere around £50 million on the show—fabricating gold and bronze “antiquities”, dumping them in the Indian Ocean to patina, and hiring boatloads of divers to retrieve them for exhibition in Venice. [BBC]
- Artica Svalbard, a residency program in the icy northernmost extremes of Norway, has announced its first batch of artists: Carlos Casas, Oddvar I. N. Daren, Lars Palgaard, and Mette Henriette. These lucky four will get to live out their Fortitude fantasies, hopefully avoiding polar bear attacks and vitamin D deficiency along the way. [ARTnews]
- In yesterday’s links, I mentioned that London’s local governments have been scrambling to prevent a mass exodus of creatives from the increasingly unaffordable city. Here’s one of their initiatives. A House for Artists, designed by architects Apparata in conjunction with artist Grayson Perry, will provide affordable housing and studios above a community center in Barking Town Centre. Some of these interior renderings look unbelievably spacious for now-build affordable housing. [Dezeen]
- Artist Ryan Mendoza and Rhea McCauley, the niece of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, have teamed up to move Parks’ house from Detroit to Berlin. Mendoza has restored the home and is showing it as a piece of public sculpture. For now, McCauley wants the house to stay in Europe until America “grows up”. [New York Post]
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by Michael Anthony Farley on June 7, 2016
- A visitor to SFMOMA tripped and fell in into Andy Warhol’s “Triple Elvis [Ferus Type].” The museum estimates damage was minimal, but it’s been removed from display and is being evaluated by conservators. [The Los Angeles Times]
- Ugo Rondinone’s “Seven Magic Mountains,” a public sculpture comprising stacked, brightly-painted boulders, has been vandalized. It’s installed in the desert outside of Las Vegas, and predictably, someone drew a dick on it, in addition to “666” and the text “HELLA SPIDER”, whatever that means. [artnet News]
- Did the Louvre do something to piss of the Old Testament God? Just after the record-breaking floodwaters receded away from the museum, a fire broke out at a construction site on the block. The museum is planning to reopen tomorrow, pending no earthquakes or plagues of locusts. [The Telegraph]
- The town of Elgin, Illinois, has removed the Dave Powers mural “American Nocturne” from public view and into an indoor cultural center. The mural depicts a lynch mob, but was on display for about a decade before it was deemed too offensive for outdoor display. [Blogging Censorship]
- Gilbert & George, the controversy-courting queer art pioneers, are opening a nonprofit art center in the East London neighborhood where they’ve lived and worked since 1969. [The Art Newspaper]
- Andrew Russeth identifies the trend of nearly-empty, cavernous exhibition spaces, beginning with Andrea Fraser at The Whitney. [ARTnews]
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by Corinna Kirsch on November 6, 2014
- Rejoice, for artful economist Felix Salmon now has his byline in the New Yorker. Glad to have more of his insights on the art market’s many, many paradoxes. [The New Yorker]
- Hamster makes wee dishes, serves wee sake. Wee enjoy. [Rocket News 24]
- GULF Labor unfurls a(nother) banner inside the Guggenheim to protest the museum’s labor practices. [@occupymuseums]
- How did we miss this? Yesterday marked the first-ever Britney Spears Day, a holiday created by the city of Las Vegas. [Aplus]
- Years late to the news, the New York Times declares Ridgewood an up-and-coming neighborhood for hipsters. [The New York Times]
- Creative Time will be livestreaming this year’s summit at select locations. FOR FREE. The Vera List Center for Art and Politics will host the NY screening. [Creative Time]
- If you’re wrapping up your reading on Prospect.3 this week, don’t forget to check out Julia Halperin’s breakdown of the biennial’s demographics. [The Art Newspaper]
- Viewers complain that last week’s Doctor Who episode was too scary. [Telegraph]
- Germany’s Wiesbaden Museum wants to purchase a Nazi-looted paintings—rather than returning the work to its owners. As a money-raising strategy, the museum has begun hanging the painting so that it faces the wall. For Wiesbaden, that turnaround stunt might generate publicity; we’re not convinced that greater awareness will necessarily bring in more dough. [Tablet]
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