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by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 5, 2016
- With the current “Making Africa” Guggenheim Bilbao exhibition and the continent being the subject of Armory Show’s Focus programme this year, there’s finally a swell of market and institutional interest in contemporary African art. But Eva Langret, head of exhibitions for London’s Tiwani Contemporary, argues that we’re in the middle of art world hype, and the pressing need for “more international exhibitions including artists from Africa without necessarily having to be about Africa or African art.” [studio international]
- Dr. Jonathan Zizmor, the famed New York dermatologist who has carpeted subways with his ads since the early eighties, has retired. [Daily News]
- In honor of his retirement, let’s watch artist Ben Coonley’s ad for the New York Underground film festival featuring Dr. Zizmor. [YouTube]
- One of Paris’s few private museums, Pinacothèque de Paris, has gone into receivership. Despite a series of popular exhibitions soon after its 2007 opening, the institution has seen its visitor numbers drop 25% in the past two years—and the recent Paris terrorist attacks has made the situation worse. [The Art Newspaper]
- Tom Morton, a contributing editor at Frieze Magazine, has created a sly New Years quiz on 2015 art world cliches. (“4) 2015’s hottest ticket was: d) An invitation to be a ‘digital artist in residence’ on an impoverished kunsthalle’s Twitter feed.”) [Frieze Magazine]
- Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting at the Pera Museum in Istanbul traces the history of human representation in Turkish art as a parallel to the country’s move toward a secular state at the end of the Ottoman era. The NYT sees this exhibition as a possibly subversive stand against Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist Party. [The New York Times]
- Filmmaker Xavier Dolan has taken Netflix UK to task in an open letter for changing the aspect-ratio of his film, Mommy: “You can crop and tweak your own shows if you want, but don’t touch me film.” [omg blog]
- Richard Prince has been sued again for copyright infringement. [The Guardian]
- Oh god, really? Facebook has been accused of censoring a photo of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue. [Artforum]
- You can now nap anywhere thanks to the invention of an inflatable sleep hoodie. [Bored Panda]
- The Monopoly Star Wars: The Force Awakens tie-in does not feature female lead Rey as a character token one can play because, you know, “spoiler alert”. (Para-phrasing the hapless Hasbro spokeswoman here.) [Boing Boing]
- Foxy Production is moving to Chinatown. I guess that’s the end of the Waterfront New York Tunnel galleries. [ARTnews]
- Print this fun 2015 icon chart out so you can study it for hours. The graphic organizes the year by month, and categories such as “it” “newish”, “moment”, “fear”, “want”, “champion”, and “things to do”. [The Boston Globe, complete graphic Phillip Niemeyer]
- The Denver Museum of Nature and Science will now allow visitors with concealed weapons to enter their museum. Artnews has published a list of museums that allow concealed weapons in their galleries. Why is this not an outrage? This blog, as of today, happily boycotts all museums with this policy. [ARTnews]
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