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Magnus Resch
by Rhett Jones on August 4, 2016
- After a year-long campaign by the activist group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Apple has replaced its revolver emoji with a squirt gun. I guess that’s progress. [Hyperallergic]
- Architects are also trying their hands at curbing gun violence. Spurred by terrorist attacks and mass shootings, a new interest in safety and making people feel safer has arisen in the architecture community. Phrases like “natural surveillance” are a little unnerving but the focus on making people feel less isolated seems like a step in the right direction. [Motherboard]
- Antiques have declined in overall value by 45% since 2002 so antique fairs are jumping into the contemporary art market. [The Guardian]
- That guy who made the art pricing app filled with stolen images and data says it will be coming back. His argument is that many of the images are user generated and that no one is calling for Instagram to be taken down. It’s true, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc are billion dollar businesses built on copyright violation. This guy’s still kind of a jackass though. [The Art Newspaper]
- Looks like Moscow’s Garage museum is putting that VICE money to use. It will expand to a second location on New Holland Island in St. Petersburg. [ArtNews]
- An inspired journalist from The Hollywood Reporter has answered the question of how tiny Donald Trump’s hands are. The exclusive information was obtained by walking down to Madame Tussaud’s and measuring Trump’s wax figure. So now, dear reader, you too can compare your hands to Donald Trump’s. They’re pretty tiny. For a 6’ 2”, 200 pound man, they’re very tiny. [The Hollywood Reporter]
- Bill Viola is set to install a second video work at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The work, entitled “Mary,” will be a companion piece to Viola’s Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) from 2014. [The Art Newspaper]
- Jens Hoffman is leaving his position as deputy director at the Jewish Museum. He’ll still handle special exhibitions and will be working with other institutions. [ArtNews]
- Photographer Jeff Wall is joining go-go-Gagosian after spending 25 years with Marian Goodman. [New York Times]
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by Michael Anthony Farley and Rhett Jones on August 3, 2016
- Magnus, the app Magnus Resch named after himself and described as “Shazam for Art”, has been pulled from the Apple Store after claims that it operates using data stolen from other art databases. I’m sick of hearing about art apps that are “the ____ for art,” but this story merits attention because Resch sent a photo of himself with a donkey to Hyperallergic with his press release. At least that’s one JPEG we can likely assume he didn’t swipe from Artsy’s servers. [Hyperallergic]
- Professor Robert Ekelund has been studying what causes art museums to experience declines in visitors and revenue at a time when overall museum attendance is up. He finds that it comes down to three factors: audiences want more contemporary art, billionaires are buying up all of the contemporary art, and demographic/social shifts mean that more people are attending while museums are increasingly under pressure to provide free admission. [The Conversation]
- Two recent studies have found that people of color “make up only 9% of museum boards and 16% of the administrators, curators, conservators and educators who make decisions about what is exhibited and preserved as culturally important.” After a review of more than a 1,000 cultural institutions, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs is dedicating $1m to diversity efforts including an increase in paid internships. [The Art Newspaper]
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning pregnant women to stay away from Miami’s Wynwood Art District due to an outbreak of the Zika virus. Basel’s just four months away. [Jezebel]
- Those afraid of Zika in South Florida will soon have more indoor room to see art, though. Miami Beach’s Bass Museum has added 50% more exhibition space without an addition. They accomplished this by reconfiguring interior spaces (remember that huge ramp? It’s gone) and enclosing the terraces, so no more great outdoor parties for Basel week. [artnet News]
- Lisa Ruyter has begun the process of transitioning into a man. Ruyter started hormone therapy two weeks ago but he isn’t sure about future plans to undergo gender-reassignment surgery. [Page Six]
- The Rio Olympics don’t seem to be going very well and now funding has been pulled for a series of public art projects that were planned to coincide with the games. Giancarlo Neri, an artist who was to be included in the project says that the cancellation has more to do with politics than budget concerns. He says that the upcoming impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff has caused many projects to be stalled or cancelled completely. [artnet News]
- Yuri Pattison has transformed the Chisenhale Gallery in London into an eerie, abandoned co-working space for some hypothetical tech startup that may or may not have gone out of business. The installation sounds uncanny and brilliantly evocative considering how little intervention there seems to be beyond creating a simulacrum of an office. [The Guardian]
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