by Paddy Johnson on January 10, 2014
Good morning and rainy Friday greetings. We wrote about the MoMA redesign yesterday afternoon, but we’re already exhausted by the topic. On to bigger and better things: Butt Pudding and Mickey Mouse!
- This twerking Japanese Butt Pudding can be purchased on Amazon Japan. [Food Beast]
- Disney asked Damien Hirst to make a painting for a charitable auction for Kids Company. The world now has its first dot Mickey. [Hypebeast]
- Apparently Chris Christie did something that got him in the news…[The Internet]
- A timely video on the stealing of memos, reports and internal correspondence that provided evidence that J. Edward Hoover’s F.B.I. was targeting “the New Left”. [Retro Report]
- Martha Schwendener writes a killer review on the Richard Serra show at Gagosian, describing the work as successful in commanding the gallery’s large spaces, but also an oversized icon of our times. They are Modernism on steroids. [The New York Times]
- Artists are now having drinks named after them. This one, from Tribeca’s Distilled, is called Richard Serra. [In the Air]
- This Time Light Box feature on the Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina after they were released from prison looks like a fashion shoot. Weird. [Time via Animal]
- Sutton PR, will plunge into the New York art waters with PR agent Jennifer Joy at the helm. [Gallerist]
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by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on January 7, 2014
Tuesday morning greetings. Time to bundle up! The Times reported temperatures of 4 degrees. That’s not gonna instantly turn boiling water into snow, but, you know, wear layers. And if you’ve got a spare coat, donate it to the New York Cares Coat Drive. They’re reporting a severe shortage of coats this year, and in this weather, people can’t afford to go without them.
- It’s really cold out, so now we can declare this global warming fear mongering “bullshit”. Ah, Fox News, where would The Daily Show be without you? [The Daily Show]
- It looks like MOCA is out of the woods, having met its goal to raise its endowment to $100 million and hopes to raise it to $150. It has yet to appoint a new director. [LA Times]
- Jerry Saltz is gonna be on Girls for an episode. [BlouinArtInfo]
- VICE has suggestions for making British art more interesting. High on the list: NO NEW AESTHETIC. [Vice]
- Brooklyn real estate by the numbers. What do we learn? Architect Karl Fischer designed an astounding 50 new buildings in Williamsburg since 2002, making his vision and aesthetic for buildings the most dominant in the neighborhood. Also, Bed-Stuy is on the rise. [New York Magazine]
- James Elkins has published an excerpt from his book North Atlantic Art History and Worldwide and asks, “Is art instruction global?”. The argument here is that homogeneous art instruction is a bad thing. I get that, but shouldn’t some basic instruction look pretty similar? What’s wrong with that? [Google docs]
- Here’s an n+1 podcast for us; the latest looks at art world inequality and social practice. [n+1]
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