White supremacist yells into the camera and Shia LaBeouf shuts him down. This has been a very interesting live stream. #HeWillNotDivideUs pic.twitter.com/CqY9pLobWi
— #HeWillNotDivideUs (@HWNDUS) January 23, 2017
- Here’s a weird sentence I never thought I’d write: Shia LaBeouf screamed at a white supremacist until he fled from his livestreaming anti-Trump art project in Queens. [Alternet]
- Christo is the latest artist to join the protest against Trump in a yuuuuuge way. The artist is cancelling his $50 million installation over the Arkansas River, claiming that he no longer wants to benefit the new “landlord.” Meaning, the work would’ve been erected on federal lands, which are now controlled by the Trump administration. [The New York Times]
- A group of art professionals in Geneva has launched Responsible Art Market Initiative, a guide for gallerists and dealers to avoid artwork becoming entangled in illicit schemes. Switzerland’s massive tax-exempt freeport for artworks has caused recent scandals involving antiquity smuggling and money laundering. [Bloomberg]
- More Facebook algorithm drama. Apparently some users never saw The Women’s March in the “Trending Topics”. This is supposedly because Facebook thought they wouldn’t want to? CAN WE PLEASE STOP THINKING OF FACEBOOK AS A LEGITIMATE NEWS SOURCE? Christ, buy a fucking paper people. [NPR]
- When artist Pat Lasch asked MoMA to loan a work of hers she believed was in their collection for a retrospective at another museum, she found out it had been thrown out. Apparently MoMA classified the work as a “decorative element” and discarded it after it had deteriorated in storage. [artnet News]
- New Yorkers take note: Denver rental prices just dropped, do to the fact that the city added more housing units. We should all be protesting for more new housing, not less. [Curbed]
- Hmmm. For some reason, a Whitehouse.gov petition to save the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities isn’t collecting signatures. Some might chalk this up to a technical glitch. Others might label it “alternative counting”. [The Independent via Hyperallergic]
- Related: The UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit has downgraded the United States from a “Full Democracy” to a “Flawed Democracy.” We’re now on the same level as Ghana and Botswana on the Democracy Index. [New York Daily News]
- Awesome! Rome’s MAXXI has launched JACK Contemporary Arts TV. Goodbye Netflix binges, hello documentaries and video art binges. [JACK TV]
- London dealer Simon Lee has opened a new gallery on the Upper East Side [ARTnews]
