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by Michael Anthony Farley on January 24, 2017
- Biennale de La Biche exists on a tiny island which will be swallowed up by sea level rise, along with all of the artworks. This place looks so, so beautiful. [artnet News]
- Thank you Obama! On his last day in office, Obama’s U.S. Department of Transportation began an investigation into racist infrastructure spending practices by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. This follows a suit filed by the NAACP, ACLU, and others alleging the Republican administration violated Title VI by cancelling the Baltimore Red Line. That critical subway-to-surface rail line would’ve served predominantly Black (and Leftist) neighborhoods that didn’t vote for Hogan. He instead distributed those funds to highway expansion projects in the sparsely-populated Republican areas that voted for him. [The Baltimore Sun]
- Can we talk about how terrifying/surreal it is that Republicans are pushing legislation to criminalize protests, and that Teen Vogue is now a more trusted policy news source than a substantial chunk of non-print media? [Teen Vogue]
- Citizens of Trump’s America and recipients of our 24/7 barrage of “alternative facts” and commentary, perhaps you have heard about the White House’s bust of Churchill, and its various locations? Why the fuck this is a news story is beyond me, but apparently most of the news outlets covering this non-news item have gotten its provenance wrong. You see, there is not one hideous bust by the late English sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, but two. Two ugly busts of Winston Churchill. One that was sent to be repaired, and one that was lent by the British embassy while said bust was being repaired. Apparently Obama put one on a table somewhere (scandalous!) and Trump put it in the Oval Office. Now, Trump wants both of these sculptures for some reason that is utterly unbeknownst to me, but of great importance to most American internet users, apparently. 9/11 even gets brought up in here. [The Washington Post]
- The Saatchi Gallery’s upcoming From Selfie to Self-Expression will be “the world’s first exhibition exploring the history of the selfie from the old masters to the present day.” It’s a show about selfies, at a gallery founded by an advertising magnate, sponsored by a cell phone company. If I took a selfie right now, you’d see the world’s biggest eye-roll. [The Art Newspaper]
- After more than 10 years in Gowanus, Brooklyn Art Space is shuttering. The silver lining (for you): they’re having a huge sale of art supplies, studio furniture, books, and more! [Facebook]
- The new home of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami—a splinter institution born from board members fleeing the troubled MOCA North Miami—should be open before ABMB. Expect one helluva party (or at least one helluva fight for tickets, drunks in heels crying outside a velvet rope, etc…) [Miami Herald]
- OMA has completed a new headquarters for the Qatar Foundation in Doha. I’m a huge OMA fan, but can’t shake the feeling that the architects were just building a film set out of the dystopian love story Code 46. [Dezeen]
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by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on April 26, 2016
- Rutgers University Libraries caused a controversy with the display of “Vitruvian Man” by an anonymous student or faculty member. The piece is one of the Jesus figurines from a crucifix attached to a dart board. After the image went viral on the conservative internet, the library removed it and issued an apology. [The Blaze]
- Phil America installed the guerilla art exhibition The Perilous Fight in the abandoned Nevins Street subway station. The MTA hasn’t sanctioned the installation and hasn’t issued a statement, but it’s unlikely the show will remain there. The work comprises a series of flags America made in tribute to victims of gun violence. [Gothamist]
- Someone found a demo tape of early HD video technology from 1993. It’s pretty incredible, because it looks more or less like it was shot yesterday. With the exception of the twin towers and older taxis, this could be from someone’s iPhone 6. Chris Plante muses on the strangeness of seeing the past through the lens of contemporary technology. There’s an entire generation for whom nostalgia won’t be characterized by grainy film, choppy video, or Polaroids. [The Verge]
- Larry Gagosian is on the cover of the Wall Street Journal Magazine this week, and the story of his art world ascent is surprisingly compelling. How did Gagosian go from being a Los Angeles parking lot manager to someone who owns a private jet and a globe-spanning chain of galleries? Leo Castelli’s mentorship, for starters. [The Wall Street Journal]
- MoMA’s architecture and design galleries will not be demolished in the new renovation. They closed the galleries as part of the construction process in their new expanded space next door, prompting speculation that those galleries would be sacrificed to the reno gods. No such luck. [Curbed New York]
- Does the Babacar M’Bow/MoCA North Miami drama never cease? The former museum director is now suing the city of North Miami for wrongful termination after he was dismissed for sexual harassment claims. [artnet News]
- Auction house competition is so cut-throat that their commissions have plummeted more than 50 percent since 2009. There is now a term called “enhanced hammer”, which refers to what happens when an auction house offers between 4-7 percent of the buyer’s premium on top of the sale price. Then there’s price guarantees too. Definitely still a seller’s market for those of us who have a bunch of high end art we want to sell (hedge fund managers!). [Bloomberg]
- It seems as if there’s a “but is fashion art?” article every time a museum opens a garment-centric exhibition. Now, we’ve got Isaac Mizrahi at the Jewish Museum and Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology opening at The Met next month. The latter sounds like it’s going to be pretty interesting. There’s also the new film “The First Monday in May”, which chronicles the curation of last year’s blockbuster China Through the Looking Glass and the equally considered Met Gala. Does fashion belong in a museum? As long as it rakes in these levels of attendance and funding, that question answers itself. [The Washington Post]
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by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 6, 2016
- These might just be my favorite photographs ever. Laurent Kronental’s series “Souvenir d’un Futur” captures the senior citizens who have lived in Paris’s utopian modernist (and totally surreal postmodernist) public housing estates for decades. His human and architectural subjects seem to recall fading, more optimistic, stately times. [Dezeen]
- A few months ago, Paddy, Whitney, and myself had the pleasure of visiting the 21C Museum Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. The chain is an interesting for-profit model with the heart of a nonprofit—one that successfully delivers contemporary art to cities which might not otherwise be able to support a contemporary art museum. Now, 21C gets some love from The Guardian. [The Guardian]
- With The Four Seasons restaurant leaving its landmark location in the Seagram Building in Midtown Manhattan many are wondering what its regular power lunchers will do. (Probably just go to its slated replacement by Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi, and Jeff Zalaznick.) On a recent Friday, The Times interviewed a number of its more famous diners, including Klaus Biesenbach and Agnes Gund. When asked what jacket he was wearing, Biesenbach replied, “H&M. [Pointing to his overcoat, blazer and pants] It’s H&M, Levi’s, Zara. It’s very, very $2.” Well played Mr. Biesenbach, well played. [The New York Times]
- What is it about art forgery that makes every story seem so juicy and readable? Convicted forger Shaun Greenhalgh has a new memoir out that spills all the beans about everything from faking a Da Vinci to mixing the wrong white oil paints. Chemistry was never so sexy. [New Republic]
- Artist Ellie Harrison and funders Creative Scotland have found themselves at the center of a public controversy over a project titled ‘The Glasgow Effect”. The term apparently refers to adverse health conditions and shorter life expectancy experienced by low income residents of the Scottish city. Creative Scotland gave Harrison a grant of £15,000 to spend an entire year within the Glasgow’s city limits, which she claims is to explore the idea of localism as a strategy for lowering her carbon footprint. It sounds like a very simple idea that is inexplicably complicated. Mostly, I’m jealous it didn’t occur to me to apply for a roughly $22,000 “not travelling” grant. [BBC News]
- Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro has been eyeing some of the city’s local treasures as loot to be sold to fill budget gaps. And since it’s not like the city depends on the tourism industry, a plan like that should work out swimmingly. [The Wall Street Journal (paywall), artnet News]
- Cecily Brown says she’s getting sick of only seeing female nudes so she’s painting more men. The artist left Gagosian and will open a show of small paintings at Maccarone in May. [Vulture]
- New York state is going after art collectors who have avoided paying sales tax on their art purchases — and even those who have simply been intermediaries (that can be fought). This article names a few loopholes for collectors, but we also like that they warn tax-dodgers that they can be charged a penalty of up to 30% on the price of their purchased art in addition to the overdue sales tax. The lesson: don’t fuck with the New York State tax department. [Penta Daily]
- Over 50,000 New York apartments will return to their rent regulated status by order of governor Andrew Cuomo. The governor lead an investigation that found that several landlords in the city were violating rent regulation laws. [Curbed]
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