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by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on November 3, 2015
- “Eventually you accept that a company whose pride is its cutting-edge tech image makes employees use an email service that looks circa 1997.” On the digital backwardness of Japan’s business landscape: postal and fax communications! Cassette tapes! [BBC]
- In news that should come as a shock to absolutely no one, New York is getting more and more unaffordable at record-breaking speeds. The median Manhattan rent rose by close to 10% in the past year—the single largest year-to-year increase to date. Meanwhile in Brooklyn, neighborhoods once considered outside the gentrification belt are seeing even more insane jumps in prices. Median rents in Brownsville rose 28%, Northeast Flatbush saw a 26.3% increase, and the cost of renting in Canarsie jumped fully by a third… in one year. And to displaced artists: good luck finding new spots in Gowanus. Prices there shot up by nearly a quarter. [Curbed]
- Christian Viveros-Fauné sets the record straight on Brooklyn Rail founder Phong Bui’s New York Times-quoted airbrushing on the origins of the art magazine. [artnet News]
- Cascadia Art Museum, dedicated to the regional art of the Pacific Northwest, has opened in a former midcentury supermarket in the suburbs of Seattle. [Los Angeles Times]
- The Canadian art world remain cautiously optimistic about Justin Trudeau, the new prime minister, in light of his pledge to restore two key international cultural programmes cut by the Conservative government: ProMart, an artist travel grant programme, and Trade Routes, a programme that supported Canadian arts and cultural exports. Here’s another idea: how about the Liberal Government also reinstate the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Venice Biennale funding? [The Art Newspaper]
- Speaking of Canada, the Star reports that the new Liberal government, which takes office tomorrow, will make restoring the long form census one of their first priorities. The census collects demographic information by asking questions about language aboriginal heritage, ethnicity, education, employment and commuting habits. [The Toronto Star]
- Argentinian artists Marianela Perelli and Emiliano Paolini are generating controversy with the exhibit “Barbie, The Plastic Religion”. The show casts Barbie dolls as a series of global religious icons from Jesus and the Virgin Mary to Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction. The project was postponed after the duo received threats last year. Wisely, they opted against any depictions of Mohammed. [USA Today]
- Want a truly terrifying Halloween costume for next year? Christie’s will be auctioning off clothing and jewelry owned by Margaret Thatcher, as well as other items from her collection. The weirdest? A statue of an American bald eagle gifted from Ronald Reagan. [Blouin Artinfo]
- Ben Davis uses google trends to determine how the number of Google searches for museums compare to those of cartoons over the last 10 years. Surprise! Museum searches are going down! I suspect this demonstrates a reduced importance of Google search, as Davis speculates. There aren’t enough searches for the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum to even bring back any results, but it’s the most trafficked Presidential museum in the country thanks to Artprize. All of which is to say, Google trends don’t tell us anything more than how often a subject gets googled. [artnet News]
- Polaroid is suing digital camera rival GoPro over an alleged patent infringement. They claim GoPro’s Hero4 Session model is a direct ripoff of the Polaroid Cube. [CNBC]
- Signs the world is moving in a better direction: Ireland decriminalizes heroin, cocaine and marijuana. [Independent]
- Why are we not surprised about this: the world’s top tech companies scored failing grades on data-privacy rights. [Guardian]
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