My Brooklyn

“Sparkle on bitches”. So begins the documentation of Christian Grattan’s portable coloring book station in Chelsea. Want the coloring book you see in that video for free? All you gotta do is give Artist Christian Grattan your name and address and he’ll send you one. His coloring book includes figures such as Andy Warhol, Karl Lagerfield, and Oprah. These are his heroes. [Sparkle Artist]
More people calling bullshit on Marina Abramovic. As if the fashion photo accompanying the piece picturing Marina holding a cup to her head weren’t enough evidence on its own. [The Guardian]
Anybody want to hear the story of a woman who helped make twenty two buildings permanently affordable in Manhattan? (Whitney did.) Makers of the documentary It Took 50…, the story of community land trusts in New York City, are speed-raising money on indiegogo to fund the rest of the film. Raise the money, or you’ll all be watching My Brooklyn from Philadelphia. [Indiegogo]
Months after the New York Public Library elected to “chart a new course,” the stacks at the 42nd Street Library remain empty, according to pro-library activists. [Save NYPL newsletter]
Rich artists in real estate: James Turrell is selling off his Gramercy Park pied-à-terre (ohhhh, fancy) in Gramercy Park for $2.85 million. Maybe he’ll be on track to finish Roden Crater with those funds? [Curbed NY]
A herd of pigs looking into a hole. [BBC]
Longtime School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty Barbara DeGenevieve passed away. Here’s a quick two-minute interview that shows her really frank, endearing personality at work. [Facebook via Ivan Lozano]
New Museum curator Lauren Cornell coins the term “techno-animism,” a phrase broad and arbitrary enough to describe any technologically-made work involving humans, plants, animals, bugs, mythology, cosmology, sexuality, evolution, environs, etc, etc. Email interviews with Jacolby Satterwhite, John Kelsey, Katja Novitskova, and Mark Leckey follow. [Mousse Magazine]
Pittsburgh’s August Wilson Center for African American Culture could be turned into a hotel. After the center defaulted on its loans for the building, their bank proposed selling it to New York developer 980 Liberty. Here’s the background piece and here’s the opinion piece. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
People have stolen 40 of Ryan McGinness’s abstract street signs, his public art project in partnership with the New York Department of Transportation. Chances are, a few of them will show up on eBay. [The Wall Street Journal]
New Yorkers have filed 7,031 complaints about the Mr. Softee jingle over the past four years. [The New York Post]
A whole bunch of shots from the Hermitage shouted out over Twitter. [@theBenStreet]
David Carr ruminates on the health of print media and concludes it’s on its death bed. He’s not sure anyone will even remember it. [The New York Times]
The basketball player formerly known as Ron Artest has decided to change his name to “Panda Friend” in honor of playing his next season in China. [ESPN]
When asked if Klaus_eBooks is a financially viable enterprise, its editor, Brian Droitcour, replies succinctly “No.” Their publisher, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, must have loved that. Droitcour goes on to discuss censorship, and the thrust of the project: ephemerality of media. [Art in America]
Kate Beaton’s comics about working in the oil sands. So good. [Kate Beaton]

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