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New York Central Art Supply
by Michael Anthony Farley on September 2, 2016
- Generally, cats are assholes. Apparently this is because they’re usually bored. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley want cat owners to make their pets work for their food—they suggest “food puzzles” where the cat has to solve a problem to access a snack. I feel like this is going to lead to plenty of YouTube videos that are more entertaining for humans than cats. [Gizmodo]
- After 111 years of operation in the East Village, New York Central Art Supply Inc. is closing today. The store supplied Andy Warhol, Basquiat, and even De Kooning’s Hamptons studio on the weekends. If you have the time today, swing by and say goodbye/pick up some discounted paint. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Nathan Lyons, influential photographer, curator, and critic, has died at the age 86. Lyons’ contributions to the field were enormously important for cementing photography’s place in the annals of contemporary art. [The New York Times]
- As Rhizome turns 20, ART news looks at the organization’s history (“it’s older than the Metropolitan Museum of Art in internet years”.) From humble email list in Berlin to major cultural archive, Rhizome has done a lot. This is a long read, but a good one. [ART news]
- After Ai Weiwei was excluded from the Yinchuan Biennale for “political reasons”, Anish Kapoor is now threatening to withdraw in protest. [artnet News]
- The New York Times has ceased publishing local arts sections for the city’s suburbs. There will no longer be, for example, Connecticut or Westchester arts coverage for the Connecticut or Westchester editions of the paper, respectively. People are pissed. [artnet News]
- MAC Cosmetics and Star Trek have teamed up for an unlikely cross-promotional marketing thing that has resulted in these YouTube makeup tutorials. They’re not particularly useful—s model does makeup “inspired” by a character and ends up looking insane every time—but they’re impossible to look away from. [YouTube]
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