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Friday Links: Displaced Histories

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on December 11, 2015

Guillermo Gomez-Peńa, Rebecca Belmore and other famous indigenous performance artists gathered last week in Santa Fe for ACTING OUT, a two-day symposium exploring performance in contemporary and traditional native arts. Some of the performances—like Belmore’s The Theatre of the Brave, which closed the symposium—are recapped, alongside the shared common struggles of artists forced to contend with their works being situated in Eurocentric traditions. [Artsy]
A deal on the contentious plan to redevelop the Brooklyn Heights library has finally been settled. Under the new plan, which will likely be approved by the city council, the library be shrunk in size, but not the miniscule size first proposed and will now offer below market rates to lower income residents. Don’t get too excited—lower income means those who make 80 percent of the median income in the area. The report makes it sound like the developer made a ton of concessions, but it’s hard to believe any of them will make a difference to those who are really struggling in the city. [Capital New York]
Using data from 2014, StreetEasy calculated that in all of New York City, there were only 575 apartments “affordable” to minimum wage earners who worked full time and spent 40% of their incomes on rent. In order for a renter to afford the city’s median rent of $2,700 a month (using the same dismal math as above) a full-time worker would need to make $38.80/hour. That’s more than 4x the minimum wage. [Curbed]
Germany’s Center for Persecuted Art has finally opened in the Kunstmuseum Solingen. The exhibition spaces and library will be devoted to artists banned or censored by the Nazi and GDR regimes. [artnet News]
This is so cool. Ancient sculptures at the Walters Art Museum inspired hairdresser Janet Stephens to investigate women’s coiffing rituals in the Roman empire—a topic that’s mostly absent from history. Now, she’s presenting at archeology conferences and giving Roman beauty tutorials on Youtube. [New York Magazine]
Ken Johnson wants everyone to go to Philadelphia because the art on view is amazing right now. What gets a nod: Norman Lewis at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, two centuries worth of still life paintings and sculptures at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, ornamental antique wrought iron at the Barnes Foundation and Christopher Knowles at the Institute of Contemporary Art. [The New York Times]
The future of a valuable art collection amassed by Maurice Alain Amon is uncertain due to dramatic divorce proceedings with his soon-to-be-ex-wife,Tracey Hejailan-Amon. This is the couple who made headlines after Maurice’s art consultants tried to remove a Basquiat from their 5th Avenue penthouse. It all comes down to which courts have jurisdiction, as the pair own homes across the globe and filed for divorce in Monaco. [Vanity Fair]
The community debate surrounding the turnaround on a racially-charged University of Kentucky mural—it was going to be removed, but now the campus faculty has voted in favour of contextualizing its depiction of history—brings up the interesting point about the movement afoot for a national slavery museum. [Hyperallergic]
North Korea’s state-run art/propaganda factory has increasingly been exporting foreign commissions to dictatorships who lack their own sculptors and painters. Now, they’re opening an entire museum of artwork inspired by life in pre-colonial Khmer at Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat. [Global Post]
Finally: MoMA, which has made recent strides in its conceptualism acquisitions, has just announced it’ll be mounting a full retrospective on Adrian Piper. [New York Times]
Tokyo’s onto something: their police force now has a fleet of “interceptor” drones that will go after spying private drones, ensnaring them mid-air in large nets. Now patiently awaiting the artist working in surveillance culture to co-opt this. [The Telegraph]

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Wednesday Links: Even the Grim Reaper Can’t Evade Arms Dealer Security Forever

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on September 23, 2015

The grim reaper is chased around the grounds of an arms fair.

A protester dressed as the Grim Reaper was forcibly removed from the DSEI Arms Fair, the largest of its kind. To enter, he scaled a 12 foot fence while carrying a scythe. All this lead to our favorite headline of the week: Security Guards Chase ‘Death’ Around World’s Biggest Arms Fair Before Forcibly Removing Him. [Mirror]
Fanny packs are back. This from Jaimie Lowe over at the New York Times Magazine, who has made an impressive argument for their enduring qualities. It’s more than just another pocket, it’s a place to put all your mental baggage. It’s an anchor. It’s a great place to store pop-tarts and condoms. [The New York Times Magazine]
Another report from the Times’s Scott Reyburn that reads like it’s about ten years old. Reyburn has learned that public funding for museums is shrinking and wealthy people with collections are opening up museums. It’s old news that oddly pits the Broad collection against that of Damien Hirst’s. [The New York Times]
Le Freeport, the uber-dystopian concrete art bunker by the Luxembourg airport designed to exploit tax loopholes, is predictably weird and controversial. [The Wall Street Journal]
Cheech Marin, of “Cheech & Chong” fame, has an extensive collection of art by Mexican-Americans. Who knew he was a collector? The touring exhibition Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection just opened in South Texas. [Corpus Christi Caller Times]
Finally, maxi pads for dolls. [The Toronto Star]
No tourist’s trip to Philadelphia is complete without an Instagram of Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture. Now, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is displaying Indiana’s 1998 translation “AMOR”. No, this wasn’t a curatorial jab at the anti-immigration discourse flaring up in the presidential primaries (disappointingly). It’s to welcome the Pope to Philly. [ABC6 Philadelphia]
The Enemy has just released its third edition and OMG, there is some great reading in here: an unpublished interview with Chris Burden from 1980 with David Robbins. BFAMFAPhD examine their own findings in Artists Report Back asking, “When the 1.3 trillion dollar student debt bubble bursts, will the government bail out indebted students, as they previously bailed out banks? We fear that they won’t. What will we do in this next crisis?” [The Enemy]
Artnet has released its Global Chinese Art Market Report. The report only covers last year, so we won’t learn how the stock market crash has affected sales. Still, the downturn had already started and that’s evident here. The sell through rate for Chinese art and antiques has plummeted since 2011 (or as they say in the business world, the market is going through a “cooling period”). [Artnet]
Corinna Kirsch suggests that online artists are more inclined to mime out happiness. In her guide, she identifies several artists doing just that. [Art21]

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Monday Links: A Dog’s Best Friend Is a Bucket

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on May 19, 2014

Here’s a dog that really likes its bucket. Gotta love the soundtrack.
Miami cannot agree who has control over the Museum of Contemporary Art’s future; is it the city or the trustees? Behind door one, we have Alex Gartenfeld, interim director for Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Behind another, we have Babacar M’Bow, the other interim director, appointed by the mayor. [The New York Times]
A Brooklyn spa is sending out weekly traffic and detour announcements, so that you can make it to the wet lounge on time. It’s actually the best way to know about weekend parades in the city. [Body by Brooklyn]
BIG’s proposal for a flood-proof Lower Manhattan includes a raised West Side Highway and lots of park space. [BIG]
If you left a prosthetic leg on the LIRR, it’s at the lost and found at Penn Station. [The New York Times]
The city, now accepting proposals for public art projects at 46th Street and Queens Boulevard. You’ll get 5k for the project this summer! [Department of Transportation]
A list of 100 influential women in tech. [Business Insider]
Now you won’t be able to invite people to your Gmail calendars from your email. Apparently people didn’t use the function enough, though that’s likely due to the fact that users didn’t know it existed. [Google System]
But hey! At least you can play Rubik’s Cube on Google’s front page today, right? [Google]
David Carr offers some much needed insight into the firing of New York Times editor Jill Abramson, saying that all the talk about pay inequity was a sideshow. The real issue, he speculates, was that the Times had been lagging in digital endeavors, and in response, she tried to bring in a digital expert, Janine Gibson, a senior editor at The Guardian. This proved to be an issue in terms of office management, as Abramson failed to tell Dean Baquet, the paper’s managing editor, that he would now have to share his job with someone else. Baquet was furious and threatened to quit. [The New York Times]
Yet another museum will be rolling out a Frank Gehry expansion; this time it’s the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [Philly.com via @kellycrowsj ]
Is the 9/11 museum gift shop in poor taste? The New York Post seems to think so, but their argument seems to be wrapped up in the idea that museum directors get paid too much money. [The New York Post]
Ben Davis writes about how the Yams decision to pull out of the Whitney Biennial should be a wake-up call for the museum. The biennial, he says, has a race problem. [Artnet]

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