by Art Fag City on November 21, 2013
- Photographer Mary Ellen Mark and her husband director Martin Bell are crowdfunding a follow-up to their 1983 project Streetwise, which documented the lives of eight teenagers who lived on the streets of Seattle. Bell’s original film was nominated for an Oscar, and Mark’s photos were published in a monograph by Aperture. [Kickstarter]
- Ryan McGinley profiled in the New York Times , focusing largely on his role mentoring younger artists. The piece ends “I’m learning just as much hanging out with Petra [Collins] as she is hanging out with me.” [The New York Times]
- Mathilde Aguis and Reto Schmid’s new show “Daze Daze” available online for those of us not in Zürich. [Novembre]
- The New Yorker on Alain de Botton’s new book, Art as Therapy. The book advocates for museum curators thinking more like therapists, organizing galleries around “human-scale themes, like marriage, aging, and work.” The website for the book includes a tool for finding a work of art that might improve your day. [The New Yorker]
- Martha Stewart has been tweeting some truly gross looking food. Buzzfeed picked up on this, and Stewart responded via twitter with an image of some grey pasta and the comment “Now if any one thinks this is a bad photo you are ridiculous.” It is a bad photo. Anthony Bourdain hashtagged it #deadpastababy and #stopmebeforeikillagain. Very entertaining. [@petewells]
- Last night’s Youtube spelunking introduced this Canadian to Schoolhouse Rock. Some favorites: Figure Eight and the classic, I’m Just a Bill. This came out of the revelation that this kids video on Pi is an imitation of 70’s public access television. [Youtube]
- Occupy has purchased $15 million worth of American medical debt. Incredible. [The Guardian]
- Cole Books has sold the site that is home The World’s Biggest Bookstore to a Toronto developer. The store, (which is not actually the world’s biggest bookstore, but large none the less) will close this February. [The Toronto Star]
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