- The boss was on TV, again! Once again, Paddy Johnson appears live from Grand Rapids to talk about the 2D and installation finalists at ArtPrize. We’ll spare you the recap this time, but Kevin Buist is getting good at TV moderating. Just watch it above. [WoodTV]
- How to clean an ebola-infected apartment. Throw away everything. [Daily Mail]
- Wonkette has rounded up its favorite zingers from the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in Nevada and Idaho. Basically, the court calls governors and officials in Idaho and Nevada manipulative, hypocritical, and unusually cruel bigots. [Wonkette]
- All you ever wanted to know about body piercing from Hannah Cherry, who considers the job her life calling. This comes with an image of her suspended from back piercings for a Jane’s Addiction concert. Her tips: don’t pick at it. [Brightest Young Things]
- This is a weird pairing: GOOD Magazine features Art Spiegelman, who just produced a silent film, WORDLESSS!, of early wordless graphic novels, with and a six-piece band led by jazz saxophonist Phillip Johnson. The film debuts at BAM in January. He says that there are still magazines that find his work too risqué for their covers. [GOOD]
- This makes me so glad I work for an art blog, where trolling mainly consists of people wanting to pound across their art opinions. Game developer Kathy Sierra writes about trolling that stems from wanting to see women getting what they “deserve”. Said trolls complain that Sierra misconstrues the facts. [Serious Pony]
- Crystal Castles broke up. 🙁 [Pitchfork]
- Peter Schjeldahl approves of the Robert Gober’s MoMA show, which he calls “a crusade for visceral truth in art”. Prepare for extensive use of faucets and wax figures, to both beautiful and imposing ends. [New Yorker]
- From my inbox: The Cooper Square Committee reports that East Village artists are among the many longtime tenants being pushed out of Allen Ginsberg’s old building. From the report:
In December of 2013, Jared Kushner purchased 170-174 East 2nd street buildings for $17 million, and quickly followed the purchase with the distribution of eviction notices to tenants of the two buildings. During the past nine months under the ownership of Kushner, tenants of both buildings were subjected to lengthy and severe construction work which has resulted in ceiling collapses, eroded floors, broken tiles, cut off gas service, and unannounced hot and cold water interruptions. Impacts on artists in the building range from fear of displacement, to damage of artwork, and compromised ability to do creative work under the stress and noise of construction.
Since Jared Kushner purchased the buildings at 170-174 East 2nd street, the Committee reports, 70 percent of its tenants have been vacated. Of the nine remaining tenants, about half are artists. Ironically, the building now boasts its “creative spirit” and history of housing artists as a draw. We’ll be watching this story. [Cooper Square Committee]
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