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Thursday Links: Many, Many Paradoxes and a Hamster

by Corinna Kirsch on November 6, 2014

Rejoice, for artful economist Felix Salmon now has his byline in the New Yorker. Glad to have more of his insights on the art market’s many, many paradoxes. [The New Yorker]
Hamster makes wee dishes, serves wee sake. Wee enjoy. [Rocket News 24]
GULF Labor unfurls a(nother) banner inside the Guggenheim to protest the museum’s labor practices. [@occupymuseums]
How did we miss this? Yesterday marked the first-ever Britney Spears Day, a holiday created by the city of Las Vegas. [Aplus]
Years late to the news, the New York Times declares Ridgewood an up-and-coming neighborhood for hipsters. [The New York Times]
Creative Time will be livestreaming this year’s summit at select locations. FOR FREE. The Vera List Center for Art and Politics will host the NY screening. [Creative Time]
If you’re wrapping up your reading on Prospect.3 this week, don’t forget to check out Julia Halperin’s breakdown of the biennial’s demographics. [The Art Newspaper]
Viewers complain that last week’s Doctor Who episode was too scary. [Telegraph]
Germany’s Wiesbaden Museum wants to purchase a Nazi-looted paintings—rather than returning the work to its owners. As a money-raising strategy, the museum has begun hanging the painting so that it faces the wall. For Wiesbaden, that turnaround stunt might generate publicity; we’re not convinced that greater awareness will necessarily bring in more dough. [Tablet]

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Friday Links: If America Had a National Font What Would It Be?

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on October 24, 2014

Comic Sans in action

Paddy and I are in New Orleans for Prospect.3; if you want to know the background to the exhibition, the why and how, this interview with Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans sums up all that we know, too. [Hyperallergic]
Because pitbulls are adorable. [Daily Pitbulls]
The Swedish government has commissioned a national font, Sweden Sans. If America named a national font what would it be? Our guess: Comic Sans. [Medium]
Time waster + art = Doll Index. Developed by artist Joseph Montgomery, the site lets you generate differently sized stick figures. [Broadway World]
A partial solar eclipse happened yesterday, but if you want some tips on how to photograph it the next time around, here’s your filter guide. DON’T LOOK AT THE SUN. [Mr. Eclipse]
Can you name the horror movies depicted in these minimalist posters? [i09]
Frank Gehry really is a grumpy old man. He flipped off a journalist at a press conference in Spain; he later apologized, blaming his anger on jet lag. The proof is in the pictures. [The Guardian]
No likey: “New York City developers will spend 60 percent more on new homes this year, while adding only 22 percent more units, a sign of the market’s tilt toward luxury condominiums, the New York Building Congress said.” [Bloomberg]
On Thursday afternoon, CalArts students walked out of class to protest how the art school has been handling a student’s rape allegation. [The Los Angeles Times]

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Looking Back at Prospect: Prospect 1 New Orleans, the Antidote to Miami

by Paddy Johnson on October 23, 2014

Right now, Art F City is in New Orleans to see Prospect.3. Before we begin to contemplate this biennial, we thought it’d be timely to look back at Paddy’s report from the first Prospect, held in 2008.

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Wednesday Links: Trouble in Canada!

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 22, 2014

Gianna Commito’s, “Brig” on Paddle8. Starting bid: $1,750.00

The countdown is on! You’ve got until Thursday, 6 pm to place your bids in our paddle8 auction. Do not miss this. [Paddle8]
There’s no stopping the “amenities” coming to the Lower East Side’s waterfront. Nancy Ortiz, the Resident Associate President of the public housing project Vladek Houses– which happen to be on the Lower East Side waterfront– spoke up last night about the fancy new revamps to Pier42. “[W]e are a community tired of being ignored … [kayaks] don’t fit into the demographic of our community”, she said. [Curbed]
A London power list of powerful people in the arts. No big surprises here. Of the handful of visual arts entries, there’s Amanda Sharp, Sarah Lucas, and Ben Vickers, digital curator at Serpentine. Basically, artists should win a Turner Prize and professionals should work at the Tate or Serpentine. (Writers, bloggers, and alt spaces, forget it.) Our suspicions about circular glasses stand the test of time.[The London Evening Standard, via artnet News]
Trouble in Canada: Parliment Hill’s Centre Block is in lockdown after shots were fired in the building and a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial was shot. [The Globe and Mail]
The Albright Knox is expanding. [The Art Newspaper]
Sotheby’s is creating a new category to handle sales of 20th century art. The hope is to boost sales in the under developed market of modernist works from countries across Europe and around the Mediterranean. These works are by artists who have a strong regional following but are not yet part of the international mainstream. [The Art Market Monitor]
A good reason to head to Philadelphia (aside from this) is a retrospective reviving the century-long career of a female Jewish Ashcan School painter Theresa Bernstein. According to theartblog, curator Gail Levin posits that she was unfairly left out of history for her gender and religion. Maybe. [The artblog]
Another article questioning whether biennials can rejuvenate economies. This one is about New Orleans. [The Art Newspaper]
Has been circulating around the Internets for a few days: King Tut had several congenital deformities which may have led to his early death. More evidence has emerged that his parents were siblings. [Tabloidy images at the Daily Mail; Research from the BBC documentary]

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