The UN Plaza Hotel, Courtesy Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates
- Artist Emily Spivack has opened a T-shirt store, which only sells plain white, medium t-shirts, in honor of President Obama. The piece is in reference to an inside joke POTUS once made about not wanting to make decisions, and is presented through the Honolulu Museum of Art. [Hyperallergic]
- Applications are open for Terrault Contemporary’s second annual juried exhibition. Terrault is one of our favorite artist-run spaces in Baltimore, and this year’s jury comprises artists Stephanie Barber, Mina Cheon, and Amy Sherald. This should be good, apply! [Terrault Contemporary]
- Applications are also open for a two-year fellowship at Washington, DC’s Hamiltonian. This is one of the capital’s best arts spaces, and the program is pretty tricked-out. It’s open only to artists without gallery representation, and applications close Wednesday March 1st. [Hamiltonian Artists]
- The National Parks Service is struggling to find space to accommodate the dozens of huge demonstrations that will accompany Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC. There are now an estimated 1 million people planning protests, scattered among all 50 states and 37 countries across every continent. Yes. We will be striking, and have a guide for protests and other events in some of the cities where we have the most readers. [USA Today]
- Yay! The UN Plaza Hotel’s retro-glam interiors are now a NYC Landmark. [Curbed]
- 86 artists were displaced from the massive Sample-Studios in Cork, Ireland last month to make way for a demolition/development project. They’ve documented it across social media. [YouTube]
- Nancy Spector, the new chief curator of the Brooklyn Museum, shares her wisdom for balancing hectic nonprofit/online feminist/family life. My favorite gems: she writes best at 3:00 a.m. (samesies!) and sets aside one day a week to see art shows at other institutions. [The Cut]
- There’s some academic debate about the veracity of a maybe-Velázquez painting at Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art. The painting is a portrait of Spain’s King Philip IV, and new scans reveal that the author had repositioned the monarch’s legs to make him look less portly, and added more fashionable garments on top of his armor. [The Art Newspaper]
- Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, of nailing-his-balls-to-Red-Square-fame, is seeking political asylum in France. [The New York Times]
