by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on April 29, 2014
- Hate the rain? Here’s some Doge inspiration for you. Also, Doge Weather. [Reddit]
- Does anybody remember how and when the art PR business boom took off? We’re getting announcements about galleries’ hangings of a single new painting. [Our inboxes]
- Where does Mel Bochner find words for his word-paintings? Why, Roget’s Thesaurus, of course. [e-flux]
- The online art market is worth either $1.57 billion or $3.47 billion, if you believe one of these two reports. [artnet news]
- The Tribeca Film Festival is over, but you can watch some of the short films online. [Tribeca Film Festival]
- Adjunct professors have it rough. On the Fugitive Faculty blog, Miranda Merklein gives 10 tips to full-time professors on how they can improve relationships with their part-time colleagues. The tips are saddening, like “Stop advising us to quit our jobs.” [Fugitive Faculty via @CollegeArt]
- Tyler Green cries conflict of interest again, this time on the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, which will be showing Norman Rockwell’s “The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room)” before its anonymous owner auctions it off at Christie’s next month. Green feels that the MFA’s acting as an auction house showroom. Eh. See it on a free admission day. [The Boston Globe, Tyler Green]
- Another conflict of interest story, and flagrant backroom dealing: The Northampton town council made a deal with Lord Northampton to sell off one of an Egyptian statue, which the Lord’s grandfather donated to the Northampton Museum. Valued at between £4m-£6m, Christie’s calls it “the most important Egyptian sculpture ever to come to market.” The Arts Council is threatening to discredit the Northampton Museum if it goes ahead with the sale. [The Art Newspaper]
- Matthew J.X. Malady writes about how Flickr is more useful to freelancers than stock photography sites. Also great: Malady’s found photos of the first “phablet,” the original Dell Streak. Ah, a trip down memory lane. [The Awl]
- Art dealer Hillel Nahmad will receive his sentencing today in Manhattan court for his involvement in a gambling ring. In lieu of prison time, his lawyers are requesting that Nahmad fund an art program for homeless youth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [The New York Times]
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