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by Michael Anthony Farley on April 7, 2017
- Las Vegas is trying for a contemporary art museum… again. The city has had two art museums come-and-go in recent history. [Las Vegas Review Journal]
- Choreographer Ann Carlson has found herself in the crosshairs of conservatives over her seemingly inoffensive project “Doggie Hamlet”. The piece involves dancers, sheep, and sheep herding dogs. It admittedly sounds extremely silly at first glance, and of course the Right Wing is pissed that some NEA funds went into its production (by way of New England Foundation for the Art’s National Dance Project). Dance critic Gia Kourlas weighs in on the debate. [The New York Times]
- The Wildensteins, the eccentric and controversial family of art dealers, have sold their UES townhouse/former gallery for $79.5 million. That’s now the most expensive house ever sold in New York City, which makes sense, because you would have to be both disgustingly wealthy and totally insane to spend that kind of money. [Daily Mail]
- Speaking of insane and wealthy: Damien Hirst’s Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable has to be one of the oddest, most ambitious projects we’ve ever heard of. Hirst has spun the tale of a freed slave, who 2000 years ago became an art collector. His ship sinks, bringing all of his treasures with it. Hirst has spent somewhere around £50 million on the show—fabricating gold and bronze “antiquities”, dumping them in the Indian Ocean to patina, and hiring boatloads of divers to retrieve them for exhibition in Venice. [BBC]
- Artica Svalbard, a residency program in the icy northernmost extremes of Norway, has announced its first batch of artists: Carlos Casas, Oddvar I. N. Daren, Lars Palgaard, and Mette Henriette. These lucky four will get to live out their Fortitude fantasies, hopefully avoiding polar bear attacks and vitamin D deficiency along the way. [ARTnews]
- In yesterday’s links, I mentioned that London’s local governments have been scrambling to prevent a mass exodus of creatives from the increasingly unaffordable city. Here’s one of their initiatives. A House for Artists, designed by architects Apparata in conjunction with artist Grayson Perry, will provide affordable housing and studios above a community center in Barking Town Centre. Some of these interior renderings look unbelievably spacious for now-build affordable housing. [Dezeen]
- Artist Ryan Mendoza and Rhea McCauley, the niece of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, have teamed up to move Parks’ house from Detroit to Berlin. Mendoza has restored the home and is showing it as a piece of public sculpture. For now, McCauley wants the house to stay in Europe until America “grows up”. [New York Post]
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