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- Baby falcons a top three New York bridges. [Gothamist]
- Gawker writers have voted to unionize. Unlike many labor negotiations, no management-labor strife exists—Founder and President Nick Denton has been supportive of the move. “We know, from our experience of online flame wars, that contention is usually counterproductive,” Denton told Capital via instant message last week. Finally, someone who pays attention. [Capital New York]
- For the dedicated wanker: DickBib. This plastic washable bib is designed to catch your jizz. Those who want one will have to pledge to the IndiGogo campaign. [Fleshbot]
- Ken Johnson gives Deborah Kass’s America’s Most Wanted show up at Sargent’s Daughters the thumbs up. “This project — seen here in full for the first time in New York — might seem just a clever one-liner, but it’s more suggestive than that. Like Warhol’s series, Ms. Kass’s calls to mind the popular trope of the avant-gardist as a kind of outlaw, but with curators framed as aiders and abettors. In our intensely professionalized and monetized art world, is it too fantastical to imagine the whole system as an organized crime against the free spirit of art?” [The New York Times]
- Daily Serving and Art Practical are holding a funding drive to raise $1,700 a month to pay writers. Help them out. [Patreon]
- The Frick will not destroy its beloved garden. Michael Kimmelman opines on why that’s a good thing. He also encourages the Frick to think out of the box and buy some real estate. Is there no museum without expansion plans in this city? [The New York Times]
- Will one museum of contemporary art make Moscow a center for cutting edge art? Not a chance—many artists in this city operate entirely outside the international scene and have barely developed. Nonetheless, this is the premise of Kelly Crow’s article on The Garage, a 58,000 square-foot space in Gorky Park launched by the philanthropist wife of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, Dasha Zhukova. It reopens next week. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Another gallery launched in complete ignorance of the scene it will participate in. Georges Bergès of Georges Bergès’s Gallery claims many art professionals rarely travel beyond the L Line—his constant trips abroad make him different! Here’s another jewel: “Until recently, galleries only focused on prominent artists, or have taken few risks because of economic and other pressures, and the collector almost always takes a loss because the secondary market for emerging artists is still evolving.” The gallery even has a return policy because they can put it back on their “Global network”. [Artnet news]
