Left: Collector Stefan Simchowitz, dealer Paul Schimmel, Amy Cappellazzo, and writer Sarah Thornton. Right: Artist Dan Colen with dealer Sam Orlofsky. [h/t Artforum]
- SFMOMA has finally re-opened its doors after being closed for almost three years due to a $305-million expansion. It’s now double its size, with monographic galleries on the fifth and sixth floors charting the arch of a single artist. Unfortunately, it appears the artists featured — including usual suspects like Ellsworth Kelly, Warhol and Richter — are all male and from New York. [Los Angeles Times]
- Call for papers: the University of Maryland is hosting a symposium, “Art History in Digital Dimensions” on October 19-21, 2016, and are seeking applications surveying art historical practices that intersect with the digital realm. Deadline is May 30. [New Media Caucus]
- In Peter Zimmerman’s latest exhibition at Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg School, he’s poured overlapping layers of colored resin to create a gallery floor that changes to respond to the paintings in each room. It’s so beautiful. [Fast Company]
- “With the first season of Real Housewives of Dallas premiering on Bravo earlier in the week, you could have mistaken opening night for a Season Two casting call.” This, and a joke about Dan Colen’s much-seen penis are highlights from Alex Fialho’s Dallas Art Fair diary. I would’ve loved to have seen a panel discussion between Stefan Simchowitz, dealer Paul Schimmel, Amy Cappellazzo, and Sarah Thornton (author of Seven Days in the Art World), which Cappellazzo called a “semiotic unfolding of the theatrics of a panel.” [Artforum]
- Lee Henderson argues that Canadian artists or collectives like VSVSVS, Duke and Battersby and Instant Coffee are part of a movement towards “new Hoser aesthetics”: think elaborately-built installations with a lot of unsanded plywood, and “accessibility”. But is this really a Canadian-specific phenomenon? And Vancouver gallerist Will Aballe rightly states on the Facebook share of the story, “when I was in Sydney, Australia for the art fair a couple of years back, a friend described the aesthetic of the booth as very ‘bogan’, which kinda means something like hoser.” [Momus]
- Leah Sandals talks about art and motherhood with Moyra Davey, reflecting on the fifteen years since Mother Reader was published. [Canadian Art]
- Apparently the gender imbalance in the world of electronic music is much worse than the visual art world (Delia Derbyshire would be spinning in her creepy, creepy grave). Demian Licht, Mexico’s first female Ableton instructor, is hoping that changes with events like Mexico City’s Discwoman festival and all-female releases on her record label, Motus. [Electronic Beats]
- Long read of the day: Justin Heckert on how a son survived being injected at 10 months old with HIV by his own father. [GQ]
