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Thursday Links: NYPD Gets Brooklyn Museum Mini-Retrospective, Louise Blouin Gets Layoffs

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 5, 2017

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Huh. The NYPD gave mayor Bill de Blasio a presentation about the city’s dropping crime rates in the form of a photography exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Why? To celebrate the fact that crime rates have dropped more in Brooklyn than any other borough. [New York Daily News]

Dystopian product of the day: Fisher-Price exercise bike/iPad holder for obese toddlers. Was this actually inspired by that exercise bike/video game episode of Black Mirror? [Gizmodo]

Good news for curators and the despots who want to lend them artwork: President Obama has signed into law a bill protecting foreign-owned artworks from confiscation if they are in the United States for the purpose of an exhibition. The exception to this rule is Holocaust-looted pieces. This follows a years-long lending frieze between Russia and the United States over disputed Jewish texts seized in the Bolshevik Revolution. [Artforum]

Headline of the day: Man Warned Woman He’s An Asshole, So It’s Fine. Pretty much every woman has dated this man and regretted it. [Reductress]

Someone bought an apartment in Queens that came with a mosaic of early-aughts pop star Mandy Moore in the shower. [Curbed]

Google has added a virtual reality “Artist in Residency” program, which actually sounds like they’ve just hired/invited (Google won’t discuss compensation) a group of artists to advise on the development of their new Tilt Brush tool. [Mashable]

Louise Blouin Media appears to be in the midst of a major staff shakeup. They’ve dismissed Modern Painters editor-in-chief Scott Indrisek, among others, potentially over budget cuts. What kind of budget cuts? “The kind in which you terminate your editor-in-chief midway through the closing of your March/April issue,” Indrisek said in an email. [ARTnews]

Two juveniles were shot in Jacksonville Florida last Friday during an art walk. The victims are fine – they suffered non-life threatening injuries. There’s almost no information other than this. [First Coast News]

The most popular searches on artnet are pretty much entirely photographers known for nudes and street artists. [artnet News]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is promising a new terminal and transportation options for JFK. Ugh, stay away. It’s not that these airports don’t need work but that every time Cuomo gets involved the projects become cash giveaways to private partners and the construction is done in the most ass backwards way possible. Case and point: thanks to the renovation projects and ill-conceived interim traffic management at LaGuardia it often takes two hours just to leave the airport. [Gothamist]

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Friday Links: Ta-Ta to Blingee!

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on October 30, 2015

Anthony Antonellis’s contribution to “La petite mort du blingee”, a screeningof work by more than 30 artists invited by Lorna Mills that will accompany the closing reception her show at Transfer. The reception takes place tomorrow evening.

The Frank Stella retrospective at the Whitney museum of art gets a glowing review by Roberta Smith. We’re not exactly in a hurry to see this show. His early works are great, but we could do without the years of globby abstract wall sculptures. Smith seems to think the exhibition lingers too long on the early, more minimal works, which makes us want to see why she thinks that. [The New York Times]
You’re welcome: an infographic matching wines with their appropriate Halloween candy. Who knew Nerds went well with a sparkling? [Mental Floss]
Stumped on how to content farm that review on David Shields’ War is Beautiful? Take a page from Scott Indrisek, and get your cats to do it. [BLOUIN ARTINFO]
The sad story behind those 1920s German Expressionist costumes you may have seen last night’s Halloween party. [Hyperallergic]
Russia is such a fucking mess. Marat Guelman, a prominent gallery owner is being evicted from his gallery in Moscow. The landlord claims this is due to missed payments, but Guelman says the notice came two days after he held a charity auction for political prisoners. He’s taken to facebook with his complaints, and a whirlwind of press has resulted. None of it has resulted in a resolution between the parties though. [The Moscow Times]
Like the recent swell of fashion designers abruptly leaving luxury label creative director posts, I wonder if this is comparative to the art world’s version: gallery directors abandoning institutions in the midst of huge renovations or new building plans to take over a recently vacated, higher profile director position? Case in point: Sam Thorne, former Tate St. Ive director, who is now the new director of Nottingham Contemporary. He’s replacing Alex Farquharson, who has moved on to Tate Britain. [Artforum]
54,000 people are watching Bob Ross paint on Twitch right now. Yesterday marked the launch of Twitch Creative, which is livestreaming for art with an accompanying chat window. To celebrate, they’re holding an 8 day Bob Ross marathon. I have to admit, I haven’t quite grasped the appeal of Twitch. It’s not like 50,000 people can really have a great convo, but maybe there aren’t typically that many people tuned in at once? [Twitch via Gawker]
Today marks the opening of a new Warhol exhibition, focusing specifically on his celebrity composite series. TIFF Bell Lightbox’s “Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen” sounds like an interesting film-related exhibition, although we’re a bit wary about the exhibition design involving a “fun Screen Test machine” that lets you create your own screen test. [Toronto Star]
Worst landlord ever: Yehuda Herskovichas been charged with second-degree arson and more than a dozen other crimes after he allegedly placed a piece of cardboard in front of tenant Moses Greenfeld’s apartment last November and set it on fire. He was trying to collect late rent. [New York Post]
Magic tricks for dogs. Hilarious. [Youtube via Metafilter]

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Monday Links: We Want a Minority Goverment

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on October 19, 2015

Screen shot of Lorna Mills’s Election Day glitter text GIFs. Credit: Lorna Mills

It’s a big day in Canada: Election day! Voter turn out is expected to break records and the election even made the front page of the New York Times today. Canadians, you know what to do: Vote conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper out. [The Internet]
Further on the Canadian election tip, longtime Canadian arts journalist Martin Knelman weighs in on how all parties during #elxn42 campaigning avoided any focus on cultural issues, despite the fact that there are 671,000 cultural workers in Canada. (And the sector as a whole contributes $46 billion to the country’s GDP.) Let’s hope the — fingers crossed — minority government makes an effort to protect federal arts funding. [Toronto Star]
“If we don’t have artists, we don’t have art.” A report from this past weekend’s Arts Gowanus rally. [Hyperallergic]
The Daily News also reported on the protest over the mass eviction in Gowanus during GOS. [The Daily News]
During London’s Frieze week, discussion turned to the topic of gentrification and the familiar nostalgia for the cheaper, wilder years of the 1970s/1980s—an era widely represented in the work on view. How bad is London’s gentrification crisis? Within the next 5 years, a third of the capital’s artist studios are threatened. [artnet News]
“What comes after conflict? Art, I guess.” Right now, it appears as if Columbia’s Artbo is the best fair to attend in South America, thirty years after the war on drugs had engulfed the country. Despite the success of the fair, it appears that the recent devaluation of the local peso has led to fewer sales. [Amuse]
How weird does the Moscow Biennial sound? Very weird. If London and New York have too much wealth, Moscow now finds itself with too little. Squatters are back, the budget-slashed biennial is exhibiting with plywood floors and sharing a bathroom with a McDonalds, and Russia’s surreal politics complicate everything. [ARTnews]
Which brings to mind the headline “From Athens To San Juan And Detroit, The Most Beautifully Bankrupt Places To Jumpstart Your Art Career (GOLDMINE Members ONLY)” This, and other gems are available on the Tumblr ArtWet, from Artinfo’s Scott Indrisek, which is essentially The Onion for the art world. It is hilarious. [ArtWet]
Alberto Burri’s “Grande Cretto” has been completed after 30 years. The massive earthwork is a memorial to a Sicilian town that was leveled in an earthquake in the 1960s. [The Art Newspaper]
Are these really the ugliest dogs in the world? [Wired]
Sounds like it be a dream to do a residency at the former home of artist Doris McCarthy, where artists can spend a month focusing on working in isolation at her 12-acre cliffside home in Scarborough, Ontario. [Toronto Star]
Can the epic trolling that is the Renoir Sucks at Painting movement stop now? It’s getting old now. [Hyperallergic]
A long and surprisingly sweet story about antique dildos. [Lit Hub]

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