Bernie Sanders by Phillip Kremer.
- Video artists! Columbia University is hiring for a ton of production/editing positions. Good luck trying to use their employment portal—if you can figure it out, I’m sure you’re hired. [Columbia]
- Thailand’s new military government sucks. But apparently that’s good news for Bangkok’s art scene. Dissatisfaction has energized artists to make more politically-engaged work, while a plethora of empty businesses have been converted to galleries or studio spaces. [Reuters]
- Meanwhile in American cities, gentrification has gotten so bad that this horror-movie-set of a structure is what a $1 million house looks like in San Francisco. [SFist]
- A collection of animals licking windows. They all look really funny and weird. Except for the monkey. It’s disturbing. [Sad and Useless]
- Collector, billionaire, and Seattle Art Fair founder Paul Allen reportedly crashed his luxury yacht into acres and acres of endangered coral reefs off the coast of the Cayman Islands. He denies his toy was responsible for the damage, but one of his companies is paying to help “repair” the reef. How magnanimous! [artnet News]
- More than 200 units of affordable housing will be built in Flushing. Monadnock Development has received the contract from the city, and promises, amongst other things, a rooftop farm, a fitness facility and what’s being described as “feng-shui-oriented” design. According to Curbed, “A chunk of the apartments will be reserved for affordable senior housing, with the rest going to families “earning between $24,200 – $72,600 annually for an individual and $34,520 – $103,560 for a family of four,” per the HPD.” [Curbed New York]
- Instagram has disabled the account of artist Phillip Kremer, who makes creepy collages of presidential candidates. We’re currently locked out of our Facebook account as a result of censorship, so we sympathize. [artnet News]
- Moscow just opened its 200th subway station, modeled after the paintings of Piet Mondrian. Here’s an article and slideshow about the Russian capital’s metro system art. Why can’t we have nice things? Oh right… (see below) [Deutsche Welle]
- Michael Kimmelman concedes that the Santiago Calatrava World Trade Center Transportation Hub looks pretty good, but he never really gets past how much it cost to produce the thing. $4 Billion in public money for the 18th busiest train station in New York. By comparison, Grand Central cost $80 million in private funds (about half the cost of the Transportation Hub adjusting for inflation.) [The New York Times]
