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by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on June 20, 2014
- This week at Artnet, Paddy talks about Iñaki Bonillas’s Dia Art Foundation web-based commission “Words and Photos.” It’s a hard-to-navigate word guessing game. [artnet News]
- The Broad is hosting a talk between comedian Steve Martin and artist Eric Fischl. Why? They’re buddies and Steve Martin’s been a longtime collector of Fischl’s work. It’s on Monday in Los Angeles, but you’ll be able to livestream it. [e-flux]
- Mallory Ortberg dug up a 1966 letter to the editors of Cat Fancy from Ayn Rand, explaining the philosophical value of cats to her. Since Rand wrote searing volumes on freeloaders, and is now the philosophical artillery store for Republicans who want to cut food stamps, it’s fascinating to see her make an exception for cats: because they amuse her. Bloggers discuss. [The Objective Standard]
- Even net artists get Internet anxiety. In Bedford + Bowery, Giselle Zatonyl talks about the way the Internet digests information into dog food and how people process their anxieties online. It makes me sorry I missed her show “Discrete Systems” during Bushwick Open Studios. Eight more days to see the show. [Bedford + Bowery]
- New York is so close to launching a pilot program for medical marijuana. And lawmakers are voting on the bill, which includes a “no smoking” provision, today. You can eat it, but you can puff on it. [New York Magazine]
- Sad but good: Detroit is auctioning off foreclosed homes on the Internet. They’re hoping to fend off the speculators by stipulating that buyers must pay to renovate the homes and live there. [City Lab]
- Noticed at Art Basel: Art collector flipping a purchase the same day he bought it. This is shitty. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
- Artpace calls for applicants to its San Antonio residency. They will accept one Texan artist, one non-Texan from the US, and one foreigner. [Glasstire]
- A banned Grey Poupon ad, for sandwich poopers! [Petflow, via Michael Anthony Farley]
- If we were in Philly this weekend, we know what we’d be doing: Force Field Project, an artist collaboration/festival of large scale installations and performances in unused spaces. I confidently recommend ceramicist, curator (and AFC friend) Sean Gerstley, who will be showing raku-fired raccoons. Get your tickets here. [Force Field Project, program guide]
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