- Puppets singing lounge-style as they recount a museum date. [YouTube]
- Is this the new normality we have to live with? To hashtag a city with the phrase “terrorist attacks” following? To expect safety check updates from Facebook friends in that region? Brussels’s airport and metro were hit by explosions early this morning. So far it’s been confirmed that 11 killed and 81 injured at Zaventem airport, 15 killed and 55 injured at Maelbeek metro. [Al Jazeera]
- Prospect New Orleans has announced it’s opening dates: Saturday, November 11th 25th, 2017 through February. So, mark your calendars. Also, a newly-formed Artistic Director’s Council has assembled to help Artistic Director (and Nasher curator) Trevor Schoonmaker achieve his vision. What a line up: Miranda Lash Curator at the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Artistic Director, Untitled, Miami, and artist Ebony G. Patterson. [Press Release]
- Podcast of the day: Artelligence has an interview with Adam Fields of Arta, an uber-esque platform for matching galleries and collectors with appropriate shipping options. If you want to go deep on white gloved art shipping — or revisit previous traumas of shipping gone awry, since who enjoys it? — give this a listen. [Artelligence Podcast]
- This recap of last week’s TEFAF Maastricht suggests it was a “refreshing expansion” in terms of exhibitors being unafraid to distinguish between fine and decorative art, high art and craft. Death to 19th art historian barriers! [The Economist]
- Behold, the latest entry in the annals of allowing the internet the freedom to name something: the R.S.S. Boaty McBoatface, the proposed name of a new British polar research ship. People are really excited about this name—the poll has been hit so hard by traffic it’s gone down several times. [New York Times]
- Christopher Knight weighs in on the dual Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective at LACMA and the Getty; despite the awkward LACMA wall text regarding Mapplethorpe’s “openly gay lifestyle” (according to Knight, “an accurate wall text would say he advocated living an openly gay life”) the show is a worthwhile collaboration involving the institutions’ joint acquisition of Mapplethorpe’s 1970s and 1980s photography alongside the artist’s archive of supporting materials. [Los Angeles Times]
- Don’t miss The Conversation with Andrew Russeth. We’re a little late on this—it was made back in December—but it’s worth a listen. Highlights include: The observation that the best work being made today is sculpture, that middle tier galleries who have been in business for 10 plus years have it really hard, and that Lucien Smith and Oscar Murillo aren’t all that, but Anicka Yi is. Also an interesting question from Podcast host Michael Shaw: Are there conservative critics any more? According to Russeth, no. Just people who get out to more places. [The Conversation // Art Podcast]
- Holland Cotter really is a hero. Nobody else at the paper of record so consistently brings to light the political and economic issues that shape the art industry. In his most recent piece (published last Friday), he writes about museums that take money from ethically challenge corporations, increasing gentrification and the museum’s role in that and more. [The New York Times]
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