Artist Olafur Eliasson and his parrot
- Why does Olafur Eliasson have a parrot on his shoulder throughout most of his pitch for his solar iPhone charger, Little Sun? The video is part of a Kickstarter campaign to raise $56,345 to produce the final version of this charger. He’s only got 967 backers but has raised $123,025 making the average donation $127. (He’s landed two pledges at $7888, the highest amount you can ask for on Kickstarter in exchange for a studio visit). Oh, art world. Never change. [Kickstarter]
- Franklin Sirmans has been named the new director of the Perez Art Museum in Miami. Sirmans, currently the department head and curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, just finished curating the Prospect Triennial in New Orleans last year. The Times asked him about what shows he’d be planning, though I don’t know why that’s relevant. It’s a fundraising position. Sirmans is the latest high profile curators to take on directorship positions, the most notable being Philippe Vergne at MoCA L.A. [The New York Times]
- Inside the Tenement Museum: lots of severed doll heads, a dead rat, aspirin tins and more. [Gothamist]
- Jaimie Warren DIY sets and videos at American Medium get a review from Martha Schwendener at the Times. I can’t parse what she’s saying in the last paragraph—she likes Warren’s allusions to history?—but it seems like she liked it. [The New York Times]
- Oooh juicy. A review that skewers the three summer shows at the Power Plant and then proceeds to complain that assigning the curation of those three shows to one assistant curator—Julia Paoli—is too much. The revolving staff door at the institution gets a mention. Finally. It’s not exactly a secret that this place is hamstrung by its leadership. [CanadianArt]
- An exhaustive selfie guide for men. [Medium via metafilter]
