The new Cloaque video is out! Like the exquisite corpse tumblr, this year’s video builds on the years before it. Artists include Sabrina Ratté, Akihiko Taniguchi, Pascual Sisto, Geoffrey Lillemon and Joe Hamilton. Music by Dylan Galletly. [YouTube]
Rebecca Marino shot some film photos of The Artist-Run at SATELLITE which have a very nostalgic air—exactly how we’re feeling! Can we all go back? [Conflict of Interest]
Our installation at the Artist-Run, F.A.G. Bar also get’s a shout-out in Cool Hunting’s recap! [Cool Hunting]
This is terrible. The bodies of artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer have been found bound and murdered in a Mumbai suburb. Her installations were internationally acclaimed depictions of sprawl and displacement in rapidly-urbanizing India. [Times of India]
Indian police have several suspects in Upadhyay’s murder, including one in custody. [The Indian Express]
Is the capacity to induce boredom one of art’s strengths? [NPR]
Artist and gallerist Jared Madere exchanged his Bed-Stuy apartment for an RV he now lives in and runs a gallery out of. The truck/gallery is called “Bed-Stuy Love Affair” and is described by Madere as “a goth carni bus.” for its black exterior and chaining metal fences over the windows. [New York Magazine]
Dushko Petrovich explores the trend of deceased artists being included in contemporary art surveys. Visitors to Greater New York or The Whitney Biennial should be familiar with this concept. [ARTnews]
And for something wholly unrelated to art: The ethics of crowdsourcing organ donors! [Toronto Life]
This is exciting: The Whitney is going to be taking full advantage of its new column-free digs with a program known as Open Plan. Beginning in February 2016, we can look forward to full-floor installations from Michael Heizer, Andrea Fraser, Steve McQueen, Lucy Dodd and Cecil Taylor. [The Art Newspaper]
North Korea’s official “girl band” Moranbong Band has been mysteriously recalled from their planned tour of China. The group is known for glamorous outfits, synthesizers, and militaristic imagery. Check out the video of the group performing in front of 3D renderings of North Korean missiles exploding. [The Washington Post]
The inside story on the Paris climate change deal: making sure it Republican- proofed. [The Guardian]
Lots of handwringing that the uneven results at last night’s Sotheby’s “Masterworks” sale. The works for sale were from the [Alfred] Taubman Collection, an ex-chief of Sotheby’s who was notoriously convicted of price-fixing in 2001. Do the results signal a cooling of the market? Were the results a referendum on him? (Ha, yeah right.) And why did Sotheby’s guarentee all the work, when the consensus seems is that Taubman’s collection wasn’t very strong. (Both dealer Richard Feigen and consultant Josh Baer are on record about that.) Best blow by blow of the auction comes from Lee Rosenbaum’s storify. [Culturegrrl]
Artists are upset about the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit that the Brooklyn Museum is hosting. There’s an open letter circulating and lots of angry tweets. In response the museum posted a statement on their blog essentially saying they’re just the renter and don’t share the opinions of those at the conference. They’ve also reached out to the conference organizers. Let’s call this developing. [The Brooklyn Museum]
The new Whitney Biennial curators have been chosen. They are: Christopher Y. Lew, an associate curator at the Whitney, and Mia Locks, a former assistant curator at MoMA P.S.1. The biennial will take place in 2017 rather than 2016 to allow the curators more time to get used to the building. [The New York Times]
The European Union announced last week that it will not ban cadmium red paint. I guess concerns that the pigment pollutes the food chain were not enough to assuage the will of art lovers. [The Art Newspaper]
Restorers have discovered a man pooping in a painting owned by the Royal Collection Trust. Think about that. [Smithsonian]
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