Hyunju Kim “NUBIGi, 000, 095” made from sewing-machine thread.
- The Paley Center for Media is hosting an exhibition of all Star-Trek-themed art from 50 artists to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. It looks like most of it is the kitsch you would expect, but I would totally own this thread portrait of Spock. [Space.com]
- In other news surrounding futuristic interplanetary relations, here’s a breakdown of just how Elon Musk plans to transport colonists to Mars. [Space.com]
- Remember when we wrote about Medium Quality Screen Captures? The Facebook group is now a print publication and its first issue is out. For $8 you can own a black-and-white zine on the crowd-sourced topic of “Romance.” [Medium Quality]
- Curbed has a new map of starchitect-designed buildings coming to New York, from museums and libraries to residential high rises—and actually, more than one residential high rise that includes a museum and/or library. [Curbed]
- Uh-oh. You know that pumpkin latte, pumpkin pie and pumpkin spice you’ve been consuming? It’s not pumpkin. It’s squash. This story seems on a par to learning that Hello Kitty isn’t a cat. [Food & Wine]
- Here are the long-awaited results of Iggy Pop’s nude modelling session at the Brooklyn Museum. Maybe it’s the staff he’s holding, but some of these drawings kinda look like Lord of the Rings fan art. [Dazed]
- Printed Web Founder Paul Soulellis talks with internationally acclaimed GIF artist Lorna Mills. I love this interview, mostly because Mills is so fucking smart. When asked about the relationship of her work to cinema, Mills replies, “I am looking for something else. In the past I’ve described this something else as the particular and peculiar expanding to universals that, at an alarming rate, contract right back to the particular and peculiar—basically, constant oscillation punctuated by the odd abrupt rhythm.” It’s the most precise description of her GIFs I can imagine. [Rhizome]
- Artist Malcolm Peacock’s latest piece involves a tour of a park that was once a segregation-era pool. Today the site is marked by a somewhat-forgotten memorial from MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient Joyce J. Scott. Peacock’s work will touch on death, race, and more. We don’t know exactly what to expect, but many have speculated it will be a book. It’s not a book. [City Paper]
- The Sacramento Jeff Koons debate rages on over Facebook. Tim Foster, a local writer and musician, notes that all those complaining about the philanthropic money that went to purchasing a public art work by Jeff Koons should have been spent on local artists, don’t have a history of supporting the arts themselves. Two years ago, The Crest, a 25 year old theatre known for supporting the arts, was pushed out of their home due to a landlord who hoped to make more money off the real estate. There wasn’t half the outcry. [Facebook]
- Saddam Hussein’s former Basra palace has been reborn as an antiquities museum. I guess that’s one not-terrible outcome of the invasion. [artnet News]
- A map charting the locations of the best Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the US. [Curbed]
- David Shrigley’s new bronze sculpture “Really Good” in Trafalgar Square lives up to its name (it’s a giant thumb’s up, appropriate among bombastic monuments). Here’s an interview with the artist about the art/design/illustration divide, the Brexit, and more. [Dezeen]
- Anish Kapoor claims the repeated vandalism of his vaginal sculpture at Versailles was an “inside job.” What does that even mean? [The Art Newspaper]
