- The corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue is temporarily being renamed “Bill Cunningham Corner.” The Mayor is allowed to rename a street for a week, in order to make it permanent, the change would have to be approved by the city council. [DNAinfo]
- ArtList, an app startup for anonymous secondary market sales of art has shut down. Artnet News spoke with art advisor Todd Levin about the startup’s downfall. His view is that internet-based platforms aren’t ready for high-end work and can only hope for “momentarily younger hotter artists like Parker Ito, Kour Pour, and Ibrahim Mahama, who don’t always stand up to the test of time.” [artnet News]
- Under the Sun, the documentary about North Korea has been released and currently has an 83% score on Metacritic. The film was controversially pulled from MoMA’s Doc Fortnight Festival over fears of retaliation from North Korea. That decision resulted in longtime assistant curator, Sally Berger, being fired. [Metacritic]
- Young Thug says there is no such thing as gender. While no one should hurt themselves trying to pat him on the back, homophobia is a rampant problem in the hip-hop world and it’s kind of a big deal that those words are coming from the most-hyped rapper around. [Dazed]
- A reminder that you do not have to enter a police station to ‘catch ’em all’ in the new Pokemon augmented reality game. [Polygon]
- 28 years later, Anthony Haden-Guest explains how he did NOT kill Jean-Michel Basquiat.[artnet News]
- Vice has bought a majority stake in Garage magazine, a Russian oligarch’s wife’s “art, architecture, fashion and design” publication. Having never read Garage we can’t speak to the quality of the art coverage. But, they have an app where you can check out issues and if you use it to scan Kendall Jenner’s photo at the following link you’ll “bring her to life.” [Recode]
- You have exactly one extra second to get those grant applications in this year. [Phys.org]
