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Yoshitomo Nara
by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on January 20, 2016
- We’re currently in the midst of Europe’s pagan ritual season, which means we’ve been gifted with photos of glorious commedia dell’arte-meets-Dίa de los Muertos costumes of people dressing up as devils or boars to honour the earth goddess or improve the crop yield. [Dangerous Minds]
- Here’s an exhaustive survey of museum collections with some pretty depressing figures. It’s no surprise that the vast majority of artwork is never displayed, but it’s insane to think how much work by important or beloved artists has been hoarded into vaults, gathering dust. This chart, for example, tracks the holdings of 20 museums in 7 countries, focusing on the work of 13 major artists and it’s shocking to see how many crowd-pleasing names have been relegated to archival benchwarmer status. [Quartz]
- Yikes: a recent survey by the UK’s Museums Association has found that one in five museums (roughly 18%) have had to either close a branch or reduce their exhibition space in the past year or be forced to in 2016. Given the sustained deep cuts British institutions have faced, this comes as no surprise; the survey reveals surprisingly that despite the cuts, museums have seen a 61% increase in visitors over the past years. [Artforum]
- “[The Internet] encourages people to collapse any distinction between their work life, their social life, and their political life. ‘Hey, that person who tweets about the TV shows I like also dislikes injustice,’ which over time becomes ‘I can identify an ally by the TV shows they like.’ The fact that you can mine a Rihanna video for political content becomes, in that vague internety way, the sense that people who don’t see political content in Rihanna’s music aren’t on your side.” An essay on the ways the internet molds our politics. I agree with about 60% of the author’s thinking. [Medium]
- In anticipation of Takashi Murakami’s personal art collection being shown at the Yokohama Museum of Art, comes the expected preview coverage to pique your curiosities (if you have any): he collects a lot of traditional Edo period Japanese art, antique store finds (old beer mugs was mentioned) and fellow blue chip artists like Anselm Kiefer, Maurizio Cattelan and Yoshitomo Nara. Oh, and if you’re wondering who snapped up Frank Benson’s 3D printed sculpture of Juliana Huxtable from last year’s New Museum Triennial — it was your boy Superflat. [Hyperallergic]
- Yesterday a truck carrying work by Matisse, Chagall, Miro, Haring and Neiman was stolen from an industrial park in suburban LA. There aren’t many details about the case yet, but this looks like it will be a juicy story. [Los Angeles Times]
- Photographer Leila Alaoui has died from injuries she sustained in the recent Burkina Faso Siege. At the time, Alaoui was on assignment for Amnesty International for a photo series exploring women’s rights. She also just recently had a solo show at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. [PetaPixel]
- You’ve built up a sizable vinyl collection, and you get your new music fix from independently release cassette tapes. Well, guess what, discerning music fan? It’s not enough, because an Austrian audiophile company is attempted to resurrect another obsolete player: the reel-to-reel deck. [FACT]
- Sketchy: Josh Baer reports in his weekly mailer that a collector purchased an Ed Ruscha print for 18,150 GDP at LiveAuctioneers from Duchovnys Art. He paid for the piece immediately and has still not received it. These are the names of the dealers he worked with: Sean Duchovny (duchovnysart@gmail.com); Sean Rudy (comeseegallery@gmail.com); Gio (youlovepopart@gmail.com); Christopher D. Morris. Don’t do business with them. [The Baer Faxt]
- The US Government is putting 4 billion into self driving cars. They believe these cars will make the roads safer and will help the country transition as its population increases and more of its residents move to cities. [Dezeen]
- The Met is planning an 180,000 sq foot expansion project to accommodate it’s modern and contemporary collections, which will be displayed at the former Whitney location on the UES in the interim. How many moms of Central Park are going to rally against this one? [New York Post]
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