Cory Arcangel has teamed up with Bravado, the global music merchandising company, to launch his new line of Arcangel Surfware: lifestyle clothing for web surfing (sweatpants, bed sheets, etc). Fittingly, the merch will debut in a one-day-only pop-up shop at the Holiday Inn Soho. [Cory Arcangel]
AFC’s Corinna Kirsch goes on Temporary Art Review to talk about the future of art criticism. [Temporary Art Review]
Jerry Saltz isn’t giving up on the fight to save MoMA, whose renovation he believes will be “another Penn Station”. He thinks that if enough prominent artists from the collection get together and petition the museum, it might stop this “garden of Modernism” from becoming a “business-driven carnival”. [Vulture]
We admire Saltz’s effort, but based on what we’ve seen from Lowry, we don’t think critical opinion is a big motivating factor in MoMA’s decision-making. Two years ago at Frieze’s “Expanding Museums” panel, Lowry seemed to define public accessibility as placing the entrance closer to the street. He also anticipated this “period of discomfort”. “We all go someplace and it seems new and we get used to it, and then it changes, and we’re upset,” he said, “and in ten years if we change things people are going to be equally upset.” Ultimately, he pointed out, people don’t own the museum. [Frieze]
The vanished Malaysian flight MH370 is believed to have landed in the Indian Ocean, and passengers are presumed dead. Famed calligraphist Liu Rusheng was one of the passengers. [Daily Beast]
In time for spring, Ben Sutton rounds up 11 new public artworks around New York City. [Artnet]
“Every motherfucker in the world thinks they have a shot at hitting the lottery, which has odds of one in 259 million, but the best-educated students in America do not believe that they are signing up for several decades worth of debt slavery when they enroll in grad school, even though the odds of that are better than the odds of your art history degree landing you that curator gig at the Met.” [Gawker]
The Harlem explosion has led to the discovery of thousands of miles of corroding pipes which could also explode. [The Verge]
Lindsay Lohan has a reality show on Oprah. The first ten minutes features Lindsay yelling at somebody about not folding her clothes, and then a quick intervention from Oprah. We’re guessing that’s about the formula for the whole show. [PaperMag]
The 9/11 Memorial Museum will open in May, and will charge $24 for admission. Yuck. [The Art Newspaper]
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