- Gavin Brown’s Enterprise is moving to Harlem. Wow! What changes will this art gallery’s move signal for the neighborhood? Perhaps not too many as Gavin Brown already lives in Harlem—now he’s moving his business closer to home. The location of the move will be 461 W. 126th Street, a building listed on Chashama’s website as being home to 42 artist workspaces. What will happen to those studios when GBE moves in? [The New York Times]
- Here’s a reason to visit Northridge, California: a 10-story-tall Michael Jackson mural from the early 90s will soon go on view at the Museum of the San Fernando Valley. [Los Angeles Times]
- Andrea K. Scott finds enchantment in a fashion-art show in the Lower East Side. Fashion-art hybrid Susan Cianciolo has a retrospective at Bridget Donahue in the form of 30 cardboard box “kits” installed on the floor. That’s pretty minimal for a fashion designer, but for those who want glamour there’s a wall lined with costumes Cianciolo recently designed for a German production of Hamlet. [The New Yorker]
- Space law from 1966. [The British Library]
- There are so many factual inaccuracies in this Bloomberg feature on how dealers, collectors, and artists use Instagram it’s hard to know where to begin. But surely the most hilariously blooper of the whole segment is the running slideshow of Instagrams taken by “Kadar Radar,” artist Kadar Brock, which includes images of art and his gaming miniatures from a D&D knockoff game called Pathfinder. [Bloomberg Business via Timothy Hutchings]
- New York City’s expired rent regulations have been given a five-day extension, until Tuesday. [Crain’s New York Business]
- Free dance in the summer! A list of recommendations and interviews with the artists behind those works. [The New York Times]
- The Alamo has a new official kitty. Meow! [My San Antonio]
- Sony stopped making replacement parts for Aibo pet robots, which leaves many Japanese owners anxious. This video documenting the connection between the owners and these pets is so worth eight minutes of your time. [The New York Times]
- David Liss, the executive director and curator of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA), has finally found his institution a new home. It’s a doozy! They’ll occupy the first two-and-a-half floors of a renovated Tower Automotive Building in late 2016 or early 2017 at 158 Sterling Rd. [The Globe and Mail]
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