- Is it possible to build a sixth borough in the middle of New York Harbor? Yes, but it would be extremely difficult and also, why? [The Awl]
- 68-year-old sculptor Gabriel Koren has had a studio in DUMBO for 28 years. Her rent just doubled to a whopping $3,000/month. Now, she’s facing eviction and an uncertain future for her large works—bronze sculptures of African American historical figures. It’s a pretty heartbreaking and all-too-common Brooklyn gentrification story. [The New York Times]
- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is accepting applications for The Satellite Show Miami Beach. They’re offering a pretty affordable opportunity for artist-run spaces to exhibit during Art Basel Miami Beach week. [Tiger Strikes Asteroid]
- Artist Amy Wilson remembers the time Republican presidential candidate George Pataki publicly accused her of “denigrating America”. It’s an insane story that began with a right-wing journalist digging around for an excuse to complain about the Drawing Center’s potential move to the WTC site in the mid 2000s. [Hyperallergic]
- Museum attendance is booming. People seem to really like art, or at least art institutions. But Art History professor Michael Lewis claims contemporary Americans are indifferent to art and refuse to critique it. What? Has Lewis used social media lately? It seems to me that nearly all minutiae of visual culture (let alone artwork) is picked-over with a fine-tooth comb and subjected to the “think piece” treatment. [NPR]
- The glorious history of the 1980s magazine Spy‘s attacks on Donald Trump and his threats of legal retaliations. [Vanity Fair]
- A look at why art theft—estimated to exceed $6 billion annually—is so hard to investigate. [Slate]
- John Chiaverina reviews Jaimie Warren’s Somebody to Love at American Medium. [ARTnews]
- Fashion houses sure have a lot of money to spend on art exhibitions. The Fondazione Prada in Milan recently opened in a gorgeous campus designed by Rem Koolhaas. In Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton opened a museum by Frank Gehry that’s ….designed by Frank Gehry. Read how else the two institutions measure up. [The Art Newspaper]
- Nominations for the Prix Net Art Award close today just before midnight! [Prix Net Art]
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