DONALD TRUMP DOG! [The Guardian]
- Is there anything better than the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade? [Gothamist]
- The NYPD Union is calling for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino because the filmmaker spoke at an anti police brutality rally in Washington Square Park, where he made the apparently controversial statement: “When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers.” The Union has no actual plan as to how a boycott of Quentin Tarantino is going to proceed, but they did respond by showing up in riot gear and arresting 11 demonstrators, including a 70 year old woman. [VICE]
- CCS Bard has launched a new online student-run journal. We’ve only poked around on it, but it looks pretty great so far. The first issue is titled “The Artworld is Normal” and features artist-made pop-up ads alongside headier articles. [aCCeSsions]
- James McAnally makes a lot of good points and asks a lot of good questions in “After the alternative is another alternative: A Radicalization of the Artist-Run”. There are now thousands of artist-run spaces putting on shows and facilitating other programming/services, scattered across living rooms and warehouses and garages in nearly every city. Are these actually an “alternative” cultural network, one which can exist in political difference with the mainstream art world and capitalist goals? (I imagined an analogy to punk houses) Or is the “artist-run” always viewed as a stepping stone toward the ultimate goal of commercial success and museum shows? I’d argue that depends a lot on surprisingly-relevant local conditions—for example, generally, New York’s artist-run spaces are stepping stones to mainstream success; Miami’s function in symbiotic opposition/co-option of the hyper-commercial model; and Baltimore’s have effectively become the city’s art world, eclipsing weaker institutions and commercial spaces in both volume of programming and exposure. [Temporary Art Review]
- Gentrification in the Bay Area has reached such insane heights that it is now cheaper to commute by plane from Las Vegas than rent a one bedroom in San Francisco. Yes, really, though it is not recommended. [Business Insider]
- Afraid of showing up to a Halloween party in the same costume as 10 other people? Google Labs has a new service that tells you what costumes are trending where, based on searches. In case you were wondering, New Yorkers are dressing as superheroes this year, which is a pretty common look nationally. The costume most uniquely popular in the Big Apple: Cinderella …which might make sense given the city’s obsession with glamour and growing class disparities. [Frightgeist]
- The listicle we never knew we needed: eight of the best weed-themed artworks. [artnet News]
- Beautiful landscape photography as seen through the lens of a nutsack. [Daily Dot]
- What is the purpose of art? 9 curators, museum directors and artists weigh in. Not exactly an uplifting read. Many are concerned with war. [The Art Newspaper]
- Painters or people who work on paper, these charts are so useful. Marc Trujillo has been experimenting with different art materials to test their lightfastness, among other qualities. Never buy white oil paint without looking at how yellow some of these brands will be in a year! [The Huffington Post]
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