Yep, this is coming. Credit: Miami New Times
- “Here’s a moron deal: private by-the-seat plane/heli will take you to Miami AFTER the fair opening.” [@MagdaSawon]
- Related Twitter Miami hating: “Cool response to someone telling u they going to Basel is ‘Oh why?’” [@nobody_stop_me]
- Chancellor George Osbourne delivered the UK’s Spending Review, and it looks like more money is finally going to arts and culture. Beyond scraping tax credit cuts, the Arts Council is seeing only a 5% cut to their overall budget. Apparently the arts council and the UK’s museums and galleries will see a cash increase in the next five years, and the British Museum, Science Museum and V&A will get new storage facilities. [BBC]
- End of the year listicles on nigh. Ben Davis gives an overview of 2015’s most memorable museum shows, name checking the New Museum’s Triennial and the Whitney’s “Greatest Hits”. [artnet News]
- A $3 million donation from the Niarchos Foundations to Athens’s National Museum of Contemporary—crucial to the completion of a major renovation—has been withdrawn because the institution “failed to meet the agreed terms”. [Artforum]
- British artist Sonia Boyce is creating the first database of black artists held in the UK’s public collections, and will likely set the record straight on the influence African artists had on modernism. [The Art Newspaper]
- Well, that was quick: Paul Allen’s new Seattle-based nonprofit arts organization, which is set to open in 11 days, will apparently close in March and become a gallery. This is what happens when billionaire collectors try to do something in the arts—it sometimes falls apart because it was only a passing investment interest. [The Stranger]
- Nigerian musicians have remade Prince’s Purple Rain. [The Guardian]
- Yet another Paris Art Fair has been cancelled in light of the terror attacks. This time it’s Also Known as Africa, a new fair focusing on contemporary African art. It’s now been postponed to 2016. [The Art Newspaper]
- An anonymous buyer has bought the sole copy of Wu-Tang’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin… concept album for an “undisclosed figure in the millions.” [Art News]
- Fans of SoftBank’s Pepper have launched an online store selling accessories and clothing for the humanoid robot. [Wall Street Journal]
- The secret histories of patterns: pre-Kusama, polka dots once signaled disease, and circa Medieval times, stripes were originally only worn by prostitutes and prisoners. [Quartz]
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