Paul Fusco, from Robert Kennedy Funeral Train, USA (1968) © Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos. Courtesy International Center of Photography
- Paul Fusco’s photograph of mourners watching Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral train, now on view in Magnum Manifesto at the International Center of Photography, is Christian Viveros-Fauné’s must-see pick in New York right now. [Art Agency, Partners]
- The NYT profiles Carter Burden Gallery, which only shows artists who are at least sixty years old. [The New York Times]
- Brad Troemel is calling out Russian designer Vika Gazinskaya on social media. Her Spring 2018 collection, shown recently at Paris Fashion Week, appears to blatantly plagiarize his paintings. Gazinskaya has since admitted that Troemel inspired her work, but had not credited the references because she didn’t know his name. [ARTnews]
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg upcoming show at Fridman Gallery sounds really creepy. The artist worked with Chelsea Manning while the latter was imprisoned. Photographs of Manning were prohibited, so to construct a “portrait”, Dewey-Hagborg extrapolated possible faces from a DNA sample. These are the results of that process. [U.S. News]
- Whoa. South African artist Zanele Muholi filmed her Airbnb host throwing her friend, filmmaker Sibahle Nkumbi, down the stairs of an apartment building in Amsterdam. Nkumbi ended up in the hospital. The man is being charged with attempted manslaughter.[artnet News]
- Cringe-inducing relational aesthetics idea of the century: Kristian von Hornsleth has attached GPS tracking units to homeless people in London, who can then be “bought” as “human Tamagotchi” and tracked by collectors for £25,000. Why are people so awful? [The Sun]
- Xenia Rubinos’ “Mexican Chef” is the danceable social justice jam of the Summer. [YouTube]
