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by Rhett Jones on August 4, 2016
- After a year-long campaign by the activist group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Apple has replaced its revolver emoji with a squirt gun. I guess that’s progress. [Hyperallergic]
- Architects are also trying their hands at curbing gun violence. Spurred by terrorist attacks and mass shootings, a new interest in safety and making people feel safer has arisen in the architecture community. Phrases like “natural surveillance” are a little unnerving but the focus on making people feel less isolated seems like a step in the right direction. [Motherboard]
- Antiques have declined in overall value by 45% since 2002 so antique fairs are jumping into the contemporary art market. [The Guardian]
- That guy who made the art pricing app filled with stolen images and data says it will be coming back. His argument is that many of the images are user generated and that no one is calling for Instagram to be taken down. It’s true, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc are billion dollar businesses built on copyright violation. This guy’s still kind of a jackass though. [The Art Newspaper]
- Looks like Moscow’s Garage museum is putting that VICE money to use. It will expand to a second location on New Holland Island in St. Petersburg. [ArtNews]
- An inspired journalist from The Hollywood Reporter has answered the question of how tiny Donald Trump’s hands are. The exclusive information was obtained by walking down to Madame Tussaud’s and measuring Trump’s wax figure. So now, dear reader, you too can compare your hands to Donald Trump’s. They’re pretty tiny. For a 6’ 2”, 200 pound man, they’re very tiny. [The Hollywood Reporter]
- Bill Viola is set to install a second video work at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The work, entitled “Mary,” will be a companion piece to Viola’s Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) from 2014. [The Art Newspaper]
- Jens Hoffman is leaving his position as deputy director at the Jewish Museum. He’ll still handle special exhibitions and will be working with other institutions. [ArtNews]
- Photographer Jeff Wall is joining go-go-Gagosian after spending 25 years with Marian Goodman. [New York Times]
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by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on June 9, 2016
- John Seed has a tongue-in-cheek idea to boost museum attendance: advertise the value of the artwork on display. [The Huffington Post]
- Biogenic tattoos are apparently a thing now. Also known as morbid ink, the originally fringe practice of mixing tattoo ink with biogenic materials like cremated ash and even carbonized hair is going mainstream, and has been embraced by biotech startups. [Motherboard]
- Our friends at Platform Arts Center in Baltimore have had a break-in, where power tools and exhibition materials such as display monitors were stolen. Please consider donating to their Paypal! [Platform Arts Center]
- Houston’s planned mega-suburbs have some weird public art, as Corinna Kirsch discovered in The Woodlands. Now rival enclave Sugar Land has installed a bronze sculpture of two girls taking a selfie. Predictably, the internet is losing its shit about it. [CNET]
- The sacrilege of it all: conservators will likely shudder over the recent discovery that a 14th century Italian altarpiece in the collection of London’s National Gallery fell from an easel and broke in half… 27 years ago. [Art Newspaper]
- Moscow’s Garage Museum just announced it will be organizing the first Russian art triennial in March 2017. [Artforum]
- After seven months behind bars, Russian dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky is free. Found guilty of setting fire to the door of Russia’s Federal Security Service headquarters as part of a conceptual art piece, the artist avoided jail time but has been fined almost 1 million rubles for damages. He’s refusing to pay the fines, and has asked his supporters not to pay either. [Observer]
- Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has stopped loans to the United States over fears that Cuban expats could sue to have the state-owned artworks seized as retribution for the country’s wealth re-distribution in 1959. Until this situation is resolved, the Bronx Museum’s forthcoming exhibition of contemporary Cuban artists, Wild Noise, will be postponed. [Art Newspaper]
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