MoMA’s garden, image courtesy of MoMA
- Tina Barney, who’s known for semi-intimate portraits of her family, often in Lilly Pulitzer, joins Paul Kasmin gallery. [artnet News]
- Photographer Lisa Oppenheim joins Tanya Bonakdar. [Art News]
- Wes Anderson’s cinematographer describes shooting nine iconic Wes Anderson-y scenes. Some interesting nuggets: He says Disney executives wanted to cut the establishing montage from Rushmore. Wes Anderson arranged all the hair on the sink in Richie’s suicide attempt scene in The Royal Tenenbaums. They filmed in different aspect ratios to set the era in The Grand Budapest Hotel. [Vulture]
- JUICY: in a teaser for a Vanity Fair piece framed as a Battle of the Museums (MoMA and the Met), Glenn Lowry’s rumored to be heading to Sotheby’s from MoMA. MoMA denies rumors saying he just signed a new contract. The rest is filled with words like “blood” and “money”, and a weirdly-hyped section about MoMA’s decision whether to open its garden to the public after the next renovation. ? The piece hits stands January 13th. [Vanity Fair]
- Reactive cartoons poured forth on social media yesterday in response to the shooting of colleagues from Charlie Hebdo. Intentions may have been good, but it’s a little disturbing that the Internet only ever always speeds up after a tragedy. Charlie Hebdo routinely caricatured religious figureheads like the prophet Muhammed; based on previous attacks, the press assumes that these prompted the murders. [Mashable]
- Christian Viveros-Faune on Tania Bruguera’s “Tatlin’s Whisper” for artnet News. Bruguera was arrested in Cuba last Tuesday in an attempt to restage the performance first launched in 2009 for the Havana biennial in which she offered people one minute free of censorship and a loud speaker. She was subsequently released and rearrested twice and is now in custody. [Artnet News]
- Christian Viveros-Faune on Sarah Thornton’s 33 Artists in 3 Acts. The book gets a thumbs down for being too nice to its subjects. That’s disappointing. 7 Days in the Art World was pretty great relative to what’s being described here. We’ll be reading the book ourselves and report back. [The Village Voice]
- Does cynicism forego people’s ability to understand Thomas Hirschhorn’s housing project monuments/philosophically oriented community centers? A Blade of Grass has sourced a series of responses to our Gramsci Monument follow-up piece last year, including commentary from Anna Dezeuze, art historian and author of a book on Hirschhorn’s work; Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, curator at El Museo del Barrio; and Lex Brown, who taught and worked at the monument. Thrilled to have this conversation continued. [A Blade of Grass]
- In case you missed it, bloggers have been jumping on Russell Crowe after he advised female actors over 40 to seek age-appropriate roles in order to find more work. That’s assuming that lots of those roles exist, but the desire for them is not totally ageist. Meryl Streep agrees. [Vanity Fair]
