Jennifer Chan, “Are YOU an Art Bro?” (Image via Rhizome)
- A useful definition of an “art bro”: someone who doesn’t believe in solidarity, thinks the art world is equal as is, and enforces alpha/beta male hierarchies. This comes out of an Ann Hirsch interview with Jennifer Chan for Rhizome. The profile was published a few months ago, but relevant as ever. [Rhizome]
- With a weakened Euro, European collectors might be deterred from participating in the spring art auctions. “The euro is just killing Europe, but it’s killing Italy more than anything else,” dealer Otto Naumann tells Bloomberg. [Bloomberg Business]
- Investor Frans Broersen wants to see the price of North Korean artworks skyrocket. He’s known for buying up relatively cheap artworks (before anyone else) from Russia around the time of the communist government’s collapse. Now his firm is doing the same with North Korean artworks. [Canoe via Agence France-Presse]
- Bertolt Brecht’s heirs have sued German theater director Frank Castorf for putting on a version of Baal that doesn’t stick to Brecht’s original script. [Deutsche Welle]
- If you live in Bushwick, it might help if you know how to say more than “taco” in Spanish. Starting this week, Silent Barn is offering Spanish classes for beginners. Go. It’ll be good for you. [Silent Barn]
- New York City’s public parks fall into two camps: those funded by millionaires and those funded by the city. Guess which ones are in better shape? [The New Republic]
- Christian Viveros-Fauné on Titus Kaphar, an artist who’d been stopped by police on Tenth avenue and accused of being part of a “black ring on art thieves”. What? All too appropriately, Kaphar had been working on a series of paintings about the current civil rights movement. While he finds clichés in some of those paintings at Jack Shainman, others are “a bullet to the heart.” [Village Voice]
- India spends far more time reading than we do per week, but at least the British are worse than we are. [Mental Floss]
- If you’re willing to line up with hoards of people bitching about subway service, then congratulations! You’ll get pizza. Tonight at 7PM, the Brooklyn Movement Center (375 Stuyvesant Avenue) is hosting a think-tank to hear the public’s complaints about the C train, with pizza. [Brokelyn]
