via All Art News
- Today’s must-read: A great profile on MoMA’s curator Barbara London by Andrew Russeth. Her show “Soundings”, the museum’s first full-scale exhibition on sound art, opens to the public August 10th. [Gallerist]
- In case you missed this last week, Rhizome’s posting video footage that’s just been digitized through its XFR Station. One gem is Dov Jacobson’s vector animations, found in an early 80s compilation from the tech-focused East Village gallery RYO. [Rhizome]
- Detroit may be bankrupt, but its art scene is flourishing according to the Time’s Courtney Balestier. I’m skeptical. While the city’s low rents and big buildings may be good for younger artists, the city isn’t exactly providing great resources for who want to live there long term. Detroit’s public education system isn’t exactly in great shape. Pensions for city workers are in jeopardy, and many of these jobs are often held by artists. [The New York Times]
- Look, a study that doesn’t make me lose faith in humanity! James Cutting at Cornell proves that, while overexposure to “bad” art makes us like it less, exposure to “good” art makes us like it more. [The Economist]
- The Olympic Committee may send athletes home if they publicly support gay rights. [The New York Times]
- A new book featuring the polaroids by Dash Snow. We’re interested. [Animal]
- A train in Poland was yarn bombed! [Daily Mail]
- So, yesterday, on Andy Warhol’s birthday, The Warhol Museum launched a livestream of his grave. [Slate]
- How do you beat a city with a giant inflatable duck? Taiwan decided you make a giant-er inflatable duck. [All Art News]
- Peter Coviello talks about bar-room debate and loving things—music, art—for its own sake. [Frieze]
- If you thought “Last Pictures” was a little much, it gets even more absurd. Artist Katie Paterson is sending a tiny piece of moonrock around the earth in an air freight carrier for one year, to launch from the British Science Festival in September. [Katie Paterson, via Jonathan Jones]
