Superflex, Bankrupt Banks (2012).
- Art duo FICTILIS has opened the Museum of Capitalism in a former industrial space in Oakland. The museum contains works from artists, theorists, and economists that try to imagine the legacy of capitalism from the perspective of its end. Interesting stuff. [artnet News]
- Hurricane season is upon us. This news report might be of interest to anyone else who has wondered how the bayfront Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is designed to hold up in a hurricane. The Herzog & de Meuron designed structure is built from a totally luxurious palette of materials, sits just next to the water, and has huge windows facing the bay. Supposedly everything about the building is super storm-proof. The confidence with which this is repeatedly expressed feels a lot like famous last words. [CBS Miami]
- Apartment seeking? Here’s a map and guide to all the affordable housing lotteries one can enter in New York City right now. [Curbed]
- Karen Green, Columbia University’s first-ever curator for comics. is now the subject of a comic book herself. The biography comes from Nick Sousanis, the guy who submitted his dissertation in comics form while a doctoral candidate in 2015. [boingboing]
- Every 10 years, the Venice Biennale, Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and Art Basel align to create one jam-packed art summer for Europe. This year the brave writers at ARTnews are trying to do it all, as a contemporary version of “The Grand Tour”. [ARTnews]
- Fisun Güner considers the way artists’ dark personal lives affect the way their work is contextualized or received (the protests that accompany Carl Andre’s exhibitions, for example, because he’s accused of murdering his wife Ana Mendieta). There are some good lesser-known stories in here, such as Kenneth Halliwell’s murder of his gay lover, playwright Joe Orton, and how that story is framed at Tate Britain’s show Queer British Art. [BBC]
- Delta Airlines has pulled its sponsorship of New York’s Public Theater popular Shakespeare in the Park program because a production of Julius Caesar has a scene that alludes to the assassination of Donald Trump (yes, really). This was a nontroversy until Fox News (of course) criticized the production, which subsequently got the president’s attention and inspired more anti-art funding tweets. Ugh. [Inc.]
