- Tyler Green’s got a problem with about five million facts the Washington Post got wrong in a story about Hide/Seek, one year after the scandal at the Smithsonian. Hard to believe such basic errors could be made. Jacqueline Trescott described the exhibition as “the first ever major show about same-sex intimacy”, a mistake that would be hard to make even if you’d never heard anything about Hide/Seek. Also, as Green points out, the show wasn’t about intimacy so much as the impact gay and lesbian artists have had on American art. [Modern Art Notes]
- Canadian auction records always seem small to me. [The Art Newspaper]
- OMG, people need to stop talking about David Hockney’s iPhone and iPad paintings like they’re some work of genius. I get the feeling none of these “experts” have seen other iphone art as a point of comparison. [Bloomberg]
- Relatedly, making the rounds today: Hockney not Hirst is the most British influential artist of all time according to a survey taken by over 1000 British painters and sculptors. What artist is going to give a shit about this? [The Independent]
- Dramatic Prairie Dog [Tom Moody]
- Martin Brominski has some fantastic pictures from Tamara Zahaykevich’s exhibition at Kansas (closed last month). Man, am I ever sorry I missed that show. [Anaba]
- More Tom Moody annotations, this time on an essay Marjorie Perloff wrote about the connection between the internet and the concrete poetry of Augusto De Campos, his brother Haroldo and Decio Pignatari. A few holes are identified. [Tom Moody]
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I am trying to think of the most British influential artist of all time. Constable, maybe? Gainsborough?
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