Thursday Links: Protests, Scaring David Bowie, and Falling in Love With Art
by Paddy Johnson on April 26, 2012 ·
- Occupy Wall Street protests Frieze New York. They also support New York City & Vicinity District Council of Carpenters who say the fair uses contractors who “do not pay the area standard wages to all their employees including providing or fully paying for health benefits and pension” The contractor was not named. [The Art Newspaper]
- A day after Cooper Union announced it would begin charging graduate students tuition in September 2012, students walked out. [Gallerist]
- Artist Dawn Kasper scares David Bowie out of The Whitney. [NYTimes]
- The making of. An art installer tumblr is born. [installator.tumblr.com]
- What part of your brain falls in love with art? [Hyperallergic]
- Amazon turk workers describe pictures taken by the “Descriptive Camera”. [NYTimes]
- “When I arrived in the city in 1991, I don’t even think there were five sommeliers in NYC.” says Paul Grieco of Terroir. It seems the field has grown some. [Eater]
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