Thursday Links! Meaningless Gossip Edition
by The AFC Staff on August 9, 2012 ·
- Everyone’s gone Olympics mad, including British artists Gillian Wearing and Susan Philipsz. This week, Philipsz recorded herself tediously humming the national anthems from Grenada, Ethiopia, Russia, Bahrain, USA, Great Britain, Nigeria and Jamaica simultaneously, and Wearing took this crappy photograph of Usain Bolt after his 100m win, to which Guardian readers responded: “Don’t give up the day job, Gillian.” Yeah, we agree. [Guardian]
- Is Bravo doing something icky again? The anonymous gallery girl behind the Gallery Talk NY Tumblr claims she’s not affiliated with the show, but we think her Gallery Girls-friendly blog is a marketing ploy. (Gallery Talk NY)
- The MOCA crisis has taken to battling in the Facebook arena: board member Daniel Loeb commented on Paul Schimmel’s Facebook page, saying that “it might have been time for him to move on.“ Schimmel responded with a vague status update. (via @TylerGreenDC)
- Michigan might be the worst state for arts funding in the country—that’s why the Detroit Institute of Arts proposed a property tax to prevent the museum from falling into financial mud. ArtServe Michigan just came out with an infographic on how the arts fund job growth. Isn’t this just common sense? Well, I guess Michigan politicans aren’t easily convinced. (Hyperallergic)
- e-flux just came out with a new website to promote the .art domain! You have until August 12th to tell ICANN why e-flux should be able to administer the future of art-related internet real-estate. (e-flux)
- Seems like Pussy Riot has gained support from a few famous faces. Madonna performed in Moscow on Tuesday, and dedicated a few encouraging words to the Pussy Riot case, aided by flashcards. “I’m blessed to be from a country where I have the right to express my own opinion!”, she shouted to her applauding audience. Long live Madonna! German singer Peaches is currently writing a song called “Free Pussy Riot”. Can’t wait to hear it. We really hope it’s better than this one. [YouTube, The Independent]
- Light Industry will pay tribute to the life and films of Chris Marker by mounting an all-day screening of his films on August 26th. The event will close with a midnight screening of his 2004 film, The Case of the Grinning Cat. As we know, he sure did like cats. (Light Industry)
- If you’ve ever thought art speak sounds like Esperanto, then you’ll be in good company with Alix Rule and David Levine. For their “International Art English” (IAE) project at Triple Canopy the duo scoured e-flux press release archives to analyze that messy thing we call art talk. Oh, then they did something smart by feeding those press releases through Sketch Engine software to find patterns and trends. Over at ARTINFO, Kyle Chayka offers an insightful take on how IAE applies to my nomination for 2012’s most overused noun: “curator.” (ARTINFO, Triple Canopy)
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