Tuesday Links: Ai Weiwei Escapes His Fine
by Will Brand on October 2, 2012 ·
- Ai Weiwei told the Guardian yesterday that the Chinese government is closing down his company, Fake Cultural Development, for failing to meet “annual registration requirements.” Ai is using the occasion to claim victory over his tax case, since the roughly $2.4 million fine was levied on the firm, rather than the artist personally; we don’t have an in-house Chinese liability law expert, but that sounds good to us. He still can’t travel. [Guardian]
- Tyler Green’s reporting from ArtPrize is excellent and spot-on. [Modern Art Notes]
- According to Brian Boucher at Art in America, Merchandise Mart has put the Armory Show, Volta, and Art Platform Los Angeles up for sale. We say: Good. [Art in America]
- Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the LA Times, doesn’t like the new Stedelijk Museum building. [Los Angeles Times]
- Farhad Manjoo’s opinion piece on the evils of pagination got a lot of ‘Yup’s from us. [Slate]
- The 2012 MacArthur Fellows have been announced. The ones you’ve heard of: photographers An-My Lê and Uta Barth. [Los Angeles Times]
- Apparently Google Street View’s mapping the West Bank now. [+972]
