- If you also smell smoke in Brooklyn, it’s from a “mysterious fire,” a forest fire, that’s taking over a New Jersey park. [The L Magazine]
- Thanks to Marina Galperina and Carolina Miranda, more Fuck Room details have emerged! Galperina’s found Mike Kelley’s own description of his hidden “crawl space/fuck room,” from the book Mike Kelley: Minor Histories. It is real. [ANIMAL New York]
- “The post-internet art object looks good online in the way that laundry detergent looks good in a commercial.” Brian Droitcour continues to make observations on “post-internet art.” [Culture Two]
- Bridget Riley, 82, has designed a colorful mural for St. Mary’s Hospital in London. [The Guardian]
- Former Gawker writer Emily Gould writes about all the debt she incurred while writing her first book. It’s brave in its honesty, so you want to like Gould, but the story itself makes that incredibly difficult. [The Medium]
- According to Scott Stringer, 20 percent of New York City public schools have no art teachers, even though arts instruction is required by law for middle and high schools. [New York Times]
- Roberta Smith has seen the show of George W. Bush’s paintings. “[H]e has painted a world of smiles and friendship that can rarely be taken as the whole story,” she writes, and predicts that because of the conflicted mix of skill and historical whitewashing, they’re not going away. Oh well. [New York Times]
- S&P’s Global Luxury Index tells us what those of us in the art world already know. Rich people are spending their money on luxury goods. Great to see all that money trickling down to those who need it. [Business Insider]
- “[Social practice art] is a reaction against the excesses of individualism,” Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Museum, and now Cultural Commissioner for the city of New York tells Carolina Miranda. Furthering that definition, artist and author Pablo Helguera says the art form is “about how to listen”. [Artnews]
- When it’s cold outside and the G train is fucked, take comfort in the fact that the old animated Deitch Projects website is still up and running. [Deitch Projects]
- T.GIF contest now has two GIF finalists. Go vote, give the winner $100! [T.GIF]
- If the next generation of superrich is coming from Silicon Valley, then art needs to be there. This week, the new Silicon Valley Contemporary (SVC) Fair will be sending out some Chelsea and the Lower East Side’s biggest galleries. Because, in the words of Hamptons Expo Group President Rick Friedman, “You can only buy so many Teslas.” [Artnet News]
Monday Links: Fuck Room Details Emerge
by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 7, 2014 Massive Links
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