Image via the ArtPrize Facebook page. Artist unknown.
- The Anti-Defamation League has listed the meme Pepe the Frog as a hate symbol. I guess that explains why so many Donald Trump supporters on Twitter use Pepe’s image as their profile pic. [The New York Times]
- Plans have been unveiled for the new Penn Station within the old Farley Post Office. The new design from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is obviously better than the claustrophobic conditions under Madison Square Garden, but mostly this design is pretty bland. It just feels like a glass mall or airport anywhere. Yawn. [Curbed]
- An article that connects culture wars of 1990s to the rise of gentrification. [The Los Angeles Times]
- Related: It’s almost impossible to get a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. If you’re an artist who is being approached on Facebook by a stranger claiming to be an NEA employee trying to give you money, it is obviously a scam. Yes, this is apparently a real problem. [artnet News]
- Ella Coon visits Jessica Stockholder’s The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. The center of the exhibit is a platform that both references a table and provides a vantage point to look down on the rest of the art, “This bird’s-eye view, however, holds more symbolic clout than this description suggests. And, viewed against the dish of jettisoned shells, which now looks more like the remnants of a seagulls’ bacchanal, it begs the question of what it really means for humans to make and consume anything.” [ARTnews]
- Bad at Sports talks with performance artist Sam Hertz. The sound of the actual interview could use some help—lots of philosophical discussion about perception and the nature of knowledge here. “How do you know the snow is white?” Little too much navel gazing here, but still – a reasonable listen for the studio. [Bad at Sports]
- One of the few remaining public housing structures left in Chicago after the Hope VI program gutted the city’s affordable housing stock will become a museum. The National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) will open in time for the 2018 Architecture Biennial. [The Architect’s Newspaper]
- Voting doesn’t always produce informed consensus. Take the US Presidential race as one example. Take ArtPrize, a 19 day art orgy in Grand Rapids Michigan, in which the public votes for their favorite work of art, as another. We’ve seen plenty of questionable finalists and winners. An article detailing highlights, lowlights and everything in between. Looks like Kiki Smith is a participant this year! [Detroit Free Press]
- “Breaking News: Cassils”, at Tufts University in Boston gets a review. In one video now on view, a black and white montage of volunteers at SF Pride pop balloons through the gesture of hugging. It sounds like gunshots and is a memorial to the people who were murdered at The Pulse Nightclub in Orlando Florida. [Hyperallergic]
