- Jason Foumberg went to the College Art Association’s annual conference and found nuggets of social activism. And a surprising amount of Laurie Anderson. [Artforum]
- The Samsung Galaxy 5 will drop in April. This special phone will include a fingerprint sensor for security and shopping. Guessing the “shopping” part is meant to make this gadget sound appealing. [AP]
- Wanted: Non-profit in need of 250,000 transparencies and slides documenting really important art and artists. Truck not provided. [The New York Times]
- “Stuff on Stuff on Stuff: The Game” lets you “stack stuff on stuff.” It’s like Tetris, or the lesser-known office favorite Trash Panic. And it’s free and cross-platform, so everyone can play. [Chris Collins]
- N+1’s MFA vs N.Y.C. gets a review in the Times. In this case, MFA students are writers either slogging away on a novel so they can secure a cushy tenure track position at a university, or trying to make a name for themselves in the city. Lots of stuff here similar to visual arts. (And Paper Monument gets a nod!) [The New York Times]
- Helen Hughes discusses the ugly business of Transfield, a major sponsor of the Sydney Biennial, and a private corporation that handles the processing and care of Australian prisoners. They break all kinds of international human rights laws and national obligations as laid out in the 1951 Refugee Convention, so calls for protest have been made. But will a protest of their sponsorship have any effect at all? Hughes argues that if the protest is aimed at both government policy and its privatization of these services, plus leverages the grace of expression of arts professionals, they might get somewhere. [Frieze]
- Dancing horse of the week! [YouTube]
- Today’s $88,000 painting for sale on Craigslist. [Craigslist]
- Cait Munro chats with two of the 2014 Whitney Biennial curators, Anthony Elms and Michelle Grabner, about what to expect when the show opens next week. Each curator has a floor to themselves, and Grabner chose to include more artists than the other two curators. So we’ll see fewer work from her artists. [Artnet]
- Kevin Lau Chun-to, the recently dismissed editor-in-chief of what many regard to be the remaining independent newspaper in China, Ming Pao, was attacked with a knife this morning while walking from his car. [The New York Times]
