Production still from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 5, "Compassion," 2009. Segment: Carrie Mae Weems. © Art21, Inc. 2009
- The MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grant recipients have been announced. The five year, $625,000 grant, is amongst the highest accolades a professional can receive, and famously comes with “No Strings Attached”. Carrie Mae Weems is the only visual artist on the list. [The Atlantic Wire]
- Photographer Michel Roggo went swimming with bears. After ripping the heads off some fish, the bears climbed into his boat. [New Scientist]
- Andrew Russeth reviews Angel Otero at Lehmann Maupin. It’s harsh. [Gallerist]
- Santiago Calatrava is having a bad day. Suzanne Daley has collected all the projects he’s done that have run over budget or fail to respond to the needs of his clients. The list amounts to three page long feature on his fuck-ups. (An enjoyable read.) [The New York Times]
- Andy Horwitz went to a symposium about Theaster Gates’s Dorchester Projects at the New School’s Vera List center. He examines the relationship between the lecture and the work it discussed, and has some great quotes from Gates about money. [Culturebot]
- Can’t say we agree with Christian Viveros-Faune’s latest review of the Propellor Group’s Lived, Lives, Will Live at Lombard Freid Projects. The show takes on the art world’s obsession with celebrity, by creating, amongst other works, a series of paintings that weave the hair pieces worn by Hollywood Star turned art collector, Leonardo DiCaprio, onto paintings of Lenin. Mysteriously, CVF likes this. [The Village Voice]
