From the "Neighbors" series by Arne Svenson,
- Holland Cotter has identified a new trend in art: historical awareness. He reviews the the Prada Foundation’s remounting of the 1969 show, “When Attitudes Become Form,” and learns a little about the construction of myth. Great piece. [The New York Times]
- The Russian art magazine Art Chronika will cease publication. This is yet another hit to the already small Moscow art scene, which has been hemorrhaging commercial art galleries over the last year. [Gallerist NY]
- New York Supreme Court ruled artist Arne Svenson was in his rights to photograph his neighbors without their permission. Yay for the First Amendment and all, but these photos still sound creepy. [The Art Newspaper]
- Physicists are fiercely debating whether a person would be crushed by gravity or flash-fried by a firewall of energy if caught in a black hole. The stakes? Oh, just the veracity of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. This article is a little difficult to follow without some background in physics. [The New York Times]
- Hyperallergic’s Mostafa Heddaya has a great piece on how Detroit’s defaults actually affect the Detroit Institute of Art’s “assets”. [Hyperallergic]
- Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers tears Bryan Goldberg apart for introducing Bustle.com as the first publication that targets women or goes beyond the narrow scope of women’s magazines. He also defended himself from backlash by speculating that his critics are probably mad at him because he’s a man addressing a market for women. Face-palm. [Flavorwire]
