- Jayson Musson, aka artist Hennessy Youngman, is asking for compensation—i.e. “nobody’s getting sued”—from Mad Decent Records for using his voice without permission on the “Harlem Shake”. Jayson, Hennessy, anyone, please stop the shake. [BBC News]
- Here comes more musical outrage, this time from Ai Weiwei. Just months after the release of his Gangnam Style video, Ai now plans to release a heavy metal album. Someone, Jayson, Hennessy, anyone, please stop these art-celeb tricks. [Reuters]
- The New Museum is going global. On Monday, the museum announced they had expanded their board of trustees to include an international super team of collectors, philanthropists, and one Russian billionaire. In the words of Board Chairman Saul Dennison, “The New Museum is New York City’s only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art from around the globe.” [New Museum]
- These are fighting words! In the latest issue of e-flux, co-founder Anton Vidokle dips his pen into the art economy. He tackles a range of subjects concerning the over-professionalization of art, and suggests it might be fine to be a “part-time artist”:
“We should probably be less concerned with being full-time, art-school-trained, professional artists, writers, or curators—less concerned with measuring our artistic worth in these ways. Since most of us are not expected to perfect any specific techniques or master any craft—unlike athletes or classical musicians, for example—and given that we are no longer tied to working in specific mediums, perhaps it’s fine to be a part-time artist? ”
Is perfection of craft really the only pursuit that warrants full-time careers? [e-flux]
- Art Loop, Chicago’s public art program for local artists to produce new work within the city’s center, won’t take place in 2013. Last year, its budget had been slashed by $350,000. No word yet on whether the program’s been axed or merely put on hiatus. [Time Out Chicago]
