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Tuesday Links: Taxation and Interrogation

by Paddy Johnson on January 3, 2012

  • Bad news: the Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino (right), is sharply raising the fee many non-profits, including museums, must pay to the city in lieu of taxes. [Real Clear Arts]
  • A painter’s resource: 21 Great Painter’s Posts from 2011. [The Huffington Post] [Via: Martin Bromirski]
  • What happens when you give thousands of stickers to thousands of kids: the utterly predictable. Admittedly though, Yayoi Kusama‘s room might be better experienced. [Colossal]
  • Interesting: Elad Lassry will take on the role of choreographer this winter [Gallerist]
  • Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds open at Mary Boone this Saturday. [Hyperallergic]
  • Robert Hughes interrogates a collector. Neither personality comes out looking particularly good. [Youtube]
  • Jon Huntsman wins ArtINFO’s endorsement as the Republican Candidate least likely to gut the arts. His competition is Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich (candidates best described as actively hostile to the arts) and he’s not got a chance to win this race, but still. Good to know, I guess? Also, did not know he was a fan of Captain Beefheart. [ArtINFO]
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