Justin Lieberman, installation view.
- #ArtsTech announces the #ArtsTech Unconference, to be held on April 27th. It’s not a typical conference: anyone can submit ideas for panels, workshops, and talks. Unheard of ideas by underdogs, we understand, would be more than welcome. And if your idea becomes a Featured Session, you’ll get free passes to the event. Woo! [ArtsTech]
- Massimiliano Gioni talks to ArtInfo UK about curating the Venice Biennale. Apparently, outsider artists will be shown alongside established artists. Gioni cites Roberta Smith as an influence, an awful large feather for any critic’s hat. [ArtInfo]
- Hyperallergic Editor-In-Chief Hrag Vartanian said he likes invisible history Danh Vo over Twitter last night. We disagree about the merit of this work, at least in respect to We The People. Here’s why. [Art F City]
- David Hockney’s 23-year-old studio assistant dies mysteriously after falling ill at the artist’s studio. [The Guardian]
- The David Bowie exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is breaking attendance records. That’s not a surprise considering that he just released an album everyone’s calling “the greatest comeback in rock-and-roll history”. [Art Observed]
- Time Out’s Chicago edition will cease print publication. Staffers were told that print publication would cease beginning in April and most of the company’s 60 employees will lose their jobs. [Time Out Chicago]
- AFC friend Edward Champion (Ed Rants), will walk 3,000 miles from Brooklyn to San Francisco, writing dispatches as he goes. The project will culminate in an oral history radio narrative. It’s gonna take him 6 months, so he’s fundraising for the project. Help him out. I think this is going to be a great project. [indigogo]
- We missed Justin Lieberman’s talk at Paper Monument last night and are now filled with feelings of self-loathing for doing so. Read his account of the best art assignment ever. [Paper Monument]
