Christian Jankowski, “The Holy Art Work”, 2002
- Job alert! Manifesta has hired artist Christian Jankowski to take the helm of the next biennial, to be held in neutral zone: Switzerland. It is the first time the biennial has chosen an artist as its curator. [Manifesta Biennial]
- Artist Audrey Wollen is one of the few artists who’s upset that Richard Prince has used her Instagram for his own purposes. She explains why, in discussion of her Sad Girl Theory. “What Prince is doing is colonising and profiting off a territory of the internet that was created by a community of young girls, who, needless to say, do not have the cultural space Prince has. Selecting specific bodies from a sea of images, amputating them from their context, and then naming yourself the owner of those bodies: that isn’t just boring art, that verges on predatory and violent behavior.” [i-D]
- On why paying $45,000 for a male tech speaker is like purchasing Jasper Johns’s “False Start”—with some less well-known Guerrilla Girls graphics. [Medium]
- A terrifying tale for journalists: How you can win a Pulitzer Prize and still fall into poverty. [The Hedgehog Review via @sarahw]
- Science has brought us the wonderful gift of the sounds of fish! Listen to an oyster toadfish’s call or a lollipop darter’s call. [The New Yorker]
- Even the Muffys and Athertons of the world would have a hard time believing this line about a Rothko: “Later that week Untitled, 1952 went under the hammer and sold for $66.2 million—a total steal, by my calculations.” [Town and Country]
- Who wants to buy a “bronze fat woman sculpture”? Or maybe a gigantic Jesus sculpture? [Alibaba]
- Cosima von Bonin has created a “vomiting Italian” sculpture that has so far escaped being posted as click bait. [frieze d/e]
- Hrag Vartanian takes a deep look at Ryder Ripps’s “Art Whore” and the surrounding controversy. Consider this your must-read. [Hyperallergic]
- Executive women, finding and owning their voice. [The New York Times]
- Mass MoCA will fill 90,000 square feet with the work of major contemporary artists, like: James Turrell, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Laurie Anderson, and Jenny Holzer. [The New York Times]
