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by Corinna Kirsch on February 9, 2012
- Thomas Demand’s “public art” project includes putting photographs inside hotel rooms. Putting art above hotel beds isn’t exactly public art. [The Art Newspaper]
- Tomorrow night, net art pioneers JODI will premiere a hyper-hybrid performance/dance/mobile app. If you want participate as a performer, i.e. shake around, you’ll need an iPhone 4; otherwise, you’ll just have to sit back and watch like the rest of the plebes. [Rhizome]
- Robert Smithson, like Donald Judd, wrote some amazing art criticism in his day. Smithson’s criticism is cranky; he calls people out for their “bovine formalism.” [Art Agenda]
- Jackson Pollock is so famous that correspondence between his family members has been published in a book. No surprise, the letters are totally boring. An example of Papa Pollock’s bland chestnuts of wisdom to his son, Jack: “[B]e fully awake to everything about you.” [Brain Pickings]
- Why have we waited until 2012 to have presidential-themed condoms? [The Daily Intel]
- Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch, which is forever cursed to be known as “formerly Max Protetch”) has a new director: longtime Marlborough director Eric Gleason. We’ll wait to see if there’s any massive overhauls to Gleason’s new gallery, similar to the rebranding he did at Marlborough at the end of his term there. [Artinfo]
- What’s the worst thing that happens to you after you die? Your FBI records become public. [Gawker]
- Museums are still suffering economically. In this letter, a curator begs the city’s finance director not to fire her. [The Daily Norwalk]
- P.Diddy paints! [First Stop]
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