- For his new show at Sean Kelly Gallery, Luis Casebere built scale models of Luis Barragán houses and photographed them, creating an optical illusion of the architect’s idealized spaces. I want to live in one of these. [Dezeen]
- Walead Beshty’s FedEx Works are the stuff of art handlers’ nightmares. [This is Colossal]
- Anyone looking for a job in Kansas? The Wichita Art Museum is seeking a new curator. [The Wichita Eagle]
- Baltimore’s new Mayor Catherine Pugh has created a Safe Arts Space Task Force following the eviction of the DIY space The Bell Foundry and Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. We’re happy to see names such as Lu Zhang, Dan Deacon, and Stewart Watson on task force, but this thing kinda seems like a mess in general. Tracey Knuckles, “a consultant on Bloomberg Associates’ Cultural Assets Management team” (what is that?!?) cited “successful” policies in New York and London that Baltimore can learn from to preserve affordable live/work housing… because if any two cities in the English-speaking world have been successful at preserving affordable artist live/work housing, it’s those two? [City Paper]
- Here’s some uncharacteristically good news from the real estate sector: now is the time to negotiate with your Brooklyn or Manhattan landlord. Apparently the rental market is starting to correct, and is experiencing some “stess.” [Curbed]
- Hate read alert: Ivanka Trump may or may not own a Richard Prince artwork that appears to be a screenshot of her own Instagram account, and Richard Prince may-or-may-not have disavowed it (or it might be “fake” in the first place?). All of this potential drama is of course playing out on social media. [artnet News]
- Here’s a list of museums participating in next week’s art strike on inauguration day. Prepare to be depressed. They’re all staying open except for the ones that had planned to be closed for other reasons. [ARTnews]
- The gallery strike participation list is a lot less depressing. [Hyperallergic]
- Artist and Standing Rock resident Cannupa Hanska Luger talks to Carolina Miranda about the protests. “We’re not just in protest of a pipeline. What we are trying to do is maintain a cultural practice.” [Culture: High & Low]
- Looking for ways to get out of this political mess we’re in? The kids have some ideas. Flippable gives people on their mailing list daily tasks in preparation for the upcoming fight for seats in 2018. [Flippable]
