Paul McCarthy’s multimedia installation at the Park Avenue Armory. Image via: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
- Boo. The Met Museum is getting rid of their tin admission buttons in favor paper ticketing. Also, starting next week they’ll also be open seven days a week. This puts their hours in line with MoMA’s, which are also new. A new calendar for the city’s major museums? [The New York Times]
- So Awesome. Wendy Davis’s filibuster shoes reviewed on Amazon. We’re totally getting a pair for the office. Note: She was wearing the Mizuno Women’s Wave Rider 16 Running Shoe in the Rouge Red/Apple Green color combo.
. Apparently the color is more pinkish than reddish in person…not that we’ve been obsessively reading about them or anything. [Amazon
via: Jen Bekman]
- A condescending op-ed piece by Blake Gopnik about the April 25th reversal of a lower court’s decision on the Patrick Cariou vs Richard Prince copyright suit. The story’s three months old, but I guess it’s never too late for outrage. There’s also some questionable speculation that The Whitney’s recent retrospect of appropriation artist Sherry Levine included very few works of appropriation because the museum was concerned about copyright images. [The Art Newspaper]
- A specialized Italian art theft police force uncovered a treasure trove of 3rd and 2nd century BCE Etruscan artifacts that had been illegally excavated a few years ago and have since been circulating on the black market. [NYTimes]
- South Street is getting a brand new mall and possibly a luxury hotel. Meanwhile, the South Street Seaport Museum, the cultural touchstone and steward of the area, is currently closed and needs $22 million to reopen. Who is helping South Street Seaport Museum? A great piece by artist Michelle Vaughan. [The Medium]
- Holland Cotter isn’t quite sure what Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at The Park Avenue Armory is communicating, but he identifies themes of lost innocence and describes him as a Jonathan Swift or Hieronymus Bosch of our time. [NYTimes]
