August 2011
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In Which the New Museum Board Doesn't Like Me
Last week, I reported that the New Museum’s new “Ostalgia” exhibition was funded by Leonid Mikhelson, a Russian gas magnate. Director Lisa Phillips and board president Saul Dennison called the article “factually inaccurate” in a letter response. ARTINFO’s reply, published after the New Museum’s letter, is the bottom line.
In the end, the New Museum...
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song...”
– Picasso (via lesmotsjustes)
Leon Crawl: I talked to David Karp and he said... →
So, I interviewed Tumblr founder David Karp last week for a short biographical item that will appear in an upcoming issue of Paper. We talked for like an hour, about him for some of the time but also a lot about Tumblr and how it works. Since most of that stuff is not going to be used in the Paper…
Some interesting stuff about paid promotion in Tumblr directories, etc.
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Cadwallia: Rumors fly that Jiang Zemin has died →
cadwallia:
That’d be the former General Secretary and president of the PRC (the current president, Hu Jintao, took over in 2002/2003, respectively), for y’all who aren’t up on your Chinese politics.
Since the PRC is quite possibly the only government more obtuse than the US, they have responded to these…
All the HOTTEST PIX of the (possibly dead) Jiang Zemin.
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backleftlitz: So basically we met one time, at a... →
backleftlitz:
So basically we met one time, at a sort of makeshift Korean bar in midtown that was not checking IDs. We spoke for ten minutes about Pitchfork and pop-punk and then she made out with my friend, who at the time had a girlfriend he’d dump a couple days later. The next day I added her on Facebook and…
Awesome as always.
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“I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink...”
– Artist James Turrell in an interview with LACMA director Michael Govan. See Interview for the entire conversation. The talk ranges through the psychology of perception, getting rid of the object in contemporary art and the particular aesthetics of LA.
Below, a view of Turrell’s epic light and...
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I Am Leaving Hyperallergic
After 9 amazing months as staff writer for Hyperallergic, I’m leaving to take a position as assistant editor at Artinfo. You can find my goodbye letter to the site here. I profoundly appreciate everyone who has read my writing and supported me there, and I’m especially appreciative to editor Hrag Vartanian and publisher Veken Gueyikian for giving me the opportunity. I hope you’ll...
