Alexandra Lange makes the case that the MoIC, which opened in Manhattan a year ago last summer, actually functions as a playground. The problem is that, by intent or not, it has become a phenomenon like Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms.
Tag: 10.31.17
Greta Gerwig, Like George Clooney, Has Made The Move From Actor To Director
It’s maddening at this particular moment to read the ways various media men have written about Gerwig as an actor. “Lady Bird, a remarkably self-assured debut, feels like a rebuke. Or at least an assertion of artistic intent. At 34, and moving, finally, behind the camera, Gerwig is exiting the phase of her life where she’ll be asked to represent a mysterious, fascinating rising generation.”
Galleries And Collectors Are Getting Cyber-Scammed To The Tune Of Millions
It’s a simple scam, but it’s effective: “Criminals hack into an art dealer’s email account and monitor incoming and outgoing correspondence. When the gallery sends a PDF invoice to a client via email following a sale, the conversation is hijacked. Posing as the gallery, hackers send a duplicate, fraudulent invoice from the same gallery email address, with an accompanying message instructing the client to disregard the first invoice and instead wire payment to the account listed in the fraudulent document.”
Martin Luther Was A Stout, Lusty, Physical Guy – Here’s Why That Mattered
“Luther physically embodied the Reformation. His massive size mirrored the bulky Saxon princes who protected him from Rome. Excommunicated, the rebellious priest married a former nun; he fathered children and celebrated family life as the antithesis of monasticism. He liked to eat, drink beer, and have sex, even as sin was ever present. … Luther’s physical monumentality became a positive view of the (male) body, a reflection of a positive image of Lutheranism, portraying an earthy and heroic wrestler against the Pope and Satan.”
Rome’s Borghese Gallery To Create Caravaggio Research Institute
“Rome’s Galleria Borghese is launching a three-year partnership with the Italian luxury goods brand Fendi to create an international study centre dedicated to Caravaggio. The museum inside a 17th-century villa is one of 20 leading Italian institutions, including the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence and Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, that gained financial independence from central government in 2015, allowing them to cultivate private funders for the first time.”
After Years Of Debate, Construction Of DC’s Eisenhower Memorial Begins
Officials will host a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday for the $150 million memorial on its four-acre site on Independence Avenue between Fourth and Sixth streets SW. Construction on the controversial project is expected to take three years, with an opening date set for 2020.
Wisconsin-Based Book World Is Closing Its 45 Stores In Seven States
“The national shift towards e-commerce has triggered the loss of mall anchor stores and a downward spiral in customer counts at Book World stores, reducing sales to a level that will no longer sustain business operations. Book World has stores in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota and Missouri.”
BBC Worldwide To Stop Commissioning Original Content
“The commercial arm of the BBC has shifted its strategy from ordering factual entertainment series such as Fishing Impossible and Stupid Man Smart Phone for its BBC Earth and BBC Brit channels. Last year, the two channels aired over 50 hours of originally commissioned content. These channels will now concentrate on airing a mixture of existing BBC Worldwide-distributed series … and more local formats.”
German Arts World Has A Woman Problem, Too: Study
“Women are under-represented in decision-making positions in the German arts and earn less than men for equal work, according to a new study commissioned by the government and conducted by the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.”
Turns Out Brain Science Studies Are Biased And WEIRD
“When scientists use medical scanners to repeatedly peer at the shapes and activities of the human brain, those brains tend to belong to wealthy and well-educated people. And unless researchers take steps to correct for that bias, what we get is an understanding of the brain that’s incomplete, skewed, and, well, a little weird.”