- Eyebeam residency applications are due today! [Eyebeam]
- Six Fairy Tales for the Modern Woman. So. Good. [The Hairpin]
- Theaster Gates in Basel talking to rich people about the work he’s doing in poor Chicago neighborhoods. [NYTimes Style]
- Pedro Velez talking to underpriviledged Chicago kids who can’t afford to go to the museum that houses the work Gates is making that’s supposed to be for them. [New City]
- What’s it like being Work of Art’s “Next Great Artist”? Pretty much the same as usual. Hyperallergic’s Alicia Eler catches up with WOA Season Two winner Kimya Nawabi, who’s still waiting tables, and has yet to get gallery representation. She’ll be showing at Wave Hill this fall, though. [Hyperallergic]
- Hyperallergic and The New Yorker reflect on David Byrne’s commencement speech for Columbia MFA students, which focused on the lack of financial prospects for students. Both blogs are upset he didn’t deliver a more uplifting message for students. Time and a place, blah blah blah, but students might as well get their first reality check at the door. It’s not like Byrne’s up there telling tales, which is what he would have been doing had he painted a bright future. [New Yorker]
- Holland Cotter pays a visit to El Museo del Barrio’s Bienal 2013. He wonders whether a Barnett Newman reference still reads as a Barnett Newman reference, since the show, and the museum itself, speaks so immediately to community. [New York Times]
Friday Links: The Facts of Life
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RE: the third bullet point, above, NYT’s Linda Yablonsky incorrectly identifies Gates’ “Dorchester Project” as being located within Chicago’s West Side.
While Gates has identified himself as having been a West Side resident in the past, his “Dorchester Project” consists of several (now three?) buildings located on one block within the city’s South Side.
RE: the fourth bullet point in the article above, Gates has received an appointment at the University of Chicago, following years of support from that same institution.
The UC campus contains the largest concentration of museums near Gates’ “Dorchester Project,” and all of those museums are free. I personally witnessed Gates perform within the lobby of the (always free) Smart Museum during the opening reception of “Feast” only months ago.
I’ve seen Gates too at the the UC’s Renaissance Society, and at opening receptions at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, as well as at his own dealer’s (Kavi Gupta) establishment, and he’s shown (here, in Chicago) at various art fairs where admission was free to bicycle commuters, i.e., the late NEXT.
The idea that Gates has been cloistered in a walled garden is false, as is the idea that all, or even most, museums in Chicago demand large sums of money prior to allowing entrance.
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