111 First Street, an OMA lower Manhattan building that will never be built. Image credit: Arch Daily
One of the worst casualties of the recession? Architecture. Here’s a look at 15 Rem Koolhaas/OMA designs that were never completed. Many of them are located in the NYC area, and certainly would’ve injected some of the classy eccentricism the city’s architecture was once known for back into the streetscape and skyline. [ArchDaily]
After losing thousands of works in Hurricane Sandy, Printed Matter has relocated to a bigger, flood-resistant space with the help of volunteers and donations from artists. [The New York Times]
This is totally click-baity, but this Toronto subway map from the future — 2021, to be precise, when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT finally opens — is pretty exciting. The new transit line will finally replace the bus service for a huge swath of the city’s uptown with rail transit, and hopefully bring Toronto’s public transport into the 21st century. [NOW Magazine]
More coverage of Tuesday’s protests at the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit. [Gothamist, Artsy]
Best reaction ever to Minneapolis rebranding its west downtown as “WeDo” (yup, “Wee-Doo”): “Honestly I love this city but naming your arts district “WeDo” is begging for poop and/or pot jokes.” [@AnaMarieCox]
Curators, according to Michael Govan, are cheap dates. At a contemporary art collecting panel this week at the Frick, the LACMA director advised collectors that they were more likely to get free advice from curators than art advisors. Take a curator for a lunch, collectors, and even buy them a piece for their museum’s collection, and “they’ll tell you their life story—they’ll tell you everything.” [Art Newspaper]
Why do conversations about censorship and “appropriateness” always center on other people’s children? An Illinois woman who sounds insane (she once tried to feed her husband to birds) has started a petition to remove a mural depicting a naked woman tied to a tree and a penis in a hot dog bun. Of course, her argument is “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!” But really, what kid wouldn’t think a cartoon dick-in-a-bun was hilarious? [WISH-TV]
Saskatoon’s Remai Modern recently hosted “Supercommunity Live”, a two-day conference extending E-flux Journal’s Venice Biennale publishing project. But according to this recap by critic Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, it was just a bunch of people reading their papers, and seemed to only appeal to its visiting international crowd. [Canadian Art]
Alec Baldwin “accidentally” spent $95,000 on a Pat Steir painting at a charity auction. [ART news]
The Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) just announced the winners of its annual OAAG awards, recognizing leading exhibitions by the province’s public art galleries. Winners include the Art Gallery of Ontario for its Suzy Lake retrospective, and the Art Gallery of York University’s historical archive-driven Is Toronto Burning? exhibition curated by Philip Monk. [OOAG]
Matthew Klos interviews Peter Drake, Dean at the New York Academy of Art, on the challenges and rewards of being a young artist in New York, art education, and contemporary painting. [Bmore Art]