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Birdhead on Facebook and Poetics
Shanghai-based art collective Birdhead uses photographic snapshots to record everyday life. From a friend in a shaggy fur coat, to a potted plant or a skyscraper, their 20-by-16-inch black-and-white images are a frenzied documentation of the world around them. No subject is too insignificant. "Those trivial moments of everyday life we shoot are, for us, like mirrors in which we can comprehend ourselves; examine ourselves," they told A.i.A. via email.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Will Benefit from New Local Property Tax
After a yearlong, $2.5-million publicity campaign urging Michigan voters to help save the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the museum grasped a financial buoy on Tuesday. Three counties in the metro Detroit area approved a special property tax earmarked for the institution. The so-called millage tax is expected to raise $23 million starting in January and will assure the museum's financial security for the first time in 20 years. Its coffers have flagged since economic downturns in the early 1990s caused both the city of Detroit and the state to begin withdrawing resources and ultimately cease funding the institution altogether.
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Met Appoints Expert in Princely Armor
Yesterday, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the appointment of Pierre Terjanian as a new curator in its Arms and Armor department—one of the museum's most popular attractions.
Terjanian, who serves as an associate curator in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Arms and Armor department and as acting head of the museum's department of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture before 1700, will take up his new post at the Met in October.
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Sue Scott and Meulensteen Galleries Will Shutter
Two New York galleries—Sue Scott Gallery on the Lower East Side and Meulensteen Gallery in Chelsea—will close later this summer.
Yesterday, Sue Scott Gallery at 1 Rivington Street announced that the current shows, "Eli Gabriel Halpern: Do It Yourself" and "Martha Diamond: Bright Brush Painting," will be the last and the gallery will officially shut its doors at the end of August.
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Trevor Paglen Makes Work to Last Beyond Humanity
A new work by photographer and experimental geographer Trevor Paglen will launch into outer space this fall. The Last Pictures, which will be sent into Earth's atmosphere affixed to communications satellite EchoStar XVI, is an archival silicon disk encased in a gold-plated shell onto which Paglen has micro-etched 100 photographs he believes represent human history.
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Currently on view in the group show "Redux" at New York's Cristin Tierney Gallery (through Feb. 4) are two works by Joe Fig, both related to his 200
