Linkage

The ethics of the New Museum presenting the collection of one of its trustees hits the front page of the New York Times, followed by multiple entries on its ArtsBeat Blog. Tyler Green provides a roundup, and don’t miss William Powhida’s cover for the Brooklyn Rail.
Paper Monument presents some excellent advice on studio visit etiquette by Jay Batlle.
The twenty-five new appointees to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities includes Anna Wintour of Vogue and actress Sarah Jessica Parker, but no visual artists.
Some recommended reading to accompany a visit to the Museum of Modern Art’s new Bauhaus exhibit is this New York Times article on a Bauhaus artist who rarely appears in histories of that legendary school, Margarete Heymann.
Brian Droitcour writes about Alexandre Singh’s “Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick)” exhibition at Harris Lieberman for Rhizome.
Private Circulation examines the Urs Fischer show at the New Museum from the perspective of how many guards are needed for surveillance.
Henri Art Magazine provides some thoughts on willful optimism, the art market, museums, and irony.