COURTESY PINTEREST
Lore
Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn in England is at risk of being demolished unless finances can be righted. Appreciators of Dada barns, unite! [The Guardian]
Here’s a tribute to the experimental-film maestro Stan Brakhage, on the occasion of a new book of interviews with a man who once glued insect wings (and many other things!) to celluloid. [The New York Review of Books]
Times of the Times
Roberta Smith is underwhelmed with a new installation at the Park Avenue Armory by Ai Weiwei and the architects Herzog & de Meuron. The work “encourages further variations on the snow-angel selfie” and comes across as little more than “a kind of thinking person’s ‘Rain Room.’ ” [The New York Times]
Jason Farago digs the moving (like, literally moving) Alexander Calder works now on view in the Whitney Museum’s new exhibition “Calder: Hypermobility.” [The New York Times]
Here’s what hangs on the walls of Bruce Berman, “Hollywood’s most ardent photography collector.” [The New York Times]
Threads
Google has gotten into the fashion-archiving game by way of “We Wear Culture,” a new initiative that just launched online. [The Washington Post]
“The Playful Provocations (and Erotic Kaftans) of the Lebanese Artist Huguette Caland.” [The New Yorker]
Overnight to Many Distant Cities
Here’s a comprehensive roundup of what’s good in the galleries these days in Washington, D.C. [The Washington Post]
Get the lay of the land of all the best exhibitions now in Los Angeles. [Los Angeles Times]
Photos
Taryn Simon’s “The Innocents” series, featuring portraits of people who were wrongfully convicted, is going on show this summer at Guild Hall in the Hamptons. [The Art Newspaper]
A disquieting photo by Olivia Parker shows one of the earliest signs of her late husband’s Alzheimer’s disease. [The Guardian]