NASA has relaunched its artist residency program, naming photographer Justin Guariglia as a collaborator in the presentation of climate change to the public.  “We’re not used to computing the scale of a 100,000-year-old piece of ice the size of California that’s going to break off from an ice sheet,” Guariglia says of the project, and NASA’s work more broadly.
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A Paris judge has requested a second attempt by the Wildenstein family to stay the criminal trial for tax evasion until the civil trial had been resolved.  The request was denied on the grounds that it may take several years to reach a decision on the civil case.
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Paul Chan’s Badlands Unlimited Publishing House has released a series of artist-made digital files, including works from Cory Arcangel, Martine Syms and others, and featuring a variety of incomplete, unrealized or proposed projects.  “A file is the work before the work. It is the “score” that directs the printer, video projector, or speaker to create the expression that is experienced,” a press release reads.  “And as such, artist files hold considerable value and potential in contemporary culture.”
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