- Long lost Michelangelo? New evidence surfaces that attributes a damaged statue of an young John the Baptist to the Renaissance master [NYTimes]
- Today, Thomas Hirschhorn opens a monument to the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci in the Bronx. [NYTimes]
- Oooh. Author Lynne Tillman is one of the judges for this year’s Frieze Writer’s Prize. The other two judges are Christy Lange (associate editor of Frieze) and Sean O’Toole (co-editor of CityScapes). You want them reading your work. Deadline July 22nd. [Frieze Magazine]
- Many US Museums haven’t been following their own guidelines pledging to return art looted by Nazis. MoMA looks particularly bad here, claiming that, after numerous conversations with the George Grosz estate, they had a good title to works by the artist in the collection. Meanwhile, Grosz himself had complained they exhibit a work stolen from him, according to his son, who also claims he spoke with his father about it personally. [NYTimes]
- Penguin and Random House merged this morning, creating the largest publishing house in the world. They now control 25 percent of the trade book market. [The New York Times]
- Cirque du Soleil performer Sarah Guyard-Guillot dies after falling from the stage—the first death in the company’s history. [Las Vegas Sun]
- Jerry Saltz’s photos from his late visit to the Venice Biennale, and what he thinks shows “the good, the bad, and the overhyped.” [Vulture]
- In an impressive display of irreverence (or perhaps pettiness, depending on who you ask), an organization of atheists in Florida unveiled their monument to atheism next to a slab of the ten commandments. [Huffington Post]
- This is pretty great: A conversation between Dealer Edward Winkleman and Artist William Powhida on contemporary art narratives. Interestingly, Powhida speculates that curators don’t tend to show his work because it’s too dangerous for them politically. [Edward Winkleman]
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