Monday Links: All Kinds of Reasons to Boycott

• The Moscow Biennial curator Catherine de Zegher argues that we shouldn’t boycott the biennial because of Russia’s anti-gay laws, as it would “deprive younger people of … different points of view.” Whether those voices will express opposition to those laws, though, we’ll have to see; de Zegher keeps reiterating that she wants the biennial to focus on collaborative work rather than “cheap provocations,” wanting art to be in “nobody’s face.” We’ll wait til it opens, but that doesn’t sound like a very convincing argument for not boycotting. [The Art Newspaper]
• Drake-ing Bad is a tumblr that illustrates scenes from the show, Breaking Bad with Mr. Aubrey Drake Graham. Maybe it’s good? [Drake-ing Bad, via: Philly]
• New York’s Crumbs bakery has figured out how to mass produce cronuts. [The Daily Meal]
• Instagram is about to get ads. [The Wall Street Journal]
• In e-flux’s September issue, Creative Time’s Nato Thompson takes on an ambitious task: comparing community-based art practice to military methodology. [e-flux]
• The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has confirmed that they have discovered another Van Gogh painting. [The Atlantic Wire]
• Italy is not taking any chances with rising tensions in the Middle East and cancels loaning a Botticelli to the Israel Museum. [Haaretz]
• Jets of air can influence our emotions. How long until this informs an art project? [New Scientist]
• Another round of identical public sculptures gets randomly strewn around a city. This time: Lovebots in Toronto. [The Wooster Collective]
• Paula Hunter will orchestrate a relay race about how much it sucks to be a woman for Art in Odd Places’ NUMBER festival. [Art in Odd Places]
• Even Sotheby’s itself is going to be squeezed for every last dime, it seems; the Wall Street Journal reports that stock is rising, probably due to promising upcoming auctions, but even down to their office space which could “easily find a cheaper location in Connecticut or New Jersey.” [The Wall Street Journal]
• Capital New York has been bought by the owner of Politico. [The Awl]

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