- For the last two weeks you could do a Google search for David Zwirner, and Donald Trump’s picture would come up. Someone on the Zwirner team appears to have corrected the google issue, but we got a screenshot! [via: tips@artfcity.com]
- 6 castles that cost less than an apartment in New York. [Buzzfeed] But the overhead must be insane. [Facebook]
- Bullet profiles Macaulay Culkin’s art collective, which has something to do with drugs and wigs. [Bullet] Daily Mail has a photo of his Soho loft, a “playground workspace” which looks like Tom Hanks’s place from the movie Big. [Daily Mail]
- Scholars rejoice! By October 2014, the Morgan Library’s expansive drawing collection of works from Dürer to Cézanne online. The public digital archive–of drawings and some versos–will be over 10,000 images vast. [Arts Beat]
- A Balthus biography reveals the artist’s distaste for Sabine Rewald, the curator of his current show at the Met. And so the Met refuses to stock the book in its store. Apparently museums often opt out of stocking books that could compete with their hefty pricey catalogues. [Gallerist NY]
- The world’s first inflatable concert hall looks a lot better than one would think. It begins its tour in Japan. [Spoon & Tamago]
- Animal’s Marina Galperina and Kyle Chayka are presenting short-form video selfies at The Moving Image Fair in London. [Animal]
- We’ll all have one earbud in at the AFC office today. “Ten Songs That Saved Your Life” is an online archive where you can stream custom playlists by the likes of Hans Ulrich Obrist, AA Bronson, Cory Arcangel, Robert Longo, Mike Kelley, Gerand Malanga and so many more. Spoiler alert: artists love Joy Division. [Ten Songs That Saved Your Life]
- Empire Drive-In comes to the New York Hall of Science in Corona Park, Queens. From October 4th through 12th, take in a movie projected onto a salvaged wood screen while sitting on a pile of wrecked cars. [collabcubed]
- The Fader reflects on last weekend’s PS1 Art Book Fair with a video. They liked the presentation by Dutch design school Werkplaats Typografie, Japanese punk zines, and James Franco. [The Fader]
- Contrary to what you might think from attractions like “Rain Room” or packed Warm-Ups at PS1, the NEA finds a steady drop in arts attendance over the past decade (but they’re also counting Broadway). [New York Times]
- Stephanie Smith’s boyfriend told her she was 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring. So she started a blog, and documented each sandwich she made for her boyfriend as she woos him into engagement. A joke gone too far? [The New York Post]
- And just as the 10th anniversary of his death approaches… Madonna performed what is possibly Elliott Smith’s most tortured song at Gagosian Gallery on Tuesday as a performance art publicity stunt for her new film. The 10th anniversary of Smith’s death is next month. After singing down on her knees, Madonna then used the stage to denounce the prison system and call for a revolution of artists “who are not worried about whether their ass looks good—although it is important to have a good-looking ass…”[Gothamist]
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