- “It’s really a gay program, is what it is.” Art advisor Thea Westrich gives some surprising descriptions of galleries she likes at ABMB, like Matthew Marks. [T Magazine]
- A good samaritan has offered the Detroit Institute of Arts $5 million to protect the museum’s collection. This is nothing to help cover the city’s $18 billion in municipal debt. [AP]
- Christie’s just released the monetary evaluation of DIA’s collection; its “fair-market value” falls between $452 million and $866 million. $450 million is the amount of aid the U.S. sent to Egypt in 2012, the settlement amount of Mel Gibson’s divorce, and the upfront cost of getting a gold mine up and running. [Detroit Free Press]
- Here’s a Christmas tiding to warm the heart: unemployment is down to 7 percent !!!!!!!!!!!!!! If that’s an accurate number, then it means we’re on our way to economic stability. Felix Salmon gives a tentative thumbs up. [Reuters]
- Expensive paintings don’t make for better paintings; but it is good to know that collectors can sometimes feel okay about buying work by female artists. A large painting by the late Joan Mitchell reached a hammer price of 3.1 million Euro at the Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale in Paris. [Baer Faxt]
- It is not okay for a female CEO to call her underlings employees “Penis.” Not even “Mr. Penis,” mind you—just “Penis” for a first name. How rude. [Daily News]
- Our Color Wheel series is relevant as ever. Pantone has announced its “color of the year.” It’s purple. [Paris Review]
- Noah Gallagher from Oasis sounds like an idiot and an asshole. In an interview with Rolling Stone he whines about prettymuch everything and slams Arcade Fire for coming out with a double album he’s never heard. “Who has the fucking time, in 2013, to sit through 45 minutes of a single album? How arrogant are these people to think that you’ve got an hour and a half to listen to a fucking record?” What’s the point of anything? Why bother making music, or art, or literature? [Rolling Stone]
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