Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes
- In Philadelphia, a case of public art gone awry. The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program commissioned German artist Katharina Grosse to spraypaint over dilapidated buildings along the city’s railway lines. This expensive work “block[s] poverty from the public eye,” and for the most part, Grosse’s works can only be seen from inside train car. [Al Jazeera]
- Honey, I think there’s a Damien Hirst next door. Neighbors to real-estate mogul Aby Rosen want him to remove “The Virgin Mother,” Hirst’s 33-foot-tall statue. [The New York Times]
- 16-year-old Laquan Nelson, also known as “Popcorn,” was shot just outside the 88th Precinct by an unidentified gunman yesterday evening. That’s a block away from the Art F City office and RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE POLICE STATION. [The Daily News]
- Artist, blogger, and famed cryptic tweeter Greg Allen has a proxy Twitter account dedicated to googling his references and providing links and interpretation. [Greg.org View Source]
Jeff Koons poses with Shetland ponies. [Editor’s note: We are mostly certain that these are Shetland ponies.] [W Magazine] - After a year-long hiatus, Artsy has started up their Quora account again. On Thursday, the art company posted the self-referential question “What is the definition of Artsy?” [Quora]
- Little Vinnies are nipple tattoos popular amongst artists who have had mastectomies. The small operation, Little Vinnies Tattoos, tattoos between 1,500-2,000 nipples a year, and is currently working at top capacity. This video is dubbed “The Nipple Artist”. [The New York Times]
- Brooklyn artist trademarks the symbol for the 3,000-year-old mathematical constant pi, sends a cease-and-desist letter to a printing service for merchandise displaying the symbol. The Internet gets angry. [Hyperallergic]
- Ai Weiwei removes his work from a show at the Ullens Centre of Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing after his name was removed from a press release. Over Instagram, he posted the transcript of his conversation with director Philip Tinari, who claims they only removed his name from the “stupid press release,” and that his boss was threatened. Ai Weiwei says said boss never mentioned this, but described Tinari’s decisions as self-censorship. [Shanghaiist]
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