- The Pratt Show has been canceled. The 30-year-old annual juried exhibition for graduating seniors was axed by administration. Pratt students and faculty have created a petition letter, for what’s being called the #bringbackprattshow campaign. [Change.org]
- An amazing Tumblr studying the appearance of algorithms in popular culture and everyday life. [#algopop]
- Find all your Modernist art needs in the latest eBay corner, “All About Yves.” Exhibition posters, prints, collectibles, even the 2012 limited-edition Yves Klein Euro (yes, this happened) are up for grabs. Ebay might come under fire for failing to vet its artworks. For $190,000.00, you can purchase a nude Yves Klein bust that comes with a “lifetime exchange certificate.” Just in case you change your mind. [eBay]
- A sign of the “haunted-house market, where a new scary event lurks around each corner”: Sotheby’s, the only publicly traded auction house, will not be paying a special dividend to shareholders until they find a new CEO. [Wall Street Journal]
- Over the years, so much has been written about the late Francesca Woodman that it seems nearly impossible to find a new approach to her work. Critic Paige K. Bradley did, however, in her write-up of the artist’s current show at Marian Goodman. Cheers to that. [Artforum]
- The Museum of Broken Relationships. [Collector’s Weekly]
- Pixelated hair is a trend. [Bored Panda]
- “The image used by Prince is not the first photograph of a Rastafarian to land the appropriation artist in legal trouble.” [Hyperallergic]
- Here are a few artists who are using ASCII and other techniques to publish art on Twitter. [The Atlantic]
- David Carr’s syllabus “Press Play.”<3. We’ll be spending a good chunk of our day pouring through articles we have yet to read. Essential reading for any journalist. [The Medium]
- SpongeBob: Most-photographed image from Mexico City’s Material Art Fair. [San Francisco Art Quarterly]
Monday Links: All the Art and Hair Trends
by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 16, 2015 Massive Links
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