Thursday Links: A History of Dicks + The Future of Head Transplants

Via: Freeze_de instagram. So good.

• Paddy Johnson on the New Museum Triennial: It’s good! [Artnet]
• Your new favorite Instagram, @freeze_de. For the ultimate art insider. [Instagram]
• For the first time ever, a history of dick pics in relationship to criminal photography. NSFW, obvi. [Rhizome]
• Say “hello” to Carla, a new contemporary art mag based online and offline. Carla is short for the full name of the publication, “Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles.” [Carla]
• Cindy Sherman in a mask. [Instagram]
• Islamic State is selling looted Syrian artifacts to London galleries. [The Washington Post]
• In 2017, the sci-fi future will have arrived. That’s when human head transplants will be possible, says one Dr. Sergio Canavero. Likely the cost of a transplant will be around $13 million. [Quartz]
• Which means that Mr. Burns will be able to afford one. [Simpsons Wiki]
• A protest banner in an Oscar Murillo was removed by a museum security guard. The Centro Cultural Daoiz y Velarde in Madrid took seven years to build and cost 13 million. That pissed some people off, thus the signs. Murillo decided to integrate that into his work. [Artnet]
• Felix Salmon takes a look at rising buying premiums at Sotheby’s. They’ve gone through the roof. [Fusion]
• Patrick Schumacher, director of Zaha Hadid Architects, wants to get rid of public funding for art schools. “Public funding for art, including public funding for art schools is an indefensible anachronism,” he writes on Facebook. “Schools of art are not justifiable by argument, because contemporary art is not justifiable by argument.” Schumacher does not go into defining what a ‘justifiable by argument’ for an academic course would be, so we can’t take his statements too seriously. [Dezeen]
• Brian Eno on digital music making tools and the question of whether every imperfect note should be retuned. [The Vinyl Factory]

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