- When you’re on your period—and filming a workout video for the blog—you never know what you’re going to say to the press when they come calling. AFC’s senior editor Corinna Kirsch tells the Chicago Tribune’s Christopher Borrelli that she believes honoring Kanye West with an honorary doctorate is a gimmick. Mostly, I’d just like this celeb-art crossover to die out. [Chicago Tribune]
- Who wants a $1,030 Seder dish set by Marc Chagall? This, and many more art-themed housewares of the Jewish variety, sold on Art Markit. [Art Markit]
- There’s very little information on this right now, but at least eight tourists were killed and others were taken hostage by militants who attacked Tunisia’s parliament compound. [Reuters]
- A debate of fiction versus reality: In celebration of the final season of Mad Men, sculptures of the show’s characters will be erected at the corner of Sixth Avenue, the location of the ad firm’s fictional offices. As Gothamist’s Jen Carlson points out, this will only increase the number of fictional women represented by statues in the city. The city only has five statues of real women. [Gothamist]
- Are you a connoisseur of fine Oprah? Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announced an upcoming auction from the Oprah Winfrey Collection (with a public preview from April 16 – 25.) If your Water Tower apartment is anything like Winfrey’s, you already have a “Russian Parcel Gilt Burlwood Gueridon.” If not, now’s your chance for a home makeover. [Yahoo Finance]
- These 25 up-and-coming curators “to watch” have been making biennales happen internationally for a while now. They also all happen to be women—including the Guggenheim’s Katherine Brinson, Brooklyn Museum’s Rujeko Hockley, SculptureCenter’s Ruba Katrib, Studio Museum’s Naima Keith, independent curator Tina Kukielski, New Museum’s Margot Norton, The Kitchen’s Lumi Tan, and Jewish Museum’s Kelly Taxter. If you weren’t already, start watching. [Artnet News]
- There’s a place in Tasmania called the Museum of New and Old Art, reachable only by catamaran. Funded by the gambling money of owner and creator David Walsh, MONA also happens to have a great bar. Walsh calls it his “subversive adult Disneyland,” as if Disneyland weren’t already fucked-up enough. [New York Times]
- At the annual Intelligence Squared forum in Hong Kong, Artforum publisher Charles Guarino admits he’s not impressed with Jerry Saltz and attributes the success of male artists—in contrast to female ones—to a mix of Asperger’s, ADD, and ego. Sigh.
In September, Jerry Saltz wrote a column. It was a blog, actually. Jerry doesn’t really have a column, he has, like, a Facebook page. And when it comes to paying the rent, his wife is chief critic for The New York Times. He pointed out the number of male artists having September shows. And, yes, it’s true. But what he failed to mention was that most of the [Artforum] ads he was talking about were bought and paid for by women. In a lifetime working around artists, I’ve come to the conclusion that to be an artist is more an affliction than a vocation. And a lot of women aren’t going to like this, but from experience I can tell you that anyone capable of doing another kind of work usually does; to be an artist you need a really serious case of attention deficit disorder, a little bit of Asperger’s, and you need what I can only describe as a man-sized ego. [Artnet News]
- Julian Schnabel is a weird duck. Michael Miller recounts a recent interview at the artist’s home wherein, at Schnabel’s request, the two lie on the artist’s bed and attempt to conduct the interview. That position did not last long. Schnabel sounds like he’s full of shit, which Miller generously describes as “a tendency to speak in “cryptic aphorisms.” [Artnet News]
- Another debate solved once and for all: toilet paper should be hung in the “over” position. [Consumerist]
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