- What would make Jurassic Park better? Putting everyone in high heels! [via Slate]
- Ai Weiwei has had his passport returned by the Chinese government. [Los Angeles Times]
- The Bloomberg New Contemporaries prize has been awarded to Hilde Krohn Huse. The performance artist’s winning submission? Video documentation of a failed attempt to climb a tree. The piece ends with Huse’s camera battery dying during an hours-long ordeal that saw her trapped upside down, naked, hanging by one foot. [The Independent]
- Job opportunity! ArtPlace America is commissioning three researchers to document and explore the impact of public art on public health, safety, and housing. [PDF]
- In other important research news: a survey of “side-eye” in Medieval art. [The Huffington Post]
- A gallerist has turned a huge swath of the bucolic Côte d’Azur landscape into a sprawling outdoor exhibition space. On view: big-name contemporary sculptors including Andrea Zittel and Carsten Höller alongside lakes and trails that wind through valleys. Someone take us there. [The Art Newspaper]
- Jeff Koons is going to Greece. No, he’s not trying his hand at negotiations during the crippling debt crisis. He’s going to party on the insanely flashy yacht he designed for billionaire collector Dakis Joannou. The yacht is named “Guilty”. [artnet News]
- Last May, a fire devastated the Glasgow School of Art’s iconic Mackintosh building. The school established a granting program to help students whose work had been destroyed in the blaze. An exhibition by 90 of those students has just opened. [BBC News]
- Now you can sleep in a parked van in Queens for as low as $22 a night on Airbnb. [Queens Crap]
- Louis Vuitton has dumped Takashi Murakami. Handbag fans the world over collectively cried one oversized, cartoon-flat tear. [ARTnews]
- Everyone seems to love the new Perez Art Museum Miami from starchitects Herzog & de Meuron. In a video interview, former museum director Terence Riley and curator Tobias Ostrander discuss why. [Curbed]
Wednesday Links: If You Can’t Handle the Glamour, GTFO This Jeff Koons Yacht
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on July 22, 2015 Massive Links
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