- Irina Romanovskaya has completed a painting of Vladimir Putin using her breasts. I’m not sure what the message is here (feminist critique? From “Mother Russia” with love? Ruble inflation making traditional art supplies prohibitively expensive?) But mostly, it totally looks like the terrifying male face strangers worldwide claim to have seen in their dreams. [The Art Newspaper]
- And in other “right-wing politicians and women’s bodies art news”: Sarah Levy, a Portland-based artist, has completed a portrait of Donald Trump using menstrual blood as her medium. It’s titled “Whatever.” [USA Today]
- Omar Kholeif has been appointed the Manilow Senior Curator at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. [Chicago Sun-Times]
- I can hardly wait for this 3D Duchamp chess set to come out. Sounds like the legal hurdles are being cleared. [greg.org]
- Casa Mono, the restaurant responsible for the small plate, tapas craze in New York gets three stars from Pete Wells, up one star from ten years ago. I’ve eaten the desserts at this restaurant (and other dishes) and they are indeed delicious. [New York Times]
- Related: you can now drink unicorn tears. [Foodbeast]
- Everyone’s still binge-watching Narcos, leading to Imgur galleries of the period’s shameless cocaine ads (African ivory spoons and vials!) to television and film prop masters revealing the fake white lady actors are snorting up their noses (inositol, a B-vitamin compound). [Adweek, Hopes&Fears]
- A lot of people are freaking out about Facebook’s plans to introduce a Dislike button, leading to deep thoughts about the projected absence of ambivalence (everything will be so divided! Like versus Dislike!) to the practicalities of finally having an appropriate click on sad posts (cause who wants to be the dick that “likes” a miscarriage or death announcement?) [Vice]
- A new proposal went public today revising Germany’s controversial cultural protection legislation, which had led to Georg Baselitz pulling all his loaned works from German museums and Gerard Richter threatening to do the same in protest. The legislation originally proposed a tightening of export licensing restricting the sale of cultural artifacts that many said would kill the German art market; now it looks like the export will only affect historically-significant, high value works and not the contemporary art segment. [artnetNews]
- “Digital copyright enforcement was once bureaucracies of people talking to other bureaucracies of people. Today it’s robots talking to other robots. On the significance of the decision recently passed on the “dancing baby” copyright case. [Motherboard]
- There has been a lot written about the new Broad Museum in Los Angeles. This article is a nice aggregate of the mixed reviews. The verdict seems to be that the Museum is a great, restrained piece of architecture, but that the collection itself is a predictable assortment of blue-chip names that doesn’t have much to say on it’s own. [The Atlantic]
- The British painter Angelique Hartigan was alerted by friends that the art collective where she formerly rented a studio sold her paint-splattered carpet as one of her original paintings. [artnet News]
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