- A Maryland farm has cut a giant corn maize in the shape of Taylor Swift’s face. [Modern Farmer]
- Pretty much everyone in New York went to at least one art opening this week, including celebrities! [Observer]
- The ICA Miami has appointed Ellen Salpeter as their new director. She will be leaving her post at New York’s Jewish Museum. [The New York Times]
- Fascinating old footage of the Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants playing a show at Vancouver’s artist-run centre Western Front. [Western Front]
- Here’s your post-NYFW Yeezy Season 2 lite think piece on the gendered readings of Kimye’s “performance art”. [Refinery29]
- Marilyn Minter discusses her career, glamour, and her mother: “the art world loves young bad boys and old ladies.” [artnet News]
- Facepalm: in a televised election debate, the Canadian Prime Minister made mention of “new and existing and old stock Canadians.” (Read: white people.) [BuzzFeed]
- The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is expanding into an adjacent building. The expansion will nearly double the institution’s gallery space. [Artforum]
- Gallerist Monika Sprüth revisits her long-running curatorial project Eau de Cologne—a series of exhibitions and publications focused on bringing market attention to female artists. A new exhibition, which opened last night in Berlin, features work from the groundbreaking 1980s shows from Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. [The Art Newspaper]
- Collector Joel Greene is now countersuing the Honolulu Art Museum after the museum cancelled annuity Greene was receiving in exchange for a donation of Southeast Asian artifacts. The museum claims Greene failed to provide documentation of the artifacts’ provenance. Greene claims the museum has “tarnished his reputation”. [ARTnews]
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