The Divine Halloween pumpkin. The best pumpkin ever.
Yet another story about how the art market is cooling. This one has a good title though. “Has the Market for ‘Zombie Formalists’ Evaporated?” [artnet News]
We’ve reached new levels of art swag. For the historical exhibition “Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933,” New York’s Neue Galerie art museum is giving viewers the chance to connect with a Weimer-era “Neue Frau (New Woman).” by launching a brand of red lipstick. The line is actually cooler then I originally thought, though. These were that they were known wearing bright-colored make-up, wearing their hair short and defying gender norms.[New York Observer]
In 1940 Tsuneko Sasamoto became Japan’s first female photojournalist. At 101, she’s now one of the world’s oldest. [Spoon & Tamago]
MoMA PS1 admission will be free for New Yorkers for a year. [ARTnews]
Extreme phone pinching is an Internet trend where people dangle their phone over perilous locations. [The Telegraph]
Amazon has launched Handmade at Amazon, in direct competition with Etsy. The company says the site section will have a totally different then the rest of Amazon, but so far they’ve just got a nice splash page and everything else looks the same. Is this section really going to be any different then the junk filled art section they released last year? (Check out the photo of seller Schuyler Ellers in his crochet suit.) [The New York Times]
Home prices in Brooklyn have risen 15 percent over the last year, pulling them above their pre-recession prices. Argh! [Crain’s New York]
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