- Carlos Rigau (above) wants you to make a painting. He also squatted one of Miami’s many empty “investment properties” with the writer of this article about him, Rob Goyanes. [Temporary Art Review]
- Just to clear up any confusion, James Turrell wants us to know that he definitely had nothing to do with Drake’s new music video [Blouin artinfo]
- Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian are setting aside any rivalries to collaborate on an exhibition of figurative work from the 1980s. It will open during Art Basel Miami Beach in the Design District, not a fair booth. [Miami New Times]
- A dark cloud shifted over FIAC’s VIP preview yesterday with news that next year’s Frieze London will be bumped earlier in the month to avoid clashing with Yom Kippur, leaving only nine days in between. One gallerist thinks this won’t be a big deal for the “real” collectors, but another thinks 50% of American collectors will have to choose where they’ll go. Mo money mo problems! [Art Newspaper]
- ArtReview’s Power List is out. I guess we’re supposed to be interested in the small incremental changes on this thing. [ArtReview ]
- The Basquiat estate is releasing an edition of 60 $50,000 prints through Pace Prints. The announcement was somewhat shrouded in secrecy until today. Now the mystery remains:who is going to pay $50,000 for a print that wasn’t even technically authored by the artist? [artnet News]
- Turns out that new eye in speech bubble emoji is part of an anti-bullying campaign. [Wired]
- Debating an MFA? Here’s a ranking of best rankings of grad schools for artists. [Hyperallergic]
- New York City is changing it’s streetlights, slowly, to whiter, brighter, more energy-efficient LEDs. It’s a move that’s going to totally change how huge swaths of the city look at night. Some people are really, really unhappy about this. [The New York Times]
- The fourth and final episode of Lorna Mills’s Ways of Something is premiering at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center tonight, but guess what? You can watch online minute #27 by Jacob Ciocci. [Vimeo]
Thursday Links: The Powerful Stay Powerful
by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on October 22, 2015 Massive Links
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