- “Speaking of depressing Dutch paintings… Hereeeee’s Vinnie!” Van Gogh’s dour “Potato Eaters” and Currin’s northern European Renaissance throwback “Thanksgiving” are included in this Thanksgiving round-up of art history family dinners. [Observer]
- Big news from Manchester: Fiona Gasper will take over as Executive Director of the Manchester International Festival early next year, and Rem Koolhaas has been commissioned to new arts venue the Factory Manchester. [Artforum]
- Riveting long read on how a Canadian internet troll “swatted”—a form of online harassment leading to a crank-called swat team raid on your home—many female Twitch streamers before eventually being arrested after a long and challenging cross-border investigation. Most damning in all of this is how utterly lax and hands-off Twitch, the live streaming video gamer site frequently ranked among the top five peak internet traffic websites, was in dealing with all of this female-directed trolling. [New York Times Magazine]
- Filipino artist Maria Taniguchi, best known for her large-scale “brick” paintings, has won this year’s Hugo Boss Asia Art Award. [ArtReview]
- A summary of this year’s Americas programme at Art Basel Miami Beach: Los Angeles gets a big push with a panel including Hans Ulrich Obrist and Bret Easton Ellis, and there will be a stronger Midwest presence thanks to a handful of Chicago galleries and presentations by artists from that region (ie. the Wisconsin-born Michelle Grabner and her husband Brad Killiam at James Cohan’s booth, Iowa’s Ken Okiishi at Pilar Corrias.) [The Art Newspaper]
- Martin Herbert’s round-up of December’s top ten must-see shows includes the Brooklyn Museum’s Agitprop! and early Donald Baechler works at Cheim & Read. [ArtReview]
- One of the longest-running antiquarian book sellers, London’s Maggs Brothers, is moving for the first time in 75 years. Established in 1853, this photo essay of its soon-to-be-vacated five-storey Georgian mansion filled with rare books and manuscripts is a lovely memory trip for antiquarian die-hards. [Spitalfields Life]
- According to Carly Simon, Jack Nicholson’s pick-up line was “What if we go over to your apartment?” followed by “Do you ever drink coffee in your bedroom?” [@RichJuzwiak]
- The secret histories of.. airports! LGA was built on a former 19th century amusement park boasting the east coast’s first Ferris Wheel, and ATL was once a failed racetrack owned by Coca-Cola’s founder. The things you learn in these seasonal content farms! [Gizmodo]
- General Idea’s early video works will be screening at the Barbican in January, and curator Panos Fourtoulakis discusses the Canadian collective’s impact on shaping queer identity and culture, as well as the “potentiality of life unscribed by heteronormative conventions.” [Fringe!]
- Related: AA Bronson, the last surviving member of the group, is the subject of this photo essay exploring his current shows at the Kunstvereins in Grazer and Salzburg. [Hyperallergic]
- This GIF from Bruce Nauman’s “Thank You Thank You”. [@ART21]
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