- Read an interview with Jerónimo Rüedi, who founded art lending library Aeromoto, and join in our intense desire to move to Mexico City. [Blouin Artinfo]
- Get ready for a lot more bad direct-from-Adobe-Illustrator-to-Vape-shop-wall street art. Researchers are developing a “smart” spray can that you just wave over a surface and it automatically produces an image, like a printer. The future is terrible. [engadget]
- Whoa. Someone burgled Missouri’s Springfield Art Museum and made off with an undisclosed number of Warhol’s soup can screenprints. [Springfield News Leader]
- The center of the United States is in Northern Kansas. It’s, also, as it turns out, a digital minefield thanks to a computer glitch. MaxMind, a company that geographically locates IP addresses, spit out a default address roughly two hours away from the exact center anytime it couldn’t identify the address. That address happened to be the front yard of Joyce Taylor’s house. The result was not good. Over the years, they’ve been accused of being identity thieves, spammers, scammers and fraudsters. They’ve gotten visited by FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances searching for suicidal veterans, and police officers searching for runaway children. That’s just the short of it. [Fusion]
- Louise Blouin, one of Canada’s richest women and the owner of Artinfo, has been named in the Panama Papers as she has investments in what appear to be shell companies. Blouin denies they are for tax shelter purposes. [The Toronto Star]
- Chen Dongsheng, founder of China Guardian, currently the world’s fourth-largest art auction house has been named in the Panama Papers as well. [Artnet news]
- A third developer, All Year Management, has just bought two more parcels of the controversial Rheingold Brewery in Bushwick. Most of the site is owned by Read Property Group, but they’ve been divvying up lots and selling them to other builders. Critics claim this is circumventing promises to include affordable housing in the massive development site. [Curbed]
- In somewhat related news, Mayor Bill de Blasio is under federal investigation for potentially making deals to benefit wealthy donors in the real estate sector. [Gothamist]
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