- John Seed has a tongue-in-cheek idea to boost museum attendance: advertise the value of the artwork on display. [The Huffington Post]
- Biogenic tattoos are apparently a thing now. Also known as morbid ink, the originally fringe practice of mixing tattoo ink with biogenic materials like cremated ash and even carbonized hair is going mainstream, and has been embraced by biotech startups. [Motherboard]
- Our friends at Platform Arts Center in Baltimore have had a break-in, where power tools and exhibition materials such as display monitors were stolen. Please consider donating to their Paypal! [Platform Arts Center]
- Houston’s planned mega-suburbs have some weird public art, as Corinna Kirsch discovered in The Woodlands. Now rival enclave Sugar Land has installed a bronze sculpture of two girls taking a selfie. Predictably, the internet is losing its shit about it. [CNET]
- The sacrilege of it all: conservators will likely shudder over the recent discovery that a 14th century Italian altarpiece in the collection of London’s National Gallery fell from an easel and broke in half… 27 years ago. [Art Newspaper]
- Moscow’s Garage Museum just announced it will be organizing the first Russian art triennial in March 2017. [Artforum]
- After seven months behind bars, Russian dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky is free. Found guilty of setting fire to the door of Russia’s Federal Security Service headquarters as part of a conceptual art piece, the artist avoided jail time but has been fined almost 1 million rubles for damages. He’s refusing to pay the fines, and has asked his supporters not to pay either. [Observer]
- Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has stopped loans to the United States over fears that Cuban expats could sue to have the state-owned artworks seized as retribution for the country’s wealth re-distribution in 1959. Until this situation is resolved, the Bronx Museum’s forthcoming exhibition of contemporary Cuban artists, Wild Noise, will be postponed. [Art Newspaper]
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