Monday Links: I Never Want to Hear the Words Kanye and Art Used Together Again.

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Is there a more self-obsessed and conceited rapper than Kanye West? He’s joined Instagram and calls it “his art”. It’s bad enough that West joining Instagram is deemed news, but to discuss this as art—as if there’s some higher import to joining a social network—is just lunacy. [Dazed]

I’m probably looking forward to the Kerry James Marshall retrospective more than any other show this fall. Randy Kennedy’s profile of the artist begins with Marshall showing him a bin of bobble head dolls, which he uses to work from because he says they’re very accurate and live models are a pain. Artistic ingenuity makes me happy. Marshall’s paintings build “a sturdy bridge for figurative painting from the 15th century to ours” writes Kennedy. [The New York Times]

Performance Research is seeking contributions that address maternal aesthetics, ethics, politics, labour and care, as well as questions of inter/trans/subjectivity. Deadline is today. [Performance Research]

T.O.P, a member of the K-Pop group Big Bang will curate a Sotheby’s Charity auction to support, The Asian Cultural Council, a nonprofit foundation engaged in fostering economically struggling young art talent in Asia. We learn about the charity six paragraphs into the news story. [Korea Herald]

Artist Michael Mandiberg will open a show on the eighth anniversary of Lehman Brother’s collapse. He’s laser cutting the logos of failed banks onto discarded books about finance. [The New Yorker]

William Louis-Dreyfus, the French-born billionaire collector and philanthropist has died at the age of 86. [artnet News]