- Jake Levine announced today that Electric Objects, the digital art display company, would no longer be making their hardware. GIPHY has acquired their app, which means anyone who purchased a display unit can still use it. (The displays don’t work without the app.) Art Club is suspending their commissions program. [Electric Objects]
- George Lucas’s 1.5 billion dollar
vanity project museum was unanimously approved by the Los Angeles City Council in a meeting on Tuesday morning. It’s supposed to tackle larger issues—narrative art and storytelling—but of course the first show slated is a bunch of sketches and props from Star Wars and Indiana Jones. I guess there’s no getting rid of this thing. [artnet News]
- Speaking of planned
vanity projects museums, François Pinault, the head of the luxury conglomerate Kering and a well-known collector, plans to turn the Bourse, Paris’s historic stock exchange, into a modern art museum. I suppose I shouldn’t poo-poo a gift to Paris, but you know this thing is just going to be filled with the same blue chip art we always see. It’s rich people dick swinging. [W Magazine]
- The Art Gallery of Ontario gets four new assistant curators. I guess they’ll need them if they want to compete with MoCA—assuming that project ever gets off the ground. [ARTnews]
- NoooOOOOOooooo! McMansion Hell has gone off line after its creator Kate Wagner, received a cease-and-desist letter from online real estate database Zillow. From the sounds of her lawyer Daniel Nazer she will be disputing the claim. [Hyperallergic]
- Bearcam is live folks. But where are the bears? I’ve tuned in three times and seen none fishing. Sad [Explore.org]
- Lots going on in the Osprey nest, though! [Explore.org]
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