Eric Turquin in front of “Judith Bheading Holofernes”
- The FBI is now offering a $25,000 reward for information in the Warhol “Soup Can” heist from the Springfield Art Museum. Whoever the thief is, they’re either dumb or extremely picky. The set of seven “flavors” stolen will be substantially less valuable without the three left behind: pepper pot, cream of mushroom and consommé (beef). [Inquisitr]
- Alan Lupiani checks in on Natural Disruptions, a collaborative mural-based project in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park led by artists Mark Dorf and Anthony Goicolea. [Hyperallergic]
- A long-lost Caravaggio has been discovered in an attic in France. [New York Times]
- Can we talk about how amazing the Brooklyn Museum’s Reanimation Library is? It’s collection prioritizing printed materials from the public realm with visual information, and is dedicated to being a resource “that inspires the production of new work”. (And yes, the image collection has been digitized.) [Reanimation Library]
- Rich artist destroys his passport because he was pissed off with his work in the Sydney Biennale. [ARTnews]
- Art Cologne launches its 50th iteration tomorrow. Here’s a brief history of the mother of all fairs, an event that drastically changed the course of the art world. [Deutsche Welle]
- If there are any Wendy fans out there, get excited: Walter Scott’s sequel to his cutting art world satire will be dropping this fall. [Koyama Press]
- Rhizome announces the collaborators for this year’s Seven on Seven conference. The artist/technologist pairings include Hito Steyerl with Aesthetic Integration co-founder Grant Olney Passmore, and Miranda July with Postlight co-founder Paul Ford. [Artforum]
- The Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) has announced plans for an ambitious $60 million expansion and renovation of their main buildings on McCaul Street, just south of Dundas in Toronto. Improvements will be made on the 1920s heritage building, George Reid House, and the famed Will Allsop-designed Sharp Centre for Design. So far, the Ontario government has chipped in $27 million toward the project, but OCADU will have to fundraise the rest. Not mentioned in all of this is what further “revitalization” we can expect in the Grange Park neighborhood: condos, perhaps? [Urban Toronto]
- The “American Attitudes Toward Art” survey results have been released and there aren’t too many shockers. 44.3% of people aged 18-24 and 33.8% of people aged 25-34 use social media to discover new art, while people over 65 (at least 29.5% of them) prefer to discover new artists through museums. Based on the press release, be prepared for this report to inspire way too many online art-selling platforms to spring up to cater to millennials. News flash: we go to galleries too and we’re too broke to buy art. [Business Wire]
- Richard Prince’s new show at Sadie Coles is a series of cartoon-inspired pieces depicting nudist culture. According to writer Catherine Sedgewick, they feature young, big-breasted women being pursued by lecherous old men in the context of hippie culture. Richard Prince, what are you doing? [The Upcoming]
