Martin Drölling, “L’intérieur d’une cuisine” (1815), believed to have been painted with Mummy Brown (via the Louvre)
- Painting/art history nerds will like this one. It’s a round-up of pigments from yesteryear that we no longer use. The weirdest one is undoubtedly “Mummy Brown,” which, as it’s name suggests, is made out of ground-up mummies. Gross? [Hyperallergic]
- Jean-Michel Basquiat fans rejoice. A new, never before exhibited drawing will be on view at Brooklyn’s Bishop Gallery during Art Basel Miami. The gallery is part of the satellite fair X Contemporary. Not to sound too dismissive, but the drawing doesn’t look remarkably different or better than anything else he’s done. [ARTnews]
- Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Nice to see musicians getting their due. [The New York Times]
- Here’s a page that allows a user to distort an image by shrinking or enlarging it. Sometimes new images appear, but generally, I don’t get this “pixel art”. How is this any different than using the distort tool in Photoshop? [Essenmitsosse]
- The Artists and Writer’s Cookbook is out. Recipes from James Franco (pb and jelly), April Gornik (salad), and Swoon (ratatouille). Those recipes are all pretty traditional compared to Marina Abramovic, though, who submits a breast milk and sperm recipe that is to be eaten on top of a volcano. That’s one place I’m not going to travel for art or dinner. [Artnet news]
- And in the news world of “no shit”, Brooklyn and Queens have never been this expensive. [Curbed]
