- Headline of the day: “Bob Ross Was a Tyrant and Hated His Perm, Says Former Manager.” [artnet News]
- Police were called to an art gallery in a small town in Australia over a complaint of a nude self-portrait by painter Dennis McIntyre. But you can’t even see his junk in the painting! It’s covered by a teapot. It’s not clear who exactly was so offended by this portrait that they actually called the police. According to gallery volunteer Beryl Ramsay, a group of elderly women recently visited the gallery and were far from offended: “Their only complaint was that they couldn’t lift the teapot to see what was behind it.” [The Border Mail]
- Here’s an interview with Rossy de Palma, a.k.a. “Dama Picasso” about her decades of collaborations with Pedro Almodovar and how much fun being an artist was during La Movida Madrileña of the 1980s. [Dazed]
- The Shchukin collection—which makes up the bulk of the Hermitage’s early modernist masterworks—is leaving Russia for the first time in a century for a loan to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. There’s a nice irony to this—Shchukin collected mostly Parisian artists during his lifetime and he fled to the French capital during the Russian revolution in which the state seized his art collection. [Bloomberg]
- Lisa Cooley talks to ARTnews about closing her gallery. Cooley cites art fair exhaustion as an issue, as well the rise of social media. Seeing and sharing so many images desensitizes people and erodes community and relationship building. That becomes a huge problem when rent rates demand that prices double or triple every year. “The scale is the problem—whether that is scale of information you have to process, or competing with the larger galleries. You can’t scale relationships.” The business model for smaller galleries isn’t working. Hopefully Cooley will get her artists paid. [ARTnews]
- As much as people like to hate on Santiago Calatrava, the World Trade Center redevelopment’s numerous cost-overruns, delays, and design failures—and malls—there’s no denying that the Transportation Hub oculus looks beautiful. [Dezeen]
- Electric Objects is looking for a Curator-in-Chief. This is a pretty exciting job. It means overseeing the editorial and curatorial direction of the company, setting the direction for their commissions program, and hiring and building a capable team of writers and curators to do the job. [Electric Objects]
- Jerry Saltz got himself into some hot water by posting a doctored image of a female tennis player without underwear. The image is now removed (and we won’t post it because the image is offensive), but there are plenty of women still fuming about this over Facebook. [Facebook]
- The Studio Museum has installed four public artworks across Harlem parks from Rudy Shepherd, Kori Newkirk, Simone Leigh, and Kevin Beasley. [The Wall Street Journal]
- A British community garden features a shed modeled on the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. Unfortunately, someone broke into the farm and vandalized it. The Stonebridge City Farm plans on fixing it. [BBC News]
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