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by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on June 8, 2016
- Will any of the above new emojis replace the eggplant as the definitive dick symbol? According to a mobile keyboard expert, probably not. [Motherboard]
- Carey Dunne delves into the Smithsonian Archive’s collection of artists’ hand-written letters, and the insights it reveals into their lives and work. Ray Johnson’s letter to gallerist Eva Lee is child-like and to the point: “EVA — HELLO / RAY”, and ends with his signature bunny head. Meanwhile architect Eero Saarinen, who designed JFK Airport, had dyslexia, and while precise, his writing was sometimes reversed. [Hyperallergic]
- Norway’s not in hot diplomatic waters when it was discovered that a drive from its Royal Embassy to Israel was arrested last week for attempting to smuggle a stash of ancient artifacts. The car was travelling from Jordan and was stopped along a checkpoint to Jerusalem. Worst is that due to protocol, diplomatic vehicles are typically not searched, making this a huge security breach. [The Art Newspaper]
- Francesco Bonami on the changing role of the curator in the past ten years: “we became self-delusional main characters and at the same time totally irrelevant in relation to the market and the artists’ career.” [artnet News]
- Buffalo’s Albright-Knox has announced it’ll go with Rem Koolhaas’s firm, OMA, to oversee its $80 million expansion. [New York Times]
- One of Zaha Hadid’s final buildings will be built at 220 11th Avenue. [Curbed]
- Book Marks, dubbed the “Rotten Tomatoes for books”, launched this week, and it seems like none of the books have a letter grade rating below B-. So why does Book Marks have such a hard time separating the good from the mediocre? According to Alex Shephard, this simply reflects the current state of literary criticism, and its problem with grade inflation. [New Republic]
- In primary news, as expected, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to claim a major party’s presidential nomination last night. [The New York Times]
- A bipartisan Senate bill could help make it easier for Holocaust victims to reclaim art looted from them. The bill would allow claims made within six years of when the families discover the art and has been tabled by two senators we never thought would agree on anything—Ted Cruz, the gun-slinging Republican from Texas and Charles Schumer, the popular New York state Senator. [The New York Times]
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