- Sofia Alvarez’s new play Friend Art opens tonight at the Second Stage Theatre, and it’s a story we can all relate to. The plot revolves around a young couple who have to attend a lot of their friends’ art openings (because this is a comedy, we’re guessing the art will be hilariously bad). [Playbill]
- Does Momofuku’s Milk Bar compost cookie owe something to Joseph Jachna’s potato chip cookie? Who knows, but The Photographer’s Cookbook featuring recipes collected in the 1970s by photographers like Ansel Adams and Richard Avedon suggests the artists were just as visionary about their gourmand appetites as they were within their medium. [T Magazine]
- Seventeen year old TJ Khayatan left a pair of glasses on the floor of SFMOMA and everyone thought they were art. [The Independent]
- In other SFMOMA news, pastry chef Caitlin Freeman, who previously ran a cafe out of the museum, accused the new concessionaire, McCalls Catering, of copying her signature art-themed cakes. The irony of this is that Freeman’s cakes were themselves copies of paintings by the likes of Piet Mondrian and Andy Warhol. This is what it would look like if someone gave Sturtevant her own food reality tv show. [artnet News]
- After a queen bee got stuck in a grandmother’s car trunk, a swarm of 20,000 bees followed the car around for two days. [deathandtaxes]
- Mexico City gallery Kurimanzutto has opened a “one-wall” project space “without doors”, Sonora 128, in the form of a billboard in La Condesa. [ARTnews]
- Bill Arning, the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, writes about art in Houston, and how proud even the conservatives are about the city’s openness to controversial art. The mind reels. [Art in America]
- 76 year old conceptual artist Stephen Kaltenbach essentially invented street art and cultural jamming decades before they were “a thing”. Then he decamped from the New York art world to live in the desert. Here’s an essay from the artist explaining why, ahead of his comeback retrospective at Marlborough Chelsea. [The Creator’s Project]
- More museum expansion news! After yesterday’s Tate Modern Star Wars plans, the Bronx Museum announced a $25 million dollar capital campaign for renovation and expansion. With architect Monica Ponce de Leon at the helm, the expansion will supposedly add some cohesion to the museum, which passersby mistake, as Director Holly Block reveals, as “corporate offices.” [New York Times]
- Speaking of announcements, Unicorn Consortium just approved 72 new emoji’s for June including a glass of whiskey, a pickle, a clown smiley and a just-about-to-vomit face. All of which could describe a rough night-out. [SFist]
- Curators Jack Self, Shumi Bose and Finn Williams have a radical approach to the British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Rather than addressing the UK’s housing crisis through new architecture typologies, their exhibition Home Economics speculates on apps like Airbnb and the sharing economy’s role in how those of us who will likely never own property might still manage to secure shelter in the world’s increasingly expensive cities. [Dezeen]
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