No Exit author Jean-Paul Sartre with a cat.
- In the name of anarchy and art, the Counterforce collective vandalizes Google’s Frank Gehry-designed offices. The destruction may have been minimal. [ValleyWag]
- Famous epitaphs! Charles Bukowski’s tombstone reads “Don’t Try.” [Wikiquote]
- Here’s a video of a cat saving a boy from a dog attack. Hero cat! [TMZ]
- South Africa’s National Art gallery’s first black museum curator has been axed under suspicious conditions. [Daily Maverick]
- An Albertson’s clerk failed to double bag a magnum bottle of wine, and it broke the bag and the customer’s foot. Now, the woman is demanding $8.3 million in damages. [Courthouse News via @bhsutton]
- In Toronto, it’s worth following the roads with “No Exit” signs, writes Shawn Micallef. Often times those dead ends lead to hiking trails, artist studios, and even hockey nets. [The Toronto Star]
- A Detroit bankruptcy judge tells creditors they can’t take artworks off the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts. They’d like to examine them for buyers they already have lined up, claiming they’ve “found buyers willing to pay more than $1 billion for parts or all of the collection; one wants all Chinese art.” [Boston Herald]
- Jason Foumberg discusses the Art Institute’s “pay-to-play” model for acquiring contemporary art. For $150, anyone can join the museum’s Society for Contemporary Art; this allows them to cast a vote for which work they’d like to see join the museum’s collection. [Chicago Magazine]
- Jaimie Warren gets a mostly positive review from Roberta Smith, who lauds her art-making, but says she could stretch her art farther with a little discipline. Where the work lacks discipline was never laid out, though, so this review doesn’t provide much insight. [The New York Times]
- Prospect New Orleans announces their artist list for the upcoming biennial, to be held October 25, 2014 through January 25, 2015. [Prospect New Orleans via Hyperallergic]
