- Making the rounds: Congratulations, you have an all-male panel. [allmalepanels]
- Art fairs: when art critics bring out their secret comedian. Michael Miller’s lament: “Either way, attending these kinds of cyclical events that arrive at the same time every year with the same cast of largely uninteresting stock characters and only a few details changed forces a person to think about all the things that happened in the interim, between the last event and this new one.” [ARTnews]
- Jerry Saltz appeared on Anderson Cooper this Wednesday and complained that museums can’t compete with big collectors who are willing to pay $170 million for an artwork. Well, yes, but the main reason why museums acquire works is through donations by wealthy collectors? I’d like to see a study on this subject, because I honestly don’t know how/if auctions affect museum acquisition programs. [Vulture]
- “Advil lyquigel model”? [Imgur]
- For just $10, you can enter a Kolache-eating contest in Bed-Stuy. This Saturday! [Gothamist]
- An Henri Matisse painting once looted by the Nazis has been returned to the descendants of the Jewish collector who originally owned it. It was one of many artworks recently discovered in the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Hitler’s favorite art dealer. [Deutsche Welle]
- You know that real-estate situation in Brooklyn stinks when, Paul Ramirez Jonas, artist and executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, admits he is facing the threat of closing his studio. [WNYC]
- In related “Rent is too damn high!” news, city residents marched across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday in a demonstration calling for better protection for low-income tenants. The protest coincides with a debate in Albany over the future of New York’s rent regulations. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- In even more real-estate news, in Leith, Scotland, there’s a shortage of artist studios. A new study “warns that artists based in the area may be forced out of the city completely unless more studio space can be found.” [The Scotsman]
- Scientists discover the world’s first warm-blooded fish. [Scientific American]
- Performance artist Chris Lloyd resigned as the Canadian conservative candidate slated to run against Justin Trudeau. Apparently, at least part of the campaign was intended to “mess with the Tories.” His actual stance on anything seems more akin to a politician’s than an artist’s, though, it’s entirely unclear what his politics are. While he has never voted conservative, he also said that “The easiest persona I’ve been able to summon up…is to somehow convince myself that by taking on the Conservative candidature, I’m doing it to defeat some greater evil which is perhaps Justin Trudeau…so I’m earnestly trying to unseat him and I can sleep at night with that idea, with that knowledge.” [Canadian Broadcasting Company]
