- Today—April 10, 2017—is Leon the replicant’s “incept date” from Blade Runner. Weird. [Gizmodo]
- Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf is facing “disciplinary action” from Marvel after he inserted political/religious messages into a recent X-Men issue. The illustrator used references to the Quran and protests against a politician who has come under fire in Indonesia because he isn’t a Muslim. [Mashable]
- “The dining room…is decorated in various shades of taupe, biscuit and fuck you.” This sets the scene (or what this reviewer calls “the scene of the crime”) for this devastating review of Le Cinq, a Michelin three-star restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel in Paris. This particular restaurant specializes in what it calls “spherifications”, one of which was described as “like eating a condom that’s been left lying about in a dusty greengrocer’.” The critic’s photographs at the end of the piece are really worth a look. Terrifying. [The Guardian]
- This is a real bummer: Fashion icon, TV host and writer Glenn O’Brien has died. The ARTnews obituary does a great job of outlining who he was and his contributions. For those looking for a bit of extra fodder, O’Brien maintained an active Twitter account that showed off his trademark wit. It’s worth a look. [ARTnews]
- Austrian artist Yadegar Asisi has opened a huge panoramic installation that recreates the Titanic shipwreck in an old gas storage tower. Titanic: The Promise of Modernity was created from hundreds of flashlight-illuminated photos from robotic submarines. It’s pretty cool. [Daily Mail]
- Good news: New York state’s new budget prioritizes housing. [Curbed]
- Art review doozy sentence of the day: “Proving that Richter is still the alpha male of conceptual, anti-ideological—and yes, perceptual—painting of the last half century, his works slide through the impermeable borders where abstraction and representation cancel each other out.” [ARTnews]
- After the disastrous Pepsi Kendall Jenner ad, Ciara Lavelle argues corporations should stop using socially-conscious art as advertising. Case and point: Glad (makers of trash bags) have a ridiculous anti-hate advertising/art installation wall in Wynwood. [Miami New Times]
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