Yesterday the Miami art fairs brought us a range of celebrity-filled events we did not attend. From Hans Ulrich-Obrist in conversation with Kanye West about art and design—“What did I paint when I was in school? Music.”—to Lady Gaga’s dinner gala, Kanye West performing with Vanessa Beecroft, and the opening of the Perez Art Museum, we cried for the 41 whales remain beached in the Everglades. [Miami Herald]
Hunting down celebrity events are easy with this massive guide from the Miami Herald. [Miami Herald]
Bill Clinton presidential doodles have been leaked by Guccifer, the same person who hacked George Bush’s paintings (and a lot of other high-security breaches, etc). With a little practice, these stationary drawings could be ready for The New Yorker. [Gawker]
Millionaire art dealer Charles Saatchi was not in fact checking wife Nigella Lawson’s nose for cocaine when he was gripping her throat in public. [HuffPo]
You probably can’t get to the top without stabbing everybody in the back– is what we conclude from this Gallerist exposé by the London art dealer Kenny Schachter. He details what happened when his beloved in-law died and entrusted him with an art collection, and the vulture-dealers who have been scheming ever since. “[T]hese people are not an easy lot to keep at bay,” he writes, “especially when the wolves (competitors and shareholders) are huffing and puffing and trying blow their house down.”[Gallerist]
“To make matters worse,” he writes, “I wrote this on BA Flight 207 non-stop London to Miami for Miami Basel, surrounded on all sides by some of the protagonists. At one point I had to obscure my computer screen.” Oh my god. [Gallerist]
The blue chip world isn’t all that bad. Now one lucky raffle participant will win a $1 million Picasso for the raffle ticket price of $100. The December It’s a fundraiser to rebuild the city of Tyre, Lebanon, after it’s been devastated by Lebanon Civil War. [Hyperallergic, 1picasso100euros.com]
RISD President John Maeda quits to go corporate. [TechCrunch]
New issue of Cura includes a poem by Paul Legault called “Mary Desti’s Ass” [Cura]
If you’d like to see something grisly this morning, check out Emanuele Satolli ‘s photos from inside a “krokadil” cookhouse in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The flesh-eating drug is easy to make and has effects like heroin, but it turns your skin dark and scaly like a crocadile’s. [TIME]
Is this a joke? The New Museum has announced that it now sells CRONUTS. [Facebook]
