Image Courtesy Antoine S Lutens, via Facebook.
- Performance artist Istvan Kantor (Karl Lagerfeld lookalike?) vandalizes Jeff Koons retrospective with his own blood. This seems to be a pastime for him, seeing as he doused a Paul McCarthy sculpture in his blood in 2004. He won a Canadian award for that one. [Hyperallergic]
- Gwangju Biennial president resigns after work criticizing South Korean president Park Geun-hye was censored by the local government. [The Art Newspaper]
- Artforum likes Bunny Rogers. The artist just got a critic’s pick. She did a “Top Ten” for them this year. [h/t @mfortki, Artforum]
- Chicagoans who like biking, jogging, or lollygagging around Lake Shore Drive will now be able to set their eyes upon a Christopher Wool sculpture. Lake Michigan just wasn’t enough of a view! [Chicago Tribune]
- #Abramopug enjoys continued popularity, though so far, seems to have only one performance, “The Artist is Present,” in its repertoire. It’s going to have to do better than that if it wants to make it in this town. [Dazed Digital]
- Five protesters die in police custody following a protest…in China. (One thing to be thankful for that hasn’t happened in Ferguson?) [United Press International]
- A man walks into Atlanta’s High Museum of Art with a gun. He’s told that’s “NOT OKAY” (in different words, of course) and security detains him. Mr. Guy With a Gun is confused because he didn’t know he was breaking the law—because the museum didn’t have proper signage telling him not to bring in his gun. This, just two months after Georgia passed a “guns everywhere” law. [NBC Atlanta via @Juliahalperin]
- We missed this last month, but a Forbes writer has suggested closing all the libraries and buying everyone an Amazon Kindle subscription. Because a library is basically an inefficient storage warehouse. [Forbes]
- Here’s a solid piece of criticism. I didn’t care what the New York Times’s “Bookends” column was doing ‘til now, but Jesus, these prompts are terrible, and they’re a total product of the newsy Internet opinion factory. Free the writers! [Salon]
- The cheapest apartment in Manhattan below 96th Street will cost you $170,000. Looking at the dealer’s images, seems like this linoleum-filled studio needs some handiwork. [Curbed New York]
- An unexpected creative tip from ad agencies: make something so bad that it’s good again. That was the very intentional premise behind making this Missouri Mall back-to-school ad, as well as this car dealership rap. The former went instantly viral. When it works it works, I guess. [Time]
- “That’s not a litter box, it’s CAT SHIT JAIL.” [The Toast]
- Lockhart Steele, the Editorial Director of Vox Media, and one time old school blogger (Steele founded Curbed and Eater), is bringing back his blog. [The Verge]
