- Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn’t bring any more reality TV drama: Duff Goldman, of Food Network’s Ace of Cakes fame, claims Trump’s inauguration cake was a plagiarism of the cake he sculpted for President Obama in 2009. [Facebook]
- Groups including Canadian, British, and French citizens were denied entry to the United States, fingerprinted, searched, and photographed by border agents after disclosing their intentions to attend the Women’s March on Washington. GO FREEDOM! [The Independent]
- Digital art by students in Shiraz, Iran. [D.A.H. Project]
- Oh man, I wish I could’ve gone to Marilyn Minter and Madonna’s talk at the Brooklyn Museum. The two discussed feminism, aging as a woman artist, and Trump, among other topics. [artnet News]
- Graffiti writer KATSU has demonstrated his newest model tagging-drone with the phrase “SCUM TRUMP”. The technology still seems pretty far-off from making things that look nice, but it could offer politically-minded street artists access to hard-to-reach places like billboards. [New Atlas]
- In other anti-Trump art news, Jaden Smith and Shia LaBeouf have installed a camera on the side of the Museum of the Moving Image to livestream participants repeating “He will not divide us” for the duration of Trump’s presidency. [Billboard]
- With the future of the NEA in doubt, the editors of ARTnews have compiled a list of key battles from the Culture Wars that gutted American art funding. Seriously, sometimes it is so embarrassing to have to explain to people from other countries why Americans can’t have nice things. [ARTnews]
- Hrag Vartanian has rounded-up some of his favorite signs from the weekend’s protests. “BURNING LIMO 4 PREZ 2020” is by far the best one. [Hyperallergic]
- BmoreArt also covered protest signs from the Women’s March on Washington, so many good ones on their social media. [Instagram]
- Many museums are collecting signs from the protest. This post doesn’t indicate which museums are collecting signs in New York, though. Anyone know who’s doing that? [The Cut]
- Meanwhile in London, Sir Ian McKellen marched with a sign bearing the “Picard face-palm meme”. He and Patrick Stewart have the world’s cutest friendship. [Twitter]
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