Close-up with Sarah Lucas’s “Au Naturel.” Image courtesy of the Guardian.
- Oh, dear. Artist Sarah Lucas’s “Au Naturel” was chosen for Dlisted’s caption contest. Don’t worry: you, too, still have time to submit your own snarky caption about the mattress. [Dlisted]
- It seems like those $90 Suicide Girls prints are sold out on the SG website. We were too late! [Suicide Girls]
- But you can always see one of the Suicide Girls prints in person at Postmasters’ new exhibition, #wcw (@Womencrushwednesday). [Postmasters]
- Nominate your favorite net-artist for the second annual Prix Net Art, with the winner receiving a $10,000 grant. Your favorite net artists already know how much you care, but hugs do not pay the bills. [Rhizome]
- In Tampa, the tenth-known violent death of a transgender person to occur this year. No. [Political Animal]
- Book-lovers, you may want to prepare yourself before clicking on this link. People are “defiling” vintage books in the name of stencil-art. [Town and Country Living]
- A.I.R. Gallery launches their annual studio visit lottery. $15 bucks per ticket, or a pair of them for $20. The list of visitors this year is impressive: Martha Wilson, Mira Schor, Kat Griefen, Lesley Heller, Judith Brodsky, and Paddy Johnson, among others. [A.I.R Gallery]
- The history of cybernetics and management techniques, with a focus on Chile. The country tried out cybernetics as a means of economic control in the 1970s, but then the U.S. came in and led a coup against the country, thereby ending the cybernetic-management experiments. [AVANT]
- On why the Marvel cinematic universe lacks the X-Men and Spider-Man, who are very much a part of Marvel comics. [A.V. Club]
- Verisart, a new art-and-tech start-up, seeks to catalogue every new work of art and record it with blockchain technology. [Bloomberg]
- China Through the Looking Glass is on track to become the most popular exhibition at the Met ever. So far, the exhibition has been seen by 500,000 and is on view through Labor Day. The Alexander McQueen show remains the most attended, attracting 661,509 in its 15-week run. [ARTnews]
- The EXPO CHICAGO art fair announces its 2015 fair programming, which will include talks on the state of design criticism, global biennials, and the Chicago Imagists. [EXPO CHICAGO]
