- It sucks to work in admissions at this art school in Taiyuan, China. Here are photos of the school’s application process—which involves walking around a hangar-sized building full of 15,000 virtually identical paintings to be graded. [Daily Mail]
- “Trump has built his name on his special combination of blandness and opulence, with complete blindness toward anything that makes architecture with a capital A.” Architect and critic Doug Stalker throws some serious shade at “Trumpitecture” in this op-ed. [Dezeen]
- Stephen Hibberts bought a trampled, falling-apart painting at a French market for about $450. Now, he suspects it might be a Raphael. [National Post]
- Photographer and writer Chris Arnade put 100,000 miles on his car and talked to voters in low income neighborhoods and photographed them. Yesterday he tweeted some of their stories. [@chris_arnade]
- Author and Modern Art Notes podcast host Tyler Green is posting art by American women all day on twitter in support of Hillary Clinton. [@tylergreendc]
- Anti-Donald Trump quarters are popping up around the country. That’s the whole story. [Hyperallergic]
- Los Angeles is launching a new billboard design from Tom Wiscombe Architecture that aims to combine advertising, sculptural public space, and digital artworks. It’s weird and seems like something that should be in a fountain in a Las Vegas porte-cochère. [The Guardian]
- The 24th annual Canstruction NY exhibition and competition has produced some crazy sculptures made out of canned food. NYC’s pizza rat has been immortalized, as has the Guggenheim Museum of Art. [Curbed]
- I (Michael) will never forgive myself for missing Tom Sachs’ Space Program: Mars at the Armory in 2012. But maybe this installation from National Geographic is a decent knock-off? Nat Geo had a faux-Mars-mission pop up in Trafalgar Square to promote their new documentary series about the red planet. [Irish Examiner]
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