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by The AFC Staff on November 4, 2013
- George W. Bush: still a painter. He plans to move beyond the dog, landscape, and self-portrait genres; he now wants to paint “world leaders.” [The New York Times]
- A website that recreates the Super Mario Bros. video game from open-source software has been taken down; Nintendo wants the site taken down, it must “protect against infringement of our intellectual property rights.” [The Washington Post]
- According to a new formal complaint by former Knoedler & Company gallery clients, an artist going by the nickname of “Tommy Cha Cha” may have been the first “known purveyor in forged art” to do business with the gallery. [The New York Times]
- President Obama, now a blogger on HuffPo. Well, kinda. He penned an op-ed urging congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. [Politico]
- Patti Smith eulogizes Lou Reed, calling him “our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.” [The New Yorker]
- Leonardo DiCaprio, will you please come to our benefit? Another DiCaprio-attended fundraiser nets millions! This time for LACMA. [The L.A. Times]
- Africa’s tallest apartment building looks a lot like the prison from Batman. [The Verge]
- Wrong digital art biennale, thank thee for gifting the world with the presence of Claudia Mate’s squirmy eyeball-worms. [The Eternal Internet Otherhood]
- In case you missed it, MATTE magazine received a beautiful write-up in the New Yorker. [The New Yorker]
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