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Otfried Wilhelm
by Michael Anthony Farley on November 23, 2016
This slow-motion video of a pug eating a Goldfish cracker is the most captivating thing you can watch this morning. [Facebook]
Uh, architect Moon Hoon has completed one of the strangest/creepiest museums we’ve ever seen, located outside Seoul. The museum comprises a series of lumpy silver buildings for a collector of Pinocchio dolls and memorabilia. [Dezeen]
Congratulations to Piper Shepard, a MICA fibers professor who was just awarded a $50,000 United States Artists prize. The nomination was anonymous, and she still has no idea who entered her name. [The Baltimore Sun]
Artists respond to the stand-off in Standing Rock, where Native Americans are fighting to protect their lands from the horribly ill-conceived Dakota Access Pipeline. [Hyperallergic]
Capitalist irony: a recently discovered East German stained glass window completed in 1982 for the Stasi secret police will go on sale in Miami for upwards of $20 million. The piece is the work of Otfried Wilhelm, chief master of glass for public works in the German Democratic Republic. The motif features Lenin, doves, and a hammer and sickle. [The New York Times]
A Salem State University exhibition has been censored after students complained that it featured a digital painting of Klansmen by Garry Harley. [necn]
David Hockney has been tapped to design a new stained glass window for Westminster Abbey in honor of Queen Elizabeth II. [Blouin Artinfo]
Because none of us are tired of being lectured to or told what to do these past few weeks, read “28 Ways to Change the Art World”. [artnet News]
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