A still to be titled series by Marsha Owett
- The Bass Museum of Art is hiring a curator and curatorial assistant. This would pretty much be the best workplace: imagine leaving the office and stepping across the street to the sands of Miami Beach. [Bass Museum of Art]
- “This coffee table makes an optimal addition to any club with high standards. The detachable fig leaf with the ruby underneath radiates intense eroticism.”—from a listing for a glass coffee table supported by a bronze statue of a spread-eagle woman. [Ebay]
- Christopher Hawthorne has a great eye for detail and the cinematic qualities of architecture. Read his review of LA’s new Broad Museum. [Los Angeles Times]
- Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is getting rave reviews one year into his tenureship, from poor and privileged neighborhoods alike. [The New York Times]
- There’s entire tumblr dedicated to photoshopping dildos into Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s hands. Naturally VICE has interviewed the Montreal Artist behind the blog. [VICE]
- 104 Central Avenue, the mural-covered Bushwick home of Jeremy Sapienza and Luis Velazquez, has sold for $1.285 million to a developer who’s planning on demolishing the house to erect condos. [Curbed]
- Is anything that happened at the VMA’s worth reflecting on? Nope. Just some childish bickering. [The Internet]
- Oliver Sacks, a famed Neurologist and author died at age 82 of liver cancer. Since being diagnosed with terminal cancer in February he wrote several times on the process of dying (on learning he had terminal cancer, on the Sabbeth, on the decline of his body. We spent the weekend reading those reflections and the obituaries. [The Guardian, The New York Times]
- And in untimely deaths, Los-Angeles based painter and Underground Museum founder Noah Davis has died at the age of 32. Although the cause of death has not been announced, the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this summer that he was fighting a rare form of cancer. [Artnews]
- The android version of Philip K. Dick has a great sense of humor. He flirts with reporters and makes jokes about keeping humanity in the “people zoo” after AI takes over. [Youtube]
- Related: The New York Times goes inside the terrifying workshop building unbelievably creepy sex robots. “With the AI, I think we gotta be careful with that… getting the doll confused so when you’re talking to her she says something that makes absolutely no sense…” These dolls mostly talk about “the uncanny valley” while making blowjob faces. [Youtube]
- There’s been yet another attack on sculptures by right-wing Christians in Russia. This time, a bas relief of Mephistopheles from 1910 was demolished from the facade of an historic apartment building in St. Petersburg. [artnet News]
- Meanwhile in this country, gun enthusiasts have been using ancient petroglyphs in Utah as a shooting range… irreparably damaging rock art that’s nearly 2,000 years old. [Hyperallergic]
- Takashi Murakami chats about an upcoming exhibition of his vast personal collection. The artist collects everything from antiques and contemporary art to kitschy beer mugs. [The Art Newspaper]
