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Robert Wysocki
by Paddy Johnson on March 10, 2015
- A great profile of artist Laurie Simmons by Andrew Russeth, mostly for its thoroughness. She’s mad at Richard Prince for borrowing her work. She’s shy about using her Instagram account because she has too many followers. She calls her new portraits of women with open eyes painted on their closed lids “the opposite of portraits.” Read the whole thing. Her show opens this week at The Jewish Museum. Can’t wait to see it. [Artnews]
- Whoa, juicy: Art Basel, the mega fair company, has sent a letter to its galleries complaining about the misleading business practices of the online art database Artsy. They were upset that CEO Carter Cleveland implied Basel had a paid relationship with the database in a recent issue of Fortune. [Artnet News]
- More drivel from Jonathan Jones. Today at the Guardian, he tells readers that the Louvre Abu Dhabi should be celebrated despite migrant worker exploitation. Why? Because other architectural masterpieces were built upon slave labor and while nothing excuses slave labor this still to be completed Jean Nouvel building is a masterpiece. According to Jones it’s a cultural turning point—the building is a subversion of European imperialism and knowledge. How it’s a subversion, of course never gets explained. [The Guardian]
- Kanye West talks Matrix, Picasso and ego. Hrag Vartanian over at Hyperallergic thinks it’s funny. I give it a shoulder shrug. [Gawker]
- A new study on farts reveals that everyone farts and everyone cares, but not everyone cares to equal degree. [The Society Pages]
- After being banned from Facebook for posting too many lewd pictures, art critic Jerry Saltz gets his page back. Commenter Robert Wysocki asks what it was like to be dead. Answer: They have a dental plan. So, not so bad, I guess? [Facebook]
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