- There’s a new investment firm that allows clients to purchase shares in an art collection “at a fraction of the cost” of actually buying art. The minimum investment? $10,000. Here’s our free advice: if you want to “invest” $10,000 in art, spend it buying a dozen works from emerging artists. [Small Business News]
- This incredibly sexist but still kind-of-adorably-local-news article out of Utah has a headline straight out of the Onion: “Pinterest says nude photos could be considered art; mom disagrees.” [KSL]
International Sailor Moon Day is coming to New York on August 15. [Facebook] - The best explanation of the ARTnews/Art in America merger comes from—no surprise—Julia Halperin at The Art Newspaper. She’s one of the few who’s recognized that Peter Brant may come out as the real winner. [The Art Newspaper]
- Investigative journalism performs at its best when it looks at a commonplace situation, then digs really hard at the surface, finding out its problems. Here, that problem involves quaaludes, McDonald’s, and a lenient bathroom policy. [The New York Times]
- Follow the #hillaryinnh (Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire) for plenty of feminist shrugging. Like this one, that praises her for being not just a mother, but also a daughter and a grandmother. Did I just say feminist shrugging? I meant feminist ugggh-ing. [Twitter]
- Robert Wilson looks back on performance art’s early days as a fringe medium to its emergence as a major component of the contemporary art canon. [The Observer]
- Many universities have art collections that date back from their early days. But what do they do with them? ” Are they like the contents of an upmarket car boot sale, an irrelevant, even embarrassing inheritance that many universities don’t quite know how to handle?” [Times Higher Education]
- Michael Jackson’s sequined white glove goes up to auction. If you have 20k, jump on it! [The Guardian]
- RoboCup 2015 just ended. Here’s some highlights of little robots playing soccer. [International Business Times]
- Take it from Christian Viveros-Faune: art can be stupid. Not to mention, jis closing line in this review is near-perfect. [The Village Voice]
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