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by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Matthew Leifheit on October 10, 2013
- A mobster’s art collection goes on view at a museum in Southern Italy. On display are “18 fakes.” The exhibition’s curator describes the criminal-collector as “a not particularly refined auction-goer.” [Frieze]
- You’re not having a bad day—Scot Haney, the weatherman for CBS’s Hartford, is. He ate cat vomit on broadcast TV. [New York Magazine]
- 20-year-old “artist” Petra Collins has designed a t-shirt for American Apparel with a girl touching her bushy vagina. While menstruating no less. [VICE, of course]
- Tattooed Librarians of the Ocean State 2014 calendar now available for pre-order! [Rhode Island Library Association]
- Boston NPR interviews MFA curator Kristen Gresh on her show “She Who Tells a Story,” which features work by 12 women photographers from Iran and the Arab world. [WBUR]
- Hrag Vartanian talks to the organizers of the Phillips digital auction Paddles ON!, which takes place tonight at 8:30 pm. [Hyperallergic]
- Damien Hirst displays perhaps his fugliest sculptures of all time in perhaps the one part of the world that’s not sick of him yet—Qatar. Ah, but these 14 bronze sculptures display science in motion: christened “The Miraculous Journey,” they each show a stage of human development, from fetus to birth. [The New York Times]
- Art funds pool money from investors to purchase works, and industry is deteriorating. “Of the 36 funds that Noah Horowitz, now the director of the Armory Show art fair, lists in the appendix to his 2011 book Art of the Deal,” writes Melanie Gerlis for The Art Newspaper. “Ten had been abandoned by the time it was published and a further seven have since joined them.” [The Art Newspaper]
- German print magazine Du devotes its October issue entirely to Maurizio Cattelan—the cover is particularly tasteless. [Du]
- Alice Munro, an 82-year-old Canadian novelist, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Her daughter called her this morning when she heard and informed her of the good news.) We’re thrilled, as she’s a favorite here at AFC! [The New York Times]
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