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by Rea McNamara on December 3, 2015
- A Pirelli anecdote: a calendar with bearded Russian orthodox priests and their cats. [The Art Newspaper]
- “Hirst is now 50, and his career thus far has been a downhill slalom of provocation and pound signs.” This really sums up that painting of his Paddy saw in White Cube’s ABMB booth. Oh, and somewhat related: Hirst is opening his own gallery! [New Republic]
- Also seen at ABMB: a Skype painting. “‘It’s the best thing I’ve seen so far!’ said the Warhol Foundation’s president Joel Wachs. ‘He’s in the painting!’” [artnet News]
- Further ABMB preview reports; Nate Freeman says that a lot of Stellas are selling post-Whitney retrospective, while Brian Boucher tries to make sense of the bright and shiny selfie-baiting luxury artworks with more challenging political works in light of the San Bernardino mass shooting. [ARTnews, artnet News]
- OK, last one: looks like Sly Stallone (who’s in an “acquiring mood”) replaced Leonardo DiCaprio as the most interesting ABMB-attending celebrity. [Bloomberg]
- According to a new survey by the National Coalition Against Censorship, college students have demanded trigger warnings for spiders, indigenous artifacts, “images of childbirth”, nude models in a studio art class and being told a favourite artist was gay. Seriously. [You’ve Cott Mail]
- The National Gallery is taking over the Sobey Award, one of the Canada’s richest art prizes with a $100,000 purse. Previously, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia had overseen the annual award for the past 13 years, but there had been grumblings about it lacking international reach. Looks like this might be the step on the right direction. [Ottawa Citizen]
- Imagined dialogue in MoMA’s merchandising department: “OK, beach towels are done. Same with yoga mats. A collab collection—so three seasons ago. Wait! How about a skateboard? A Warhol skateboard. We’ll make sure to emphasize how ‘functional’ they are. It’ll be amazing.” [Observer]
- Not surprised: if you Bing search “MoMA Judd” you get, well, Mama Judd. [@gregorg]
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