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by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on December 15, 2014
- In theartblog’s weekly art comics, Bananazz on hairstyling [theartblog]
- A think piece on the Internet meme known as “snackwave”. To generalize, these are pictures of virtually anything unhealthy; pizzas, burritos, cheetos, burgers etc. [The Hairpin]
- Forgery news is pretty dependable content for art pubs, but this one’s for the ages: Employees of the nearly hundred-year-old Uzbek State Art Museum have been caught selling art from the collection and replacing them with forgeries. Chief curator Mirfayz Usmonov has received a nine-year sentence, the Guardian reports. Do people ever successfully get away with this? [The Guardian]
- The old Art Moving Projects space has been filled with another art gallery. It’s called Moiety and it’s run by co-founders Joshua Schwartz and Kyle Smith. [Hyperallergic]
- The Smithsonian has digitized more than 40,000 works of art from their Asian collection and will make them available to the public in the new year. [The Art Newspaper]
- Here’s hoping the hostage situation in Sydney gets resolved without any lost lives. Last night an armed man took over a coffee shop and put up a black sign with white script. The message appeared to be the shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith. [The New York Times]
- Photos of Christmas decorations in depressing places. Pretty great. [VICE]
- $67 million project to democratize the Louvre. This means signs, wall text and renovations to make the museum more tourist friendly. [The New York Times]
- Diane von Furstenberg is one of the moguls behind Manhattan’s new floating park. [New York Magazine]
- Animal New York’s latest “Artist’s Notebook” features Rachel Mason, who spent 8 years working on a televisual opera “The Lives of Hamilton Fish”. Research has led her through photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence with her subjects’ descendants and a convicted murderer. And tons and tons of notes. [Animal New York]
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