- A squirrel at sea. Watch the whole thing. It’s cleansing. [Youtube, h/t Metafilter]
- It reminds us of this depressed penguin from Werner Herzog’s “Encounters at the End of the World”. [Youtube]
- Fergus McCaffrey has announced that he’s opening a second gallery location on the island of St. Barthélemy this November. The gallery notes that the island has held an artist colony since the sixties, hosting artists like Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and Francesco Clemente. In that tradition McCaffrey had already co-established an artist residency and gallery there from 2005-2008. The next logical step, we think, would be to fly some writers down for the tour. [Our inboxes]
- Strange. The lede to this article makes artist David Hockney sounds like a grumpy old man complaining that art has become “less” through conceptual art, as it “gave up on images.” Watch the 4-minute video, though, and he sounds a lot cheerier and doesn’t talk so much about conceptual art. [BBC]
- Laure Provost on art and life: “I know I’m never going to fully grasp life in my art. It’s never as good as having the sun on your face. Even if you film someone with the sun on their face it feels as if you’ve lost something. ” [Frieze, behind the paywall]
- Prepare to die inside when reading “Blouin Lifestyle Picks” on ArtInfo. “Picks” include Burmese rubies, Colombian emeralds, and a diamond ring with “baguette-cut diamond shoulders” (whatever that means). Maybe their readership is made up of lords, ladies, and the richest Kardashians?[ArtInfo]
- In Hong Kong, thousands of students are occupying the streets in a very orderly fashion. They are calling for democratic reforms by sitting outside, cleaning up after themselves, recycling, and doing their homework in public. Amazing. [The Independent]
- And of course the city’s art fairs will go on in the face of protests, reports Kelly Crow. [Twitter]
- Roberto Cuoghi joins the Lehmann Maupin stable. [artnet News]
- Today in design crapola: Disney characters’ butts make phone chargers. [Gizmodo]
