Oh my god. Magnetically-levitated bonsai plants exist and they are so beautiful/cool it’s insane. [Kickstarter]
Applications are now being accepted for Open Space’s Seventh Annual Publications & Multiples Fair. This is always really great and a super-affordable way to show off your work or publication at a well-attended event. [Open Space]
How a Chinese street vendor, a Spanish waiter, and Manhattan’s oldest art gallery swindled $80 million from collectors via forgeries. Certain players are heading to court this week. This is a juicy, juicy read. [New York Post]
An SUV plowed into a taxi yesterday morning, pushing the latter through the storefront of Vancouver’s Fragrant Wood Gallery. [CBC]
Wow. Here is a 55 minute doge video, which tracks the dog and its owner on a leisurely walk through a Japanese village. They shop, have a snack, eat lunch, and paint a plate together. Busy day. [Amebe Fresh TV via Metafilter]
“If we are looking for something radical, it is not always about shocking people. It is about being more pernicious, about getting under people’s skin,” Gregor Muir, director of London’s ICA is desperately seeking a new generation of artists to dethrone the not-so-Y-anymore YBAs. [The Guardian]
The Housing Development Fund Corporation, or HDFC gives residents of low income co-ops a means of taking ownership from negligent landlords. First, though, they must be trained. The program’s not performing as one would hope. 33 of these cases made Public Advocate Letita Jones’ worst landlord list of 2015. [Curbed]
Tom Grotting has been taking advantage of Minneapolis’s unbearably cold winter by making public sculptures out of frozen-in-mid-poze pants. The internet loves these. [City Lab]
Someone should introduce wintry sculptor Grotting to Emilian Sava, the redeemed protagonist of what has to be the best headline we’ve read this week: “Swedish man creates giant snow penis to say sorry for destroying smaller snow penis”. [CBC]
No such luck for New Yorkers: Tompkins Square Park’s snow penis has been destroyed. [EV Grieve]
Luxury developers Chetrit Group purchased the iconic Sony building on Madison Avenue with the goal of converting it to condos for the 1%. There’s concern over the future of Dorothea Rockburne’s abstract murals that presently hang in the lobby. Rockburne has apparently been trying to contact The Chetrit Group for two years, while the developers claim they have been in fact been in contact with the artist. [Curbed]
A slideshow picturing New Yorkers in the snow this weekend after Jonas hit the city. So. Much. Snow. [Gothamist]
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