Deborah Roberts displaying her vagina.
- The Musée d’Orsay and its security guards are pursuing “sexual exhibitionism complaints” against the artist Deborah de Robertis after an unauthorized performance in which she displayed her vagina in front of Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde. [artnet News]
- Berlin is instituting a rent cap, which means landlords in fast-gentrifying neighborhoods must limit rent increases (even on new leases) to 10% of the area’s average rent. This is great news for artists, who have had to deal with a massive increase in housing costs in a city that was once globally known for its bargain rents. [Vice]
- Play Inside the Rent, and find out what your skills are as a New York developer. [CHPC via City Room]
- Hamilton Nolan finds the perhaps the worst sentence ever published at The New York Times. I won’t spoil the surprise, but it involves ethically grown coffee beans and haircuts. [Gawker]
- Curiator has launched its first sale and it includes Internet star Yung Jake. [Curiator]
- Speaking of Berlin, these photos of the city taken from orbit are amazing. Although it’s been decades since the wall fell and increasingly hard to tell East from West at street-level, the divide is still visible from space due to different-colored streetlights that have survived from the days of communism. [City Metric]
- Now, this is a collector: Lonnie Mimms collects personal computers—he has thousands of them and estimates that the collection is worth over a million dollars. This video profiles Mimms and offers a few shots from his “Apple Pop Up” exhibition in a former CompUSA building. So cool. [The New York Times]
- Here’s a compilation of robots falling down at the DARPA. [Vulture]
- Gagosian will open a third location in London. How many Gagosian outposts does the world really need? As their global collect-a-spot Damien Hirst challenge illustrated—complete with customer-loyalty punch-cards—it feels like Gagosian is on its way to becoming the Starbucks of the art world. [artnet News]
- Kate Davis Jones looks back on the internet oeuvre of the late, great Eric Fournier—better know as the creator of Shaye Saint John—a visionary Youtube artist whose obsession with borderline glamour and schizophrenic editing presaged the style and success of Ryan Trecartin. This paragraph is probably one of the best, succinct explanations of the enigmatic web personality: “First, in myth, supermodel Shaye Saint John is disfigured in a freak accident and subjected to a series of horrific mind-control experiments by the CIA. Eric Fournier, shy and genius artist, takes her under his wing and helps her create art for a wider audience. Second, in reality, Shaye Saint John is a rubber mask and deflated costume draped over a wheelchair when not worn by Eric Fournier, shy and genius artist. Battling alcoholism and overflowing with ideas, he uses the Shaye character to create art while deflecting the spotlight away from himself.” [Vice]
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