The grim reaper is chased around the grounds of an arms fair.
- A protester dressed as the Grim Reaper was forcibly removed from the DSEI Arms Fair, the largest of its kind. To enter, he scaled a 12 foot fence while carrying a scythe. All this lead to our favorite headline of the week: Security Guards Chase ‘Death’ Around World’s Biggest Arms Fair Before Forcibly Removing Him. [Mirror]
- Fanny packs are back. This from Jaimie Lowe over at the New York Times Magazine, who has made an impressive argument for their enduring qualities. It’s more than just another pocket, it’s a place to put all your mental baggage. It’s an anchor. It’s a great place to store pop-tarts and condoms. [The New York Times Magazine]
- Another report from the Times’s Scott Reyburn that reads like it’s about ten years old. Reyburn has learned that public funding for museums is shrinking and wealthy people with collections are opening up museums. It’s old news that oddly pits the Broad collection against that of Damien Hirst’s. [The New York Times]
- Le Freeport, the uber-dystopian concrete art bunker by the Luxembourg airport designed to exploit tax loopholes, is predictably weird and controversial. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Cheech Marin, of “Cheech & Chong” fame, has an extensive collection of art by Mexican-Americans. Who knew he was a collector? The touring exhibition Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection just opened in South Texas. [Corpus Christi Caller Times]
- Finally, maxi pads for dolls. [The Toronto Star]
- No tourist’s trip to Philadelphia is complete without an Instagram of Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture. Now, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is displaying Indiana’s 1998 translation “AMOR”. No, this wasn’t a curatorial jab at the anti-immigration discourse flaring up in the presidential primaries (disappointingly). It’s to welcome the Pope to Philly. [ABC6 Philadelphia]
- The Enemy has just released its third edition and OMG, there is some great reading in here: an unpublished interview with Chris Burden from 1980 with David Robbins. BFAMFAPhD examine their own findings in Artists Report Back asking, “When the 1.3 trillion dollar student debt bubble bursts, will the government bail out indebted students, as they previously bailed out banks? We fear that they won’t. What will we do in this next crisis?” [The Enemy]
- Artnet has released its Global Chinese Art Market Report. The report only covers last year, so we won’t learn how the stock market crash has affected sales. Still, the downturn had already started and that’s evident here. The sell through rate for Chinese art and antiques has plummeted since 2011 (or as they say in the business world, the market is going through a “cooling period”). [Artnet]
- Corinna Kirsch suggests that online artists are more inclined to mime out happiness. In her guide, she identifies several artists doing just that. [Art21]
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