This goat could be yours. Source: eBay.
- Flamin’ debate on the e-flux message board over whether art that utilizes cryptocurrency can provide an exit from contemporary art. [e-flux conversations]
- Only Japan would be fertile ground to birth a realistic cat head like the one made by these design students in Tokyo. [Laughing Squid]
- The artists responsible for putting Edward Snowden’s bust in Fort Greene Park want it back from the police. [The Brooklyn Paper]
- Dealer Edward Winkleman’s blog is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and it’s still going strong. One recent example: “How Transparency Might Just Save the Art Market,” which offers a common sense explanation for why increasing transparency around online sales could benefit good for the primary market. Start reading, nerds. [Edward Winkleman]
- Coyote in Chelsea! [NY Daily News]
- Creative Time is just one of the international organizations restaging Tania Brugera’s “Tatlin’s Whisper #6”; so is the Tate, London; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Van Abbe Museum, Amsterdam; and Witte de With, Rotterdam. [Tate]
- Look who’s renting a U-Haul! Dan Duray reports that Venus Over Manhattan founder Adam Lindemann is opening a new gallery in Los Angeles this spring. The 15,000-square-foot space is right in the middle of the city’s downtown art scene. A choice pull quote from Lindemann: “If you come out to see me you can go to five other galleries and a museum,” he said, “Kinda worth it, right?” [ARTnews]
- Maybe Emma Sulkowicz’s “Mattress Project” Carry That Weight” isn’t so great for feminism after all? [The New Yorker]
- Paul Almond, director of the Seven Up! series passed away at the age of 83. [The New York Times]
- Chicago chef Homaro Cantu was founded dead yesterday in an apparent suicide. He ran Moto, a Michelin Star rated restaurant known for his use of chemical-laboratory techniques to turn food into weird new forms. [The New York Times]
