- Philanthropist and art collector Agnes Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 work Masterpiece for 162 million to billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector Steve Cohen back in January for a reason. She’s funding a new project supports criminal justice reform and seeks to reduce mass incarceration in the United States. 100 million will go directly to artists who work with the incarcerated. In 2013, artist Laurie Jo Reynolds helped close Illinois’s Tamms Correctional Center, a supermax prison through art. We’re now seeing just how much impact that work has had. [The New York Times]
- Thanks to criticism from Eric Trump and Fox News art looses again. Delta Airlines and Bank of America pulled promised funding from their support of the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar because the Trump-like potentate is stabbed to death. [Vulture]
- So apparently avocado art is a thing now? [Time]
- A round up of highlights from Basel Unlimited. I dunno – the art doesn’t look so impressive this year. [artnet News]
- Andrew Russeth is at Art Basel too and has his own Unlimited round up. As per usual, he has the strongest eye. [ARTnews]
- New York’s 10 worst landlords targeted by housing advocates. [Curbed]
- An aside – anyone else notice it’s become impossible to navigate all the sponsored content on Curbed? [Curbed]
