- Very useful: a map of all the best places to cry in public around the city. [Curbed]
- Israel’s oldest art school, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, is moving into a new SANAA-designed campus in Jerusalem. [The Jerusalem Post]
- A Takashi Murakami show opens today at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is a retrospective that spans five decades of the artist’s career, but based on nearly all of the promotion and media attention, you would think the focus of this show is Murakami’s collaborations with Kanye West. Seriously, the way people talk about this makes it seem like Murakami was some obscure unknown that West “discovered” and brought to the masses, rather than an art star he hitched his brand wagon to. Ugh. [Chicago Tribune]
- Strange New York story of the day: Laura Murray, a struggling SVA grad who was surviving by drawing portraits of tourists, was mugged in 2012 and drew a sketch of her attacker. The cops caught him based on her drawing, and now she’s pursuing a career as a courtroom artist. [New York Post]
- Here’s a comic about the most annoying child of hippies coming to an art opening in San Francisco. [The Bold Italic]
- China Guardian is opening a combination art museum/auction house in Beijing. So much for pretending museums and the market weren’t too close for comfort! The building, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren also contains a hotel. [Dezeen]
- From Banksy’s ill-conceived print giveaway to Jeremy Deller’s wheatpastes, British artists are responding in all sorts of ways to the upcoming election. Basically, everyone in the art world is hoping to oust Theresa May. Poor Grayson Perry had planned a solo show opening at the Serpentine Gallery on the 8th. Now that’s election day, and his show about post-Brexit identity and division has taken on an added gravity. [artnet News]
