Weekend Links: It’s a Flying Dead Cat!

• Three words: dead cat copter. [Daily Mail]
• When will the art market bubble burst? Bloomberg News predicts a Basquiat self-portrait will fetch $20 million at the Christie’s June sale. A Basquiat work garnered $16.3 million at Phillips de Pury in May; it’s likely someone might have an extra 3.7 million lying around to shatter this record for no good reason. [Bloomberg News]
• Gertrude Stein made a lot of people angry when she published her memoirs, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. A handful of artists and writers (Henri Matisse and Tristan Tzara, among others) disagreed with a bunch of the events she told; they ended up publishing a line-by-line treatise, Testimony Against Gertrude Stein, about everything she got wrong. UbuWeb just released it. Moral of the story: just because people disagree with you doesn’t mean that you won’t become famous. [UbuWeb]
• The Trololo Guy, made famous as an internet meme in 2010, passed away this week. He is survived by his annoying brethren, Nyan Cat, Bed Intruder, and Hitler Reacts. [The Celebrity Cafe]
• So far, Twitter’s having a good day; it’s all because John Powers has been tweeting his Star Wars Modern Primer (#swmprimer). John’s micro-lectures were sparked by comments made by artist Tom Sachs, who likened Darth Vader to Hitler and Yoda to Buddha. For Powers, that’s totally not cool. [Twitter]

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