Friday Links! All the Important News You Won’t Find at the Beach

• If Jeffrey Deitch takes on curatorial responsibilities at LA MoCA, he’ll need to start writing exhibition catalogue essays. We dug up this one Deitch wrote in 2005 about Ryan McGinness, who Deitch thinks is “one of the rare artists who is pushing the boundaries of the definition of art and the artist.” So. Deep. [Ryan McGinness]
• My friends have been talking about the latest This American Life episode where Ira Glass and a friend run into a woman pretending to be Cindy Sherman at MoMA’s now-closed Cindy Sherman exhibition. The verdict: any Upper East Side woman could make a convincing Cindy. [This American Life]
• Steven Henry Madoff thinks this year’s Documenta “May Be the Most Important Exhibition of the 21st Century.” Such a lofty declaration can’t be taken too seriously. What’s unacceptable about Madoff’s essay is his explanation that this year’s Documenta is important because  it slows down “the era of the Internet and its metastasizing limb, social media, [that] have so radically dispersed our concentration.” [ArtINFO]
• This Taco Bell critic on YouTube serves up some simple lessons art critics should observe, like paying attention to the details and subtle flavors instead of taking in everything at once. [YouTube]
• Damien Hirst designed a public sculpture for the beach. It’s a pregnant woman in bronze. [FAD]
• Belgium wants stricter money-laundering laws for art galleries. [The Art Newspaper]
• Yesterday, Eyebeam exceeded its $25,000 goal on Kickstarter. That’s a lot of money for a nonprofit capital campaign. [#ArtsTech Tumblr]
• To be filed under “Colonial Remorse,” the British Museum is returning hundreds of stolen artifacts to Afghanistan. [Museums Journal]

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