What is the world coming to? The pizza rat may be a hoax! [Gothamist]
Cait Monro questions whether Saatchi’s all-female show “Champagne Life” is really a step in the right direction. An all female show isn’t a very sophisticated theme for a show, and there is a dirth of female solo shows. (No new ideas here, but I guess it still has be said.) [artnet News]
French artist Orlan has spent decades getting implants on her face for a project she calls “Carnal art”. Now she’s suing Lady Gaga for 31.7 million because she believes Gaga’s video “Born that Way”, steals from her art work. Gaga appears to be wearing facial implants. What a stupid lawsuit. It’s not like the idea of getting a face implant is so unique to Orlan that she deserves a payout. [Page Six]
Speaking of lawsuits, will the Richard Prince lawsuits never end? This week, he’s being sued by Donald Graham, for having appropriated one of his Instagram images and enlarged it. [Hyperallergic]
Marc Spiegler, the director of the Art Basel fairs, thinks galleries need to be more transparent about their pricing—like auction houses. His arguments make sense. Amongst the more compelling, he says that today’s “super-elite art buyers are people who work for their money and are no longer part of a “leisure class” with time to devote to visiting commercial galleries “in Chelsea [New York] or Mayfair” every week.” [The Art Newspaper]
Of the 200 units in downtown Brooklyn’s massive City Point development are 50 market-rate, rent stabilized units. One-bedrooms start at $2,750 and the two-bedrooms start at $4,500. So glad to see the upper middle class won’t be squeezed out of the city. [Curbed]
Ladies and gentleman, the world’s first passenger drone. [Dezeen]
