- Roberta Smith brought her claws to the Met’s new Warhol show, and that’s always a treat. [NY Times]
- …and here’s Jerry, doing an even better job ripping the show apart. The highlight: “By the last galleries I was so dispirited I’d look at the first work I’d see and predict what would come next. Cory Arcangel’s floating-clouds video? Warhol’s floating silver clouds. Murakami’s flower paintings? Flowers. (How’d ya know?) I don’t think I stumbled on a single surprising juxtaposition or one that deepened meaning.” The closing line is even better: “In the future, every museum will do fifteen Warhol shows.” [Vulture]
- AFC’s Eva Heisler came out strong for Manifesta 9 a few months ago, but Adam Kleinman’s less-happy review of the show, for Modern Painters, is worth a read, too. Our one beef: Non-European coal miners are kinda the norm, not a “politically correct” aside, as Kleinman would have it, put in by the curators to make a point. [ArtINFO]
- From the annals of Larry Gagosian’s inbox: first his staff invites collector Thomas Dean to exploit seller Charlie Cowles’ desperation and “make a cruel and offensive offer” on a Lichtenstein, and now he fails to show up to the related hearing. Gagosian is now being sued by Jan Cowles, Charlie Cowles’ mother, for selling the painting without her permission. Gagosian claims he was too busy to show up. [NYPost]
- According to artist and Occupy Wall Street activist Molly Crabapple’s Twitter feed she was arrested yesterday for standing on a sidewalk during an Occupy protest. Most recently, the artist was one of more than 20 artists CNN invited to make work about the election. Today, Crabapple was included in CNN’s slideshow of photographs documenting the OWS arrests. [CNN]
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