- Just how many art fairs are taking place this weekend? I’m counting the Dallas Art Fair, Silicon Valley Contemporary, AIPAD, and Art Cologne (featuring NADA Cologne). So nobody’s in charge of making sure there’s no overlap in scheduling? [The Internet]
- Paddy Johnson’s artnet column this week tackles the critical GIF. [artnet news]
- Looks like Pearl Paint on Canal Street could be shuttering. The building is on the market for $15 million and the store is hosting a 30% off sale. [Gothamist]
- Tomorrow is Saturday, but not just any ordinary Saturday. It is also a day for two holidays: “Slow Art Day,” where you’re recommended to spend at least 10 minutes with a work of art, and “Grilled Cheese Day,” which is self-explanatory. [Grilled Cheese Day, Slow Art Day]
- A great art-nerd piece! Jasper Johns, 83, made a rare New York appearance to testify against Brian Ramnarine, a native of Guyana charged with trying to sell a fake Johns sculpture for $11 million dollars. [The Awl]
- Kunsthalle Zürich Director Beatrix Ruf has accepted a new position. Ruf, ranked seventh on this year’s Power 100 list, will move on to direct the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the largest museum of modern and contemporary art in the Netherlands. [e-flux]
- The Guggenheim Bilbao doesn’t like the mural Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy made for their museum. It’s a caricature of the Guggenheim as an upside-down battleship. Needless to say, Guggenheim bureaucrats don’t understand satire; they want the artists to take it down. [The Daily Beast]
- Big news for SF MOMA: The museum is going to build the largest exhibition gallery for photography. That space, the John and Lisa Pritzker Center for Photography, will open in 2016. [SFMOMA]
- Vermont wants to bring single-payer healthcare to America. [Vox]
