A cartoon for the New Yorker by Michael Crawford
- The Brant Foundation will launch a Dash Snow retrospective in November. Snow famously died in 2007 of an overdose, and was the source of much art world ire in the year leading up to his death. He made cum paintings and spent a bunch of time doing drugs in a gallery he filled full of shredded phone books. Anyway, are we over being mad that a drug addict received so much attention the year before he overdosed in 2007 or is this retrospective going to be a coup? [The Observer]
- Another sloppy story featuring politicians who yell first and find out the details later. The BBC is spending £8 million on collecting digital art including a Gaelic birdsong video and Syrian puppet films. For some inexplicable reason The Daily Mail couldn’t find a single BBC employee to speak on the record about the program they are running, but did manage to find a bunch of Tories who don’t like how the money for an organization’s program they know little about is being spent. [The Daily Mail]
- Andrew Russeth thinks the Ron Nagle sculpture show at Mathew Marks Gallery makes Ken Price look austere and rightly complains that Will Ryman couldn’t help but go big with the most painfully obvious ideas at Paul Kasmin. That Ryman show is just so awful. [ARTnews]
- Vice Chairwoman of the Missouri Republican Party, Valinda Freed, accidentally damaged a historic Thomas Hart Benton mural when she leaned out while taking notes. Outrage over this mishap has poured from the internet. [Hyperallergic]
- The Tate Modern in London has announced it will open its new £260 million ($401 million) extension June 17, 2016. [artnet News]
- Feminist porn star Candida Royalle has died of ovarian cancer at the age of 64. [The Daily Dot]
