BREAKING: Wesley Snipes Has Three Years In Prison to Prepare For Next Role

I believe his defense for tax evasion ran something along the lines of, "I don’t want to believe I have to pay taxes so I found an accountant who felt the same way and didn’t".

Our Local Correspondents: Up and Then Down: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

8 pages well spent on the Elevator

Is this the most disgusting art exhibition ever? Incarcerated Pete Doherty misses his blood-spattered art launch | the Daily Mail

A exhibition of Pete Doherty’s bloody paintings launched in Paris yesterday - with the notable absence of the so-called artist himself. Due to incarceration, the troubled singer, 29, missed his shining moment at the Chappe Gallery.

Rhizome - Math Wrath

"[Math Wrath's] site feels like the web presence of The Little Prince, if said prince fell into Rainbo Brite’s candy-coated astral world."

Your virginity for Net neutrality - Netiquette- msnbc.com

Don’t know anything about Net neutrality? Tania Derveaux aims to change that with her offer to “make love with every virgin who defends the Internet.” Via: MTAA delicious

By the end of this week Art Fag City’s Comic Con Versus The Art Fairs quiz will have either stolen or enriched roughly 40 seconds of over 12,000 people’s lives. Either way, we’re pleased! The test asks readers to identify Comic Con and Art Fair attendees; some of whom we felt looked like they could be either, others who were unmistakably from a particular demographic, and a remaining few weird art celebrity picks with some cross over potential. Probably the most amusing result from this quiz thus far comes in the number of readers who identify Eva and Adele and Jocelyn Wildenstein as video game costume freaks (roughly 45%), and amongst the more surprising, was the 89% reader success rate in identifying the over weight man in front of a bunch of crates as a comic book guy. I would have thought that number would be a lot higher!

A special thanks to Art Fag City, Vulture, GalleyCat, Drawn and Quarterly, Boing Boing, readers for participating in the test.

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Cash Brown, George, 2008, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches. Originally via: Daily Serving. Link tip: S. Chernick

Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World has inspired a great number of paintings since its execution in 1866, Australian artist Cash Brown amongst the most recent. “I have been thinking a lot about the concept of originality and the derivative nature of so much contemporary artwork”, says Brown, going on to explain, “This led me to think of the beginning of Modernism. Origin, original, beginning, it all seemed a bit obvious…but I liked that about it.” In other words, the root concept lies in the connection between the meaning of the word origin, Courbet’s titling, and contemporary interest in appropriation. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about this project’s depth, and point to a few other variations by the artist here.

On that same note, a google search on the subject provides additional fodder below.

An animation of photo graphics and chanting monks inspired by Courbet’s Origin of the World. This may not even be bad in an interesting way.

Tanja Ostojic, Untitled, 2004

It’s probably unfair to contextualize a mature work commenting on the EU’s politics of non-integration with the rest of these paintings, but I can’t help but find this brand of underwear amusing. Thus, the picture stays.

UPDATE:

Filip Noterdaeme, The Birth of a New Museum, 1991

Filip Noterdaeme of HOMU sends us a painting [above] executed during his final MFA year at Hunter College. The work marries Courbet’s, L’origine du Monde , with Rene Magritte’s generative 1929 painting, La Trahison des Images . This particular piece has quite a bit of history behind it, so I’ve posted the write up from the artist’s website below.

Birth of a New Museum has an interesting history. In the early Nineties, when he was an art student at Hunter College, Noterdaeme invented an eccentric alter ego for himself, a certain Marcellus Wasbending-Ttum, a painter and self-proclaimed “Homoplagiarist.” Under this alias, Noterdaeme created multiple works, some of which he painted himself, some of which, like Birth (originally titled Self-Portrait), were executed to his specifications by a hired professional. When Noterdaeme, acting as Marcellus Wasbending-Ttum, presented the Hunter faculty with this “Self-Portrait,” he found himself accused of plagiarism and was prematurely expelled from the MFA program. Embittered, Noterdaeme destroyed all his artworks - with the notable exception of Self-Portrait - and, for the next ten years, abstained from making art, working as a museum educator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. In 2002, Noterdaeme created his own museum, the Homeless Museum of Art (HoMu). When he eventually turned his rental apartment in Brooklyn into a showcase for HoMu, he gave the painting a place of honor in the apartment’s High Gallery and renamed it Birth of a New Museum.

TheStar.com | entertainment | Atom Egoyan’s latest only Canadian contender for the Palme

"[Adoration] explores the interactions between students at a Toronto high school (Danforth Collegiate & Technical Institute was used for filming) both in the hallways and online." Looks promising…and creepy.

Ofer Wolberger Limited Edition Print

Ofer Wolberger’s The Imitation of Life. limited edition of 10, for $275 bucks. Check it!

Death: Be Not Proud - Looking Around - Art - Architecture - TIME

Inspired by German artist Gregor Schneide’s quest for someone terminally ill who would be willing to die in something like a gallery setting, Lacayo recalls a video that the French artist Sophie Calle made of her mother’s very peaceful death at home in bed.  It’s a nice write up.

Left: Tom Ford perfume advertising campaign, Right: An ad for Tom Ford Sunglasses, now banned in Italy.

Radar reports The Italian Advertising Institute (IAA) has banned the above right ad for Tom Ford Sunglasses, labeling it “sexually implicit”. “[It] goes beyond acceptable limits for advertising aimed at the general public”, says the institute. Meanwhile, the Tom Ford perfume ads in America, some of which appeared in ArtForum earlier this year, and prompted our discussion, have escaped censorship in this country. Since sexually explicit material doesn’t seem to faze the US at all, if Tom Ford really wanted to piss people off he’d consider dreaming up a line of fragrances that smell like Iraqi oil. He can call the line Haliburton, and see how far he gets with that in this country.

tom moody press release annotated

Awesome. Annotations on last week’s infamous e-flux mailer announcing Molly Nesbit’s Q&A with Elmgreen and Dragset Thursday April 24th.

Rhizome News: Day in the Life Of…

“This week, Anthology Film Archives will screen a selection of the 365 Films theatrically as part of its [Jonas] Mekas retrospective From Diaries to Downloads, allowing viewers to sample the evolution of Mekas’ practice.” Very informative write up.

Cat 5 wedding rings help nerds couple - Engadget

"There you have it, the single most profound expression of your love and superiority over token ring in a $175 package. Presumably, these Ethernet rings come in both straight-through and cross-over pin-outs for traditional and same-sex nerding."