- This week’s must-read essay: Ben Davis on the art world’s lack of diversity. [ArtInfo]
- If you’re looking for a good review of the new James Bond movie, Karina Longworth’s is the best we’ve read. It’s perhaps a little cynical—it’s hard to criticize a franchise as simply a set-up for its sequels—but the review is well-argued nonetheless. [L.A. Weekly]
- Lisa De Kooning has died at the age of 56. No one knows the cause of the death yet. [Gallerist]
- Adam Lindemann refutes Sarah Thornton’s 10 reasons why she will never write about the art market again. Hilarious. A paraphrased example: [Thornton] Oligarchs and dictators are not cool. [Lindemann] Yes, they are. [Adam Lindemann]
- Holy. Shit. With access to a 3-D printer, you can now download a fucking gun off the internet. [Daily Mail]
- In which Jonathan Jones learns that “Sex Pictures do not have to be sexy, after all.” Ain’t that the truth. [Guardian]
- On Venice Beach, a police officer has been tasked to walk around determining what is and is not art. Already, he’s tossed out the last fifty years: no objects with a utilitarian function, no mass production (aka, stencils), and no performative selling. [WSJ]
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