- Bushwick artists, get ready to put on your very best Bob Ross impersonation. This Sunday, The Active Space will host a Bob Ross-inspired painting takedown where competing artists will duke it out over who can paint the best “Rossian” landscape. If you’re a happy trees type of painter, let The Active Space know because they need more artists. [The Brooklyn Paper]
- Magritte’s pipe is not a great painting. [ARTINFO]
- Jay DeFeo is not a great artist. [New Yorker]
- The New York Post is looking for OkCupid users to profile on its weekly dating column, “Meet Market”. They’re trying to turn OkCupid into “Love Connection” of old, where readers get to vote on which dude gets to go on a date with a girl. They’ve already sent out some willing OkCupiders on dates (the paper will pay for all your drinks and vittles, except for the tip), with mixed results. Here’s where you sign up. [The New York Post]
- Billionaire MOCA board member Steven A. Cohen will not be going to jail. Over the last year, his hedge fund SAC Capital has been under investigation by the government, but with the announcement of a settlement between SAC and the feds, the Treasury will now be receiving a whopping $614 million payout. [The Daily Beast]
- We have reason to suspect that Greg Allen has been on a six year Indiana Jones-style quest that ends tomorrow with an opening at apexart. In 2007, he wrote a post on the first satellites for TV and radio communication, giant space balls, or satteloons [greg.org], which would have been visible to the naked eye. The launch of one “American Star,” he wrote, “helped to ease Americans’ Space Age insecurity.” Greg noted that America’s launch into space seems to have made an enormous impact on artists like Anish Kapoor, Tom Sachs, and Francis Alys; at the end of his post, he announced that he would be hunting down the original test models and photos. The show opens tomorrow night at 6 PM. [apexart]
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