- It’s probably best not to trust a site that can’t figure out how to spell MOCA properly and cites a source that seems to think board member responsibilities include curation. Still, the bitchy speculation is enjoyable. This site claims Brad Pitt isn’t “smart enough” to join MOCA’s board. [ShowbizSpy]
- Ed Ruscha joins SFMoMA’s board one year after he departs from MoCA. SFMoMA should be very pleased. [L.A. Times]
- Yesterday, a corner of the internet got really upset about gmail’s privacy policies. It turns out no one had read the court filings people that had caused all the fuss in the first place. [The Verge]
- An art-world feud map by William Powhida and Jade Townsend. [ArtNews]
- Is trouble brewing in the north? Russians are developing the Northeast passage even though much of that land is Canadian owned. [The Globe and Mail]
- Still more details have been released in the ongoing case against Glafira Rosales, a little known dealer from Long Island who sold 40 allegedly counterfeit works through Knoedler & Company. Now we know how the paintings were made. [The New York Times]
- Jasper Johns’s ex-assistant has been charged with selling 22 works he stole from the artist’s studio, according to New York State court documents. [Bloomberg]
- Nice to see a review of a show at N.Y.U. in the Times. Roberta Smith lauds the enormous paintings of Hale Woodruff (two are 20 feet in diameter). [The New York Times]
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