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- A framed 4chan post sold as an artwork for $90,900 on eBay this weekend. What does this mean for the art market? Very little: Redditors assume most of the bids are fakes. [Re/code via Reddit]
- Paddy Johnson launches her “history of the GIF” series. Good. GIF art needs its own reference points. [artnet News]
- Johnson also tells Yahoo! News about the Mona Lisa of digital art. And the answer is…it does not exist. But in Johnson’s opinion, the most widely-recognized digital artwork is Jon Rafman’s “9 Eyes of Google Street View,” which premiered right here on Art F City. [Yahoo! Tech]
- Crazy town. A judge has ruled that Rauschenberg trustees can receive $24.6 million in fees from the foundation. This number is considerably less than the $60 million Bennet Grutman, Rauschenberg’s accountant; Darryl Pottorf, executor of the artist’s will; and Bill Goldston, a business partner of the artist in a fine art print publishing company were looking for, but more than the $375,000 the foundation wanted to pay. $24.6 million fees are reasonable, citing their exemplary job growing the value of the estate. [The Art Newspaper]
- Somebody named Richard Lawler called art advisor Todd Levin this weekend about two “newly discovered” Leonardo da Vinci paintings. Are they real? Levin seems to doubt their authenticity. Artnet called Lawler, but the call was off the record. [artnet News]
- Werner Herzog gets interviewed by New York Magazine. They talk about his life’s work, his vision, his views on culture and filmmakers, Nazis and tourists, and we’re here to boil it down into a few soundbites. Actually, no. You just gotta read it. [Vulture]
- It’s Barack Obama’s birthday. [Twitter]
- All the ice cream cake stores in New York that will write “Free Palestine” on your cake. Dairy Queen will not. [ANIMAL New York]
- The Marina Abramovic Institute, currently fundraising for a $20 million Rem Koolhaas-designed headquarters, is seeking unpaid volunteers . MAI responds to claims about unpaid labor with a statement that spools in the type of language we always hear that it’s about connections and exposure. Money? You can live without that for several months, right? And commute between Hudson and New York City for the MAI on no money, too. [Los Angeles Times]
- A story of how Christie’s is recruiting new auction buyers from China, and now India. A very thorough story from who else? KellyCrow. [Wall Street Journal]
- A new study reveals that women are more likely to be lied to in negotiations than men. “One of the study’s experiments showed that part of the reason women are lied to more often is that they’re perceived as being less competent but warmer than men in negotiations.” [Time]
- A weird, $999,000 Rembrandt painting appeared on eBay last week. Now, there’s furniture from the Élysée Palace, home to the French president, turning up on there too. This also comes after the news that 32 artworks and 625 pieces of furniture were missing from the residence. Sketchy. [Artnet News via Le Figaro]
