- Andrea Rosen has announced she will close her gallery of 27 years. Art world shaken. More on this shortly. [Andrea Rosen]
- Details for Geoffrey Farmer’s installation at the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale have been released. He’ll be drawing inspiration from a 1955 group of photographs showing a lumber truck that collided with a moving train. Can’t say I’m excited yet, but whatever. I hope it’s good because I’m Canadian and I cheer for Canadians. [ARTnews]
- A full account of Andy Warhol’s death. It seems his surgery wasn’t so routine after all. “The surgeon found a gallbladder full of gangrene; the organ fell to pieces as he removed it.” Wow. [The New York Times]
- Good grief. PSSST, a non-profit gallery that opened last year in LA’s Boyle Heights has been forced to close due to online and IRL trolling. According to this report, activists were concerned that the gallery was complicit in gentrification forces, and the gallery claimed it was aiming to help the very communities the activists were fighting for. [The Los Angeles Times]
- Did you know that Housing Works was founded by members of ACT UP and actually builds affordable housing? I didn’t. That history and more told here. [Curbed]
- The New York Post is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for liberal smears. Their latest story tracks three animal deaths that have occurred while de Blasio was mayor and finds a disturbing trend. [The New York Post]
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