- Henry Wyndham, the European Chairman of Sotheby’s, was shot in the face last Monday in a grouse-hunting accident. As has been established, that’s a funny thing to happen to a person. Fortunately, he’s been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. [Daily Mail]
- Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw, who you may remember from the AFCRPAAaA*, won Creative Time’s sandcastle-building competition last Friday. In keeping with their longstanding interest in needlessly elevating people, they created a multi-tiered human fountain and spit on each other. Ryan McNamara, meanwhile, buried people in polygons. [NY Times]
- Read Hyperallergic’s Jillian Steinhauer on Mitt Romney’s plans to cut art funding. Her words: “Romney is simply following in a long line of Republicans who have used claims of cutting arts funding as a diversionary tactic, a way to appeal to conservative voters without having to talk about what a smaller government would actually look like.” [Hyperallergic]
- AFC likes Randy Kennedy’s survey of art bookshops and art-book shops. [NY Times]
- Tony Scott, the director and producer who created “Top Gun”, “The Good Wife”, and “Enemy of the State”, jumped off a bridge Sunday. Many people wish he hadn’t. [L.A. Times]
