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- “I would sit down and I could kind of hypnotize a painting. And I’m trying to flash back in my mind to the blank canvass and then try and see how that particular artist had done what he or she had done. ” A reformed art forger explains his methods. [WBUR]
- An “oracle” in Tel Aviv publicly declares what is and is not art, and why. Icelandic artist Sindri Leifsson, during his “times of revelation,” examines objects via video chat, and declares, to his remote audience, what goes on the “art” wall and what goes on the “not art” wall. A doodle on a napkin is art. The impression it left on the second layer is not. See pictures here. [Haaretz]
- Stephen King’s It was banned from the Guantanamo Bay prison library, then unbanned. [The Atlantic Wire]
- Glasstire has a short, thoughtful write-up on James Turrell’s exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, one of three concurrent Turrell exhibitions currently on view in the States. The verdict: sloppy exhibition design. [Glasstire]
- The Detroit Institute of Arts will not file an objection to the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy protection proceeding; previously, the museum has pledged it would go to court if the city of Detroit attempts to sell the museum’s art collection. [The New York Times]
- In case you missed it, Marina Abramovic typed up a piece for GOOD. That piece, “Why Performance Art Is a Tool for Changing Human Consciousness,” doesn’t explain exactly how performance art can change people, opting to cover the deets on Abramovic’s Kickstarter plan. [GOOD]
- In Japan, they make Darth Vaders out of bananas. [Kotaku]
- Careful who you text. This weekend, a gallery in Bushwick will display 300 dick pics, unbeknownst to the original senders. [New York Magazine]
- Here’s a true fluff piece: a real estate investor held a party for his art-confused millionaire friends, where he introduced them to some of his favorite artists and taught them to buy “something that will make you happy when you see it every day.” [The Wall Street Journal]
- More arrests are expected to come in the Glafira Rosales fraud case. [Artinfo]
- Missing astrolabe found! [Bloomberg]
