COURTESY THE ARTIST/ODED HALAMMY
Coming Attractions
Sharon Lockhart discusses her upcoming Venice Biennale project, which draws inspiration from a pioneering psychiatrist. [The Art Newspaper]
A look inside the art-related movies at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, featuring a Tom of Finland biopic and Laurie Simmons’s first feature. [W]
Certain Women
Kimberly Drew, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s social media manager, is on Essence’s Woke 100 Women list. [Essence]
Peter Schjeldahl reviews “Making Space,” the Museum of Modern Art’s show that focuses on abstract painting and sculpture made by women. [The New Yorker]
Physically Able Conceptualists
On the occasion of a new show at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England, Richard Long discusses hiking as conceptual art and biking to keep in shape. [The Guardian]
Dean Sameshima’s latest show, at Peres Projects in Berlin, includes a diagram of a “sex mural,” among other things. Here are some photographs of works in the exhibition. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Architecture
Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Vicens will finally open to the public this fall as a museum. [Condé Nast Traveler]
A Celebrity Update
At long last! Brad Pitt has been photographed coming out of his art studio, and according to one report, he looks “disheveled.” [The Sun]
And just why, you wonder, did a book of George W. Bush’s portraits shoot to the top of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list? Jonathan Alter offers some reasons. [The New York Times]