COURTESY MOMA
MONEY
The FBI is investigating the theft of prints of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans from the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri. [Springfield News-Leader]
An Australian artist has destroyed his controversial street mural in Sydney that showed Kanye West kissing himself after reportedly selling it for £53,000 ($75,459). [The Telegraph]
Donald Trump donated $100,000 to the 9/11 Memorial Museum after paying it a visit on Saturday morning. [Pix 11]
The Canadian government will put more than $1 billion dollars into the government’s art and culture budget over the next five years to promote creativity in Canada—and beyond. [Hyperallergic]
PROFILES
Jack Hanley reflects on his life, from being a Grateful Dead fan to being a great art dealer. [Artspace]
Louise Blouin, the art collector who owns Blouin Artinfo, Art+Auction, and Modern Painters, gets the profile treatment, and is informed by a reporter that her name appears in the Panama Papers. One editor who worked for her shared, “The way she spoke reminded me a bit of Sarah Palin in terms of incoherence and a Ted Talk in terms of evangelism. She’d fly in with these wild ideas for things like, ‘We are going to open an opera in Africa.'” [Toronto Star]
Ariel Levy profiles the late Niki de Saint Phalle. [New Yorker]
EXTRAS
Yesterday, SFMOMA’s director, Neal Benezra, threw the first pitch at the San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Dodgers game in San Francisco. [Instagram]
New York activists are using art to spread the Black Lives Matter message. [New York Daily News]
Ceal Floyer at Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau. [Contemporary Art Daily]