Auction
Salvador Dalí’s lobster telephone is among the 200 works from the Edward James Foundation’s collection to be auctioned off at Christie’s in December. [The Guardian]
Institutions and Spaces
Here is a piece on how a museum’s co-sign of an artist can add to their value. Who would’ve thought! [New York Times]
The artist Kader Attia is opening up a new three-story multidisciplinary space in Paris. Attia refers to it as a “laboratory” for exploring political and cultural concerns. [The Art Newspaper]
Maya Lin, the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C, has released plans for her redesign of the Smith College library. [New York Times]
Profiles
A look into the meta political cartoon parodies of The Onion’s fictional Stan Kelly. The character is really a pseudonym of the cartoonist Ward Sutton. [The New Yorker]
On the legacy of the art of the Black Panther Party. [New York Times]
Profile of the French artist Philippe Parreno, an early member of the relational aesthetics movement. [The New Yorker]
Bonus
Documentation of Will Sheldon and Gobby’s exhibition at Romeo in New York. [Sex Magazine]
Shadi Habib Allah “Biscuits and Green Sox Maaike” at Renna Spaulings in New York. [Contemporary Art Daily]