MAX PIXEL
Speculation
It’s Groundhog Day! Staten Island Chuck, more dignified than that pompous pretender Punxsutawney Phil, says we’ll have an early spring. [NY1]
Silicon Valley “squillionaires” aren’t feeling the art market. But, then, some are—and maybe more will follow? [Bloomberg]
Lovely Mugs
Beyoncé is pregnant with twins—and who doesn’t make such an announcement in a veil and lingerie? Read the scoop on the artist who took the photo. [ARTnews]
The Uffizi will pay more attention to women, starting with a Renaissance painter nun, thanks in part to sentiments expressed by the Guerrilla Girls. [The Art Newspaper]
Painted portraits of African-American figureheads will grace a wall in Buffalo as part of a public-art project by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. [Buffalo News]
Holland Cotter on tattoos. [The New York Times]
Resist
Noted collector and museum impresario Eli Broad wrote a letter in strong opposition to education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos. [The Washington Post]
J. Paul Getty Trust’s president, James Cuno, comes out fervently against Trump’s travel ban. [The Iris]
Intervention
On surreal art from World War II–era Egypt by way of the Cairo-based avant-garde group Art et Liberté. [Art in America]
Big screens in New York will be given over to artists—including Cory Arcangel, Casey Jane Ellison, and esteemed Beyoncé photographer Awol Erizku—for the 40th anniversary of the Public Art Fund. [The Art Newspaper]