COURTESY CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Museums
At Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, many and sundry helped with the installation of We the People, a new acquisition comprising “thousands of colorful shoelaces”—the museum is not sure exactly how many—by the artist Nari Ward. [Arkansas Online]
Native American art will show in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a momentous change attending the acquisition of works from the collection of Charles and Valerie Diker. [The New York Times]
A big-data survey of info wrangled online by the Met, with charts and graphs addressing 446,123 objects in “a data set born of paint and pens, of scepters and swords.” [FiveThirtyEight]
Exhibitionism
Arnold Lehman, former director of the Brooklyn Museum, opens up his home and shows us his wall. [The New York Times]
A look at the sartorial styles on show in “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” at the Brooklyn Museum. [The New Yorker]
In news that does not resist the temptation to cite the designation “high art,” the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia has a show of glass water pipes in “what is being called the first exhibit of bongs in a museum setting.” [Fox News]
Crimes
Sings like a canary about the guns but stays mum on the art—an 81-year-old Boston mobster who some think may know a thing or two about a heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum takes his next step at trial. [Reuters]
An impassioned missive in support of the NEA from Rhizome, an arts enterprise that ranks among “countless served, empowered, and saved by the funding body.” [Rhizome]
Art
Andres Serrano talks about his 2001 photograph The Interpretation of Dreams (White Nigger). [The Guardian]
See some wondrously colorful paintings by Lamar Peterson. [The Paris Review]