COURTESY THE NEW MUSEUM
One Hyperallergic writer’s experience following Luke Willis Thompson out of the New Museum as part of his twice-daily performance piece Eventually they introduced me to the people I immediately recognised as those who would take me out anyway for the New Museum Triennial. [Hyperallergic]
Fragonard’s Young Woman was the subject of a spot-the-fake competition at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. [The Telegraph]
A look back at the controversial twenty-year career of Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA. [The Art Newspaper]
Oscar Tuazon at Paradise Garage in Los Angeles. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Jacob Applebaum, Wikileaks, and Tor Activist Project traveled to Beijing to work with artist Ai Weiwei on a project for the New Museum’s annual Seven on Seven conference. Director of Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, filmed the collaboration, which will deal with themes of surveillance and national borders. [Blouin Artinfo]
The film program at Art Basel this year, which runs from June 15 through June 20, will feature the film debuts of visual artists Takashi Murakami and Hassan Hajjaj. [Blouin Artinfo]
Monika Rostvold, a student at Texas State University, sat almost naked on the steps of the library for 45 minutes as part of an art project on the objectification of female bodies. [mySanAntonio.com]
In its recent anti-corruption zeal, China’s ruling Communist Party is seeking to abolish art and literary prizes. Chinese investigators are worried that government officials are using these prizes as a means of improving their influence. [South China Morning Post]
