COURTESY THE ARTIST
Artist Sarah Sole is quite the fan of Hillary Clinton—she has painted her nude, as Marilyn Monroe, as a Gothic American, and also as a Teletubby, to name a few. [The Huffington Post]
Artist Zurab Tsereteli, creator of a 9/11 memorial in Bayonne, New Jersey, has announced plans to design a monument for the 224 victims of the Russian plane that crashed on October 31 after a terrorist bombing. [The Art Newspaper]
The father of Turkish contemporary art, Cengiz Çekil, has died. [Artforum]
Klara Lidén and Alicia Frankovich, “Complex Bodies,” at Kurator at Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Jeffrey Deitch rumored to be looking to buy Halston’s $40 million former Upper East Side apartment. [Page Six]
Shia LaBeouf is watching all of his movies consecutively, in the name of art. It’s being live streamed at http://newhive.com/allmymovies, and anyone is welcome to join him for as long as they want. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
Pyotr Pavlensky, the Russian performance artist who set fire to Moscow’s FSB building, has been jailed for 30 days before his trial. [The Guardian]
An artist has been drawing penises around potholes in a last-resort attempt to get them fixed. [Alternet]