VIA THE GUARDIAN
Andy Warhol loved weightlifting, buying jewels, and sex, despite what we thought we knew. [The Guardian]
Artists are behind a proposal to ban Confederate statues and monuments from New Orleans. [The Art Newspaper]
Vice chairperson of the Whitney Museum, Melva Bucksbaum, has died. [Artforum]
Sculptures by a well-regarded Soviet artist on view in central Moscow were publicly destroyed by Orthodox activists, who called them “blasphemous.” [Yahoo! News]
Here’s why stolen art—such as that looted from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—is so hard to find. [Slate]
“The Ninth Season” at Artist’s Institute with Carolee Schneemann. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Kyler Zeleny, obsessed with collecting Polaroids of strangers, has put his collection of over 6,000 online and asked the public to step forward and identify the people in the photos. [The Guardian]
A chandelier in the Scottish First Minister’s house could be a looted Nazi piece. [Sky News]