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Max Geller, the creator of the Instagram account Renoir Sucks at Painting, started a protest outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston yesterday. His demand: that the museum take its Renoirs of its walls and put up something else of higher quality. [The Boston Globe]
Randy Kennedy talks to Jim Shaw ahead of the opening of the artist’s retrospective at the New Museum. [New York Times]
Christie’s has tightened up its April calendar with what the auction house is calling “Classic Art Week,” a series of six sales of pre-modern art. [The Art Newspaper]
In 2016, when the Vikings’s new U.S. Bank Stadium opens, it will include 500 works of art, 200 of which will be commissioned by 34 by Minnesota artists. [Star Tribune]
An economically stable period in Brazil during the mid-’90s allowed for a new generation of art collectors. [The Financial Times]
Jamian Juliano-Villani at Tanya Leighton. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Hidden away in a forest near Nanjing, in China, is the Sifang Art Museum, which includes commissioned art by Ai Weiwei, David Adjaye, and others. [CNN]
In this minute-long video, it’s a man with a leaf-blower versus a wall of Post-It note art. [TIME]
A former teacher in Cortez, Florida has opened The Purple Pixie, an art gallery that also runs a coloring club for adults. [Bradenton Herald]