+ This week in worthwhile Tumblrs: Nihilisa Frank and Texts From Hilary.
+ Architect David Adjaye won the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts and is heading into a residency at MIT. [Artforum]
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+ Picasso Sculpture opens at MoMA next week: “a sweeping survey of Pablo Picasso’s innovative and influential work in three dimensions.” [MoMA]
+ The Hamabul Art Collective is an Iranian art performance and exhibition space opening in Jerusalem and run by Israeli artists and intellectuals. [The Art Newspaper]
+ There’s been a pleasing plethora of fantastic “arty” long reads and rumination this week. The first, a fascinating close-look at North Korea’s art world. [Huffington Post]
+ Designer, icon, and all-around ultra-badass Vivienne Westwood drove a tank up to David Cameron’s house because, seriously, someone had to do it. [Independent]
The Bus Ride by Jong Chol, via
+ Then there’s this (indulgently pun-filled) analysis of the current craze of pharmaceutical art. [The Guardian]
+ And here’s art critic Andrew Russeth’s deconstruction of the booming book presses of top galleries world wide. [ArtNews]
+ Finally, we get the story behind ISIS’s art crimes—hint: it’s a cleverly masked heist. [Independent]
+ Meet Oakland Zoo’s finger-painting lemur and buy her art at this upcoming animal art auction. [CBC]
Jennifer the ring-tailed lemur, via
+ More than 1,000 lost items have been found during the removal Snarkitecture’s The Beach at the National Building Museum. [ABC News]
+ Anish Kapoor’s choice to leave the antisemitic graffiti on his Dirty Corner sculpture has led a French councilor to sue the artist. [The Guardian]
Dirty Corner via
+ John Perreault, the former Village Voice and SoHo Weekly News art critic, died this week at the age of 78. [The New York Times]
+ In numbers, Lower East Side galleries are creeping up on Chelsea galleries. For all that attended an over-populated opening below Houston this Wednesday, this news should come as no surprise. [artnet]
+ The New Yorker’s satirical #KanyeForPresident cover is inspired. [The New Yorker]
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