— Pharrell Curates Perrotin Show: Emmanuel Perrotin has tapped musician Pharrell Williams to curate a show at his new Paris gallery. Titled “G I R L” — also the name of Pharrell’s new album — the show will feature “images of women and of love” by Tracey Emin, Alex Katz, Daniel Arsham, and 29 others. “I’m like a student when I’m with visual artists, I love to learn from them. Artworks teach you how to live and think differently,” Pharrell said. [TAN]
— Mana Launches Selling Show: Jersey City’s Mana Contemporary is launching a new selling show called “Mana Exposition,” which will take place three times a year. Run by Cornell DeWitt, former Pulse fair director, the show claims to be “neither an art fair nor a pop-up gallery.” The first exposition, “All the Best Artists Are my Friends, Part 1,” will take place during Frieze week. [AiA]
— Fairey Among Rubenstein’s Creditors: Court documents recently filed in the Perry Rubenstein gallery bankruptcy case reveal artists Shepard Fairey, Georg Herold, and Zoe Crosher to be among those who the gallery owes money. According to the filing, Fairey is owed $159,000, Crosher is owed $105,000, and Herold is owed $364,000. “The documents are accurate. We’re obliged to file accurate documents,” Rubenstein said. “These are all matters that are being resolved civilly and, hopefully, expeditiously.” [LAT]
— Bristol Takes Banksy: The city of Bristol has seized the Banksy that was previously seized by a youth club in the city. [The Guardian]
— GIF Award Announced: Brooklyn-based creative director Christina Rinaldi’s GIF has won the first ever Motion Photography Prize awarded by Saatchi Gallery and Google+. [CNN]
— Film Follows Master Forger: “Art and Craft,” a film about master forger Father Arthur Scott, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. [The Daily Beast]
— MoMA will have a retrospective of Robert Gober this October. [NYT]
— Sotheby’s has released an investor update presentation in reaction to Daniel Loeb’s attacks this week. [AMM]
— Pace and Axel Vervoordt are opening Hong Kong outposts timed to debut with Art Basel there. [TAN]
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