— Sleep in Gormley’s New Sculpture: Antony Gormley’s new giant sculpture in London doubles as a room for a luxury hotel that allegedly goes for £2,500 per night. “I would say that luxury is a sense of total peace, silence and a place that is removed from the incessant demands of the world,” Gormley said. He wants guests to ask: “Who am I and what am I doing here?” [The Guardian]
— Palestinian Boycott Closes Mattress Factory Show: Pittsburg’s Mattress Factory Museum canceled its “Sites of Passage: Walls, Borders & Citizenship” exhibition just days before it was set to open, following accusations on social media that three participating Palestinian artists had violated an international cultural boycott. The criticism stems from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, barring participation alongside Israelis in projects that don’t explicitly oppose the country’s treatment of Palestinians. [Pittsburgh City Paper]
— RoseLee Goldberg Sees a Future for Performance Art: Katie Kitamura profiles Performa founder and performance art champion RoseLee Goldberg for T Magazine. Goldberg told Kitamura she has rid her vocabulary of words like “challenge” and “failure.” “In this multitasking, multimedia world, performance allows for a lot of layering of ideas,” she said. “That’s why I believe performance is going to be so huge in the coming decades.” [T Magazine]
— Abramovic’s Serpentine Show Opens Today: “The idea is that the public are my material, and I am theirs. I will open the gallery myself in the morning and close it at 6 p.m. with my key.” — Marina Abramovic explains her new Serpentine Gallery show. [NYT]
— National Gallery Trims Displays: The National Gallery in London may have a reputation for putting its entire collection on display, but the museum has recently pared down its galleries. [TAN]
— Nuclear Isotopes Weed Out Fakes: The presence of two isotopes produced from nuclear bomb blasts can be used to determine if an artwork was made after 1945 — a method employed to spot fakes. [Gizmodo]
— Over 550 photographs by American photographer Harry Callahan have been donated to the Vancouver Art Gallery. [Speakeasy]
— The Getty Museum has acquired its first sculpture by Auguste Rodin, titled “Christ and Mary Magdalene.” [LAT]
— Robert Raphael’s public artwork “Untitled Folly” at Randall’s Island park was destroyed by vandals. [Hyperallergic]
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