Penguin and Random House to Merge

Penguin Books and Random House to merge. The end is at hand! Sinking ships sink faster if they are chained together.

Story via Wall Street Journal: http://tinyurl.com/8gmveg2

Art Makes Your Heart Beat Faster?

Although one sees very few solo viewers in NYC museum, new study says your heart beats faster when you look at art alone. And knowledge has no effect. Questions: Is the increased heart rate a flight response? And how do you measure the effect of a new idea? 

NY Times: http://tinyurl.com/9qlbdq3

Yau Trashes Guyton

Ever the champion of the new, John Yau trashes Wade Guyton at the Whitney. Is Guyton a closet case?

Essay via hyperallergic.com: http://tinyurl.com/8zna3no

Kass Retrospective at Warhol Museum

Deborah Kass retrospective now open at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Did Andy ever do Streisand portraits? No. But Kass did. Including one of Barbra in "Yentl" in male drag.

Huffingtonpost interview: http://tinyurl.com/8pt4esy

Hickey Fumes

Critic Dave Hickey is retiring. At last. In interview he fumes and fusses, revealing --- we think --- that he is part of the problem, as we always thought. Beauty indeed!

Gallerist interview: http://tinyurl.com/8ryl43l

Niemeyer Repurposed In Sao Paulo

Mega-modernist, Niemeyer building in downtown Sao Paulo now includes Pivo Contemporary Art Center in previously unoccupied ground floor spaces.

Story via NYTimes: http://tinyurl.com/8wdefp2

MoMA Garage Sale!

ARTOPIA: MoMA garage sale!

via NYT: http://tinyurl.com/9rozbrp