Because I have but two interests, art and Game of Thrones: Last night, while watching artist Phil Collins’s film Tomorrow Is Always Too Long, I noticed that actress Kate Dickie, who plays Lysa Arryn in GoT, also features in the art film. In Dickie’s role as a TV psychic, she gives one of the strangest, most powerful monologues in the film—I highly recommend seeing it. There’s only one more screening at MoMA this week, today. [Cinefilm]
Pee-wee Herman is still very much around to fulfill your childhood dreams, or nightmares. Judd Apatow will produce a new Pee-wee Herman film, Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, a Netflix-only release. Production will begin in three weeks. [Pee-wee.com]
David Geers analyzes contemporary formalist painting, by artists ranging from David Ostrowski to Amy Sillman, as a political exercise and as evidence of ruin. Though the article tries too hard—Geers reads meaning into paintings when the evidence for said meaning—“as sombre explorations of indistinction, they depict collapse rather than perform it materially.” Anyway, read it. I’ll be online all day chatting with you about it on Twitter. [Frieze]
“The Hypocrisy of the Artistic and Critical Left,” a think piece that’s making the rounds, now has an e-flux forum devoted to it. Now you know where to air your frustrations or sing the article’s praises. [e-flux]
Happy National Adjunct Day! Most of your teachers will be at home, looking for other jobs. [Gawker]
It’s a funny-looking dog. [Imgur]
Party held for stolen artworks before they’re shipped back to Italy. Okay, and by party, it’s just a “repatriation ceremony.” [Courthouse News Service]
Dare to break all your brain cells by reading this news article about a one-eared cat with a “talent for art.” She paints with fruit juice “to protect her paws.” [The Telegraph]
Maraschino cherry company serves as a drug front. [New York Post]