AboutFeaturesAFC EditionsDonateSound of ArtTumblrArt F CityPreorder Your “Nude Artists as Pandas” Prints and Calendar Today0by Paddy Johnson on November 18, 2014 · 0 comments FundraiserBuy your calendar and prints today.GIF of the Day: A Whole Lot of People Wear Horse Head Masks0by Paddy Johnson on November 21, 2014 · 0 comments GIF of the DayI started out thinking I’d collect a bunch of horse art GIFs in honor of ArtPrize Dallas, and in the process found a large number of GIFs of people wearing horse head masks. If this is the face of ArtPrize Dallas to come, we will be very, very interested.ArtPrize to Launch in Dallas, 20160by Paddy Johnson on November 21, 2014 · 0 comments NewswireArtPrize is coming to Dallas. Yesterday, the Grand Rapids-based 501-c3 announced via email that they have entered into a three-year charter agreement to launch and oversee a new, independent non-profit named ArtPrize Dallas. Following the format of ArtPrize Grand Rapids, the event will be held in the city of Dallas for 19 days, and will offer up to $500,000 in cash prizes and grants to artists. ArtPrize Dallas is slated to launch in April 2016 with Executive Director Ariel Saldivar at the helm. Prior to this, she worked as the Associate Director of the Dallas-based Goss-Michael Foundation.Sotheby’s Shake Up: Chairman William F. Ruprecht Resigns0by Corinna Kirsch on November 21, 2014 · 0 comments NewswireThe rise and fall of Ruprecht’s empire.Friday Links: Batman at the Mercy of City Council0by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on November 21, 2014 · 0 comments Massive LinksThe best picture in the New York Times Yesterday.This link’s for Carolina Miranda: “Hello Kitty, the Big Apple, the Penguin, the Joker and several other heroes, villains and pop culture icons appeared before the New York City Council on Wednesday to testify against a proposed bill that would regulate the ubiquitous and, occasionally, aggressive presence of costumed characters in Times Square.” [The New York Times]To be healthy, try eating clay, drinking fossilized plants, or washing your hair with bull semen. Oh, please. [The Coveteur]Paddy Johnson was interviewed by Matthew Leifheit for VICE. “That’s the whole reason you go and see art—because someone has some way of visually expressing something in a way that you never would have thought of, or expressed that way yourself. Expression is the most powerful and interesting thing you can do with your life, I think.” [VICE]Meredith Monk once composed music for Star Trek—and other little-known facts about the Monk. [The Lab]A Nazi-era art collection has been bequeathed to the Kunstmuseum Bern, a small museum in Switzerland. The museum has to evaluate more than 1000 works of art to determine whether the works were acquired legally. [The New York Times]On the fiftieth anniversary of the term gentrification, Curbed comes up with a quite revealing history of how word h