Thursday’s Art Notes

‘More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid’ and ‘The Wages of Sin,’ two works by artist Mike Kelley, who once said that “the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow.” A new exhibit at the Walker Art Center, ‘The Spectacular of the Vernacular’, considers how artists have claimed homemade handicrafts or rustic aesthetic traditions in new ways. Kelley’s 1987 works were made from handmade stuffed animals and afghans sewn on canvas backing, and wax candles on a round base. Courtesy of the Artist, Metro Pictures, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Image courtesy the Walker Art Center

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Wafaa Bilal, the artist and professor who attached a video camera to his skull with screws, removed part of the device last week because he was in constant pain, via The Wall Street Journal. For now he will wear the camera on his neck.

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Iowa state Rep. Scott Raecker proposed a piece of legislation on Wednesday that would have the University of Iowa sell a multi-million dollar art masterpiece by Jackson Pollock in order to fund scholarships for college students, via Iowa City Press-Citizen.

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Digital copies of 10 “lost” American silent films, which had turned up in a Russian archive, have arrived at the Library of Congress, via The Washington Post.

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The Brooklyn Museum is cleaning out some of its collection, including 5,000 pre-Columbian artifacts, which are being sent back to Costa Rica, via Global Post.

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Francoise Cachin, a French curator and scholar of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art and helped found the Musee d’Orsay, died in Paris at the age of 74, via The New York Times.