Not an especially romantic edition of Found Objects this week, but hey ho:
- It was sad to hear that Barcelona painter Antoni TÃ pies has passed away. Check out this obituary and slideshow in the Guardian.
- Here’s a Tate Shots video dispatch from the Yayoi Kusama PV at Tate. Always good to hear a former rock star doing art crit (and Bob Geldof calls it well, imho).
- This longform Vanity Fair piece on Lucian Freud harvests quotes from many of those who knew him best to produced a fascinating study of the man (thanks @rosieclarke)
- Some 43,500 year old paintings have been discovered in a cave in Spain. Brooklyn art blog Hyperallergic catches the buzz.
- If you don’t already know what a good thing Art Licks has been for the South London art scene, check out this Ideas Tap interview with Holly Willats.
- Rural France is the last place you’d expect an Ab Ex painter to move to, but Joan Mitchell did just that. Now Art Wednesday carry shots from a show at Hauser & Wirth.
- Don’t let it be said that artists are standing by while the coalition government dismantles the NHS. Many of them are making work for this tumblr blog.
- And here’s an even more angry blog about the art world, which you may also find amusing, Moogee the Art Dog.
- The best Art Thoughtz so far? Hennessy Youngman (aka the Pedagogic Pimp) holds forth on performance art.
- Oh, and happy Valentines Day!