Tuesday Links: Lots of Coffee

• The world needed this: Every mention of pie and coffee in TWIN PEAKS. [Slacktory]
• Biggest building opens in Chengdu, China, large enough to house 20 Sydney opera houses under its roof. [The Guardian]
• Edward Winkleman interviews arts journalist and blogger Tyler Green about journalism. Green thinks the old model of journalism is gone and that we should all stop bitching about it. [Edward Winkleman]
• Here’s a backwards article: Artists get more money from kickstarter than from the N.E.A., and writer Katherine Boyle writes that she isn’t surprised, because private philanthropy outpaces government support. Kickstarter campaigns aren’t philanthropy though, they’re crowdsourced funding used to support the production of products. That’s different than supporting an intangible cultural good. [Washington Post]
• Helen Marten discusses her influences. My favorite: soup and salad. [Frieze]
• Anatoly Iksanov, director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, was fired after a man threw acid in the art director’s face. A dancer said “that the theater has plunged into crime and violence under Iksanov’s watch.” [Huffington Post]
• Well, this is too bad. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago has cut short a ten-week private home tour of London-based artist Amalia Pica’s small granite sculpture on July 1. It’s assumed the piece was damaged in transit, but no details have been given. [Chicago Magazine]
• The Do It interactive show at Manchester Gallery features work from Louise Bourgeois, Ai Wei Wei, Gibert & George, and Yoko Ono, among others, that tells you what to do. Most edicts are relatively frivolous, nothing despotic. [The Guardian]
• Making Room opens at the Museum of the City of New York, offering design solutions to cramped New York apartment living. [Hyperallergic]
• A record rainfall has left Toronto streets flooded. Their subway, which was shut down yesterday due to the rain, has started running again, but the city has yet to fully recover with many roads still blocked. Porter airlines was forced to cancel all flights yesterday after the airport lost power. [Globe and Mail]

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