- The McRib is like this Hans Holbein painting, writes media critic Ian Bogost. “To understand McRib fully, we have to look at the sandwich askew.” And all this time, I was looking at it like a sandwich. [The Atlantic]
- The Smithsonian has now introduced Smithsonian X 3D, a website that lets anyone make 3D prints from its collection. [Forbes]
- Frieze d/e might be one of the few print publications tackling the continued gender inequity in art exhibitions. Managing editor Paul Teasdale interviews writer Elvia Wilk about new media exhibitions, specifically. [freize d/e]
- Don/Dean is a blog that interviews a different photographer every Sunday. They like to feature artists working in places other than New York, with a focus on straight photography that has a surreal edge. Yesterday they interviewed Bowling Green, OH based Justin Thomas Leonard. [Don/Dean]
- “ I don’t feel like getting out my placards in defence of the many, many new public art galleries (the Public showed visual art as well as hosting other art forms) that opened in the years of New Labour,” writes Jonathan Jones. This sounds a little like a rant on digital art, but overall, he may have a point—consolidating art spaces could get everybody paid, and broaden the public’s ideas about art. [The Guardian]
- In Portland, the city’s public art has been yarn-bombed. I wouldn’t care, but some of the sweaters look really, really pro. I want what these otters are wearing. (Corinna) [Imgur]
- Get a preview of Brendan Toller’s documentary about recording industry legend Danny Fields, who managed The Stooges, The MC5, and The Ramones. [W]
- RISD’s president John Maeda on why Obama’s STEM program should incentivize art and design, mostly because it enriches the consumer experience. [Forbes]
- The Guardian publishes a series of letters exchanged between the world’s best known philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. [The Guardian]
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Ian Bogost makes me sad. he’s an incredibly smart and perceptive dude and used to be the best intellectual writing about video games in the world, but at this point he’s basically reduced himself to a character from Don Dellilo’s White Noise.
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