Wednesday Links: This Pope Lets You Take Selfies With Him

• The Pope is Time’s Person of the Year. Slow clap. [The Internet]
• From 2012, why you don’t need to pay much attention to the media attention surrounding the Man Person of the Year. [The Atlantic]
• Macaulay Culkin is now in a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band. Song titles include “Take a Bite of the Wild Slice” and “Papa Johns Says.” A joke gone too far. [Pitchfork]
• Yesterday Gawker staff tried to debate the merits of whether the Detroit Institute of Arts can be sold to cover the city’s debts. Good intentions devolve into standard-fare comment threads:

Yup. That’s most of it. [Gawker]

• Everyone on the social media tubes have been re-posting about some scientific research that says taking photos of art impairs your memory of it. Will telling Instawhores they’re going to suffer from the “photo-taking impairment effect” change their ways? Doubting it. [HuffPo]
• Sotheby’s continues to find itself in unpleasantly sticky situations. This go around, they’re getting sued for putting up allegedly fake Frank Lloyd Wrights at auction. [In the Air]
• Brooklynites are getting their way, kinda. The Brooklyn Flea, a summer-only craft fair—or as I prefer to call it, Etsy Live!—won’t be returning to Williamsburg this year after locals have complained that they never get to enjoy their parks during the summer, as it’s full of tents, booze, and crocheters. [The Brooklyn Paper]
• The Rubells on how they started collecting contemporary Chinese art. Their efforts have resulted in the opening of 28 Chinese, a showing of their personal collection held at the Rubell Foundation’s galleries. [The New York Times]
• On the history of blockbusters. #longreads [The New Yorker]

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