- Artists are getting jobs, according to the NEA. Unemployment levels for artists now hover around 7.1. percent. That’s nowhere close to pre-recession levels at 3.6 percent and can be attributed to the multiple jobs held by artists. [KPCC]
- French artist Abraham Poincheval will live inside a taxidermied bear’s “stomach” for 13 days. Didn’t this happen to Björk in the 1990s? [BBC]
- Closer to home, the Secret Science Club will be hosting a taxidermy contest this Sunday in Brooklyn. [The Brooklyn Paper]
- What on earth is a “curator of public engagement”? Jori Finkel asks and finds an answer. [The Art Newspaper]
- OkCupid boycotts Mozilla Firefox because the CEO isn’t gay-friendly. Firefox responds saying that they are totally gay-friendly! Oh, well, because the boycott continues. [The Verge]
- Everything you see today is a lie. Remember, it’s April Fools’ Day. [The Internet]
- Here is one of those art lies, featuring Jeff Koons as the Michelangelo of our times. [@artnet]
- “I want to suggest that the minimum requirement for a photograph is authorship. Authorship in the form of intent, however specific or not specific it might be. Intent requires consciousness, and machines or robots don’t have consciousness.” Today’s must read. [CPH Mag]
- Photographers seem to meet through the Internet. Mossless interviews Timothy Briner, Sean Stewart, and Joe Leavenworth. [VICE]
- But for the truth, you will finally be able to live out your fantasy of being a goat. Goat Simulator, the only videogame that lets you live your life as a cranky goat, comes out today. [Kotaku]
- A republican street artist espouses all kinds of hate in caps. [Raw Story]
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