- Do large New York City museums use the Internet to expand or to improve upon already existing exhibitions? Some institutions, like the Brooklyn Museum, are using the web to improve things on home fronts. But, big surprise: The Met sees the Internet as an opportunity to conquer the world. [The New York Times]
- And on a slightly related note from the Onion: “Shitty Museum Doesn’t Even Have a Mona Lisa.” [The Onion]
- Artist claims that Gilbert and George ripped off his work. He may have a point. Here’s Gilbert and George’s 2007 work, and here’s Atkinson’s from 1989. [artnet News]
- Because it’s August and Friday and art news is slow, here’s some Star Wars trivia: Chewbacca’s voice came from recordings of four bears, a badger, a lion, a seal, and a walrus, all animals living in Long Beach. [The Atlantic]
- In yesterday’s links we begged the world to stop this parody-music revival going on. Just to spite us, the universe has decided not to let up. Lonely Island is making a movie with Judd Apatow. Anything’s better than Weird Al Yankovic at the Super Bowl, I guess. [The Verge]
- More than 900 writers under the name Authors United are signing an open letter admonishing Amazon for questionable practices. The claim: Amazon is discouraging readers from buying books from the publisher Hachette, as a way of pressuring it into giving better deals to Amazon on e-books. [Los Angeles Times]
- Former President Nixon’s media legacy involves the continued presidential blackballing of it. [The Atlantic]
- Social practice writers, artists, and historians: FIELD, the peer-review journal for you guys, has arrived. The first call for papers will remain open through October 15. Oh, and it’s run by Grant Kester and some other great people at UCSD. [Field Journal]
- Nigeria still has a ways to go for its artists to compete in the global art market. Artists claim a poor level of service from dealers; dealers claim artists wrangle in backroom sales. [All Africa]
- First rule of art school: Don’t act surprised when your teacher fails you for making art about shit. [Huffington Post]
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