- The best picture from the White House Flickr account in a while. [Flickr (above)]
- Abigail R. Esman at ArtInfo conducts a self-righteous interview with Dutch Collector Bert Kreuk after an article in RTL News and later, Artnet ran on the Kreuk’s decision to sue artist Danh Vo for failing to deliver. (Esman claims she was interested in the story because every other art publication covered the piece sloppily. Esman, though, is no jewel herself; in 2011, we complained about a story she wrote for Forbes magazine on e-commerce websites.) Anyway, That seems punitive and unnecessary to us, but according to Kreuk Vo has already been ordered by the courts to finish another, different work in his collection with a fine of 40,000 euros and an additional 2000 for each day of delay. That seems rather punitive to us. RTL News ran an update to their original story. [Cultural Affairs (ArtInfo)]
- This is a Blue Heron eating a gopher. Thanks, Reddit. [YouTube]
- The big news with the opening of the Pittsburgh Biennial is that it’s so big it needs to take place in two art spaces instead of one. Huh? [Tribune Review]
- In the States, vodka is losing the sales battle to whiskey. How is this possible? Jezebel places the blame on the hundreds of fruity flavors released by the vodka magnates. [Jezebel]
- Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold Lehman announces plans to retire within the next year. During his 17-year tenure, Lehman has seen his share of controversy. He manned the museum during the 1999 YBA/”Sensation” brouhaha with Mayor Giuliani, and in 2006, several Brooklyn Museum curators and board members resigned over Lehman’s consolidation of curatorial departments. Despite that, he’s responsible for raising attendance rates from from 247,000 to 558,788 visitors and has more than doubled the institution’s endowment. [The New York Times]
- It’s Internet Protest Day! Sites like Netflix, Etsy, Mozilla, and WordPress plan on showing a loading graphic on their homepage, commenting on how net neutrality needs to be protected—or else you’ll be seeing that slowly loading graphic in the Internet slow lane. [The Switch]
- The British Museum has responded to the Hyperallergic article complaining about a call for an unpaid computer programmer internship. They have removed the call from their site and claim they do not support unpaid internships. Good. [Twitter]
- Star Trek in Cinerama Widescreen. Kind of beautiful. [Cargo Collective]
- Oops. In New Zealand, a store owner decided to order gummy candies from China, without knowing the bags contained penis-shaped gummies. The result: angry parents. [The New Zealand Herald via Boing Boing]
- No more plywood in front of the Met! The museum’s $65 million plaza restoration (fully funded by New York City’s richest person David H. Koch) includes two new water fountains with 48 jets, and 106 newly planted trees. The plaza’s accoutrements were unveiled during a ceremony featuring a choir singing Pharrell’s “Happy” because that song is what people sing when they are happy. [Curbed NY]
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