- This artist rendering of a black hole in a dwarf galaxy is amazing. [NASA Instagram via: @fredbenenson]
- And, on that note, for the science nerds, here’s the best astronomy related video we’ve seen lately. Dizzying. [Youtube]
- WTF? Richard Prince’s 48-inch by 56-inch″ inkjet prints of celebrity Instagram accounts are reportedly selling for $100,000. [The New York Post]
- Chicago’s art paper Newcity made its own power list again, because fuuuckk youuu Artinfo. Here are the artists’ artists. [Newcity]
- Jennifer Rubell is making food for the Performa benefit. This year Performa is honoring every rich woman under the sun. [In the Air]
- The People’s Climate March preparations have started. They are expecting 100,000 people to show up this Sunday for the event. [The New York Times]
- In further evidence, Environmentalist Bill McKibben is tweeting about 20 busloads of people headed to New York for the march already booked from Vermont. That seems like it would cover UVM and Middlebury alone. More! [Twitter]
- The New Yorker does a video feature on the history of the Vocoder, a speech distortion tool popularized by Laurie Anderson and Kraftwerk, but was apparently invented as a top-secret military voice encoder. There is such thing as a “Vocoder historian”. [The New Yorker]
- Philadelphia-based video artists: SUBMIT. The ICA has assembled a great jury for its open call video show, including Dirty Looks assistant director Karl McCool, PMA Associate Curator Erica Battle, and artist Beth Heinly, whom we featured in a Philly round-up last month. Based on McCool and Heinly in particular, we suspect this means creative risk taking and fearlessness will be rewarded. Submit to this. [ICA]
- Carolina Miranda discusses Santa Monica Museum of Art’s “Citizen Culture: Artists and Architects Shape Policy” and the show looks great. It’s an exhibition that looks at social practice that sparks social change. In one example, Miranda discusses Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus, who was forced to wear a bullet-proof vest after receiving death threats. As a sign of trust, he cut the shape of a heart from the vest. [Culture: High & Low]
- Iggy Pop plays ping pong with David Bowie. This is what happened. (aw). [BowieSongs Extras]
Thursday Links: Richard Prince Must be the Luckiest Man on the Planet
by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on September 18, 2014 Massive Links
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