Monday Links: “Total Fucking Ken-Doll Sexuality”

This is a tapeworm via The New Scientist

• Wall Street and Silicon Valley companies pay their interns crazy salaries that are most of what we make in a year. According to vocativ, the global trading firm Jane Street pays interns ten thousand and four hundred dollars per month. Fitbit interns get $9.3 K. Killlll meeee. [Vocativ]
• We get paid in tittie calendars. [Art F City]
• “You will think of Matthew McConaughey every time you hear a google chat notification sound.” Alright. [YouTube]
• Whoa. 40 years ago Lynda Benglis published her previously infamous, now famous dildo-wielding spread in Artforum. In an interview with Bard’s Tom Eccles, she says that Artforum editors and readers who were upset with her spread were “out of this century.” [Seen]
• More Lynda. 26 female artists on the importance of the Artforum spread. (If you’re a man who’s ever been inspired by her advertisement, you should say so in our comments. Because why cis?) [Vulture]
• The Swiss Kunstmuseum Bern has accepted a collection of 1,300 artworks from suspected Nazi looting. The museum claims that it will attempt to return the works to their rightful heirs. [Artnet News]
• 16 women, now, have publicly stated that Bill Cosby raped them, 12 of whom said he drugged them. The Washington Post has the definitive piece. [The Washington Post]
• The Village Voice is probably right about half these so-called New York City scams, but one takeaway is don’t give to poors. Those subway kids making millions off your candy purchase? BUSTED. In other scams, there’s the “money first, keys later” Craigslist scam (legit) and the “melon drop scam” where you sell coveted melons to Japanese tourists (???). [Village Voice]
• Hey, Tijuana gets its first-ever BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) event. BYOB arrives to the city at about the same time as a dolphin-eating whale—completely unrelated, we bet. [San Diego Reader]
• The Grand Jury is expected to decide whether they’re going to indict Michael Brown’s murderer Darren Wilson today. [NBC]
• Artprize Dallas blather has already begun. Here’s a writer who thinks the event will be really great but will it actually enlighten the Dallas art scene? We’ve got two years before we even begin to find out, but it’s never to early to start asking questions no one can answer. [The Dallas Observer]
• Joerg Colberg says photography is plagued by “helicopterism”, a phenomenon in which photographers fly out to a location for a couple of days, shoot some dramatic shots, but without any deeper investigation. This term can be applied to photojournalism and fine art photography because it refers to depth of engagement not aerial photography. [CPH]
• Rhizome interviews Huw Lemmey about his new work of Grindr-inspired fan fiction “Chubz: the Demonization of My Working Arse.” Lemmey hates hookup culture. “That’s the worst thing about public gay identity today; it’s total fucking Ken-doll sexuality, reasserting categories for behaviour and binaries, full of these aspirations for acceptance and assimilation with men like Sam Smith banging on about husbands and puppies. It’s boring and gross and violent.” [Rhizome]
• How does Strand keep itself in business in the age of Amazon.com? Selling used books, non-books and catering to a very particular sort of buyers. “In the Hamptons, a wall of white books is a popular order.” [The Vulture]
• Why is this tapeworm burrowing through a live person’s brain? *Spoiler alert* “Yum yum, brain fat.” [The New Scientist]

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