- Artists Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw compete on the Food Network’s competitive cooking show Chopped. It airs next week. [Food Network via Jen Catron]
- Weed the people have declared their opinions in Washington, D.C., where residents can now possess, transfer, or grow their own green stuff without getting in trouble with the law. Here’s a handy chart pointing out the finer details of what you can and can’t do. [WTOP]
- Islamic State militants took sledgehammers to the Mosul Museum in Iraq. The museum was first seized in June, when IS took over Mosul. Yesterday, the ISIS media office published a video showing the destruction of statues. In it, a man says, “The monuments that you can see behind me are but statues and idols of people from previous centuries, which they used to worship instead of God.” Iconoclasm it is. [The New York Times]
- I (Paddy) am outraged, outraged, at the inaccuracies in March’s Taurus art horoscope. According to the horoscope experts over at Hyperallergic I’m slated to give away house and home! [Hyperallergic]
- I (Corinna) am outraged, virulently outraged, at the inaccuracies in March’s Virgo art horoscope. I’m set to have a “trying month,” but I’ll pull through thanks to my friends and colleagues. March is going to suck for me! [Hyperallergic]
- Okay, who’s been following “the dress” fiasco? Some people see a dress colored white and gold, others see the dress as black and blue. The debate has steamrolled the internet—Buzzfeed announced yesterday that their post on the subject broke record traffic numbers on their site. What to make of the discord? Over here at the AFC offices we speculated that monitor calibration was the issue. (Last night I identified the dress color as blue and brown, a color combination nobody has debated, but today, on a different monitor, the dress looked white and gold.) Wired explains that the difference in perception has to do with the background color—your eye projects those colors on the dress. Then they printed the picture out. [Wired]
- The Hello Kitty Cafe and Restaurant has nearly all its food shaped or stamped with Hello Kitty’s face on it. That is all. [Google]
- According to the Artprice annual report, global art sales have increased by 300 percent over the last decade. [The Telegraph]
- One of the stranger interviews you’ll read: Ali Wong is a curator and Wong Kit Yi is an artist. They share the same body. This is an interview with both. [Asympote]
Friday Links: Food Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Horoscope Haters
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