Nude art tours. Image courtesy of the Guardian.
- No fences:This May, the European Commission will unveil its plans for a single digital market in the EU. [Courthouse News Service]
- Wisconsin Governor—and presidential hopeful—Scott Walker wants to slash $300 million in funding to the University of Wisconsin schools. You know who’s not happy about this? University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross, who has announced that he will resign if the governor’s cuts stand. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
- The people have spoken, and they want George Carlin. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will unveil a photographic portrait of the late comedian today. Carlin’s portrait was chosen, in a public vote, over those representing comedians Ellen DeGeneres and Groucho Marx. [Variety, National Portrait Gallery]
- Flamin’ Hot Cheetos—immortalized by the YouTube hit “Hot Cheetos and Takis”—has been approved as a healthy snack in some state public schools. The revised, whole-grain version has already hit Chicago. [WBEZ]
- All of the nude tours of James Turrell’s Australian retrospective are sold out! [National Gallery of Australia]
- Okay, who can name book-sculpture that doesn’t ferry off cheeseball connections between text and the mind? Because these 25 “most incredibly beautiful book sculptures ever” are terrible—and the site doesn’t even name the artists. [Earthporm]
- AFC fave artist Jeppe Hein will animate Brooklyn Bridge Park. Look forward to walls of rising water, a labyrinth of mirrors, and vibrating benches. [The New York Times]
- Rhizome’s Seven on Seven line up this year is off the hook: Nate Silver (fivethirtyeight), Ai Weiwei (activist artist), Jacob Appelbaum (Wikileaks representative and Edward Snowden confidant), and Gina Trapani (co-founder of ThinkUp). And the ticket price is sooooo reasonable, at $40 for artists and $125 for regular admission. [Rhizome]
- Technology for poo-flingers? “Have you ever wanted to pick up your poop and throw it at the wall? No? Oh, well, we have. Quite a few times actually…. Anyways, Bathroom Simulator is the game where you can do that.” Since this writing, the game’s Kickstarter campaign has raised $114. [Bathroom Simulator]
- A comprehensive history of video-game dicks. [Kotaku]
- “Axel Brechensbauer 3D-printed a cheerful-looking UAV that would playing loud ‘clown music’ and spray ‘terrorists’ with a cloud of Oxycontin, a pain-relief drug that also induces feelings of euphoria, relaxation and reduced anxiety.” [We Make Money Not Art]
- A review of Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle’s ‘Cartographies of the Absolute’ cataloguing artists’s attempts to create ‘maps which could serve to show us where we are located, to guide us to capital’s weak points, and to indicate current and future dynamics.’ [The New Inquiry]
- What a weird story: An investigator who does not know who her client is, has been making inquires about an NYU professors who criticized the university for the exploitation of migrant workers building their campus. The same investigator also sought out information for a New York Times reporter who wrote a story on the harsh conditions. Creepy. [The New York Times]
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“6. Old Book Carved Using Surgical Tools” is “The Household Physicians” by Brian Dettmer and “16. An Old Book Transformed Into One-Of-A-Kind Art” is “Mound 2” also by Dettmer.
No love for John Latham I guess
Not really my thing. :/
awww those book pieces aren’t all terrible. Many of the artists are tagged at the bottom. But still that is terrible practice and the page should feel terrible.
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