- Painter Lisa Yuskavage has started painting dudes. Titles from her “dude series” include “Dude Looks Like Jesus” and “Dude of Sorrows.” [Wall Street Journal]
- “Portraits of Lord Byron, In Order of Lord Byron-ness,” another sexy, brainy captioning of art history from The Toast’s Mallory Ortberg. [The Toast]
- Speaking of Byron, it’s World Book Day. And it’s Shakespeare’s birthday. Go read something, like a book. I’m going to watch Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing. [The Internet]
- This one’s for all the Fifty Shades of Grey-lovers: Baryshnikov dances Sinatra. [YouTube]
- Sad monkey eating a cookie. [Discarding Images]
- New York’s Gowanus Canal is so polluted you need to wear a protective yellow suit in order to cross it. Professional swim-activist Christopher Swain swam ⅔ of a mile in the canal as part of an Earth Day protest. [Gothamist]
- Jackson Pollock paintings take on a starring role in the sci-fi/artificial-intelligence film Ex Machina. “[T]he artist let his hand go where it wanted: not deliberate but not random, only somewhere in between. What makes a subject conscious then? What is the real Turing Test? The answer is somewhere in between deliberated actions and random actions; the space between programming and anarchy.” [Articulated]
- “Our favourite all-girl art collectives” lists off a bunch of groups that have very little in common, except that some members have vaginas. [Dazed]
- Why the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) shouldn’t ground good drones. [Electronic Frontier Foundation]
Thursday Links: Between Programming and Anarchy
by Corinna Kirsch on April 23, 2015 Massive Links
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