- Luxury Yacht Party on the Hudson! You get great views, climate controlled decks, and “the look, feel and sound of a real night club”. [Amazon Local]
- This week in totally insane articles, a feature on kids who do extreme sports and their parents. Jett, who is 7 years old, has had “about 10 concussions and five seizures, has broken six bones and has had his spleen punctured twice. His father is O.K. with that. “That’s his choice, if he wants to do it again,” Geoff says. “I’ll never tell him no.”” [The New York Times]
- A new digital landscape: 18 artists profiled, almost all women of color, by Kimberly Drew. [The Walker]
- Jeffrey Kindle’s poem “Surrounded by Disturbing Art” offers a trigger warning to museum-goers. [The New York Times]
- The New York Botanical Garden’s tribute to Frida Kahlo opens this weekend. The exhibition pairs a garden inspired by Kahlo’s Casa Azul with a selection of the artist’s flora-inspired paintings and drawings. There’s also a pyramid involved. [Hyperallergic]
- “Why is everyone making a dot?” asks a Frieze attendee—echoing our question earlier this week. The love affair with all art dot-related has reached a new milestone: Leonardo DiCaprio was taken with Jonathan Horowitz’s latest dot-centric project at the fair. [ARTnews]
- Ta-Nehishi Coates writes that while President Obama is quick to note the moral failings of the black community —absentee fathers who need to put the x-boxes away—but less quick to note the failings of our government. The reason, says, Coates: votes. [The Atlantic]
Thursday Links: Why Is Everyone Making a Dot?
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on May 14, 2015 Massive Links
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