- Fashion fans rejoice! The U.S. Army has unveiled its new Fall/Winter collection. Although you’ll have to wait for the autumn for it to become standard issue, select military retailers are offering preview sales of the highly-anticipated line starting July 1st. [US Army]
- Legal battles over holograms plague two of the burgeoning “let’s project dead music and TV stars” industry. Plans for a Liberace tour are in the works. [The Hollywood Reporter]
- The world taxidermy championships were held last month in Springfield Missouri last month. Topics covered in this video: an increase in female competitors, likeness and/or realness, and the winners. [The New York Times]
- Does anyone else find this bunny named Wally slightly disturbing? [Gawker]
- A police shooting of a black bear in Newmarket Ontario has sparked outrage. It wandered into someone’s back yard. [The Toronto Star]
- Leaked emails for failed superhero movies provide a glimpse into why we rarely have any female-led movies: writers can’t come up with any good boyfriends for them. Malcolm Harris hits the nail on the head with this problem: “Female superheroes are stuck in a narrative Catch-22: Their only suitable romantic partners are male superheroes, but male superheroes don’t play substantial supporting roles.” A solution? “If superhero movies need an at least plausible romance, the recipe won’t work for women. The masters of formulaic narrative need a new formula.” Duh. I, for one, think I could write up an awesome Rogue movie, but that might need to be one for the fan-fiction bin. (Corinna) [Al Jazeera America]
- Not online yesterday? One meme you may have missed pre-Caitlyn Jenner, was the Shia Le green screen that led to many an inspired knock off. Even if Shia LaBeouf’s performance-art antics make you cringe, this collab between the rat-tailed actor and undergrad students at Central St. Martins in London is better than you might think. [The original, some memes]
- The new ICA in Miami hosts an exhibition curated by the Little Haiti gallery Guccivuitton. Given the ICA’s digs in the increasingly high-end-retail-focused Design District, the name is too perfect. Also perfect: curatorial decisions like installing works behind large sheets of glass to mimic the area’s familiar pastime of window shopping for something you can’t afford. [Miami New Times]
- Lights of Soho, a new gallery in London, has an all-neon exhibition including work from Tracey Emin. Apparently their basement is also a member’s-only club with secret VIP events. Why does this place sound like a Chicks on Speed song? [Time Out London]
- More than one-third of museum directors are aged 60 or over, according to a survey of 150 US museums published by the Economist last month. This means a lot of them are going to retire soon. Julia Halperin has the story. [The Art Newspaper]
- Olafur Eliasson’s new High Line exhibition sounds fun: visitors are invited to construct a collaborative cityscape out of thousands of white Legos. A group of starchitects were invited to contribute their own fantasy creations to get the project started. Interestingly, it looks like Rem Koolhaas resurrected his plans for his unbuilt “polite” tower that would’ve cantilevered out of the way so as to not block a neighboring building’s views and referenced the classic Manhattan “wedding cake” skyscraper. That building was one of the few casualties of the recession that would’ve been a great addition to the cityscape. [Dezeen]
- Uh, oh! In news that should come as shocking to absolutely no one, apparently Shell tried to influence the content of a recent exhibition on climate change at London’s Science Museum. The first red flag probably should have been the fact that an oil company was sponsoring an exhibition about climate change. [The Guardian]
- A related story: Let’s all stop letting oil companies boost their public image with arts sponsorship. [The Guardian]
Tuesday Links: Camouflage of the Future, Hologram Legal Troubles, Superhero Romance Problems
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