- What is going on in this video of a giant puppet’s detached genitalia dancing with children and spraying audience members with pee? Apparently, this a piece entitled “Everybody” by the Australian collective [Snuff Puppets].
- Adrian Chen writes a story on Russian troll farms only to find himself caught up in their web. Note to self: Never sit down with a source’s brother who looks like a neo-Nazi skin head. [The New York Times Magazine]
- David Byrne on contemporary society’s obsession with all things curatorial: “Why this insistent emphasis on choices and filtering now? It’s obvious: when everything is available, within reach, accessible, the problem becomes not one of scarcity but of abundance.” [New Statesman]
- Harry Beck’s original London Underground map is one of the most iconic, successful, and influential diagrams in the history of graphic design. But as London grows, has the once-elegant design gotten too cluttered? Between a mess of fare zones and the addition of new services such as light rail, the Overground, and even a cable car critics claim the map is starting to lose legibility. Londoners, if you want to fall back in love with your tube map, spend a day staring at NYC’s. [City Lab]
- The New York Botanical Garden’s Frida Kahlo exhibition will soon include light projections by Jenny Holzer. What? We assume the greenery was good enough on its own. (AFC’s Michael Anthony Farley has the review of Kahlo’s show, minus the Holzer.) [Observer]
- Wow, MoMA has some gall. In the midst of fundraising enormous sums of money for an atrium no one but their board members likes, they hope to cut employee health benefits. Ew. [Hyperallergic]
- The Art Law Report brings a lawyer’s clarity to the Richard Prince/Suicide Girls debate on “copyright.” Guess what? Copyright is not the same as public domain. “Instagram photos are not in the public domain. The public domain applies to works over which no copyright exists. The ease with which something can be copied has nothing to do with whether it is in the public domain. If what Prince is doing is acceptable it is as a fair use under the statute, not because of a lack of copyright in the first instance.” [Art Law Report]
- Did anyone else find Gawker’s post on Fusion’s traffic numbers, “More People Work at Fusion Than Are Reading Its Most Popular Post,” a bit confusing? The fact that 32 people are viewing a single post is brought up, but without saying if that’s how many people are viewing a post at a single second, minute, or hour. [Gawker]
- Florida man’s conceptual art piece has his neighbors confused and angry. Piotr Janowsky has wrapped his house and several surrounding trees in aluminum foil. People are not happy about it. [Orlando Weekly via Bmore Art]
Wednesday Links: Children Love Pee Spray?
by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on June 3, 2015 Massive Links
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