- New York’s prison break gets an art twist. A prison guard allegedly swapped tools and other contraband with the two missing inmates for their works of art. [NBC NEWS]
- MTV is rebranding, and from the looks of the MTV UK clip reel on Motherboard, featuring clips by artists commissioned to make shorts, it looks very net art 2012. “There’s a clear sort of aesthetic that MTV is culturing: pastel-swatched, bad 3D modeling, and visual features drawn directly from Tumblr-born microcultures.” [Motherboard]
- Nothing to do with art, but wtf, it’s Friday: The article “Growing Older With Madonna” over at the Times has been filling up our internets. The author finds queasy fascination with the 57-year-old’s refusal to act her age. Doesn’t this seem like another press cycle though? In the 90s she suffered backlash because she wouldn’t stop taking her clothes off, left the eye of the press to have some kids, and when she returned, was lauded for presenting a more “mature” look, i.e., not taking her clothes off. Now she’s doing it again and people are surprised? [The New York Times]
- Horses! Before Gavin Brown’s Enterprise bids adieu to its West Village gallery, it’s full of horses, artist Jannis Kounellis’s “Untitled (12 Horses),” to be exact. Roberta Smith describes a room full of shitting horses as a “gift” to the art world. [The New York Times]
- Damn. Five museums run by the state of Illinois are preparing to close due to a budget stalemate. These include the Illinois State Museum in Springfield; the Dickson Mounds Museum and archaeological site in Lewiston; and three art galleries, Chicago and the affiliated artisans’ shop, the Lockport Gallery, and the Southern Illinois Art and Artisans Center at Rend Lake. Artworks and artifacts are currently in the process of being found new homes. [Chicago Tribune]
- A bonanza of good news from the Supreme Court. Yesterday, they ruled that health care subsidies should be allowed, as this was the original intention of congress. GOOD. Today, they legalized same-sex marriages across the country. [The Internet]
- A felony arrest warrant has been issued for Shepard Fairey who tagged properties in Detroit with his name. [Detroit Free Press]
- A history of butter sculpture in the United States. [NPR]
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