Installation view of Egress at K. Image: Paddy Johnson
- New York Magazine’s website became the victim of a denial of service attack last night by someone named “ThreatKing.” He claims to hate New York City—he once had a bad vacation here—and has more hacks in store. The website has been down since last night and is still not running. They had just published a story that included 35 different accounts by women who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby. [The Daily Dot]
- It’s 1996. The best techno DJ goes by the name “Cyberstorm,” dresses up like a robot, and Christina Applegate likes him. Okay, that’s just the premise of Vibrations, a movie about a rock-star without hands who reinvents himself as a DJ. [YouTube]
- Art Basel launches a new website. New functions include a social one, where you can “favorite” works of art from galleries participating at the art fair. Could this advertising be a way for Art Basel to monetize its online presence? [Art Basel]
- On July 24, a fire swept through the building housing Chicago’s artist-run space the Hills Esthetic Center. They’re currently accepting donations. A note from Facebook: “The group of us at The Hills pretty much lost everything, all of the art we made, collected and housed for nearly 10 years is completely gone, as well as tools, electronics, computers, hard drives, cash, all of our clothes and thousands of hours of love//labor…. We are going to plan a fundraiser sometime soon, but in the meantime we are accepting donations to help in the immediate term with things like clothes and shoes, if you have an extra bike or an old laptop or things like that we would love you even more forever.” [The Hills]
- Yay! Now you have more time to check out Egress, the last show at K., and one of the most compelling installations we’ve seen this summer. The exhibition has been extended to August 7. [K.]
- Kanye West announces he would trade two Grammies to be seen in an art context at Steve McQueen’s opening at LACMA. [W Magazine]
- If you buy commercial pet food for your pet there’s a good chance the fish in it comes from slave labor. Horrific stories detailed in this Times special report. [The New York Times]
- And following up on another Times special report, here’s an op-ed piece about what the paper got wrong in their story about the terrible conditions for workers in New York nail salons. It’s written by someone in the nail industry. [The New York Review of Books]
- The art collector Henry Bloch gave the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City a large gift of paintings. The museum replaced the works of art with prints of the paintings so that Block could hang them in his house. [KCUR]
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