This GIF was originally used in the Awl Newsletter, which says that although you are running in circles, it is important to ask “Are you having fun? Are you with a friend.?” Corinna Kirsch forwarded this to us with the thought, “Although these corgis are supposed to be motivational, I am fairly certain they’re just running around in circles. They never ever stop, so that’s an important work ethic to have, I guess?”
- The artist Not Vital just bought an actual castle in the Swiss Alps for $8 million. [Artforum]
- Oh, to be the billionaire who paid $2.5 million for a Lichtenstein back in 1994 with his American Express card. (Now it’s valued at $50 million.) The Eli Broad content farm continues: he’s a Medici, he’s the white knight, and he’s making all the NYC galleries come to town. [Bloomberg]
- Last week, a glitch at Google Maps gave Los Angeles residents a preview of what the coastline will look like post-sea-level-rise. [Mic]
- I’m very impressed with this straight-forward, gourmand description of All Dressed chips, a Canadian staple now available for a limited time to Americans: “they’re made with paprika and a mysterious All Dressed spice blend…these chips taste a little bit like ketchup, vinegar and BBQ mixed together.” [Huffington Post]
- “Does Massimiliano Gioni Know Anything About Women?” is a strange way to headline a positive review that never asks the question. The piece is an exhaustive look at Gioni’s encyclopedic show “The Great Mother” at the Palazzo Reale in Milan—the clickbait headline diminishes the work of the review. [artnet News (who else?)]
- Think Red Bull is a somewhat benevolent corporate sponsor for the arts? Think again, especially now they have an exhibition in Philly forcing artists to create work out of their cans. [Philly.com]
- Absolutely tasteless: Charlie Hebdo mocks the drowning Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdis. [NDTV]
- Jason Farago reviews the Tate’s “World Goes Pop” survey of pop art made from a global perspective. He discusses how Brazilian pop was more agit-pop, especially in the context of the dictatorship of the Brazilian military regime, and reflected a moment when artists and musicians were imprisoned (Caetano Veloso) or forced into exile (Antonio Dias) for opposing the censorship. [The Guardian]
- Carol Diehl complains that critics are writing negative reviews about Banksy’s Dismaland without having seen it. She plans to fix the problem by heading out there herself. Sure, it’s good to see things in the flesh, but I don’t believe you have to see everything in the flesh to know it isn’t any good. Certainly, we get enough terrible blind submissions in around here to know we’d be wasting our time confirming their terribleness in person. But, I guess when a more thorough trashing is due, it’s time to head out to Dismaland. [Art Vent]
- D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts is launching a fall initiative to discuss gender parity and social issues in the art world—a topic described as “the elephant in the room”. Women, Arts, and Social Change will feature talks from artists including Carrie Mae Weems, critic Jillian Steinhauer, and vice president/partner at Galerie Lelong to name a few. The event is organized by curator Maura Reilly. [artnet News]
- Here’s a history of color for the painters out there. [Imgur]
- Those of us who don’t have right-wing friends in our social media networks have probably missed the flood of insane racist memes “warning” Europeans about asylum-seeking refugees from Syria. Here’s a debunking of the most popular ones—which usually require little more than reverse-image-search to invalidate. [VICE]
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