- A tiger and goat friendship may be over after a rift developed over the goat’s constant head butting of the tiger. Amur, the tiger, eventually lost patience with Timur, the goat, and grabbed him by his withers and tossed him. They have since been separated. [CBC]
- A show of garbs for plus-sized women through out history. [Hyperallergic]
- Paul Bronfman, a big donor of York University’s cinema and media arts programme is threatening to withdraw thousands from their Cinema and Media Arts program due to a mural critical of the state of Israel, which could be catastrophic. York has a long history of Israel/Palestine politics. [The Toronto Star]
- An Israeli right-wing group IM Tirtzu is using a billboard campaign to label several Israeli cultural figures as “leftwing moles,” and “infiltrators inside [Israeli] culture.” They have also published a blacklist of 117 artists, writers, performers and intellectuals who oppose Israel’s presence in the West Bank. [artnet News]
- An interview with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas P. Campbell about the opening of their new contemporary art building, (the former Whitney building). They talk about accessibility, diversity amongst staff, and its relationship to Central Park (they want a bigger one. [Culture: High & Low]
- This Artists Space exhibition by Cameron Rowland sounds amazing. The show looks like a minimalist arrangement of found scrap metal, but are actually parts made by inmates in California prison systems. [The New York Times]
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