Artist Menja Stevenson wearing a dress to match the bus seats. Photo courtesy of the artist.
- Mind blown: the Olympics used to have medals for the arts!?! They stopped doing this in 1948, but how cool is that? [The Huffington Post]
- If you want to watch the Olympics in virtual reality, you can, if you care about sports, own a $99 Samsung Gear headset, and download an app. [USA Today]
- This cat is having a no-good, existential crisis kind of day after ripping up a balloon. [Imgur]
- In our email inboxes: a note from SFMOMA that you can now purchase museum tickets online through January 2017. Are the lines really so long that tickets must be sought out so far in advance? Or does this just mean that museums are going the way of airlines, letting you plan out your vacation far, far in advance? [SFMOMA]
- The Jewish Museum launches its first Kickstarter campaign today. The museum has set a goal of $30,000 for their fall exhibition, Take Me (I’m Yours), which will let visitors bring home artist-produced takeaways, like temporary tattoos by Lawrence Weiner or air dispensers (not sure what that will look like) by Yoko Ono. 400,000 of these small editions will be made in total. [Kickstarter]
- Despite market turbulence, Sotheby’s actually saw an increase in year-to-year profits. This is mostly due to cost-cutting within the auction house. Sotheby’s CEO, Thomas Smith, identifies “a paradox” wherein there’s still demand from collectors for high-value works in a financially uncertain time, but that sellers are holding out and restricting sales volume because they believe this isn’t the best time to sell. Dear collectors, please consider putting more of that pent-up purchasing power into the primary market. [Business Insider]
- Today marks the two-year anniversary of Michael Brown in Ferguson, and with it, the growth of #blacklivesmatter. [The Root]
- This piece about why fabric on public transportation is so ugly is surprisingly a really interesting read. It even touches on the work of artist Menja Stevenson, who dressed herself to match different transit lines. [BBC]
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