- What does Google’s decision to make its photo-editing software free have to do with Susan Sontag? Quite a bit, apparently. Om Malik muses on the ubiquity of digital images and their new home on “The Cloud” and social media as opposed to fussy “objects” of consideration and control. The piece is from a few months ago, but it’s a good read and has resurfaced on Facebook/Twitter. [The New Yorker]
- Hype over LA’s booming art scene may be outpacing actual support for the arts. Some Los Angeles-based collectors, gallerists, and consultants worry that speculation about the city’s newfound place as an art capital might be its undoing—an influx of pricey galleries, rising rents, and a focus on salability over connoisseurship seem to be growing faster than the city’s relatively small collector base. But the artists seem happier than in New York, and maybe that’s more important? [ART news]
- Rebecca Moss signed up for an artist-in-residence program on a cargo ship owned by a shipping line that’s now $900 million in debt and barred from docking at most ports. They’re pretty much stranded in international waters until an East Asian port will accept their cargo and allow them to restock food and water. Late capitalism is so weird! [Hyperallergic]
- Ecosia is a search engine that uses its ad revenue for reforestation projects. I switched my default search engine a few days ago and it’s pretty much exactly like Google, but apparently I’ve already done enough browsing to plant 8 trees. I’m equally impressed and disturbed by that. Regardless, I recommend it! [Ecosia]
- “Maybe it is a silly example, but when you go to Ikea, when you walk through the trajectory, there is always something that is pulling you to go to the next step. But in exhibitions there is often no visual clarity, so you go around, and maybe there is something here and here, but the pieces don’t gel.” -Till Fellrath, one half of curatorial duo Art Reoriented, on accessibility and his practice with collaborator Sam Bardaouil. [The New York Times]
- The 9/11 Museum is opening its first art exhibition to mark the 15th anniversary of the attacks. [USA Today]
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