TIME Magazine cover with backdrop (Image via Matthew Leifheit)
- TIME’s person of the year cover looks like concept art for a Pope Francis video game. It was created by Chicago-based artist Jason Seiler, “a classically trained oil painter who recently taught himself to paint digitally on a 21-inch LCD display”. [TIME]
- An investigation ensued after a drunken wedding partier stole a nude bar painting hanging over the urinal of The Citizen Bar; it turns out the painting of a nude woman riding a cigar was valuable, and the guilt was eating the thief alive. The painting will be re-attached to the wall alongside a letter from the thief “I will never again get drunk at a wedding and steal the Naked Cigar Picture above the urinal in the Citizen Hotel,” over and over. [Sactown Mag]
- “Uptalk” is the name of the Valley Girl accent we all have now. [Today, via the awl]
- The New Yorker’s 13 most-read blog posts of 2013 CLICK IT>> [New Yorker]
- God it’s been six months since the news broke and there is still nothing I want to see less than “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic”. [WSJ]
- Mother Jones’ Best Hate-Reads of 2013 includes all the latest classics, but it’s mostly adults hating on millennials for not having jobs. Boy, do we have an art component for this series. [Mother Jones]
- Final Deadline is tonight for the Camera Club of New York’s 2014 Darkroom Residency applications. It’s free to apply, and winners get studio access, darkroom privileges and a stipend in addition to a show. [CCNY]
- This photo and story from NPR’s photo blog is pretty damn cute. [Picture Show] [via my mom}
Santa the Hutt, via Artinfo
- Hundreds of San Francisco families have been bonding over an humongous drunk and obese “Santa the Hutt” sculpture and window display at Betabrand. Ben Sutton has the full story and slideshow. [Artinfo]
- After a steady series of firings and resignations of department directors, El Museo del Barrio’s chief curator Chus Martinez announced that she’s also leaving. Julia Halperin has the full story. [TAN]
- Pedro Velez is not happy. [twitter]
