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- Free beer and seltzer has been promised at the Art Handler’s Happy Hour, organized by the Art Handler’s Alliance of New York, a working group to discuss fair wages and health care within the field. [Art Handler’s Alliance of New York]
- Despite the sad news of a shooting that killed two at Drake’s OVO festival afterparty, Toronto city councillor Norm Kelly — who gained 65,000 followers for tweeting his support for Drake in the midst of his Meek Mill beef — finally got the #6ix shout-out he deserved. [Twitter]
- The art-loan industry has become a $10-billion business. Companies like Borro, which has begun advertising on the New York subways, offers to loan up to 70 percent of an artwork’s value—as long as the company has rights to sell the work. Isn’t this what pawn shops do? [The Art Newspaper]
- Bodegas in New York are going out of business as rent increases and the Times is on it. [The New York Times]
- “We did plan to do a museum about social history of women but as the project developed we decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper.” What was begun as the “first women’s museum in the UK” turned out to be called the “Jack the Ripper Museum.” [London Evening Standard]
- After running for four years on volunteer support, the women’s nonprofit Ada Initiative is shutting down. Committed to improving diversity in tech, the organization will be open-sourcing its programs, like the Ally Skills Workshop. [The Daily Dot]
- “How hard is it to portray a three-dimensional woman of color on television or in film? I’m surrounded by them.” Times staff writer Jenna Wortham profiles Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl creator Issa Rae, currently in the midst of developing a HBO pilot. [New York Times Magazine]
- You think making a life in art is hard? David Byrne opines on how the lack of transparency in the music industry makes it easy for big companies to gouge musicians even though more people are listening to music than ever before. [Sunday Review]
- If Wendy stands correct, it appears tuition for an American MFA can be won by rolling up the rim of a Tim Horton’s coffee cup. [The Hairpin]
- A rediscovery of artifacts from 1925 in a Hamburg museum reveals the artistic power of two dancers, Walter Holdt and Lavinia Schulz, who dedicated themselves to mask making. Tragically, their marriage was strained due to philandry, and ultimately led to their untimely deaths. Anyway, now there’s an ebook on them. [UC Press Ebooks Collection]
- For the gamers who are sick of the simulator trend—recent games have let you play as everything from a truck driver to a goat—will find solace in the parody Twitter account “Simulator Generator 2014.” [Twitter]
- The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources. Surely this’ll be useful to everyone. [The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources]
- A last-minute summer-reading book to make you feel smarter about art and tech: Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art by Zabet Patterson. [Amazon]
