You know, just a guy in a whale suit.
- Because some artists and galleries have no ethical qualms about posting hacked female nudes, there will be an art exhibition about them. [SF Gate]
- John Herrman at the Awl gifts a new phrase to the world, “take time.” Use this quip whenever the Internet overreacts to a single event, i.e. nude leak 2014. “Hey, guys, it’s everyone’s ‘take time.’” [The Awl]
- Researchers have found that roughly half the viking remains they studied were female. Apparently, previous to this, nobody thought to check the gender. [Tor]
- Comedian Joan Rivers has died. [The New York Times]
- Never afraid to offend, Joan Rivers tells jokes about the Holocaust and her vagina ring, just months ago on The Tonight Show. Host Jimmy Fallon ends the interview by asking Rivers if she’s afraid of death. [YouTube]
- Joan Rivers and a Dr. Who joke. [Imgur]
- This month’s Brooklyn Rail’s Critic’s Page is devoted to feminism. [Brooklyn Rail]
- Margaret Atwood has become the first contributor Norway’s Future Library, a project by artist Katie Paterson. Every year until 2114, the library will invite one author to contribute a work. In 2114, trees that Paterson planted this summer will be cut down so the work can be printed. [The Guardian]
- Procrastinate, for science. Whale.fm crowdsources labor for matching whale calls, to help scientists start to decipher the dialect of Pilot Whales. Try to match the sound in the center of the screen to one of the sound files below. If it’s a match, click the checkmark that pops up next to the audio clip. [Whale.fm]
- Randy Kennedy has a nice interview with artist Pierre Huyghe—who “fits into the tidy mold of a museum retrospective about as comfortably as a monkey fits into a dress”—prior to his first Stateside retrospective, set to open November 23 at LACMA. Haha, Randy. [The New York Times]
- Artists beware. Bert Kreuk has sued Danh Vo for 1.2 million because he failed to deliver a work worth $350,000 for an exhibition of Kreuk’s collection. The rest of the money is for “damage to his reputation and lost profit.” Collector Alain Servais has suggested over Twitter that Vo may be refusing to deliver the work because Kreuk is “an art-flipper more toxic than [Stefan] Simchowitz” [artnet News]
- White guys in power weigh in on graffiti (again). “I find it outrageous that one of the city’s museums is currently celebrating graffiti and what a great impact it had on the city,” says Police chief William Bratton. “The young people who invented this style didn’t have access to art supplies,” says Jeffrey Deitch. “They didn’t have a garage at home where they could work on canvases. They had the streets.” This is so so so so so stupid. [artnet News]
