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Wednesday Links: 100 Years of Food

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Corinna Kirsch Marina Galperina on November 26, 2014

A decade and a half of Phillip Niemeyer’s “100 Years of Food”

In honor of the holiday, designer Phillip Niemeyer continues his “100 years of…” series with “100 years of food.” I love these. For the whole century, go to the Globe. [The Boston Globe]
Protests continue across the country in solidarity with Ferguson. [BBC]
Will Ferrell has been surprisingly vocal about his outrage over Twitter. We share this, because it’s unexpected. [Twitter]
Pitchfork just ClickHoled itself with these 2015 album reviews. [Pitchfork]
New York is going to get its first cat cafe on December 15, 2014. What does “cat cafe” mean? Eater interviews Christina Ha, co-founder of Meow Parlour. [Eater]
McDonald’s supports Greenpeace? [Twitter]
Can you separate Travis Kalanick, Uber founder, from his douchey comments, like that one time he told GQ he can get ladies as quickly as he can call an Uber—“yeah, we call that Boob-er”. [Modern Luxury]
Another paragon for the Caity Weaver canon: a lyrical analysis of Ariana Grande’s new song “Santa Tell Me,” which is about wanting to bone Santa. [Gawker]
There will officially be a sequel to Blade Runner, co-developed by Ridley Scott and Hampton Fancher. This is news to us. [Vulture]
Oh New York. “Alt” turkey dinners take turkey for a little spin. [Village Voice]
Trigger warning: this might make you throw up all over Thanksgiving. VICE covers British animals who are force fed meat, like this police horse. “[I]f there’s one thing that makes this great country peerless among our European counterparts, it’s our noble history of feeding shaking, industrially reared animals the reconstituted carcasses of their animal cousins.” [VICE]
The New York Times Editorial Board writes the best summary on this Ferguson bullshit and why we should be depressed. [The New York Times]

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Tuesday Links: We Woke Up to Fire

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Corinna Kirsch Marina Galperina on November 25, 2014

Barbara Kruger, Who is Beyond The Law

Malcolm X said it best #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/hjDxendkeQ

— Will Ferrell (@WillyFerrell) November 25, 2014

A reminder of the number of civilians shot by police in the U.S., as compared to officers other countries. In 2012, the States saw 409 deaths caused by police gunfire. [The Economist]
You can also watch the livestream and ongoing social media coverage of the riots in Ferguson, and nationwide, after the grand jury ruled in favor of Mike Brown’s killer. Brown’s family urges the public to push for police body cameras. [ANIMAL NewYork]
For the Twitter users amongst us: Follow Garance Franke-Ruta’s Ferguson list. And follow Visitor Design for critical commentary. [@thegarance]
The case for “war porn” photography. [Lens Blog]
Making art with seniors, and a papier mâché Jessica Rabbit. [Senior Moments: The Happy Ones!]
Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris among many other things, is really sad that the KGB wanted to use his speech recognition experiments to create “an audio system that would start recording automatically if and when certain keywords, deemed dangerous to the state or incriminating to the speaker, were uttered.” Sound familiar? [Motherboard]
Kevin Hearn, keyboardist for a band-you-might-remember called the Barenaked Ladies, has released a single called “Gallerina.” It’s about a painting that falls in love with a “gallerina” who is as graceful as a “ballerina.” What a rhyme! [Exclaim]
The first ever NYC Porn Film Festival is cumming to Bushwick. [Brokelyn]
Who wants to play dress up with famous philosopher Slavoj Žižek? [BuzzFeed]
To this day, no culprits have been apprehended in Chicago’s infamous TV-hacking incident from 1987. Remember Max Headroom? [Chicago Sun-Times]
Trolls, up your comeback game. Familiar unsubstantiated whining has been rolling in the comments section, this time from World of Warcraft players on Angela Washko’s Creative Time Report. Washko writes about two years of bringing feminism to WoW; according to commenters, she’s a lecturing feminist killjoy who’s interrupting your video game and she’s a BAD JOURNALIST. Also, she clearly didn’t put in enough playtime. Basically, trolls tell writers to stop nagging. [Creative Time Reports]
The New York Botanical Garden plans to recreate a version of Frida Kahlo’s garden, alongside a show of her botanical-themed paintings, such as her flower monsters. [Hyperallergic]
Did you know that all the women in Francesco Clemente paintings wear Manolo Blahniks? Thanks to Sotheby’s Lisa Dennison who sat for a portrait, we now know that Clemente would’ve been loved by the Sex and the City crowd. [Seen]
The Armory Show released its 2015 exhibitor list. [Art in America]
More internet dross: The art fair preview slide shows are starting. No link.
And on a lighter note, here’s the Art F City panda calendar in geometric abstraction form. Drag any image into Simplify That Shit and you too can have your very own modernist masterpiece. [Simplify That Shit]

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Monday Links: “Total Fucking Ken-Doll Sexuality”

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball Corinna Kirsch Marina Galperina on November 24, 2014

This is a tapeworm via The New Scientist

Wall Street and Silicon Valley companies pay their interns crazy salaries that are most of what we make in a year. According to vocativ, the global trading firm Jane Street pays interns ten thousand and four hundred dollars per month. Fitbit interns get $9.3 K. Killlll meeee. [Vocativ]
We get paid in tittie calendars. [Art F City]
“You will think of Matthew McConaughey every time you hear a google chat notification sound.” Alright. [YouTube]
Whoa. 40 years ago Lynda Benglis published her previously infamous, now famous dildo-wielding spread in Artforum. In an interview with Bard’s Tom Eccles, she says that Artforum editors and readers who were upset with her spread were “out of this century.” [Seen]
More Lynda. 26 female artists on the importance of the Artforum spread. (If you’re a man who’s ever been inspired by her advertisement, you should say so in our comments. Because why cis?) [Vulture]
The Swiss Kunstmuseum Bern has accepted a collection of 1,300 artworks from suspected Nazi looting. The museum claims that it will attempt to return the works to their rightful heirs. [Artnet News]
16 women, now, have publicly stated that Bill Cosby raped them, 12 of whom said he drugged them. The Washington Post has the definitive piece. [The Washington Post]
The Village Voice is probably right about half these so-called New York City scams, but one takeaway is don’t give to poors. Those subway kids making millions off your candy purchase? BUSTED. In other scams, there’s the “money first, keys later” Craigslist scam (legit) and the “melon drop scam” where you sell coveted melons to Japanese tourists (???). [Village Voice]
Hey, Tijuana gets its first-ever BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) event. BYOB arrives to the city at about the same time as a dolphin-eating whale—completely unrelated, we bet. [San Diego Reader]
The Grand Jury is expected to decide whether they’re going to indict Michael Brown’s murderer Darren Wilson today. [NBC]
Artprize Dallas blather has already begun. Here’s a writer who thinks the event will be really great but will it actually enlighten the Dallas art scene? We’ve got two years before we even begin to find out, but it’s never to early to start asking questions no one can answer. [The Dallas Observer]
Joerg Colberg says photography is plagued by “helicopterism”, a phenomenon in which photographers fly out to a location for a couple of days, shoot some dramatic shots, but without any deeper investigation. This term can be applied to photojournalism and fine art photography because it refers to depth of engagement not aerial photography. [CPH]
Rhizome interviews Huw Lemmey about his new work of Grindr-inspired fan fiction “Chubz: the Demonization of My Working Arse.” Lemmey hates hookup culture. “That’s the worst thing about public gay identity today; it’s total fucking Ken-doll sexuality, reasserting categories for behaviour and binaries, full of these aspirations for acceptance and assimilation with men like Sam Smith banging on about husbands and puppies. It’s boring and gross and violent.” [Rhizome]
How does Strand keep itself in business in the age of Amazon.com? Selling used books, non-books and catering to a very particular sort of buyers. “In the Hamptons, a wall of white books is a popular order.” [The Vulture]
Why is this tapeworm burrowing through a live person’s brain? *Spoiler alert* “Yum yum, brain fat.” [The New Scientist]

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