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Monday Links: It’s a S’more on a Stick!

by Whitney Kimball on December 1, 2014

Hans Ulrich Obrist gets a New Yorker profile, with the subheading “The curator who talked his way to the top”. In a nutshell, yep. More on this after I actually read the piece. (This was just published). [New Yorker]
OH COME ON. A video of the cronut guy now unveils his latest invention, a “frozen s’more”. “If you push yourself beyond what you know, you always end up with something unique and special.” Cue footage of the s’more on a stick. Phillip Niemeyer, you have work to do. [New Yorker]
Holy shit. Shia LaBeouf was raped in an art gallery by a crazy woman during his performance “#IAMSORRY”. [Vulture]
Holy shit. Piers Morgan calls LaBeouf “pathetic” for coming forward, and accuses him of lying, on no basis. [Twitter via The Independent]
Ben Fino-Radin is working on a “massive” JODI project in Rotterdam, two years after their retrospective at the Museum of Moving Image, curated by Michael Connor. [Twitter]
Ebola is sweeping Sierra Leone, “with the number of cases quintupling in Freetown alone in the past two months”. [The Guardian]
An ancient device used to calculate astrological motion, and created in around 60 BC, is described as a “forerunner to computers”. It had over 30 gears. [IFL Science, via Carla Gannis]
The online art seller 20×200 has a Cyber Monday sale! Patrons who spend over $100 get 30% off. [20×200, via Corinna Kirsch]
Plus, there’s our own Cyber Monday sale. Any donation over $50 earns you a panda pasties print. We’ve only got 75 of these puppies, so donate now. [Art F City]
Overworked Thai farmers are taking meth to keep working.[Al Jazeera, via Marina Galperina]

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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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Wednesday Links: Stop Taking Credit for “Post-Internet”

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 15, 2014

Of all the responses in Karen Archey and Robin Peckham’s Art Post-Internet catalogue questionnaire about the term, my favorite comes from Christiane Paul, who corrects the idea that Marisa Olson coined “Post-Internet.” Josephine Berry Slater talked about post-internet art two years earlier in 2003 during her introduction at a symposium at Tate. Paul also refutes the idea that the term will have any longevity. Post-Medium says the same thing, but with less confusion. [Art F City]
Apparently, exercise makes you live longer. Who knew? This article describes the importance of one’s “fitness age,” which, unlike your chronological age, can be lowered. [The New York Times]
A profile on Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, a performance artist whose film “Hermitos Children 2” includes a scene in which a man has his penis strung up in a noose by a boatload of women. The scene was improvised. [Time Out]
Because husky puppies are cute. [@HereBeHuskies]
Because dogs trying to smile is cute. (Thanks you, Here Be Huskies.) [Bark Post]
We’re getting excited about the Pratt Upload conference! Alex Teplitzky is DJing the Art F City-sponsored after party at the Emerson this Saturday. Here’s the soundcloud preview he made for the party. [Nabocough]
The greatest hoodie ever made costs $89.00. Sales are through the roof, thanks to a Slate article. [Business Insider]
Skate’s Reports has produced a London auction preview for ARTnews. At what point does Sergey Skaterschikov’s investments compete with one another? Redline, the Russian company with a stake in artnet that Skate’s is advising, seemingly competes with Artnews, which owned by Skate’s Capital. Skate’s Capital also owns a stake in Paddle8 that seemingly competes with artnet. Is the point to assemble one giant conglomerate? [ARTnews]
Eight-year-old nails the Patrick Swayze half of the Dirty Dancing finale. We are led to believe that this is entirely learned from watching the movie a handful of times, which seems impossible. Somebody enroll the boy in a dance class. [Gawker]
A British parrot went missing for four years and returned speaking Spanish. [The Daily Breeze]
Wall Street plummets. [New York Times]