The loopy GIFs of Florian de Looij (via Boingboing)
- This is the most horrible story ever. Thousands of cats crammed into a truck were rescued from being eaten in Vietnam, then they were crushed to death in a dumper truck and the thousands of survivors were buried alive. Warning: the Daily Mail link is the worst. Going vegan now forever. [Thought Catalog]
- 86 seals have also been murdered (between 2009 and 2014) and washed up on the coast of Scotland. Seals are suspected of cannibalism. [Discovery]
- If you’re still wondering whether museums will ever embrace GIF art; yes. A roughly 3,300 square foot internet museum is being crowdfunded in Berlin. [artnet News]
- El Museo del Barrio curator Rocio Aranda-Alvarado spoke with three activists in the Bronx and said two of them hadn’t heard of the Gramsci Monument. That’s surprising considering how many people in Chelsea had. [A Blade of Grass]
- Yay for art news for finding an art hook in a story about a meth lab bust. An estimated $33,000 worth of prints by Alfred Morris Momaday were discovered there. [artnet News]
- Big new appointments at the Walton family’s enormous Crystal Bridges museums. Margaret C. Conrads is now the director of curatorial affairs, and Robin Groesbeck is the director of exhibitions and interactive presentations. [Artforum]
- What is life like inside Mosul, an Iraqi city captured by ISIS? A Syrian source reports and Molly Crabapple creates the illustrations. [Vanity Fair via Hyperallergic]
- The socially-conscious art conference Open Engagement returns, this year in Pittsburgh. We recommend strongly to get down there (see last year’s recap). [Open Engagement]
- The sound of a bag of weed opening during the opening of Terminator: thejogging, now in audio form. [thejogging (but sound)]
