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- Spend time daydreaming about floating around in this pool-aquarium. [Reddit]
- Well, the Republicans were victorious last night. [Politico]
- One of them is an 18-year-old. Either people have gone crazy, or there is some serious gerrymandering going on. [Mother Jones]
- Pot makes headway as the legal drug of choice in Oregon and Washington, DC! [Mother Jones]
- If the confused state of our nation makes you want to flee the country, try applying for a paid professional fellowship to Germany! Editor’s note: Art F City is not a partisan organization and views expressed by writers are their own. [Emerging Leaders of New York Arts]
- This comic’s for the language nerds. [XKCD]
- “They’re pushing prices and eliminating 99 percent of their audience,” said dealer Robert Landau, in attendance at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale in New York last night. [New York Times]
- The Hirshhorn Museum replaced their docent program with interns. [Washington Post Letters to the Editor]
- Ooohh. The story behind the CIA funding the animated-film version of Animal Farm. [The Telegraph]
- Just when you thought public art couldn’t get any worse, celebrities have designed Paddington Bear sculptures on display throughout London. Kate Moss decked out the bear in an all-gold ensemble. [The Guardian]
- AFC’s Whitney Kimball was lucky enough to sit down with Suzanne Seesman at Philadelphia’s artist-run magazine The Nicola Midnight St. Claire. We talk about whether seriousness, and separating art into medium-specific categories, help art (I think mostly not) and art world elitism. What would make the art world a better place? More artist-critics like the ones at The St. Claire. [The Nicola Midnight St. Claire]
- The ULTIMATE sinister gentrification story: The developer G&M Realty, who are in the process of tearing down the historic graffiti landmark 5Pointz, want to piggyback on the historic significance of that site by trademarking the name “5Pointz.” Oh, but guess what, community? They’re throwing in a developer-sanctioned graffiti wall! [Hyperallergic via DNAinfo]
