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by Michael Anthony Farley on October 28, 2015
- As if everyone didn’t already think of Berlin as paradise,“Naked Boys Reading” will take place there tomorrow. Which, for clarification, appears to comprise attractive men reading things naked. [iHeartBerlin]
- Money may be an obsolete concept in the evolved, post-capitalist, interplanetary society of the 24th century, but today is a different story. Wil Wheaton (of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame) sounds off about how sites like The Huffington Post should actually pay contributors. On behalf of writers everywhere, thanks. [WilWheaton.net]
- Religious fundamentalists smuggling looted antiquities from the Middle East? Nope, this story isn’t about ISIS—it’s about the Green family, owners of the birth-control-hating-craft-store-chain Hobby Lobby. They’re using their fortune and questionable scruples to construct the Museum of the Bible a block or two from the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Customs agents seized between 200 and 300 cuneiform tablets that appear to have been illegally imported for the endeavor. [The Art Newspaper]
- This is so, so great. Goldsmiths—the London art school that launched the YBAs to fame—has announced that it is giving away six scholarships to asylum seekers in light of the refugee crisis. [ARTnews]
- Speaking of art schools and displaced people, the Pratt Institute is evicting its 79 year old head engineer from campus housing, where he has lived since 1967. That is truly terrible. Can you imagine trying to find a Brooklyn apartment after 50 years? [Gothamist]
- WHOA. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is being rebooted as a television show on FOX starring actress/activist Laverne Cox. SO MANY MIXED EMOTIONS. [Blouin Artinfo]
- The Denver Art Museum has a long history of collecting and exhibiting Native American artwork, now they’re trying to highlight contemporary Native American artists. One interesting challenge? Crediting individual artists in their legacy collection, rather than identifying artworks by tribal origin, as museums have done historically. [The New York Times]
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