Artist rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge Park by the Bjarke Ingels Group (Image credit:New York Times)
- Prepare to be amazed, or offended. Lizzie Widdicombe profiled entrepreneur Bryan Goldberg on his latest multi-million dollar start up, Bustle, a news and culture blog written by women, for women. He seems to be an odd choice for knowing what women want: “I don’t have a lot of overlapping interests with most women my age. I’m really into history. I’m really into markets and finance.” [The New Yorker]
- “The core questions around the picture have little to do with the rapid technological changes that take place … For this exhibition, I avoided using any recent technology precisely for these reasons.” Beryl Gilothwest interviews Elad Lassry on his just-opened show at 303 Gallery; it’s a good read, if a bit upsetting that he doesn’t identify technology’s place in photography today. [Art in America]
- If you’ve spent any time in Chicago, you’re familiar with painter Ray Yoshida who taught at the School of the Art Institute up until 2005. His entire home collection of outsider art, comics, thrift store tchotchkes, and all other types of weird ephemera, is now on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. [John Michael Kohler Arts Center]
- Let us once again welcome “Autumn Man” to New York. [The Onion]
- Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), has proposed building a giant triangular platform that juts out from The Brooklyn Bridge Park. All they need is the Public Design Commission’s go-ahead and $8 million in privately raised funds. This architecture firm makes great projects—let’s do this. [The New York Times]
- Artist Malte Wandel has been documenting Ghanaian street style in a series titled Please Don’t Smile. [The Huffington Post]
- Hard to believe that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford even has an election gear to move into post crack-smoking scandal, but read the headline and prepare for puzzlement. [The Toronto Star]
