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by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on June 2, 2014
- Discovery Times Square’s newest tourist-bait exhibit: Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. [amNewYork]
- “Corporate spiritualism” artist Kevin Bewersdorf who once erased all his artwork from the Internet, returns with a new website full of very zen GIFs. [Rhizome]
- “Do you think he had any idea how much and how many people loved him?” Artist B. Wurtz remembers Feature Inc.’s Hudson, “an almost impossibly pure form of art dealer.” [Artforum]
- New Orleans shutters the last of its public schools, switching over to an independently operated charter school system. [Washington Post]
- Um, so there’s a street artist that’s spraypainting dog poop. He goes by the moniker “Gold Poo,” referring to the gold spray paint he uses. [The Brooklyn Paper]
- Here’s a solution to inequality: let’s run around the city on a treasure hunt for hidden money! A San Francisco real estate developer felt sorry for profiting off out-of-control rents and has been tweeting clues to envelopes with $100 in them. A copycat has come to New York @HiddenCash_NYC; maps and clues will be posted once a week and we will be following. [SF Gate]
- Does The NYPL’s storage plan make sense to anybody? The Library President Anthony Marx says that books will remain in storage because “bringing the stacks up to code” would be much too costly, at $46 million. And yet, the original plan was estimated to run at around $500 million with potential to rise much higher. Nobody suing the Library understood why the stacks needed to be updated in the first place, as they were built with Carnegie Steel and are a cornerstone of the building. Did the Library throw books away? [New York Times]
- Adult Magazine’s roundtable discussion on vulgarity features artist Marilyn Minter. [Adult Magazine]
- Drew Daniel, an electronic multi-instrumentalist, Matmos member, and avowed metalhead talks about queerness and The Soft Pink Truth in Pitchfork. It’s a very smart interview. [Pitchfork via @heartasarena]
- Cute baby puffins are dying! [Mother Jones]
- Andrea K. Scott reviews the latest High Line exhibition, Archeo, which, in typical High Line fashion, includes sculpture you’ll have to search for amid the well-manicured green. She mentions that some works resemble plop art—they are “guilty of plopping.” [The New Yorker]
- If you’re an artist walking around Paris with a rooster tied to your penis, you will be charged with a crime. [Radio France Internationale]
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