- Hans Ulrich Obrist gets a New Yorker profile, with the subheading “The curator who talked his way to the top”. In a nutshell, yep. More on this after I actually read the piece. (This was just published). [New Yorker]
- OH COME ON. A video of the cronut guy now unveils his latest invention, a “frozen s’more”. “If you push yourself beyond what you know, you always end up with something unique and special.” Cue footage of the s’more on a stick. Phillip Niemeyer, you have work to do. [New Yorker]
- Holy shit. Shia LaBeouf was raped in an art gallery by a crazy woman during his performance “#IAMSORRY”. [Vulture]
- Holy shit. Piers Morgan calls LaBeouf “pathetic” for coming forward, and accuses him of lying, on no basis. [Twitter via The Independent]
- Ben Fino-Radin is working on a “massive” JODI project in Rotterdam, two years after their retrospective at the Museum of Moving Image, curated by Michael Connor. [Twitter]
- Ebola is sweeping Sierra Leone, “with the number of cases quintupling in Freetown alone in the past two months”. [The Guardian]
- An ancient device used to calculate astrological motion, and created in around 60 BC, is described as a “forerunner to computers”. It had over 30 gears. [IFL Science, via Carla Gannis]
- The online art seller 20×200 has a Cyber Monday sale! Patrons who spend over $100 get 30% off. [20×200, via Corinna Kirsch]
- Plus, there’s our own Cyber Monday sale. Any donation over $50 earns you a panda pasties print. We’ve only got 75 of these puppies, so donate now. [Art F City]
- Overworked Thai farmers are taking meth to keep working.[Al Jazeera, via Marina Galperina]
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