by Paddy Johnson and Anthony Hicks on January 27, 2014
Good morning everyone! Welcome to a day of schizophrenic weather (it’s warm now, but not for long), and random links. Let’s get to ’em!
- We had a great conversation about the Mike Kelley retrospective at P.S.1 with Twitter folk. I am no fan of that show. [Twitter]
- Q. When is an Uber car not an Uber car? A. When it runs over a child. [Bits via: @KarrieUrbanist]
- Arts journalists need support. Sarah Kent writes about this year’s Art Foundation Awards (which will be announced this Thursday), which for the first time will award a writing prize. Times for writers, she thinks, are brutal. [BBC]
- Tom Perkins, a founding member of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal, to lament the public criticism of the “one percent”. Apparently, this kind of criticism is similar to the Nazi attacks on the Jews. Cue the Internet outrage. Paul Krugman responds best to this one. [The New York Times]
- A car bomb explodes outside of Cairo’s museums, destroying precious antiquities. The last line of the article also notes the death of at least four people and the injury of more than 70. [The Art Newspaper via: Dan Duray]
- Is Jay Z a creepy monster? [Salon]
- Poop fetishes and used tampons stole the show at Sundance this year. Must have been one hell of an after party. [Vulture]
- A fantastic piece by David Carr on Ezra Klien’s departure from the Washington Post, and the uniqueness of digital publishing. For the media nerd readers. [The New York Times]
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Paddy Johnson, Editorial Director
