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- The Bauhaus Ballet turns 100. I want all of these costumes. [Hint]
- People in Boyle Heights are really, really serious about fighting gentrification. [The Guardian]
- An interactive map breaks down how individual block groups voted in yesterday’s primaries. It’s pretty fascinating stuff. Obviously, the Upper East Side voted for Hillary. But Trump didn’t do well in his home turf of Manhattan. And plenty of millennial-saturated pockets of the Lower East Side and Bushwick didn’t turn out for Bernie. Are the kids still registered at their parents’ addresses back in the suburbs? Why did so many poor people in Brooklyn vote for Ted Cruz and who are the people in Hispanic neighborhoods voting Trump? You could spend hours on this thing and walk away with so many questions. [The New York Times]
- Students at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee have been freaking out after a set of rainbow-colored nooses was found hanging in a tree on campus. It turns out they were an art project for an intro to yarn class. A very stupid art project. [Newsweek]
- Strange rituals, backdoor deals, power plays, vast fortunes… this isn’t a teaser for the new Game of Thrones season. This is how LACMA curators battle for acquisitions in front of the Collectors Committee and it is bizarre. [artnet News]
- 100 year old plus paintings captioned by computer programmers. Naturally, the captions are all about computer programming. [Classical Programmer Paintings]
- Cornelia Parker’s “Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)” is now on display on The Met’s rooftop sculpture garden. It’s a fake house that looks just like the Bates Motel from Psycho. The installation will be up until Halloween, when we can be sure to expect many selfies. [Time Out]
- Looks like that monster 73 story high tower poised to be built in Brooklyn got the green light from city council. It will literally be twice as tall as anything around it. [Gothamist]
- Infamous art collector and hedge fund manager Steve Cohen has put his $72 million penthouse on the market. Again. When it was first listed the asking price was $115 million, so that’s a pretty significant price cut. I’m not surprised. The place looks like a corporate office — it’s not exactly homey. [Curbed]
- Gallerist Laura Borghi, owner of Borghi Fine Art Gallery, is facing a fine and jail time for refusing to remove a painting by Tom Dash that features a butt. No, this isn’t happening in the UAE. This is in Englewood, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan. [NJ.com]
- Nicole Bonneau is watching all 403 episodes of Bob Ross’s Joy of Painting and recreating every single painting. Why? Mostly because it’s relaxing and also because it’s exactly the kind of thing that gets social media followers. [Huffington Post]
- The Guggenheim will be installing gold toilet by artist Maurizio Cattelan. Cattelan insists it’s a serious toilet not a joke toilet. Nancy Spector, the museum’s head curator said the Occupy Movement and a growing gap between the rich and poor came to mind when she saw the piece. No mention was made of Gulf Labor, a group negotiating fair working and living conditions for the laborers building their new museum in Abu Dhabi. The museum abruptly cut off negotiations with them this week. [The New York Times]
