- The VLA (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts) is having a benefit tonight, from 6-8PM, at 62 Greene Street. Be there. A lawsuit would otherwise cripple most artists, and volunteer services are a boon to the community. God knows we’ll need ’em. [VLA]
- Support the Seaport Museum! After financial woes forced the museum to temporarily shut down last year, it looks like a shaky recovery can be made possible by support from the city and local community. On Saturday, June 30th, Amanda Palmer will give a benefit concert. General admission is $55, $40 for members. [Concert]
- Twitter blew up last night with live coverage of ArtsTech, which sounded like the most comprehensive art talk ever endeavored. Paddy Johnson reported an overall success, with insight on digital archiving from Christiane Paul, Ben Fino-Radin, and Doug Reside. It looks like we won’t be disappointed: on Fino-Radin’s archive of ArtsTech tweets, there is literally a photo of digital curator Doug Reside revealing an original version of the Declaration of Independence. [ArtsTech video/ArtsTech Tweets/Hyperallergic]
- Amongst the ArtsTech tweets on digital archiving, Ellen Knuti linked to the website for the movie Space Jam, which is still live. [@knutini]
- Your work could be on a water tank! According to Kickstarter, famous artists and New York locals will decorate three hundred water tanks around NYC next summer. In the next few weeks, 15 of the designs will be chosen from public submissions. [Curbed/Kickstarter]
- Marina Galperina’s essay on Russian driving is insane. From the looks of it, getting behind the wheel in Russia is like running blindfolded into a mine field; if you’ve seen Apocalypse Now, that’s basically what this is. Of course, it comes complete with video mash-up of the horror. [AnimalNY]
- This morning’s first office debate: is there such a thing as not-assless chaps? Ass chaps? [Village Voice]
- Tumblr of the day, via @annie_werner: [Cloaque.org]
- Today’s TED talk is titled “Archaeology from Space.” [TED]
- In case you missed it yesterday, the Bronx Museum received a $500,000 gift from the Ford Foundation to its acquisitions fund. This is good for the museum and the community. It plans to collect work by living artists with strong ties to the neighborhood. [NYTimes]
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