by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on July 3, 2014
- Art handler fashion. Ridic. [Art Handler]
- And now there are zero Yvon Lambert galleries. In 2011, Yvon Lambert closed his New York location; this December, he will close his nearly 40-year-old Paris gallery to focus on his private collection. [Libération via Alain Servais]
- Celebrity TV host
asshole Adam Richman gets fired after ranting on Instagram about how he can use a hashtag used by anorexic teens. Oh, and he told the Insta-dissenters to go kill themselves. All this goes to prove that feminism is still relevant. [D-listed]
- Before there was BuzzFeed, there was radio: “The BuzzFeed formula — not just personalizing pop trivia, but treating it as an inexorable element of our emotional makeup — feels like the natural outcome of several decades of plug-in room deodorizers and Toyotathons and hamburger-slinging clowns.” [New York Times Magazine]
- Blast from the past: Salt-N-Pepa’s “Shoop.” Why link it up now? Because it’s GOOD! [YouTube]
- The Telegraph asked Charles Saatchi if “throttle” is a new genre of art, after seven paintings and drawings of him strangling his former wife Nigella Lawson showed up on SaatchiArt.com. Saatchi says it’s not a genre. [The Telegraph]
- Activist group Save the Corcoran filed a motion in D.C. Superior Court to stop the dissolution of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design. Their petition claims that the Corcoran’s current board members are in violation of the museum’s trust by closing the institution. Current plans include breaking up the institution between George Washington University and the National Gallery of Art. [Washington City Paper]
- Rhizome archivist Dragan Espenschied helped Cory Arcangel restore “Bomb Iraq,” a homemade computer game on a Macintosh TV. He goes on to discuss the value of the truly obscure digital artifact. [Rhizome]
- Toronto needs more shirtless joggers. Joe Killoran ran into Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and told him what he thought of his leadership. The video went viral and he was even interviewed in the National Post. [The Globe and Mail]
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