Four men attempt to wrestle a bear. Lesson learned? Bears are great wrestlers. [YouTube]
Just what we needed—another art fair. Independent Projects opens November 6, in just over a week. It’s held in the old Dia building, site of the Independent fair held in the spring. Expect solo booths from a motley bunch of dealers ranging from Bushwick’s’ finest to Upper East Side mainstays like Gagosian. [Independent Projects]
If you care about other people’s personal lives, the Internet has a story for you! Famous CBC host Jian Ghomeshi claims he was fired because of his private BDSM lifestyle. Is this the next level of discrimination? Add a vengeful ex-girlfriend to the mix and we have 50 Shades of Grey meets Gone Girl. [Facebook]
Look, we don’t know what happened, really. However, according to the Toronto Star, three women 20 years his junior have come forward over the last few months claiming that Ghomeshi forced them to engage in nonconsensual, violent sex. [Toronto Star]
A lesson in public shaming (and one of our favorite reads from over the weekend): Monica Lewinsky pens an insightful essay that brings up an important question. Where were all the feminists when she was dragged out in front of the press? [Vanity Fair]
According to OkCupid, people in Montana, Oregon, and Wisconsin take fewer showers than anyone else using the dating site. [Slate]
The sexy ebola nurse costume. Happy Halloween! [brandsonsale]
Can video games fend off mental decline? The research is unclear. [The New York Times]
What is hipster photography? Marco Bohr provides a fascinating and detailed description. Typically, the genre depicts people who look happy and carefree and are often joined by others who look the same. These people are young, good looking, and often white. They are almost never in suits. Perhaps most interesting, though, is that Bohr observes a lack of class identifiers in these pictures, positing that what these images really project is class mobility through the knowledge of what’s “cool.” Naturally, these images are meant to be shared. [Visual Culture Blog]
The University of Texas at Dallas is investing in a $17 million art history institute emphasizing data analysis. [Dallas Morning News]
In Sweden, artists who exhibit in state-run museums must be paid a stipend. That’s the rule, but plenty of institutions have been evading payment. [The Art Newspaper]
The Conscientious photo portfolio competition 2014 deadline closes October 31st. This is a competition aimed at emerging photographers and offers an interview on the site. [CPH]
Frieze co-founder Amanda Sharp blames TV for Occupy Museums’ discontent. Regarding Occupy Museum’s planned protest against the New York fair, Sharp says, “They’ve seen art reality TV shows and they think they can make a career purely out of their work. That’s an unrealistic expectation so a lot more people feel disenfranchised.” [The Guardian via Reid Singer]
Artist Walead Beshty will be this month’s guest blogger for Fotomuseum. So far, Besthy’s been blogging about what makes photography distinct from other media, and that’s a topic he knows inside and out. He’d better, considering that he’s an artist who makes photographs of photographs and sculpture of photography. Well, it’s something like that. [Fotomuseum Blog]
Channel 4 is starting a new reality TV show that will help you make big life decisions based on the advice of…crowdsourcing? Yes, instead of asking a professional for advice, maybe it’s better to ask “a group of people who represent a cross-section of the UK population.” If you live in the UK, here’s how to apply. [Channel 4]
Artist Brainard Carey published a motivational book for artists, entitled Making It in the Art World, and The Seattle P-I just reviewed it. The P-I emphasizes the sheer brainlessness of the book, stating that “Carey writes likes he’s talking to a six-year old, and if that wasn’t clear enough he draws stick figures to illustrate concepts like attitude and incidents like an invitation to his studio.” [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
What color is Rothko’s forearm? The Paris Review might have an answer (on the third row). [The Paris Review Blog]
How do three museums share a single artwork? The Israel Museum, Pompidou, and the Tate are splitting the costs for Christian Marclay’s The Clock. [Art Market Monitor]
West coast hipsters are annoying. They wear blue lipstick and orange spray-tan. [PaperMag]
Julia Halperin’s discussion of how the Prince v. Cariou case has affected artists’s decisions about appropriation and reuse should be required reading for anyone dealing with the “‘borrow and be borrowed’ culture of the Internet.” [Artinfo]
Chelsea gallery D’Amelio Terras sent out an industry-wide press release yesterday announcing that the gallery has shut its doors. [Art&Education]
Birds are not cute. Here’s some ferocious sky predators fighting, culminating in a 20-second continuous shot of birds in freefall aerial combat. [YouTube]
Around the office, we’ve been debating the hipster turn to donuts – goodbye, cupcakes! Food critic Pete Wells wrote a brilliant review of a new donut joint and regardless of your opinion on hipster donuts, this is a solid piece of writing. [The New York Times]
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, i.e. the pink ribbon foundation, has suddenly eliminated all funding to Planned Parenthood for performing that oh-so-controversial medical procedure – the breast exam. [NPR] People are getting furious. This thread on MetaFilter lists a ton of corporations who fund Komen; go bug them on Twitter. [MetaFilter]
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