Not impressive: The “chola” look has made it onto the runways, supposedly. The first image in this profile looks like the model has a granddad’s greasy combover. [BlackBook]
Soon Twitter will be for shopping. Today, the company announced a “buy” button for its mobile users. [TechCrunch]
Ball point pen drawings of the Speaker of the House, John Boehner. [Speaker of the House]
Political debate continues to be moronic. Last week, the hosts of a web show called “PolitiChicks” appeared on Fox and Friends to encourage women to free themselves from the shackles of old feminism. Old feminism did little more than sexualize women, whereas this new feminism, they claim, allows women to be feminine. As God intended. Apparently that means “less government in their lives” and the love of “real men.” Most of what gets said makes little to no sense. [Talking Points Memo]
Another critic praises the Carl Andre show at DIA: Beacon. This happens to be exceptional because Andre has been “relatively undersung” and his entire output has been “repressed in American museums.” Compared to Donald Judd, maybe, but most other artists? Nah. [Artforum]
In 1988 German musician Holger Hiller produced different sounds from every item in a room, and collaged them together to make the song Ohi Ho Bang Bang. This is the video. [YouTube]
Cao Fei’s latest film “La Town” channels film noir, Mattel toys, Tim Burton, and features a Santa Claus with a full set of reindeer. Watch the trailer: it looks bizarrely splendid. [Lombard Freid]
Martine Rothblatt is the highest paid female CEO in America. She is the 59-year-old founder of United Therapeutics, a transexual, and the subject of a New York Magazine profile. [New York Magazine]
This cat is not a fan of strawberries. [@9GAG Gifs]
Artists tend to check their politics outside art fairs, claims The Art Newspaper. The article cites only a handful of artists to test this claim, however. “There is and has historically been a gap between them [artists and collectors],” claim writer Jessica Kabat, “collectors are not necessarily dying gay men.” Yuck. Anyway, feminist works seem to be just fine for collectors. The Art Newspaper gives it a pass. [The Art Newspaper]
Feminism in the tech community, though, may be a different story. Enter “Stop Tech Feminism,” a new tumblr with the tagline “Feminism in Tech is a Cancer.” Is this some kind of joke? Feminism exists because there is a need for it. [The Verge]
Lauren Clay, a sculptor out of Brooklyn, has settled a copyright conflict with the David Smith Estate. Her sculptures replicate the exact shapes of David Smith’s well-known “Cubi” series, though with a change in color, materials, and scale. [Art in America]
Every time we read what’s on the front page of the Times, we find the reports hard to believe. Speaker John A. Boehner actually believes that Senate is trying to steamroll the House with a new plan to reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling. Guys. You’ve got less than a day to pass a bill to raise the debt limit before the nation defaults. And we’re getting sick of dressing like pandas every day. Help us out. Let’s get the Smithsonian’s pandacam up and running again. [The New York Times]
