Alwyn Scott Turner, “Prison Inmates, Weightlifting Gym,” 1969. Courtesy: MoMA.
- Here’s an ex-con’s guide to weightlifting. [Fittish]
- A dog that’s mad for lettuce. [Tumblr]
- Poland’s skanky folk-rap entry into the Eurovision contest features a busty butter-churner. It’s embarrassing. [YouTube via @magdasawon]
- Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 10-year housing plan will provide the city with more high-rises; in the Koch era, formerly dilapidated buildings were improved. Those sites are no more, so the city will need to move upward. [The New York Times]
- For building boom advice, de Blasio can always look to Henry VIII, who spurred London’s first building boom. After cutting ties with the papacy, Henry VIII sold all the land owned by the Catholic Church to private investors! [Elizabeth’s London]
- Some tech start-ups from the EU you probably haven’t heard of. [Tech.eu]
- The F.C.C. is set to vote this Thursday on whether to move forward with a proposal that would bifurcate the internet into a fast lane and slow lane. A coalition of tech companies—basically any online company you’ve ever heard of—responded last week in a letter, strongly urging the F.C.C. to reconsider. David Carr, lays out his rationale for why he thinks the tech companies will win this battle. [The New York Times]
- Borghese Gallery in Rome has opened its windows to protect the art from humidity; they don’t have air conditioning. Gawker finds this open-windows policy to be an outrage, but it’s not. Museums around the world continue to do this, including the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Plus, it’s not like all the world’s masterpieces were damaged beyond repair due to the lack of air conditioners. [Gawker]
- This is horrible. Former 92nd Street Y Executive Director Sol Adler, was found dead in his own home. He was fired last summer amid allegations of corruption.[Haaretz]
- Roberta Smith is all over Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby,” an installation dominated by a giant sphinx made out of sugar. She loves it and says there are all kinds of interpretations to be thrown at it. [The New York Times]
- Forbes announces its first-ever 30 Under 30 Summit with a dubstep-infused video that lists off celebrities and then asks “Who’s Next?” This, and the date, is all we know about the conference. What? [Forbes]
- Good lord. At the Frieze talk with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina and the New Yorker’s David Remnick, Alekhina described an instance when an activist friend was taken to the woods and locked in the trunk of a car with an ant nest on his head. [Gallerist]
- Elaine Sturtevant , the “queen of copycats,” has passed away at the age of 84. [Art in America]
