Kurt Hentschlager's installation Zee (image credit: kurthentschlager.com)
- Hyperallergic gets a nice clip from the Times in an article about Amazon Art. “Ms. Nielsen, a Brooklyn artist, moved quite a bit of merchandise. After the Web site Hyperallergic included one of her prints in an article titled “Ten of the Cheapest Artworks on Amazon Art,” she sold eight prints the next week.” The rest of the article sums up a program most readers will already familiar with, since it’s three months old. [The New York Times]
- “It’s drug-level money, but you don’t have to kill anyone,” says Tamer Hassan, on digital ad fraud. Hassan is a co-founder and chief technology officer of White Ops, a private digital ad fraud policing company. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Sara Cochran resigned from her position as curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Phoenix Museum of Art. [Phoenix New Times]
- Mark Kermode reflects on criticism and decides that even though you can get sued and endure physical and professional threats, it’s a dream job. Agreed. [The Guardian]
- Jeffrey Shankman, an ardent art supporter in Houston, has indicted by feds for bankruptcy fraud. He was hiding art. [Glass Tire]
- The Second Avenue subway line won’t have sidewalk ventilation grates when it opens in 2016. [The New York Times]
- John Menick writes about contemporary computer viruses as zombies. [Mousse Magazine]
- In Pittsburgh, Kurt Hentschlager’s installation Zee is shutting down after three viewers had to be treated for “seizure-like symptoms”. The installation, which warns people with anxiety, epilepsy, and claustrophobia from entering, includes lots of strobes and a fog machine. [The Huffington Post]
- Felix Salmon’s reflections on an excerpt of Dave Egger’s new dystopian fantasy about social media, “The Circle”, make us very wary of the new book. [The New York Times Magazine]
- Occupy Wall Street will release a new debit card. [The New York Times]
