Smile, crocodile. From Math Bass, the “Newz!” series, 2014.
- A frog with a sad smile. [Imgur]
- “Karen” is an app from British art collective Blast Theory that delivers life tips and heart-to-hearts directly to your smartphone. But be careful. Karen, the persona driving the app, whose personality and responses are customized according to the user’s personality, might just get a little too friendly. She’s programmed to overshare, and call at inappropriate hours. [The New York Times]
- A case for art majors: you might not make buckets of money when you graduate, but according to a new study, you will get laid. [artnet News via The Tab]
- Unsurprising, but postinternet art hasn’t hit Cambodia yet. Internet usage has not swelled as it has in the west, so that type of networked artwork doesn’t fit the mold there. How useful is the term, if it only applies to certain physical locations? [Rhizome]
- Art as potential fodder for money laundering. “Unlike many other real assets, such as farmland or property, art is also movable, which is handy for buyers who do not plan to tell the taxman about it. It can be a relatively discreet way of investing, too: Christie’s arranged $916m of private purchases in 2014, compared with just $266m in 2009.” [The Economist]
- The Big D gets a Big Sculpture Prize. Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center announced plans for the inaugural International Nasher Prize for Sculpture, a $100,000 prize awarded to “a living artist in recognition of a significant body of work.” The winner will be announced in fall 2015. [Glasstire]
- Clinton on Clinton! Hillary Clinton has leased a campaign office at 1 Pierrepoint Plaza and the corner of Clinton Street. We care because this means that Clinton’s offices and AFC’s offices will be within walking distance of each other. Maybe we’ll see her out at Shake Shack? [The New York Times via Politico]
- Journalists and editors, please check your facts with utmost diligence. Yesterday, Rolling Stone officially retracted “A Rape on Campus,” a story published in fall 2014 about an alleged rape at the University of Virginia. After suspicions arose around the details of the article, the magazine requested an independent report from Steve Coll, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. What follows, in the link, is the Columbia report, whose writers find fault not just with the reporting, but with the magazine’s editors. “But the most egregious failures of transparency in ‘A Rape on Campus’ cannot be chalked up to writing style. They obfuscated important problems with the story’s reporting.” [Rolling Stone]
