- Feminism’s biggest problem. [The Toast]
- In a world where definitions change on a whim, Prada Marfa has been named an “art museum site” by the Texas Department of Transportation. [Associated Press via Ballroom Marfa]
- Also in Marfa, a terribly expensive art project: artist Robert Irwin has received funding to go ahead with a new installation after receiving a $1 million gift. [Glasstire]
- One of these four artists is about to be € 25,000 richer: Cory Arcangel, Camille Henrot, Thomas&Craighead, and Ulf Aminde. They’ve all been nominated for the 2014 Nam June Paik Award. [e-flux]
- After Art F City covered the American Royalties Too Act (twice), now WNYC has added their two cents, interviewing a law professor at Ohio State University who argues that it might “drive sales to galleries and private sales, which would be exempt from the law.”[WNYC]
- This KLM commercial has the airline employing a beagle to return lost property to its passengers. It’s pretty much the most joy-inducing video ever, though the buzzfeed investigative reporting team discovered that the airline doesn’t actually have dogs on staff. Whatever. It’s slightly misleading, but adorable regardless. (And you get to listen to Dutch, which always sounds lovely.) [YouTube]
- Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, the co-owner and co-directors of Frieze have stepped back from their role and appointed Victoria Siddall as the new director of Frieze London and Frieze New York. Siddall already managed Frieze Masters. Sharp and Slotover say they are stepping back from the business so they can pursue other projects. Slotover says they aren’t opening a new publication or fair, so what’s next? Frieze auction data? [FT]
- Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia student who has been carrying her mattress around campus in protest of the school’s tepid response to her rape, is not the only student suffering from this problem. A new Times op-doc reveals that universities routinely punish rapists with a slap on the wrist. [The New York Times]
- “I work in a 24-hour kitten nursery.” [Imgur]
- A good, long read on the downfall of the all-black sitcom on network TV. By now, it’s history. [The New Inquiry]
- Free Art Friday, a treasure hunt on Instagram for free art. Good luck finding good art. [artnet News]
- A photographer documents squatters inside a Venezuela skyscraper, where construction was halted mid-project in 1994 when a third of the country’s banks failed. [Hyperallergic]
- Holy shit. An elevator into space could be possible. [OMNI Reboot via @Nullsleep]
