The Olsen twins look like they’re in their 50’s and have suffered from far too much plastic surgery. The How Old robot thinks these twins are 7 years apart in age, and fairly young, which is probably the most accurate age identification I’ve seen this thing do.
- Pictures of celebrities wearing designer clothes at the Met Gala. [The New York Times]
- A beginners primer on the Venice Biennale. [T Magazine]
- My favorite! May art horoscopes courtesy of the editors at Hyperallergic. Leos get scolded for being too lazy, Aquarius needs to stop boozing and Scorpios will have a month of wins. Pretty much everyone else has to suck up a bad month. What a bummer. [Hyperallergic]
- William Powhida talks about the rigged system that is the art world. Some real idiocy in the comment section of the site, so avoid that—the article itself is great. [The Art Newspaper]
- “In many ways, medieval maps of the world are much more layered and complex than what we use today. It’s kind of like taking a geographical backdrop and then projecting an entire progression of history onto it.” says Toby Lester in an interview with Whitney Kimball. Read this interview. [Hopes and Fears]
- 51.5 percent of collectors on Instagram have purchased work that way. 73 percent believe that Instagram makes the art world more transparent because they have greater exposure to artists being sold. Can this observation be anything other than anecdotal bullshit? [Artsy]
- Dissident artist Tania Bruguera won’t be able to attend the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts award ceremony because she’s had her passport revoked by the Cuban government. That’s a bummer because she’s one of only five artists to receive an unrestricted grant of $75,000. [Culture High & Low]
- Well, that was short lived: nytimes.cat mirrored the New York Times front page and replaced all the images with cats. Now the site is just an image of a cat in front of the New York Times.[nytimes.cat]
