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- A stock image found using the search term, “feminism.” Worst “feminist” image ever? [Free Images]
- Codebabes is a website that looks like a really dumb joke. It’s not a joke. The website promises lessons from scantily clothed women teaching courses for the “HTML Virgin,” “CSS Virgin,” “Programming Virgin,” and “PHP Virgin.” The further you get in your courses, the fewer clothes the instructor will wear. [CodeBabes]
- CodeDicks, a response to codebabes, in which every course advancement takes you closer to achieving the label “douche.” Intermediate stages include “sexist” and “asshole.” [CodeDicks]
- Required reading: A history of the 1990s net art scene in Berlin. [frieze d/e]
- News rolls in daily about the new towers, as Lower East Side shops continue to close and relocate. [Bowery Boogie]
- Kara Walker makes a mammie sphinx out of sugar she says could never be beaten into submission. [The New York Times]
- Diego Rivera’s murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts have been designated national historic landmarks. Bankruptcy hearings for the city of Detroit continue. [Associated Press]
- Ladies Home Journal is shutting down its print publication after 130 years. This despite having a circulation that is amongst the highest in the country. [Bloomberg]
- The online market climbs slowly, surpassing $1 billion in annual sales. [The Art Newspaper]
- The Fridge Art Fair’s press release notes that the fair will be held in Long Island City this year and will include an opening ceremony with American Idol’s Hunter Monroe. The move comes because the Angel Orensanz Center, their previously slated venue, was given a forced evacuation order by the New York Department of Buildings due to building violations. [Fridge Art Fair]
- AFC’s one-time Roastmaster Christian Viveros-Fauné and Blake Gopnik talk about the Sigmar Polke retrospective. Gopnik nervously recounts Polke factoids and Fauné has to fight hard to get a word in. Very annoying, because he’s come prepared. [Artnet News]
- A pretty shitty situation: China’s propaganda campaign to push professional women into marriage. One government article says: “As women age, they are worth less and less…by the time they get their M.A. or Pd.D., they are already old, like yellowed pearls.”[Foreign Policy]
- It’s a tale of two art markets! Lower-level collectors are now being priced out of the painting market, forcing them to buy works on paper and prints. [The New York Times]
