An adult woman who is actually obsessed with Barbie.
- Dear Opening Ceremony: Adult females do not have “five-year-old Barbie dreams.” If they do, it’s probably not a good thing. Re-evaluate your headline, please! [Opening Ceremony]
- Tonight in New York: an exhibition of smartphone-originated work by artists, mostly from Iran. Curated by our new-media faves Morehshin Allahyari and Myriam Vanneschi. [Babycastles]
- For her current residency at software giant Autodesk, Morehshin Allahyari is making 3D prints of historic statues destroyed by Islamic State. [Motherboard]
- “We’re all going to die,” the political campaign. [The Awl]
- Journos, randos, and bloggers have already begun to descend on Minneapolis for the Walker Art Center’s Superscript, a conference on the future of online art journalism. On the Walker’s online mag, you can now read what several internet-y writers and curators think about what the near future holds for the state of digital art crit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [Walker Art Center]
- Stop making fun of women for using emojis. Studies now show that women are far more creative writers thanks to the digital age. (Cool, now let’s see this talent equate to top editorial jobs.) [The Cut]
- Adam Gopnik knows how to tailor his sentences, and his arguments. In the latest New Yorker, he analyzes the moral and legal imperatives behind paying artists royalties for the resale of their works. But who is his audience, really, with a sentence like “Whatever Phidias or Praxiteles did it for, it wasn’t for the naches”? Ivy-league grad students focused on Yiddish and Greek? [The New Yorker]
- Oh, hai, Mark Dorf! Your interviews are all over the digi-internets right now. Rhizome just interviewed you for its “Artist Profile” series, and you’re interviewing photographers for LENSCRATCH. [Rhizome, LENSCRATCH]
- Future-speculators, the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset will cost you around $1,500. The consumer version should be available in early 2016. [Polygon]
- 500 feet of copper cable was stolen off subway lines in Queens on Wednesday, causing delays in rush-hour traffic this morning on the A and C line. [The New York Times]
