From Japan's Art Aquarium, image courtesy http://designyoutrust.com
- Japan’s annual “art aquarium” is back with 5,000 fish in 70 aquariums. We gotta say, the art aquarium world is producing some pretty impressive work. [CNN]
- “It’s like a huge electric nose.” Artist Amy Radcliffe has invented a camera for scents. [Huffington Post]
- People are selling things like lizards and removed babydoll faces on Instagram– it’s like Etsy with a dash of Craigslist. [Wired]
- Looks like the art world conversation about climate change won’t end with Expo. The Rauschenberg Foundation is teaming up with Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation for “Marfa Dialogues,” a series of exhibitions and events this fall. [The New York Times]
- Very happy about this news: Health plan costs for New Yorkers is set to drop by 50 percent (and much more if you qualify for federal subsidy) [The New York Times]
- More concerns raised about the plan to gut the historic Fifth Avenue library, met with the usual brush-off. We’ll hear more about it from the lawsuit. [The New York Times]
- Famed figurative Maritime painter Alex Colville has died at the age of 92. Colville had a tremendous influence on many schools in the region, including Mount Allison University, where AFC’s Paddy Johnson went to school. [National Post]
- The Smithsonian does not sound like a fun enterprise to work for. After unrelated worker protests at two museums last week, the Hirschhorn’s hemorrhaging board members. Constance Caplan becomes the seventh to leave over the past year, blaming a contentious work environment. [Washington Post]
