Jon Hamm’s Madame Tussauds selfie
- Sixty-year-old artist Stephen Turner, who’s been living in a floating wooden egg for the past year, has “hatched.” The images of this are less disturbing than one might anticipate. [BBC News]
- Kate Taylor wrote a piece for The Globe and Mail about the history and recent influx of visitors to wax museums like Madame Tussauds. Apparently, so many people were taking pictures with and touching the Justin Bieber figure at the New York branch that it had to be removed; the figure’s clothes were falling off and the staff could not keep it intact. [The Globe and Mail]
- The Daily Mail made up a story about George Clooney’s mother-in-law, claiming violent religious differences where there were none. Clooney responds. [USA Today]
- Elaine Tin Nyo’s Sour Pie project meant Thomas Micchelli ate pie in a bar with Tin Nyo and a friend. He loved it. [Hyperallergic]
- Pacific Standard’s Casey N. Cep discusses how the new “time-lapse” feature on Apple’s iPhone, will be the end of the selfie era, since “portraiture doesn’t lend itself to time-lapse unless the interval is seasons instead of seconds.” This is a pretty bold prediction that probably won’t come into fruition; Youtube is filled with videos of time-lapse portraiture taking place over short time intervals, like this one of a homeless veteran that has over 18 million views. [Pacific Standard]
- The Queens Museum announces their QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship program which will award 3 grants of $20,000 each to a New York based emerging artist. Artists must have lived in NYC for a year to be eligible and be at the “dawn” of their career. They can’t be in school or have had a solo show yet. [Queens Museum]
- The New York Times gives a thorough account of how Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges mishandled a case of rape. A revealed in May by the Department of Justice, 55 universities are currently being investigated for improperly handling sexual assaults. [New York Times]
- Dependably thorough reportage from Adrianne Jeffries and Russell Brandom on Airbnb’s campaign to rally people behind its legitimization efforts. The company wants to change a 2010 state law prohibiting city dwellers from renting out their entire apartments for less than 29 days, and it wants to figure out how to pay taxes. [The Verge]
- Don’t forget to stop by Sarah Sze’s Venice Biennale Pavilion “Triple Point”, which is now at the Bronx Museum. It’s only up for about a month, which is insane. [Facebook]
- Southern Australia has a forever-drought, called climate change, a new study shows. [Motherboard]
- Turns out many New York condos are being bought by foreigners looking for ways to park their money without much scrutiny. They don’t live in the condos, and there are concerns that the apartments are simply being used as a means of laundering money. [New York Magazine]
