Return of the Obra Dinn, a new game I will be playing right after I post these links.
- Who needs lists when Harper’s gives you an entire page of one-liner facts? #prebuzzfeed [Harper’s Magazine]
- Happy Birthday, Hirshhorn Museum! [City Paper]
- Could there be a serial artist on the loose, vandalizing national parks? Maybe. “Much of the illegal artwork seems to be related and has been signed with the moniker ‘Creepytings.’” [Culture Monster]
- 100 haikus. [Rafaël Rozendaal]
- Five Dutch dance heroes on stamps. [PostNL via @gregorg]
- Claude Picasso, son of THE Picasso, looks like the artist’s twin. (Scroll to the bottom of the link’s page.) [The Telegraph]
- John Baldessari is making celebrity-selfie art. [ArtsBeat]
- Another dead white male artist joins the ranks of Gagosian. The Estate of Walter de Maria is to be represented by the gallery. [The Art Newspaper]
- Developer Lucas Pope, the brains behind Papers Please, the best game of all time about stamping passports, has released a demo for what will hopefully be an equally stressful, smart strategy game. [Return of the Obra Dinn via GamesBeat]
- Over the last 13 years, the U.S. government has spent $7.6 billion on counternarcotics measures in Afghanistan. It’s great, then, that opium production there is higher than ever before. [Slate]
- “A year ago I started Critique My Dick Pic, a blog that is not safe for work unless your workplace is chill.” [The New Inquiry]
- Google is announcing a better email that “experts” are speculating will “replace Gmail.” [According to the Internet]
- In which Asia is partially to blame for a rise in art forgeries. [HuffPo]
