- A bunch of well-off people discuss how their Art History degree made them (surprise!) a success in other sectors. “My art history education was the first step in training my eye to recognize the recurring signatures of price movement in the financial markets,” says Jamie Crapanzano ’00, portfolio manager at Guggenheim Partners. The moral of the story: it’s alright to study art history, so long as you use it for anything but art history. [e-flux via The Daily Princetonian]
- Artist Mary Beth Heffernan is working to humanize the face-covering protective suits worn by ebola health workers. She makes sticker-backed photo portraits of the workers’ smiling faces for them to where on their suits, like a badge. What’s funny about this story is that photo technology is scarce in Liberia, so her subjects swiped their self-portrait stickers and started sticking them everywhere, including their kids’ backpacks. [NPR]
- Is the enormous clothing trend in art localized to the south? We reported the trend dead in New York last month at The Armory, but Andrew Russeth has spotted it on the rise again in the SP-Arte fair in São Paulo. [Artnews]
- The original cast of Twin Peaks is rallying behind David Lynch following his announcement that he could no longer continue working with Showtime on the series revival. We couldn’t agree more with Sheryl Lee, the actress who played Laura Palmer: Twin Peaks without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret. [Nerdist]
- This one’s coming at you a couple days late, but it’s still worth celebrating. The Mayor of Boston declared April 9 “Riot Grrrrl Day.” Here are some of the actual words from the official proclamation: ““Riot grrrls redefine the language used against them and continue to fight the newest incarnations of patriarchy. In doing so, they ironically confirm one ex-congressman’s accidental wisdom: ‘the female body has ways to try to shut that down.’ It sure does: women’s voices telling their stories can shut that down.” Did reading that give anyone else happy chills? [Stereogum via Boston Magazine]
- Two groups from MIT teamed up to make wearable social media (in t-shirt form) so wearers can find and make IRL friends. The garments might be technologically advanced, but just like Google glass, they’re just not that cute. In other words, scientists at MIT made t-shirts that only an MIT student could love. [Hyperallergic]
- The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation released the names of its 2015 Fellowship recipients. Let’s hear it for Fine Arts awardees Rick Araluce, Miyoshi Barosh, Amy Bennett, Matthew Blackwell, Mel Chin (woot!), Amanda Church, Russell Crotty, Amanda Davie, Agnes Denes, Fred Escher, Tim Hawkinson, Frank Holliday, Vishal Jugdeo, Mary Kelly (about time!), Diane Landry, Michael C. McMillen, Sabina Ott, M. Louise Stanley, Kyle Staver, Kukuli Velarde, Royce Weatherly, and Pinar Yoldas. [Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]
- Last Saturday, a man terrorized NYC commuters with a giant black dildo. The Subway: just like reality TV, but not at all from the comfort of your own home. [Death and Taxes]
