- TIL: Baby elephants suck on their trunks like baby humans suck on their thumbs. And sometimes little pachyderms don pink blankets. [Reddit]
- Wishing we were in Houston to see the Contemporary Art Museum Houston’s exhibition’s Marilyn Minter retrospective. Beth Secor’s review pins down her work pretty succinctly with this line: “These are beautiful paintings; some people in fact have complained that they are too beautiful, but there is something underlying their glitzy glamour that puts the stink of death on them, which balances things out.” [Glasstire]
- Menswear dog is creepy. [Menswear Dog]
- Great artist illustrates for a great author: Sara Cwynar for Zadie Smith in the New Yorker’s “Summer Fiction” issue. [The New Yorker]
- The Universe Within, an interactive documentary that shows the digital lives of high-rise residents around the world. [The National Film Board of Canada]
- You can’t get a BA or MA in Gallery Studies, but the closest training you can receive for becoming an art dealer might be the nine-month Gallerist Program at the de Appel arts centre in the Netherlands…if you have the means to front $8,000 Euro. Applications are due July 11. [de Appel arts centre]
- SculptureCenter curator Ruba Katrib on why machines and art can produce slapstick: “Slapstick makes us laugh because machines are foreign. Their proximity to—or confusion with—the body seems humorously perverse…When bodies and machines clash, slapstick lets us blunder with a smile.” [Art in America]
- Everything about this semiotic scandal is LOLworthy. Fans of the Christian rapper Lecrae are concerned that his hand gestures might be symbols of an occult allegiance. [The Christian Post]
- Former Art F City intern Clara Olshansky, now in Chicago, is writing some grade-A snark. She sure does know her stuff about lame coffee and lame men. We <3 you, Clara. [Food and Wine]
- “A sort of Facebook for the dead.” [The Guardian]
- Protesting Facebook’s real-name policy. [Rhizome]
- Hamilton Nolan gets to the root of the worst Kickstarter ever. [Gawker]
