- New York Times Style section wizens up to net art, profiles Ryder Ripps. Naturally Adrian Chen writes the feature. From Ripps, “The Internet is just a ton of different people,” he said. “So, being good at knowing how to equally access these people to speak to them is being good at the Internet.” [New York Times]
- Bill Davenport has made a listicle of the top ten painters in Houston, noting “how few really good painters there are in this city…” Let’s see if he gets any challengers. Davenport also introduces us to a new painting term, “new-nothing abstractionists”. [Glasstire]
- Just as we would like to see the Guggenheim put a woman in its rotunda for once, Carolina Miranda would like to see the Whitney or the New Museum finally put on a show of Puerto Rican/Nuyorican art. [twitter]
- The Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome is at risk of closing due to budget cuts. [Artnet]
- Brooklyn artists might want to put Pittsburgh on their list of potential next destinations. The Pittsburgh Biennial is expanding and trying to raise awareness about their city as an art hub. They’ve got the Andy Warhol Museum, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Carnegie Museum, and the Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA). [The Art Newspaper]
- What do the men who pick up the stuff we drop in the subway find? A stuffed rabbit, for one. [Animal New York]
- Somebody’s putting pink donation boxes on the streets, possibly for donations and possibly for plunder. [Bowery Boogie]
- New York Times Dining Critic Pete Wells ruminates on the aesthetics of plating and how it’s influencing cuisine. Stunt dishes are on the rise (the burger with a length of bone embedded in the patty; the chicken Parmesan on a pizza stand), as is camera cuisine (people who study food movements through pictures alone). My favorite bit in this piece, though, is the account of how food nerds attack if you post anything less than a beautiful picture.
I got a taste of this shutter-shaming myself when I tweeted a picture of a trout a restaurant had served me. My point was that the dish was a mess, as carefully presented as a basket of dirty laundry. Never mind that: Twitter reacted to the ugliness of the image, not the broken tail of the trout. One person asked if I’d been taking pointers from Ms. Stewart. Whether you’re on Twitter, Instagram or your own blog, the message is clear: Don’t take pictures in a restaurant if you aren’t going to make the place look good. [New York Times]
