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October 28, 2015

Yesterday, we wrote about a mass-produced pillow elevated to art-object status with a Donald Trump quote. Today, you can take a quiz where you guess which quotes are from the reality tv/conservative politics star and which quotes are from Andy Warhol. Sometimes, it’s incredibly hard to tell the difference. [artnet News]

As if everyone didn’t already think of Berlin as paradise,“Naked Boys Reading” will take place there tomorrow. Which, for clarification, appears to comprise attractive men reading things naked. [iHeartBerlin]

Money may be an obsolete concept in the evolved, post-capitalist, interplanetary society of the 24th century, but today is a different story. Wil Wheaton (of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame) sounds off about how sites like The Huffington Post should actually pay contributors. On behalf of writers everywhere, thanks. [WilWheaton.net]

Religious fundamentalists smuggling looted antiquities from the Middle East? Nope, this story isn’t about ISIS—it’s about the Green family, owners of the birth-control-hating-craft-store-chain Hobby Lobby. They’re using their fortune and questionable scruples to construct the Museum of the Bible a block or two from the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Customs agents seized between 200 and 300 cuneiform tablets that appear to have been illegally imported for the endeavor. [The Art Newspaper]

This is so, so great. Goldsmiths—the London art school that launched the YBAs to fame—has announced that it is giving away six scholarships to asylum seekers in light of the refugee crisis. [ARTnews]

Speaking of art schools and displaced people, the Pratt Institute is evicting its 79 year old head engineer from campus housing, where he has lived since 1967. That is truly terrible. Can you imagine trying to find a Brooklyn apartment after 50 years? [Gothamist]

WHOA. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is being rebooted as a television show on FOX starring actress/activist Laverne Cox. SO MANY MIXED EMOTIONS. [Blouin Artinfo]

The Denver Art Museum has a long history of collecting and exhibiting Native American artwork, now they’re trying to highlight contemporary Native American artists. One interesting challenge? Crediting individual artists in their legacy collection, rather than identifying artworks by tribal origin, as museums have done historically. [The New York Times]

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September 17, 2013

Artist rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge Park by the Bjarke Ingels Group (Image credit:New York Times)

Prepare to be amazed, or offended. Lizzie Widdicombe profiled entrepreneur Bryan Goldberg on his latest multi-million dollar start up, Bustle, a news and culture blog written by women, for women. He seems to be an odd choice for knowing what women want: “I don’t have a lot of overlapping interests with most women my age. I’m really into history. I’m really into markets and finance.” [The New Yorker]

“The core questions around the picture have little to do with the rapid technological changes that take place … For this exhibition, I avoided using any recent technology precisely for these reasons.” Beryl Gilothwest interviews Elad Lassry on his just-opened show at 303 Gallery; it’s a good read, if a bit upsetting that he doesn’t identify technology’s place in photography today. [Art in America]

If you’ve spent any time in Chicago, you’re familiar with painter Ray Yoshida who taught at the School of the Art Institute up until 2005. His entire home collection of outsider art, comics, thrift store tchotchkes, and all other types of weird ephemera, is now on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. [John Michael Kohler Arts Center]

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), has proposed building a giant triangular platform that juts out from The Brooklyn Bridge Park. All they need is the Public Design Commission’s go-ahead and $8 million in privately raised funds. This architecture firm makes great projects—let’s do this. [The New York Times]

Artist Malte Wandel has been documenting Ghanaian street style in a series titled Please Don’t Smile. [The Huffington Post]

Hard to believe that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford even has an election gear to move into post crack-smoking scandal, but read the headline and prepare for puzzlement. [The Toronto Star]

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