- People finding “Accidental Wes Anderson” locations is the best new internet trend. [My Modern Met]
- Housing lotteries open this week for two new affordable housing buildings in Williamsburg, where rents start at $589/month. Definitely worth the long-shot of applying. Worth noting the affordable units in the Bronx start at $880. [Curbed]
- Basically every British cultural institution (and plenty of mainland European ones) have signed a letter urging the UK government to not fuck them over in Brexit plans. [Dezeen]
- The VGA, or Video Game Art Gallery, will be Chicago’s first art space dedicated to video game based artists’ projects. [DNAinfo]
- The Green family (of Hobby Lobby wealth and infamy) has been ordered to pay $3 million in fines for smuggling artifacts from the Middle East to their businesses. This might cast a shadow over their forthcoming (and already dubious) Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. [The Washington Post]. ←— assholes
- Aman Mojadidi’s ‘Once Upon a Place’, in which obsolete phone booths have been installed in Times Square with the stories of immigrants, was conceived of before the Trump regime. Now, it’s taken on new relevance, obviously. [ARTnews]
- The “Is it art?” cliche just never runs out of steam. A Wired article explores a terrible art project that involves sticking some pictures into executable code and seeing what it does to the faces. Apparently said code is AI but how it works is never explained. The work looks like a souped up version of Datamoshing, which the new media community long ago discarded as too limited in its formula to ever produce good art. [Wired]
- I dunno how to feel about Mia Fineman’s Talking Pictures: Camera Phone Conversations Between Artists. It’s a good idea for a show, and we know that mostly because other artists have been doing it. [The New York Times]
- Cherokee writer America Meredith weighs in on the surreal case of Jimmie Durham’s fake Native ancestry. It’s an interesting, nuanced read. [artnet News]
