Whit Forrester

Baby goats wearing pajamas are adorable—and viral. This video received more than 1 million views in less than a week. [Youtube]
Taking NIMBYism to the extreme, a man in Calgary paid $1.15 million for a development site to prevent an impending office building from blocking his art gallery’s skyline views. [Calgary Herald]
A London and Amsterdam-based artists collective called HARD-CORE have invented a robot to arrange artwork in their shows. This is supposed to challenge taste and the elitism of the art world, while producing a show with a DADA-like flavor. I’m just going to put out there that if I were an artist, I wouldn’t want a DADA robot curating the show I’m in and I wouldn’t trust it not to be elitist. It’s programmed for a gallery by art students—both of which have a certain amount of privilege to begin with. [The Creator’s Project]
Photographer Whit Forrester is seeking funding for a project to document the secret queer history of California’s weed industry and legalization movement, which was partly ignited by the AIDS epidemic. This looks like it’s going to be interesting, and the photos are gorgeous. [Kickstarter]
Elinor Burkett identifies a double standard; when a straight man says men and women have different brains, as Lawrence Summers did two years ago at Harvard, he will be considered sexist. When transgender figure Caitlin Jenner decides her brain is much more female than it male, she’s celebrated for her bravery. Burkett seems to think Jenner isn’t enough of a woman to define women, which is problematic, even if her base point that stereotypes don’t help create a more inclusive culture has merit. [The New York Times]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia has cancelled its planned retrospective of Marina Abramovic just one year prior to its launch. It seems the fact that she had two other exhibitions slated to open this month in Sydney and Hobart led to the decision—plus financial issues that were never explained. What is the real story here? [The Sydney Morning Herald]
Rebecca Kirkman follows the brushless painting trend we identified at NADA to RandallScottProjects in Baltimore. [City Paper]
Travel tip for those planning vacations: Tuesday is the best day of the week to find the lowest fairs on airline travel booked at least three weeks in advance. Now you know. [Conde Naste Traveler via @heartasarena]
At $2,500/month, the median rent in Bushwick is now just $100 shy of the Upper East Side’s $2,600/month median. This, and other mind-boggling factoids (such as: the median rent in Ridgewood is now $1000 more than in 2009) from an interactive map that visualizes the city’s out-of-control housing costs. [Curbed]
In related Bushwick news: the bizarre case of a painting stolen (and gifted to strangers) during Bushwick Open Studios this weekend. [Hyperalleric]

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