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• Artist and jogger—but mostly artist—Kate Steciw found a skeleton decked out in Brooklyn Nets gear in Prospect Park. It was surrounded by sentimental wall art and American flags, like some funeral scene for a suburban Nets lover. Crime scene or dumb art? Probably dumb art. But we wonder why all the reblogs are missing out on the fact that this weird art scene wasn’t found just by a “random jogger,” but an artist. C’mon y’all!  [Gawker]
• Turtle cruelty alert! The barbaric Aspen Art Museum will have a special guest at their opening: turtles, many of them, carrying around iPads on their shells. Opponents claim their backs are too sensitive to endure the weight of the iPads. [The Denver Post]
• The Wikimedia Foundation is in a legal fight with a photographer who says that he owns the copyright to a “selfie” that a monkey took with his camera. According to Wikimedia, since the monkey pressed the shutter, the monkey technically owns it. Yes, this is silly, but it actually seems like this could have far-reaching impact on other photographers; after all, Gregory Crewdson, for one, doesn’t press the shutter for any of his photographs. [Slate]
• Run free, Edward Snowden—at least for a few more years. The former NSA contractor has been granted a three-year residence permit in Russia. [Russian Times]
• We’ll miss Isaac Lyles at Derek Eller Gallery—he was the gallery’s associate director—but we’ll visit him at Tilton Gallery uptown, where he will act as their new director. [Artnews]
• Oh man. Ben Davis really doesn’t like the Christopher Williams photo show at MoMA which he says is “canned and over-mannered, an academicized version of that caricature of pedantic indie-rock cool, ‘It’s so obscure, you’d never get it….” Ouch. [Artnet]
• An image of brawling Ukrainian parliament members looks like a Renaissance painting, apparently because it follows the golden ratio. [@jamesharveytm Via. Twitter]
• This Weird Al Yankovic revival is getting out of hand. Fans are petitioning for him to play at next year’s Super Bowl. Why don’t we just put Adam Sandler, Flight of the Conchords, and Tenacious D together on stage at the Super Bowl and get this parody-music revival over with once and for all.  [CNET]
• Blouin Artinfo’s been down the past few days. Now, if you try and visit the site, you get redirected to their blog “In the Air” with a banner on top that reads “ The main Blouin Artinfo site is undergoing technical upgrades and will return shortly.” What could Louise Blouin have in store? [Blouin Artinfo]
• This is a movie we want to see:

so @jerrysaltz just agreed to be in my buddy cop art movie ‘Critics’ in which we’ll use our height disparity to great comedic effect.

— Jayson Musson (@therealhennessy) August 7, 2014