- Haven’t heard about relational aesthetics in a while? Nicolas Bourriaud, progenitor of the movement, has been anointed curator of the 2014 Taipei Biennial. [e-flux]
- The New York Times Editorial Board brings up a topic we’ve known for some time: A college education no longer guarantees financial success after graduation, creating high unemployment rates among recent grads. And while we’re seeing job growth, it’s mostly low-wage jobs that there’s more of. So now that the Times knows this, it is fact for all. [The Opinion Pages]
- More animal friends! [Imgur]
- Jesus Christ. Apparently blackface costumes are still popular in Germany. [Vocativ]
- “I think it may be that LaBeouf had to improvise after the fact in order to re-frame [his] misdeeds as an ongoing artistic statement.” Sounds about right to me. [Vulture]
- Those tired of art auction news will be delighted to hear about SellYouLater™, a site that gets rid of the verbal puffery and reduces the auction hype to stats, all in chart form. [SellYouLater]
- Artist Margaret Wharton has died. [Chicago Tribune]
- I expected to hate this list of the Guardian’s “top ten sexiest works of art ever” a lot more than I did. [The Guardian]
- Late Penthouse founder Bob Guggione’s erotically-curated art collection is being battled over by former Wall Street banker Jeremy Fromer and FriendFinder, because of Guggione’s debt troubles late in life. As for why we care? I don’t really know. [The Art Newspaper]
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