- It’s time someone finally produced a peer-reviewed paper that ranked the butts of every Super Bowl player. This study divides asses into the following categories: Flat Butts, Long Butts (sister to the flat butt), Middle of the Pack, Honorable Mentions, and Best in Show. One quibble with the results: What the hell is Luke Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks doing in “Middle of the Pack”? Clearly that ass deserves better. [Buzzfeed]
- Be nice to your New Yorkers today because yesterday sucked for thousands of us. Snow, a flaming umbrella, and signal-related delays contributed to three-hour-long delays on the 7-train (with commuters stuck inside), and malfunctions on the L, J, and M, leaving many with no cross-borough subway transportation. [Gothamist]
- Mayor de Blasio, in today’s State of the City address, will stress the administration’s aim to build 1,500 below-market live-work spaces for New York City artists by 2024. [WNYC]
- Interstate Projects Curatorial Director Jamie Sterns blogs about her recent visit to the Serpentine Galleries, and a flock of ravenous birds. One particularly enjoyable line, regarding a performance by Beth Collar: “It felt so familiar in its vague poetics and predictability of mumble-core Dadaism.” [Ya Ya Ya]
- More blogs: WOW HUH, a group art blog, that we assumed was defunct, has posted six essays this month. Mostly by artists, and full of real opinions: Carlos Rosales-Silva writes “ It is increasingly difficult to be an artist in this moment. I am having a hell of a time imagining what utility art has in the fight against the deeply-ingrained, white supremacist system of law in this country. Now, to read all of them. [WOW HUH]
- “Maybe the algorithm and social media soul is now so intertwined and interdependent that it makes little sense to even separate the two?” What does this mean? No idea, but it’s from a Rhizome interview with artists Daniel Rourke and Erica Sourti, and it’s not any clearer in the context of this mostly descriptive review of End User at the Hayward in London. [Hyperallergic]
- Hayward Gallery of London has hung a huge Cold War Missile high on its facade for its show History Is Now. Had the missile, named Bloodhound, been launched as an attack, “the western world would have been engulfed in a barely imaginable catastrophe.” [The Guardian]
- On the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, you’ll be able to find Keanu Reeves. On February 8, he’s giving a talk and reading on Gauguin at the Foundation Beyeler. [Observer]
- Google has a “Bad Ads” team which filters scammers. Thank you, Overlord. [The Verge]
- In nerd news: a database of unpublished sci-fi and fantasy authored not by the typical white males. [Double Diamond]
Tuesday Links: Football and Keanu
by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on February 3, 2015 Massive Links
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