PaintNite via The Daily Beast
- This map breaks down New York neighborhoods based on whether loud party complaints or vermin complaints are more popular. [Gawker]
- In response to Pope Francis’ recent comments on how he can’t judge the gays, Scalia has stepped in to offer to fill the role. No, this isn’t the Onion. [New Yorker]
- Australian Photo show is censored in the name of family values. [The Art Newspaper]
- Fascinating and only minorly creepy, a new clock measures time with breaths instead of hands or numbers. [Wired]
- Edward Snowden has received one year asylum from Russia and left the Moscow airport today. [The Wall Street Journal]
- “Art Rules” wants to be the new Twitter for art debates, but can you really make a convincing argument for anything within their tight 100 character limit? I’m predicting a lot of over-generalizing, undefended statements. [The Guardian]
- Art fraud is so sexy right now. Check out the beginning of the “American Hustle” trailer. [Youtube]
- This is MoMA PS1. This is MoMA PS1 with Google Glass. [GalleristNY]
- Nathaniel Stern’s “Stuttering” an interactive installation at the Wits Art Museum in which blank walls come alive with text and images gets the thumbs up from Business Day’s Chris Thurman. The faster you move, the more frantic and unreadable the piece becomes. [Business Day]
- “Teaching drunk adults is basically like teaching children.” PaintNites around America mix art classes with drinking. Whoo. [The Daily Beast]
- Chicago’s opening up some gallery-themed bars. Woo hoo and all that, but basically all this means is that these bars will have some art on the walls. [Redeye Chicago]
- Classic ‘Chicken or Egg’ problem: are artists eccentric alcoholics, or are eccentric alcoholics artists? Turns out, neither one is true, but we could have told you that. [The Globe and Mail]
- Want a morning dose of a little bit of bullshit? Geno Smith, rising Jets quarterback, says that it’s his art background that makes him so talented. “I can see things on the field: angles, geometrics, and I think that played a huge role in things with football.” Yeah, whatever. [Fox News]
