
- Huey Rey Fischer is a queer, vegetarian, Latino progressive Democrat running for state representative in Texas’ District 49, and he’s campaigning for millennial voters on Grindr and Tinder. [Slate]
- Shameless SPRG BRK plug: Brooklyn Magazine’s Paul D’Agostino checks in with Paddy about AFC upcoming projects, including a group GIF show commissioned by Providence College that’s dropping late-March. More details to come, but in the meantime, if you haven’t bought your ticket to our March 15 benefit, get on it. [Brooklyn Magazine]
- This video showing how rubber gloves are made is so fascinating and beautiful and a little creepy and you won’t want to stop watching it. It’s like an assembly line from the mind of Stanley Kubrick. [Facebook]
- Vienna’s Bank Austria Kunstforum is planning a retrospective of controversial, deceased painter Balthus, who has been accused of paedophilia. Austria’s right-wing FPÖ party is none too happy about it. [artnet News]
- A selfie-stick for your Macbook. [macbookselfiestick.com]
- Someone has been uploading thousands of eerie Youtube videos that may or may not contain a secret message. [Atlas Obscura]
- Not sure how Toronto-based art collective VS VS VS managed this, but it appears you can get a Google Street View Tour of their Port Lands studio. [@vs_vs_vs]
- Talk about a giant leap for GIF art: Lorna Mills’ Mountain Light/Time — a GIF of a sunrise over a mountain — will be playing on Times Square’s electronic billboards as March’s Midnight Moment. [Times Square Art]
- The second edition of my (Michael’s) monthly architecture/urban planning column “Degenerate City” is out. In this iteration, I discuss Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s plan to demolish buildings in impoverished Baltimore neighborhoods as an act of iconoclasm rather than actual policy. [City Paper]
- Pedro Neves Marques reviews Stan Douglas’s “The Secret Agent” at Victoria Miro. [Art Agenda]
- “I never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary” — the creator of Idiocracy. [The Hill]
Reflecting on Yesterday’s Conversation About Dudes and their Shows
by Paddy Johnson on September 25, 2013Turns out the internet has plenty to say on the subject of dudes and their shows. After Whitney Kimball published her piece rounding up all the male-centric shows this fall and the conversation that’s followed, we spent the better part of the day, continuing to take part in said discussion.
And I gotta say, the talk has been pretty good. Highlights after the jump.