Bonnie Stewart for Nat Geo Traveler's Annual Photo Contest (Image via Wired)
- The post-Sandy Whitney is going to be a little less brutalist in design, have more outdoor space, and the art will be safer from any floods that aren’t apocalyptic. A little refreshing, after the Seaport ordeal. [The New York Times]
- How to Talk Dirty in Arabic: Nonconcatenative Morphology and Cocks. Hard to imagine an article more disjunctive with the image above than this one. [Animal]
- Art school grads of the 90’s: Liz Phair’s “Exile In Guyville” turns twenty today. Time to dust off that album, and give it another play in the studio. It’s still good. [The New Yorker]
- Bert Stern, the art fashion photographer best known for the shots he took of Marilyn Monroe has died. He was 83. [The New York Times]
- Toronto: Don’t fuck this up. The mayoral race is becoming crowded thanks to a near universal dislike of alleged crack smoker, and Mayor Rob Ford. That’s improving his chances of winning. [Toronto Star]
- Tired of cats yet? Art critic and curator Karen Wilken lets her cats use her sculptures as playgrounds. [Hyperallergic]
- The Brooklyn-based art workshop space 3rd Ward has officially opened in Philadelphia. Their inaugural show includes 144 works by just three artists; Emily Erb, Marcella Marcella, and Sabrina Small. [Artblog]
- For anyone who’s been following the saga of Southern TV Chef Paula Dean—she’s used the N-word—her non-apology tour has dug her deep into a hole. Tricia Rose, the incoming director of Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America writes on CNN that’s she’s struck by Deen’s inability to see from a perspective other than her own. Their comment section is the nadir of humanity. [CNN]
- Some beautiful photos from Nat Geo Traveler’s almost-over photo contest [Wired]
