chris christie

Good morning and rainy Friday greetings. We wrote about the MoMA redesign yesterday afternoon, but we’re already exhausted by the topic. On to bigger and better things: Butt Pudding and Mickey Mouse!

• This twerking Japanese Butt Pudding can be purchased on Amazon Japan. [Food Beast]
• Disney asked Damien Hirst to make a painting for a charitable auction for Kids Company. The world now has its first dot Mickey. [Hypebeast]
• Apparently Chris Christie did something that got him in the news…[The Internet]
• A timely video on the stealing of memos, reports and internal correspondence that provided evidence that J. Edward Hoover’s F.B.I. was targeting “the New Left”. [Retro Report]
• Martha Schwendener writes a killer review on the Richard Serra show at Gagosian, describing the work as successful in commanding the gallery’s large spaces, but also an oversized icon of our times. They are Modernism on steroids. [The New York Times]
• Artists are now having drinks named after them. This one, from Tribeca’s Distilled, is called Richard Serra. [In the Air]
• This Time Light Box feature on the Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina after they were released from prison looks like a fashion shoot. Weird. [Time via Animal]
• Sutton PR, will plunge into the New York art waters with PR agent Jennifer Joy at the helm. [Gallerist]