Season 2 of Stranger Things starts in October and the trailer is out. Holy. Crap. I don’t know if my post-internet self is designed to wait this long for anything. Related: Strange Genitals. [The Internet]
Bubbles the chimpanzee, famous for having belonged to Michael Jackson and immortalized in a Jeff Koons sculpture, is now an artist in his own right. The 34 year old primate has taken up painting, and his pieces can fetch up to $1,500. [New York Post]
The stories the internet brought—The truck nut wars. For those who don’t know, Truck Nuts are the testicals truck drivers will hang from the hitch on their back bumpers. There is now a turf war between the two dudes who both claim to have invented the nutz. [VICE]
Here’s an opinion column advocating for painter Yulia Kuznetsova, a recent SAIC graduate trying to get a visa to remain in the United States after school. Kuznetsova is from Russia, which is bleak as fuck and a terrible place to be an artist, apparently, thanks to Putin’s draconian censorship laws. [Chicago Sun Times]
Following up on the Salvador Dali paternity dispute story that lead to his exhumation, the embalmer charged with the task reports that the dead artist’s mustache is still in tact. The results of the DNA test, which would prove once and for all whether the 61-year-old fortune teller, Maria Pilar Abel, is the lone daughter of Dali will take 1-2 months to come back. In the meantime, we’ll be waiting. [The Guardian]
More than 100 of Crocket Johnson’s mathematically based paintings made between 1965-1975, now online at The National Museum of American History. [American History]
Here’s the latest, most ridiculous skirmish from the culture wars: makeup artist Gypsy Freeman has lost her spot as the winner of an Instagram contest because reality television star Kat Von D found out she was a Trump supporter. Is that unfair to Freeman? Probably. But so is being deported/dying from climate disasters. It’s hard to feel that sorry for Freeman here, particularly given that this is a prize sponsored by an individual. Something tells me we’ll be dealing with bitterness like this for years to come. [New York Daily News]
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