- Best job listing ever: seeking a pig who likes whiskey. Okay, so you’d actually just *pretend* to be a pig on Twitter, but still, it’s a job as a whiskey-swilling pig. [WhistlePig via @WFMU]
- There’s a white-hot market for Chinese art and antiquities—driven largely by a newfound interest within China itself. This might be motivating a recent crime wave in Europe, where several museums have had their Chinese collections burglarized. [The New York Times]
- An Erwin Wurm sculpture of a truck bent so that its rear wheels are resting on a wall has received a parking ticket in Karlsruhe, Austria. [The Local Austria]
- A story of a woman who became obsessed with revealing her devout Christian father’s gay identity. This whole story is ick. [Narrative.ly]
- WTF is going on in this image from a new Jesper Just film installation? [Palais de Tokyo]
- Fourteen watercolors presumed to be painted by a young Adolf Hitler were auctioned in Germany. The most expensive lot went to an anonymous buyer in China. The painting features the Neuschwanstein Castle, a.k.a. Walt Disney’s Cinderella castle. [The New York Times via Deutsche-Press Agentur]
- It is impossible to not giggle like a twelve-year-old while reading this review of the Tom of Finland show at Artists Space: “Early gouaches from the mid-1940s feature urbane rakes whose illicit behavior is only occasionally explicit; but soon thereafter, Tom provided close-up views of every possible combination of orifice and appendage.“ [Artforum]
- A maintenance worker mistakenly threw away a $10,000 piece of public sculpture because he thought it was something that “had been left by skateboarders.” [ARTnews]
- To mark the 15th anniversary of “The Thong Song,” seven artists were invited to reimagine this important nugget of turn-of-the-millennium culture. MC Schmidt (of Matmos fame) rose to the occasion with a truly bizarre, singular vision that could be the soundtrack to Sisqo’s Inferno. It is awesome. [WTMD]
- Huh. Apparently a penis that was allegedly removed from Napoleon’s corpse has been exhibited in museums and now resides in the private collection of a urologist in New Jersey—“The Corsica of Genitalia.” [The Washington Post]
