- Does art matter in the semi-urban Midwest? We think so. Democrats in Wisconsin are calling for the removal of a portrait of Jeremiah Rusk, the governor who, as one congressman put it, “gave the order to fire on people who were demonstrating for the eight-hour day” in 1886 Milwaukee. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
- Kaelan Wilson-Goldie tackles the problems of supporting “revolutionary art” and its inevitable use by the counter-revolution. [Frieze]
- Ben Fino-Radin’s post over at Rhizome about the problems of properly anti-aliasing a net art piece about anti-aliasing won’t blow your mind, but we should probably be talking more about how we’re gonna conserve the digital artifact aesthetic. I sense an argument coming on. [Rhizome]
- Some of us felt bad for poking fun at the animated GIF version of the R.E.M. album cover. The guilt is waning now that it’s occurred to us how many other album covers would be just as deserving of lo-tech wow-factor [Deathandtaxesmag].
- Have you looked at the Occupennial Art Database, the huge online cache of the OWS-related art? No? Maybe you should.
- If you take away the VHS collection, the Joy Division posters, and the quarter-of-an-inch-thick plywood divider between by room and my flatmate’s, the Armory is going to look just like my apartment once Herzog and de Meuron are done renovating. [via NYT]
- Word to the wise: watch the video for Beyoncé’s song “Countdown” before it gets removed or you think of something valuable to do.
