Jan Vermeer, "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" c. 1664-65; Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 40.6 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- This is nice: artists redesign signs for the homeless [Signs for the Homeless, via: the Verge]
- Amazon mogul Jeff Benzos has purchased the Washington Post. We don’t expect any kind of massive, Amazonian overhaul. Their staff is unionized. [Forbes]
- MoMA made a tumblr called “MoMA Teens” to better connect with, well, the teens. [ArtsBeat] [Tumblr (warning slow load)]
- An interesting piece by Greg Allen on Walter de Maria’s Las Vegas Piece, an earthwork in the middle of the desert, comprising four huge, shallow cuts in the ground. Allen infers from people’s reports that the piece is now “a bald spot in the desert,” which means they’re stuck driving way out in the middle of nowhere and finding nothing, which might be the whole piece anyway. [greg.org]
- Rhizome’s Senior Developer Scott Meisburger made a new full-screen GIF viewer app, GIFZoomer. It’s open-source and available on Rhizome’s GitHub repository! [Rhizome]
- This “People of the Art Museum” comic is a little reductive and a lot funny. [Medium]
- 12 Pastel portraits by Bob Dylan will be on view at London’s National Portrait Gallery on August 24th. He’s this musician—not sure if you’ve heard of him. [International Business Times]
- People are upset because Discovery Channel’s telling white lies on Shark Week, presenting a prehistoric monster shark like it’s still alive, and getting carried away by a frenzy of its own making. [The Verge]
- SITE Santa Fe, which claims to be America’s first international biennial, wants to reinvent the biennial. According to director Irene Hoffman, the problem had to do with star curators launching shows closely tied to the perspective of said curator, but with little lasting impact on the community. Sounds familiar. [Hyperallergic]
- A Japanese collector is now claiming that a Renoir, which he purchased at Sotheby’s for $1.61 million back in February, had been stolen in August 2000 from his own home. [ARTInfo]
- There’s going to be movie about Vermeer that seeks to answer how the Dutch Baroque could have achieved his photo-realistic style years before photography was invented. Could the great master have used optics? (Spoiler: yes, yes he did.) [Hyperallergic]
- “Enchanting Painting” made from fly puke. That is all. [Wired]
