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by Paddy Johnson Clara Olshansky Ian Marshall on July 29, 2013
- Jay Z’s performance art debut will premiere on HBO. In the words of Seth Meyers, what could possibly go right? [Rolling Stone]
- More Jay Z news. A group of activists known as the Dream Defenders are occupying the capitol building in Tallahassee Florida without Jay Z until the legislature reviews the “Stand Your Ground” law. The law affected the controversial Zimmerman verdict last week. Long time activist Harry Belafonte has joined the cause, and has called out Jay Z for his lack of support. “I would be hard pressed to tell Mr Jay Z what to do with his time and his fortune. I can only be critical of what he is not doing.” Jay Z, in response, told Belafonte that his “presence is charity.” [MSNBC via Heart as Arena]
- Fox News lines up an interview with religious scholar and author Reza Aslan so they can talk about his new book, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth,”. Then anchor Lauren Green spends the whole segment questioning Aslan’s qualifications on the grounds that he’s a Muslim. [Huffington Post]
- The real art for the fake movie made by the real CIA operation that inspired the movie Argo is up for auction. [Wired]
- Caroline Criado-Perez recently made headlines for finally winning her fight to have prominent women represented on Britain’s bank notes last week. Now she’s taking on Twitter over their apparent inaction in dealing with threats of sexual abuse. [The Independent]
- Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center benefit attracted the Hamptons elite and Lady Gaga. And there were a lot of naked ladies. And $1000 meals. [Wall Street Journal]
- In another Hamptons benefit, Russell Simmons raised $1.5 million for art programs, auctioning off such fare as “Lunch with Sarah Jessica Parker in New York City,” “Meet LL COOL J & Receive 4 VIP Tickets to the concert of your choice,” and “Enjoy a walk-on role in an upcoming Tyler Perry Production.” [Huffington Post]
- In 1926 a Massachusetts professor wrote that he dreamt of “Pictorial organization. The place of subject matter…Fashionable aesthetics: fetish and taboo. Painting and modern life. The Future.” Christopher Shea sources the advent of contemporary art to an extraordinary 1920s seminar at Wellesley College by Alfred Barr. [The Boston Globe]
- The Park Avenue Tunnel will reopen to pedestrians this Saturday for an artwork by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that will remind us all of our mortality. [The New York Times]
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