- Now that North Korea has lifted its ban on Internet for tourists, we can see the country in shades of Amaro, Mayfair, and Rise; AP photographer David Guttenfelder has started uploading his personal pics to Instagram. [Gawker]
- Julia Halperin live tweeted last night’s panel on spectacle at FIT (with no hashtag, so read it now or wait for the video to be uploaded to YouTube). JEEZUS, we wish we were there. Panelists included Gavin Brown, Roberta Smith, Peter Halley and KAWS, with Hrag Vartanian as the moderator. It’s hard to identify the best quote amongst so many, but for now, we’ll go with Brown’s observation that when you can fly around the world with such ease, we are lacking in awe. Large works are about trying to rediscover awe. [Julia Halperin]
- Mark your calendars, maybe? Next year’s Manifesta will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia. [Manifesta]
- Owl stuck in your grill, the GIF. [Gawker]
- Today’s over-the-top gallery press release comes to us by way of The Fruitmarket Gallery in London. The artist Tania Kovats wants visitors to bring in water from seas around the world, and one way to do this is to list all the possible seas where one can find water in the press release. An excerpt: Arafura Sea, Bali Sea, Banda Sea, Bering Sea, Bismarck Sea, Bohai, Bohol Sea, Camotes Sea, Celebes Sea, Ceram Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Flores Sea, Halmahera Sea, Java Sea, Koro Sea, Molucca Sea, Philippine Sea, Salish Sea, Samar Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Sibuyan Sea, Solomon Sea, South China Sea, Sulu Sea, Tasman Sea, Visayan Sea, Yellow Sea”. [e-flux]
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