- 20×200 sent out an email to its customers yesterday promising the return of the company. No relaunch details in this story, but plenty of background. [Pandodaily]
- Bloomberg says he won’t be stepping in to save the City Opera, because “its business model doesn’t seem to be working”. [Artsbeat]
- A new Internet has been born. Occupy.here is a wifi network which runs completely independently from the Internet; from what we gather, it’s still in BBS message board stage and dependent on your proximity to an Occupy router, but it’s growing. Occupy.here creator Dan Phiffer will be speaking about the project at this weekend’s PRISM-Break hackathon at Eyebeam. [Rhizome]
- Just what nobody needed: A month long Banksy exhibition on the streets of Lower Manhattan. [Artsbeat]
- New York Magazine reports that the piece has already been vandalized. [New York Magazine]
- Does one bad apple spoil the bunch? Greg Allen considers four possibly forged Barnett Newman paintings in the wake of the Knoedler scam. He ends with an offer to buy the Knoedler Newmans from collectors…“Assuming they can be authenticated, of course.” [gregorg]
Wednesday Links: A New Internet is Born
by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 2, 2013 Massive Links
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