- What’s it really like to be a news publication’s social media editor? You spend all day around other people who think “tweets are tiny artworks.” [Digiday]
- Starting this Friday, artists Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder will live in a giant hamster wheel for 10 days. [The Brooklyn Paper]
- Frank Gehry don’t care! Nobody likes the too-famous architect’s design for the Eisenhower Memorial; detractors have compared it to a Nazi-era concentration camp or a highway overpass. Funding has been withheld for the project, but again, Frank Gehry don’t care—he’s not changing the design. [The Guardian]
- Three Al Jazeera journalists have been detained by the Egyptian government for having “links to a ‘terrorist organization’ and spreading false news.” Six other Al Jazeera journalist face charges linked to the case. Today the protest marches over to Twitter with #freeajstaff. [Al Jazeera America]
- “The narrative of the scientist and his sentient computer is as much about loneliness as it is about intelligence,” writes John Menick in the new issue of Frieze. He tracks the guy-and-his-robot storylines in science fiction. [Frieze]
- Citi Bike and the Armory Show art fair have crafted
an art exhibitiona marketing campaign on wheels. The fair commissioned artist Xu Zhen to apply designs, much like a decal to 10 Citi Bikes. Two will be on view at the fair, while eight others will be available for riders at the Citi Bike station closest to the fair. Then there’s a contest where the first 20 people to ride those art bikes to the fair each day will get free entry to the Armory fair—but only after posting the appropriate hashtag on social media. Has nobody done the math here? Eight bikes, twenty people … Seriously. [The New York Times]
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