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- Charlie is a 1 year old kangaroo currently serving as resident therapy animal at Utah’s William E. Christoffersen Veterans Home. He hops around and gives hugs to the veterans and their families. (Related: What Does a Parrot Know about PTSD) If you’re feeling down, the #therapyanimal hashtag on Twitter should cheer you up. [The Dodo]
- Just in case we were starting to get bored with the whole Scumbag-Martin-Shkreli-Bought-the-Wu-Tang-Clan-Album drama, the plot thickens. Now everyone tangentially related to the album’s creation and ownership are being sued by fan-artist Jason Koza over copyright infringement. Koza refers to himself as “one of the most talented portrait artists of the Second Millennium [sic]”. All parties involved are expected to arrive in court in a clown car. [artnet News]
- “I dig the dopey, doglike look on the swimmer’s face too. It hints at something deeper or more embarrassed. He looks like the kind of straight cute lunkheads in high school who’d let you blow them, you know?” Brandon Soderberg on “Flaming American (Swim Champ)” By Marsden Hartley. [City Paper]
- Neoliberal Lulz is the latest project from London-based Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc. The artist now identifies as a corporation, and is selling her personal data—everything from the stuff collected and monetized by Google and Facebook to the information hackers might steal. [The Guardian]
- Long Island City artists are facing the threat of displacement. A dance company had to renegotiate a 70% rent hike to a 40% increase. Following LIC’s 2001 rezoning which led to 35,000 new residents in the area, it appears independent companies are being forced to relocate in order to make way for luxury condos. [LIC Post]
- And what’s heading to LIC? Lots of skyscrapers. There’s currently a race to build Queens’ new tallest building. [Curbed]
- On the emergence of Amish romance novels, and its booming rural, religious mom readership. [The Paris Review]
- Art museum social media producers are really emerging as the new power players, as attested by this recent profile on the MET’s Kimberly Drew. I [Rea] love how Drew’s favourite hashtags are #BlackLivesMatter, #CaughtGrammin and #arthoe. [NBC News]
- “It’s probably the first and last time a magazine has used a Gramsci quotation to introduce its readers to Ice Cube.” This is so amazing: in 1991, Angela Davis interviewed Ice Cube for Transition Magazine. [Dangerous Minds]
- Fascinating video portrait of Zun Lee. The Toronto-based documentarian and photographer co-curated Fade to Resistance, an exhibition currently on at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel of found Polaroid of African-American families from the 1970s and 1980s. [Format Magazine]
- Curator Marta Kuzma has been named dean of the Yale School of Art. She’s the first woman to hold the position. [Yale News]
- Here’s a slideshow of previously unseen Picasso works. In total, 271 unknown Picassos were unveiled by a retired French electrician who once worked for the artist and had a secret stash of his work in his garage. [The Telegraph]
- Eyeroll highlights from the Armory Show talks includes Blake Gopnik discussing his forthcoming Warhol biography with Warhol Museum director Eric Shiner, and Jerry Saltz engaging in a deathmatch with Armory director Ben Genocchio on “visual criticism in the digital age”. [The Observer]
- Cindy Sherman is on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, part of a photoshoot where the artist poses as the type of groupies one might see outside of NYFW waiting to be documented by street fashion photographers. I hate to love this, but it’s really the most Cindy Sherman thing to do with a fashion mag. [Harper’s Bazaar]
- We wrote about the malware museum on Tuesday, but the Internet Archive has far more than just this available thanks to its 3.1 emulator software. Here is a collection of curated Windows 3.x software that shows the range of software products available in the early 1990s. Does anyone else think Castle of the Winds and Net Hack are remarkably similar? [Internet Archive]
