- Hat tip to Tyler Green for pointing us to this wonderful piece by Alexandra Lange on the necessity and practice of architecture criticism. The best fact: Ada Louise Huxtable, the Times’ first architecture critic, got her job by writing the paper a very long letter complaining about their appraisal of a photography show. [Design Observer]
- Julia Halperin has a report on the changes coming to this year’s Armory. Zwirner, Greene Naftali, and Spruth Magers are back, and new exhibitors include Winkleman and On Stellar Rays; that alone sounds like a good start. [BLOUIN ARTINFO, WHICH IS OWNED BY LOUISE BLOUIN]
- The internet delivers a Tumblr of bad QR codes, six months after we asked for it. [WTF QR CODES]
- The Times has a Tumblr, too, and they’re using it to sell $169 prints of photos from their archive (or, in industry parlance, “morgue”). We can’t believe they didn’t do this sooner. [Lively Morgue, via Hyperallergic]
- We love this grid of dating profile photos taken at Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, by Marc Adelman. It raises again the rapidly-aging question: must memorials be unforgettable? [Tumblr]
