- Stephen Colbert asks James Franco if he’s a fake. Franco concedes. [Gawker]
- Google Art Project is growing, kinda. They’re starting “Art Talk”, online chats about art in the collection, but we’re not really sure how this is going to get people into looking at art online when the lineup so far seems pretty dry; today’s talk is about “how to create engaging online courses”. [Mashable]
- The Cooper Union saga might be coming to a close. WNYC claims the faculty is about to budge, and could end up going along with the board’s plan to charge tuition. The higher ups are claiming, really, there’s no endowment left. [WNYC]
- Hyperallergic announces their Tumblr symposium program for Saturday evening. The whole evening looks good, but we’ll plug the panel Christiane Paul is on, “Past, Present, Future: Why Should I Reblog This?”, since she’s the best new media scholar we know. She’ll be joined by artist GH Hovagimyan, artists Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir (Eco Art Tech) and curator Lindsay Howard. [Hyperallergic]
- Artforum recaps the Jewish Museum’s Purim Ball, held on February 27th and hosted by Lena Dunham. They mention that benefit was basically taken over by their primary sponsor AIG—few artists were in attendance—a sore point for at least one critic we’d talked recently to who went to the event. Meanwhile, Christie’s Amy Cappellazzo wore a pair of trial Google glasses to the event; we’d like a report on how they work please! [Artforum]
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