- Pratt students beware: you are being trolled! There is now a Tumblr devoted to anonymous confessions about the school’s students, faculty, and the “pratt cats outside the engine room.” [Pratt Institute Confessions]
- Tech money is being spent on restaurants, lavish parties, and hoodies that will last ten years. It is not being spent on the arts. Ellen Cushing examines The Bacon-Wrapped Economy. [East Bay Express]
- In this month’s Frieze, curator Dieter Roelstraete ponders why artists and writers keep talking about leaving the art world. He’s wary about all this noise, which sounds more like a deflated whimper than any siren blasting into the future. With artists, he calls them out for complaints that’re “immediately transformed into an art performance.” With writers, he’s suspicious, wondering: “[W]ould anyone seriously interested in ‘forgetting the art world’ really write an art world book about it?” [Frieze]
- New York Magazine has unearthed the secret to listicle gold: all you need is photos of someone hot [re: Ryan Gosling] carrying things. Look at him carry a coffee cup, a book, or laundry and try not to get turned on. Well, we got the “carrying things” part down with our post “Important People Carrying Brillo Boxes at the Armory Show”. Now we just have to get the hotties. [New York Magazine]
- In 1979, Basquiat painted the walls of his old girlfriend’s East Village apartment,. Alexis Adler. Now she’s going to cash in with the help of his former assistant Stephen Torton. [ARTinfo]
- Two days ago, Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan released “20 Best Trollings in Modern History.” When we read that Roseanne Barr guest edited the New Yorker in 1996, we thought Gawker was trolling us. They were not. [Gawker, The New Yorker]
Wednesday Links: Here’s One For the Trolls
by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on March 27, 2013 Massive Links
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