Thursday Links: I Guess We’re Getting a Clitney Perennial

• Is there such a thing as high-end, playful trolling? Perhaps, if you’re like Greg Allen and use irony as an appropriation device. But when did we decide that it’s okay to use “trolling” in a positive way? I thought we’d agreed a long time ago that it’s a word to be reserved for the rudest side of the Internet. [The Awl]
• Artists win an appeal to renegotiate artist-payment fees with the National Gallery. [Canadian Art]
• Remember Yellowism? Vladimir Umanets, the man who spent one-and-a-half years in prison for defacing a Mark Rothko painting in the name of Yellowism, has now come out to say he’s sorry about all that. He writes: “I realised that as long as one’s health is good, and one is able to live freely, the problems we face, big or small, are things that everyone has to go through and there is no need to sweat the small stuff.” [Comment Is Free]
• After a swift dismissal, New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson was replaced by has Managing Editor Dean Baquet. From Quartz: “God is good. First a president and now the top journalist.” From The Atlantic, Abramson may have been disliked for being assertive; she confronted Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. about being paid less than her predecessor. [The Internet]
• The Yams collective withdraws from the Whitney Biennial, citing the biennial inclusion of Joe Scanlan’s Donelle Woolford works. The timing to this entire situtation is odd; the group resigned after their work was already shown. Their video piece only ran from March 7 – March 9. [Hyperallergic]
• You can protest the Whitney Biennial’s tokenism in-person as part of the Clitney Perennial. [Clitney Perennial]
• Pratt Institute appoints a dean for the newly formed School of Art, Gerry Snyder, currently at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. [Pratt Institute]
• A quick primer on exotic animal laws in the United States. [New Scientist]
• 1999’s Pokemon Snap, set up with Oculus Rift. Sure, why not? [Polygon]

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