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- Meet the newest online retailer for art, Absolut Art., brought to you by Absolut. [Absolut Art.]
- Or, why not meet a doctor who’s addicted to social media, and SnapChats his surgeries? [VICE]
- It’s painful to watch Chelsea Manning’s Twitter feed; still in prison, she’s seeking donations for her legal defense fund. [@xychelsea]
- Artist Wim Delvoye’s career includes an array of materials: pig carcasses, fecal matter, and, as of 2014, a yoga mat. [Art Markit]
- The Venice Biennale won’t open until May 9, but we already know who’s set to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, born in 1944. [ARTnews]
- 45 percent of men think it’s harder to be a man today than in their father’s generation. [Think Tank]
- Why is that? “The Shriver Report,” from which Think Tank culled that statistic, contains responses indicating that it’s because of attaining a stronger position in the workplace, a stronger position financially, and greater gender equality. [A Woman’s Nation]
- Protests continue at the National Gallery in London over the museum’s choice to outsource jobs to a private company; the decision would affect more than 400 current employees. [The Art Newspaper]
- Brought to our attention via the Internet pipelines, a 2011 review of Open Engagement: “Is there a significant difference between what this street preacher is doing and what socially engaged artists do?” The more things change…maybe they don’t change—see our 2015 review of Open Engagement. [Portland Art]
- Bitcoin is for dudes. [Fusion]
- “[C]apitalism constitutes the horizon of possibility for artists and manufacturers alike, and must be reckoned with as such. The question then becomes: how far can artistic reflexivity go before becoming complicit with the economy it seeks to critique?” [DIS Magazine]
- Chinese auction houses hope to bring in more local buyers through sales of Impressionist and Modern art. [South China Morning Post]
