Screenshot from Ted Turner’s apocalypse video
- Could this be the year that the market and institutional support for net art finally gets off the ground? Is there an end in sight for bad Instagram? And what fresh shit will Stefan Simchowitz stir this year? Paddy Johnson’s predictions for the digital art world in 2015. [artnet News]
- Reusable art handler bags might not seem very sexy, but their model is a total beefcake. [Artstrong]
- The National Portrait Gallery appoints Nicholas Cullinan as its director. [Guardian]
- Artist Worthy turns (net) artists into clickbait. [Artist Worthy]
- Ah, an actually wonderful read to start your day: a brief history of wit, from Alexander Pope to Stephen Fry. So it’s a very Brit perspective. [Commentary]
- Forbes 30 under 30 media list is out and 18 out of 30 people featured are women. That’s a good ratio. [Forbes]
- In important Canadian news, team Canada took the world Junior Hockey gold medal yesterday in a 5-4 win over Russia in Toronto. JOY!!!! [The Toronto Star]
- The gay tourism company Quiiky offers a tour of art at the Vatican, like Michelangelos, through a squarely gay lens. Will the Pope get down with this? The connection’s a stretch, but a nice overview of the radically changing attitudes over the years. [Guardian]
- All aboard the hangover bus, the new NYC bus that offers IV drips and bananas at a VIP price. But how do you get to the bus?? [Village Voice]
- The Detroit Institute of the Arts has reached its fundraising goal of $100 million, a sum which will save its collection from the auction block, and go towards refilling the city’s bankrupted pension funds. [The Detroit Free Press]
- Sexism everywhere, this time in economics. “Today, women in economics face a Catch-22, where speaking up can easily make them look like a shrew, while not speaking up robs them of legitimate power.” Truism in all fields, except maybe performance art. [Quartz]
- 34 years ago, CNN made a video to be played on the channel in case of the apocalypse. [Jalopnik]
- A slightly nobler version than the Onion’s imagining of apocalypse news. Either way, there will still be news. [The Onion]
- Baltimore-based artists and collectives, the Contemporary is launching the Grit Fund this year; they’ll be giving out individual grants ranging from $1,000 to $6,000. [The Contemporary]
