- The Whitney Museum has a new cheeseball logo. They’ve also redesigned the site. That much, is a considerable improvement. The site however, loads slow. [The Whitney]
- Museums for everybody! Abba gets one, so what the hell, Paula Deen Museum. [LA Times]
- Paul D’Agostino interviews the Bushwick Open Studios [BOS] organizers about what’s in store this year. Most of it reads like PR, but we weren’t aware of BOS’s CinemaSunday programming, so it’s worth a read regardless. Apparently there will be a screening for the “”The Pizzatrope,” a how-to guide for combining early animation techniques, gifs, and pizza.” [The L Mag]
- The IRS is unhappy with Glafira Rosales, the Long Island dealer who sold abstract expressionist paintings many now believe to be fake to Knoedler gallery. Knoedler closed two years ago, when they received their first lawsuit over the authenticity of the paintings. Now Rosales is charged with falsifying tax returns and failing to disclose a foreign bank account to the IRS. [In the Air]
- BREAKING: Complex reports that Pratt’s giving its hundreds of resident cats the boot this week, prompting an outcry from nearly 1700 community cat lovers on Change.org– to no avail. Two cats have been granted amnesty. The hundreds of others will live with the school’s engineer Conrad Milster. Keep the cats. [Change.org, Complex]
- GIF inventor Steve Wilhite used his life time achievement award speech time at the Webby Awards to let the world know he’d like us to pronounce the file format as he intended, “JIF.” Us GIF nerds have known this for years—it’s on the Wikipedia page—but I don’t think even a high-profile speech is going to turn this boat around. “GIF” makes more sense. [Animal]
