The best picture in the New York Times Yesterday.
- This link’s for Carolina Miranda: “Hello Kitty, the Big Apple, the Penguin, the Joker and several other heroes, villains and pop culture icons appeared before the New York City Council on Wednesday to testify against a proposed bill that would regulate the ubiquitous and, occasionally, aggressive presence of costumed characters in Times Square.” [The New York Times]
- To be healthy, try eating clay, drinking fossilized plants, or washing your hair with bull semen. Oh, please. [The Coveteur]
- Paddy Johnson was interviewed by Matthew Leifheit for VICE. “That’s the whole reason you go and see art—because someone has some way of visually expressing something in a way that you never would have thought of, or expressed that way yourself. Expression is the most powerful and interesting thing you can do with your life, I think.” [VICE]
- Meredith Monk once composed music for Star Trek—and other little-known facts about the Monk. [The Lab]
- A Nazi-era art collection has been bequeathed to the Kunstmuseum Bern, a small museum in Switzerland. The museum has to evaluate more than 1000 works of art to determine whether the works were acquired legally. [The New York Times]
- On the fiftieth anniversary of the term gentrification, Curbed comes up with a quite revealing history of how word has come into use. To note: the New York Times use of “gentrification” dipped in the mid-1990s and skyrocketed in mid-2000s. [Curbed NY]
- Yet another think piece decrying feminism. With the headline “Feminism Has Gone Too Far,” writer Lizzie Crocker has herself gone too far. She claims that feminists “certainfeminists to argue that certain subjects and certain arguments are either off limits or simply not up for debate,” referring to feminists protesting a pro-life abortion talk at Oxford given by two men. However, protesters themselves wrote that they were not aiming to stifle free speech.[The Daily Beast]
- The Tate recruits the makers of Minecraft to transform two of its paintings into Minecraft. Downloads will be available on Monday. [BBC News]
- Paul Chan wins the Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Award. Winners of this prize tend to skew male; only three of the ten recipients have been women. [The Guggenheim]
