February 2012
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Submitting to SFMOMA's Tumblr
Museums of the world, take note. SFMoMA has some of the best social media outreach. This is how you build a museum (and a community) outside of the traditional boundaries of a museum’s wall.
sfmoma:
We’re trying something new: Submission Fridays! We get a ton of really great original artwork submitted to our Tumblr, and we’d like to share more of it. SO, now we’ll be taking some time...
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“The student monitoring was part of a much larger intelligence operation that has...”
– In what might be the most disturbing overreach and abuse of authority ever:
Monitoring of Muslim Students Sparks Outrage via AP
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WatchReally? with Seth and Amy: Birth Control; or, why Amy Poehler is my favorite lady.
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Curator of Curiosities is now on Twitter! Say... →
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“But the ladyblogs are not feminist simply by virtue of offering women an...”
– Molly Fisher, “So Many Feelings” n+1
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“An M.I.T. neuroscientist named Ann Graybiel told me that she and her colleagues...”
– In which I learned that Orwell was wrong: Big Brother isn’t the government, it’s Target.
Charles Duhigg, How Companies Learn Your Secrets
This is, like, the secret nut graf in this widely circulated NYT piece about shopping habits. Tell me this doesn’t explain everything about...
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Museum Crowd Sourcing
The Walters is crowd-sourcing an entire exhibition. Hear the groan of a PhD.
Via
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“…where are the women?”
– Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
more. and more.
(via thesmithian)
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MI5 spied on Charlie Chaplin after FBI asked for... →
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“Over and over again we tell you it is acceptable for men—famous, infamous, or...”
– Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Would Let Him Beat Them, The Rumpus
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“A woman’s right to choose is under attack as much as it’s ever been,...”
– Joss Whedon speaks with The Guardian about the newest Buffy comic, abortion and feminism.
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Student debt pushing more people toward... →
latimes:
More than four-fifths of bankruptcy attorneys have seen a notable jump in the number of potential clients with student loan debt, the National Assn. of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys says.
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Art Museums on Tumblr
I just found out that the Walker Art Center is on Tumblr. What other art museums should I be following?
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The New Inquiry: Simulacra Descending a Staircase →
thenewinquiry:
In these dark and brooding times it is Kafkaesque tragicomedy that strikes the right note of collective mirth. The Iranian government recently staged an anniversary celebration of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s momentous return from exile in France. The cardboard reenactment of his arrival has…
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January 2012
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Artist pronunciation list
Note to every undergraduate art history student in America: Read this before I hear another presentation on Ingres.
paperimages:
This guide is meant to provide acceptable pronunciation for names and other art words for English-speaking North Americans. In many cases it only gives an approximation of the native language sounds.
Arles - arl Bosch, Hieronymus - heer-AHN-ih-mus bosh ...
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HISTORICITY (was already taken): soapbox time →
historicity-was-already-taken:
If you can, please sign this petition. Lawmakers in Arizona have banned public schools from teaching any courses with racial or ethnic themes. This is incredibly dangerous and (obviously) racist, and though I don’t know how much of an effect this petition will have I still urge you to sign it.
On a related note, the Tennessee Tea Party is fighting to remove...
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Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad →
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“Some books haunt the reader. Others haunt the writer. The Handmaid’s Tale...”
– Margaret Atwood, “Haunted by the Handmaiden’s Tale,” Guardian
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In “Rethinking a Lot,” a new study of parking,... →
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“The camera loves Monroe because the camera, a piece of technology far removed...”
– Lee Siegel, “Unsexing Marilyn” New York Review of Books
December 2011
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The Future of Classics →
wwnorton:
…take, for example, the common statement “The ancient Athenians invented democracy.” Put like that, it is simply not true. As far as we know, no ancient Greek ever said so; and anyway democracy isn’t something that is “invented” like a piston engine. Our word “democracy” derives from the Greek,…
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“Instead of a period at the end of each sentence there should be a tiny clock...”
– Laurie Anderson’s “theory of punctation” (via) (via manbartlett)
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“By this logic, the point of RIP trolling is to disrupt — or at least...”
– Check out this fascinating article on new academic work on the art of trolling.
“Under the Bridge” Inside Higher Education.