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mnartists.blog: 15 Reasons to Attend an Internet Cat Video Festival 27 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
It’s back. A second edition of the tremendously popular Internet Cat Video Festival premieres Wednesday evening, August 28 at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand. This has become so much more than an ...
→ Via medium.com: Museum People 26 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
Comic book artist Grant Snider brought his pad to the Denver Art Museum recently, sketching what he witnessed--from a guard spilling about a punctured Ernesto Neto beanbag to a pair of brothers climbi...
→ Walker Channel: Making Ourselves at Home 26 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
"The big question of the project," says LA-based artist Fritz Haeg, "is how do we use what’s around us to make ourselves at home?" A new mini-documentary captures Haeg's yearlong Walker residency, fro...
→ Via fastcocreate.com: Pop Art Hardwood 26 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
What an architectural salvage site billed as a "gym floor" for sale, Andy Gorzalski recognized as the world's biggest piece of Pop Art. He led the charge to buy and preserve the floor Robert Indiana p...
→ Via theguardian.com: Porn-Free 26 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
The 171-hotel chain Nordic Choice is going porn-free. Inspired by UNICEF's campaign against child sex trafficking, the chain's owner is replacing its pay-per-view sex channels with contemporary art vi...
mnartists.blog: 10 Questions for #catvidfest 2013 Co-Host Julie Klausner 24 Aug 2013 | 04:10 am
JULIE KLAUSNER: Cat fancier, writer and creator of the hugely popular podcast, How Was Your Week Location: New York City Dayjob: Writer Online: http://julieklausner.com Twitter: @julieklausner Tell us...
→ Via io9.com: Protest Dataviz 24 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
Using data from The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone, political scientist John Beieler has created an animated map of global protest since 1979. But, he warns, don't read too much into th...
→ Via bbc.co.uk: Passings: Gilbert Taylor 24 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
British cinematographer Gilbert Taylor--celebrated for his work on films including Hitchcock's Frenzy, Star Wars, and Roman Polanski's Cul-de-Sac--has died at age 99. One of his favorite projects: lig...
mnartists.blog: Shortlisted: Death Grips’ No-Show, Vice Magazine on Real Punk, Drones and Being There 24 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
On August 2, Death Grips didn’t show up for their official Lollapalooza after-show at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge. While they have always been a band whose sound is haphazardly categorized (“punk noise ra...
→ Via animal.discovery.com: Cat Break 23 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Butter sculpture--a Minnesota State Fair ritual and highlight since the late 1800s--gets a feline twist this year: a 90-pound block of Grade A butter has been transformed in honor of our Internet Cat ...
