This week, commercializing museums, map of literary road trips, designing masculinity, McDonald’s in Alaska, new Tokyo Olympic logo, John Waters says don’t smoke, and more.
July 26, 2015
Weekend Words: Cheat
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that hackers have threatened to expose the identities of thousands of users at the adultery website Ashley Madison, whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair” — a breach that “could be disastrous for one whose business model is based on complete confidentially.”
Horses, Lake, Trees, Sweat, Hotel, Sun, Bed, Girl, Phone, Birds, Film, Ski Town, Yard, Mountains, Road, Dandelions, Sun Kil Moon
From chirpy beginning to gloomy end, the new Sun Kil Moon album portrays a man in love with the concrete noun.
Stanley Whitney Reclaims His History
Happily, for those who are curious about what came next in Whitney’s evolution, they need only to go uptown and see the artist’s first museum exhibition in New York, Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which contains a selection of twenty-nine paintings and works on paper the artist made between 2008 and 2015.