In Brief
Delaware Becomes First State to Legalize Inheritance of Online Accounts
A new law in Delaware has made digital devices and accounts inheritable, the first such measure in the United States, Ars Technica reported.
Mostafa Heddaya
Art
Tip of the Iceberg: The Vast Underbelly of the Art Market
"It's really business as usual," announced one Fabian Bocart in today's New York Times, apropos the putative stability of the art market.
News
Artist Claims New York Times Co. Isn't Giving Him Credit He Deserves
Released to the public two weeks ago, the New York Times's Chronicle graphing tool has been at use within the paper since it was developed in 2012 by its "Labs" research-and-development department.
Opinion
"Liberals Are Killing Art," or Critic Jed Perl Gets Emotional
Jed Perl, a savvy polemicist far above fatuous windbag trolling, is mad as hell. Why? Because "Liberals Are Killing Art," according to the headline accompanying the art critic's latest for The New Republic.
In Brief
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Increasingly Reliant on Fee-Generating Loans
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is increasingly turning to lending out marquee artworks in their collection for profit, according to the Boston Globe.
Art
Divisions of Labor: 'Capitalist Realism' at Artists Space
From Baudelaire's 1859 dismissal of photography on down, the image-culture of the petit bourgeois "mob" has long served as a provocation to artistic thought, a relationship that reached its most literal apogee in the West with the Pop Art of the 20th century.
News
Does Less Testosterone Mean More Art?
Human civilization, and the artistic activities associated with it, came about as a result of a measurable decline in testosterone levels that began accelerating around 80,000 years ago, according to a study published in the August issue of Current Anthropology.
In Brief
Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art's Interest in Corcoran
The chief of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art told a philanthropist that absorbing the failing Corcoran would make "his collection at the National Gallery ... greater than the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
In Brief
Zaha Hadid Qatar World Cup Stadium Laborers Paid a Pittance
A Guardian investigation has found that migrant workers building architect Zaha Hadid's World Cup stadium in Qatar are being paid at a level beneath what's mandated by World Cup regulations.
In Brief
Town Paints Sculpture Blue, to Artist's Horror
French municipalities are mistreating the public works they commission under a national "1% for art" program, with one going so far as to recently repaint a sculpture without the artist's approval, Libération reported.
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In Brief
New York Times Arts Reporter Copies Renaissance Painter's Wikipedia Entry [Updated]
The media blog Fishbowl New York is reporting that the lead paragraph of a July 25 New York Times article by Carol Vogel bears a striking similarity to the Wikipedia entry for its subject, the Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo.
News
Food Cart Fracas at Met Museum Steams Top Dogs
The $65 million redesign of the plazas in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has stanched the rising tide of food carts that typically congregate at the foot of the institution's sweeping entrance, the New York Times reported.