” Fischer is campaigning in all the ways youth-vote-hungry candidates campaign—college canvassing, early voting drives, a focus on student debt—with a twist: He’s reaching out to voters on Grindr and Tinder.” Credit: Slate
- Huey Rey Fischer is a queer, vegetarian, Latino progressive Democrat running for state representative in Texas’ District 49, and he’s campaigning for millennial voters on Grindr and Tinder. [Slate]
- Shameless SPRG BRK plug: Brooklyn Magazine’s Paul D’Agostino checks in with Paddy about AFC upcoming projects, including a group GIF show commissioned by Providence College that’s dropping late-March. More details to come, but in the meantime, if you haven’t bought your ticket to our March 15 benefit, get on it. [Brooklyn Magazine]
- This video showing how rubber gloves are made is so fascinating and beautiful and a little creepy and you won’t want to stop watching it. It’s like an assembly line from the mind of Stanley Kubrick. [Facebook]
- Vienna’s Bank Austria Kunstforum is planning a retrospective of controversial, deceased painter Balthus, who has been accused of paedophilia. Austria’s right-wing FPÖ party is none too happy about it. [artnet News]
- A selfie-stick for your Macbook. [macbookselfiestick.com]
- Someone has been uploading thousands of eerie Youtube videos that may or may not contain a secret message. [Atlas Obscura]
- Not sure how Toronto-based art collective VS VS VS managed this, but it appears you can get a Google Street View Tour of their Port Lands studio. [@vs_vs_vs]
- Talk about a giant leap for GIF art: Lorna Mills’ Mountain Light/Time — a GIF of a sunrise over a mountain — will be playing on Times Square’s electronic billboards as March’s Midnight Moment. [Times Square Art]
- The second edition of my (Michael’s) monthly architecture/urban planning column “Degenerate City” is out. In this iteration, I discuss Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s plan to demolish buildings in impoverished Baltimore neighborhoods as an act of iconoclasm rather than actual policy. [City Paper]
- Pedro Neves Marques reviews Stan Douglas’s “The Secret Agent” at Victoria Miro. [Art Agenda]
- “I never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary” — the creator of Idiocracy. [The Hill]
