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Four Ways Lists Make Us Immortal, According To Umberto Eco
5:48AM Ryan Tate | Italian novelist Umberto Eco, the go-to intellectual for journalists worldwide, has deconstructed the human obsession with all things list-y. The bottom line for editors: Your listicles help readers brush off a terrifying universe of infinite chaos. More »
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Celebunepotistic Art Mag Had Some Flaw, Somehow
12:13AM Hamilton Nolan | Tar magazine was an experiment to answer the timeless question: If you put some celebrities’ kids together with a bunch of random art world names, will you make a super successful magazine? No, you won’t. Live and learn. More »
People
Art Capital Group Gives Annie Leibovitz A Lifeline
4:53AM John Cook | Nearly bankrupt photographer Annie Leibovitz has received an extension from the high-class pawnbroker to whom she owes $US24 million—Art Capital Group has dropped their lawsuit against her and refinanced her debt to keep her out of bankruptcy. More »
Small Screen
Bravo’s New Art-World Reality Show Promises To Be Patently Ridiculous, Awesome
12:45PM Foster Kamer | The New York Times dared to brave the auditions for Bravo’s newest foray into, well, giving existentialists like big-dick-owning/hating Jean-Paul Sarte more credence: a reality competition featuring artists. What’d they find? Metaphorical fish in a cylindrical holding container. More »
Music
Moby Is Magic
5:48AM Hamilton Nolan | New York magazine’s Hugo Lindgren proves that—with just a few hours in the studio—Moby can transform a scratchy demo of an amateurish ballad into a rejected outtake from some bad Jennifer Grey movie soundtrack. [NY Mag]
Online
Perez Hilton In Ghost-Splooging Scandal
8:02AM Ryan Tate | In a shocking breach of the integrity (ahem) his fans have come to depend upon, it turns out Perez Hilton might not have phallically doodled on celebrity pictures alone. He uses one or more ghost writer/sploogers. And he might have been a secret. More »
Poor Annie Leibovitz Has Pawned All Her Photos
3:46AM Defamer Hollywood | We knew that celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz had some serious financial problems. But we didn’t know they were so bad that she had to sign over all of her photos to a pawn shop: More »Bill Henson Finally Speaks Out: “She Loved It!”
12:38PM Jess McGuire | It seems like a lifetime ago that everyone in this country was up in arms over controversial photographer Bill Henson, but it was only back in May! It was a crazy time, with one half of the country pointing the finger and screaming “DIRTY PEDO ART FREAK!” at anyone who dared to take a photograph of their off-spring naked in the bath, and the other half photographing their off-spring naked in the bath and then popping the picture on a magazine cover as a giant “eat my poo” gesture to the Henson haters.
During all the kerfuffle, columnists, letter writers, and Prime Ministers all took a turn in giving their opinion on Bill Henson’s art to the media, but the one person who kept their trap shut was Bill Henson himself.
No more!
Photographer Bill Henson has broken his silence to launch a defence of his controversial art, which was decried earlier this year as verging on child pornography.
And what does he have to say for himself? More » There Is No Way We Can Make ‘Giant Inflatable Poo Breaks Orphanage Window’ Into A Funny Headline
10:02AM Clem Bastow | Sometimes, like maybe once a decade or so, a story comes along that is so perfectly ridiculous there’s nothing you can do to improve it or even make yourself look funny in the reporting – no puns, no witty double entendres, no sparkling repartee that you can add. In short, the story has written itself. Today is one of those rare days:
A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum has said.
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