Miscellany. 11.04.13.

Fenomenología a las 7:30 p.m., by Melissa Gallaga. (Image courtesy of the artist.)

**I gave a talk about Art and the Internet at Scripps College last week, and came up with this list of potentially helpful links.**

• The street dogs of Juarez. Read. This. Story.
• Germans recover more than 1500 modernist works of art looted by the Nazis. Whoa.
• TED Talks are lying to you: deconstructing the creativity hype.
• The corporatizing effects of SXSW: “For at least ten days, downtown Austin becomes privatized, a company town controlled by Miller Lite, Google, Doritos, AT&T, and Pepsi.”
• A helpful tool for all those tech conference organizers that can never seem to find women speakers.
• Tired of the tidal wave of high-testosterone dude art showing around New York? ARTnews has a handy guide to interesting lady shows. (To this I would add the Sophie Calle exhibit at Paula Cooper.)
• The Paris Review has a wonderful piece about Cal Worthington and the L.A. experience he represented.
• Writer Rebecca Solnit and curator Nato Thompson talk gentrification and the role of culture in cities.
• A history of the artist statement.
• Related: ArtSpeak, the guide.
• Two Banksy pieces worth reading: Jerry Saltz’s critical rant, and Ben Davis on what the Banksy publicity-fest reveals about New York.
• Museum I’m totally excited to visit: the one housed in Saddam’s former palace in Basra.
• In other dictatorial architecture news: Apple’s hemorrhoid ring HQ has been approved by the Cupertino city council.
• Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall turns 10.
• Revisiting Peter Zumthor’s proposed LACMA scheme.
• Interesting profile of David Adjaye in the New Yorker. (Subscription required.)
• How to name a subdivision. This explains Orange County.
• The Day in Art Merch: LAX Airport Socks. (Gizmodo.)
• In praise of boredom.