And Now – The Hangover After The Museum Bubble?

“Museum downsizing is generally reported on as the collateral damage of the more general train wreck in the economy. But the truth is that museum boards and higher-ups not only participated in the madness of the “bubble era” — the period of super-charged, risk-fueled craziness that the world is now trying desperately to recover from — but actively fed it.”

Random Poetry – Are You Flarfing?

“Almost a decade after its creation, the experimental poetry movement Flarf–in which poets prowl the Internet using random word searches, e-mail the bizarre results to one another, then distill the newly found phrases into poems that are often as disturbing as they are hilarious–is showing signs of having cleared a spot among the ranks of legitimate art forms.”