art Los Angeles art museum is now free to all starting Saturday: "Like a library, where you can just walk in" Rusty Blazenhoff

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

art Art in the age of artifice Ferdinando Buscema

happy mutants Marina Abramovic in Belgrade Jasmina Tesanovic

not food The real meaning of plantation tours: American Downton Abbey vs American Horror Story Cory Doctorow

art Jeff Koons stainless steel rabbit for sale David Pescovitz

happy mutants Free to a good home: 70 washed, empty cans of Popeye Spinach Cory Doctorow

music Save the ARC, the largest popular music library in the United States David Pescovitz

baltimore John Waters gives young people advice on how to break into the contemporary art world Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Kickstarting a seminar series with Ada Palmer and me about the history of censorship and information control Cory Doctorow

pool float Oops, Cindy Sherman designed a pool float Rusty Blazenhoff

art New smartphone app lets museum visitors point at art, then see artists discuss the work Andrea James

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

los angeles Will Ferrell and Joel McHale visit the Hammer Museum Rusty Blazenhoff

ink Popular tattoos 5,000 years ago were sheep Clive Thompson

neither a borrower nor a lender be Plagiarism software finds Shakespeare plundered cool words from a little-known book Clive Thompson

paintings British art museum removes a famous 1869 painting of Femme Fatale nymphs Mark Frauenfelder

picks Halloween Gift Guide Rob Beschizza

art African grain silos repurposed into art museum Andrea James