May 31, 2012: Morning
- Palestinian prisoners end mass hunger strike; Israel conditionally agrees not to renew detentions without charge.
- "Old people smell" found to exist.
- Syria pleads with journalists to ignore recent massacre and wait for its own report to be issued.
- Founder of Russia's Facebook tosses $150 paper airplanes out his office window.
- World flags given letter grades and aesthetic critiques; Turkmenistan receives D- for its inclusion of a rug.
- State Department now conducts briefings in Spanish.
- Analyzing the success of a chain of North Korean restaurants.
- Ad featuring an office full of people singing while they chew rated the most offensive UK campaign of all time.
- Richard Prince, defending his use of other artists' work in his art, may be using the legal system as his newest form of expression.
- Portraits of American Olympians.
- Notes on the Johannesberg gallery and ANC's agreement that the Zuma penis painting should disappear.
- Survey, with slideshow, of controversial South African art.
- (Very good) paintings done by Goethe, Hugo, other famous writers.
- London gallery to install Richard Wilson's bus on the edge of its roof, mimicking scene from The Italian Job.
- Favorite paintings selected from the latest Frieze and Nada art fairs.
- Show to see in Indianapolis this weekend: "The Natural World."
- Ben & Jerry's sends shelved flavors to actual graveyard in Waterbury, Vt.
- Tips and terms for how to sound informed when talking about wine without coming across as an ass.