Join us every Saturday as we give the weekend a big bear hug while peering over its shoulder to look back at our favorite blog posts of the week, in retrospect.
— In retrospect, looking at nearly naked pictures of her in a see-through nighty and other revealing clothing wasn’t the most solemn way to remember Marilyn Monroe on the 50th anniversary of her death.
— In retrospect, MOCA Mobilization would have gotten way more than 1,700 signatures on its petition if Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art hadn’t decided to hire a new chief curator to replace Paul Schimmel after all.
— In retrospect, whoever made Bournemouth’s fake Banksy mural “Barcode Zebra” should have known that ripping off a fairly popular t-shirt design would be a dead giveaway.
— In retrospect, the prudish travelers whose complaints led Edinburgh Airport to cover up images of a Picasso nude painting shouldn’t get their kilts in a knot; they can stuff their complaints in a bagpipe and haggis them.
— In retrospect, the Taiwanese Next Media Animation’s bizarro account of the trial of jailed punk rock trio Pussy Riot (embedded below) was surprisingly accurate.
— Benjamin Sutton
