Circle, 2008, by Emily Eveleth. Part of the exhibit Luscious: The Paintings of Emily Eveleth at the Smith College Museum of Art, opening Friday, July 9. (Image courtesy of Eveleth.)

Congrats to mattf for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza for Beyond the Street!

• James Franco pens an essay on acting. A summary: Sometimes actors are like their characters. Sometimes they are not. Actors don’t have very much control. That’s why they want to direct. I was in General Hospital.
• Linguist Steven Pinker disagrees with Nicholas Carr, says that the Internet is not destroying our brains. Carr vociferously disagrees. (@nytimesbits.)
• Twitter allegedly will try to make money by promoting fake trends. Blergh.
• Alma Guillermoprieto on the weirdest Andean YouTube video ever. My new goal in life is to be a back-up dancer for La Tigresa. (Thank you, Robin, for the tip.)
• Where I wish I was right now: At the Postopolis conference in Mexico City.
• RIP Sigmar Polke and Getty Trust chief James Wood.
• A Canadian writer is threatening to torch a Warhol print because of the artist’s institutional “de-gaying.” (The Rumpus.)
• Most insightful review I’ve read yet of the Leo Castelli bio: Schjeldahl in the New Yorker.
• Just realised that the judges on Work of Art could have made their jobs much easier if they’d employed the Is This Art? iPhone app when judging works. Speaking of which: It’s official, the New Museum is NOT art.
• Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, as infographic. Sorta related: Abramovic thinks Bourgeois had balls. (@bookslut.)
• Nan Goldin: Like being punched in the gut.
• And because I’m on a chick kick: A 1956 Q&A with Dorothy Parker. Why did she write? For the money.
• The Gugg is looking for video artists. Here’s your chance, YouTube types.
• Edward Lifson on the Matisse exhibit in Chicago. Sounds like a must-see.
• How’d I miss this? LACMA in 1965.
• Sorta related: The 1970s L.A. photographs of Anthony Hernandez.
• The media like talking about weed.
• Today’s Graff: Tec gives a thumbs up in Argentina.
• The Day in Street Art Criticism — in one and two parts.
• “Future generations will look at our dancing dildos and vaginas with awe and think, ‘What geniuses they were.’”