Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Sophisticated edibles, supporting independent artists, why naps are good for you and more in our look at the web

1. Samsung Blends National Anthems into One Considering the current world climate—sadly an anti-globalization fear seems to be gaining momentum—Samsung’s Olympics commercial is incredibly timely. The advertisement blends a bunch of national anthems into one, with people from all over the world singing lines of other countries’ patriotic tunes: from Cambodia to Malawi, Tunisia, Canada and Malaysia. While obviously made to tug at the heartstrings, …

Artists Respond to Attack in Nice

As always, a picture tells a thousand words and artists from all over the world are illustrating their grief (and anger) in the wake of the heartbreaking attack in Nice, France. Instead of joyful Bastille Day images, these are of sorrow, confusion and violence. Be warned: some are a little graphic, but you can see them all on Huffington Post.

Mirka Mora + Gorman Artist Collaboration

The 88-year-old Australian icon has her paintings translated into delightfully bold fabrics

Perhaps little known outside of Australia, Mirka Mora’s art is legendary Down Under—specifically in Melbourne, where her gloriously busy paintings and mosaics adorn laneways, restaurants and (of course) gallery walls. The French-born artist (to a Romanian Jewish mother and Lithuanian Jewish father) migrated to Melbourne in 1951 and—along with her husband—founded one of the first commercial galleries in the city, along with three cafes and …