Evan Osnos talks to Li Liao, a young performance artist, who

got an assembly-line job making iPads, and forty-five days later he used his wages to buy one. As an exhibit, he put the iPad on a pedestal, tacked up his uniform and badges, and framed his contract. The effect, on a white gallery wall, is a strangely addictive ready-made tableau about the intersection of money, aspiration, and technology.

Click-through to read the interview: http://nyr.kr/SetOqT 

“How to Download a Boyfriend”: The first-ever group art show in the form of an e-book for the iPad, combining images from more than fifty artists. http://nyr.kr/MkzRab

The New Yorker Reader edition “Great Adventures,” a collection of some of the magazine’s best and most notable writing about travel, is now available in the iTunes store. All digital subscribers may access the collection on the iPad as part of their subscription, and non-subscribers pay purchase it for $2.99 in the iTunes store. The collection features travel writing from Christopher Buckley, E. B. White, Burkhard Bilger, David Grann and more: http://nyr.kr/ijaLs5

(Source: newyorker.com)

“For me, Apple purchases are always preceded by a bout of rationalizing. In the case of my iPad, I told myself it was O.K. to fork over the six hundred dollars because the device would stand in for the magical, Jetsons-style kitchen computer I’d fantasized about for years. And it’s lived up to my dreams.”

-Julia Powell (of Julie and Julia) discusses iPads and cookbooks on newyorker.com.

We’re on the iPad!

Jason Schwartzman demonstrates The New Yorker iPad app in a video directed by Roman Coppola.

Get the magazine on your iPad each Monday — every story, every cartoon, everything in the print edition and more. The app comes with the current week’s table of contents and lets you buy new issues as they’re released. You can store as many issues as you like on the app and read them whenever and wherever you want, in portrait or landscape view.

Highlights from the October 4, 2010 issue:

•         Cover by David Hockney, with an exclusive animation of its creation in Brushes
          Malcolm Gladwell on why the revolution will not be tweeted
•         Cartoon slide show with bonus cartoons (a weekly iPad exclusive)
          Evan Osnos on the Dalai Lama and China’s Tibet policy, with clips from a classic Chinese film
•         David Denby on the director David Fincher and the movie “The Social Network”
•         Paul Goldberger on the new Las Vegas, including an exclusive slide show of photographs by Robert Polidori
•         Nancy Franklin on the fall TV lineup
          Jeffrey Toobin’s tale of Rachel Hall, scholar, beauty queen, and con artist
•         New fiction by Sam Lipsyte, with exclusive audio of the author reading his work