Roll up! Roll up for the magical Friday Links tour! This week, be amazed at the announcement of a new art space at American University, be shocked at photos of hate today that look a lot like photos of hate 50 years ago, and say “huh?” to the news of Flickr’s new licensing option. Step right up!

• The STRATA Collective is having a show titled “Faith” at the Leica Gallery that opens next Saturday night, August 9. Fingers crossed for some George Michael dancing rear photos.
• The Broken Light Collective is an online gallery providing a supportive environment for photographers affected by mental illness. The group just opened its first show “From Darkness to Light” at the Fountain Gallery in New York City. More in the New York Times.
• Some great news for DC artists: The Alper Initiative for Washington Art is starting at AU’s Katzen Arts Center. “The initiative will dedicate space for displaying the work of Washington artists, including more tightly focused, historical shows; development of space for archives of Washington art (available for both members of the public and AU students); an endowment to support more programming of events, gatherings, lectures and films; and digitization of AU’s growing collection of Washington art.”
• When an unusual wedding photo went viral, the internet made up some crazy, racist story, but not surprisingly none if it was true. The Post tracked down the bride to get the real story, which was much more interesting.
• The National Press Photographers Association announced the opening of the 2014 Short Grants entry period, including the news that grant awards have been doubled to $6,000.
• PhotoPhilanthropy has some great mobile photography tips from @Koci.
• The Dallas Morning News printed a photo of people protesting immigrants, and got “six or seven” letters saying how much it reminded them of the Arkansas school integration photos. LIFE has a good collection of photos of the Little Rock Nine, which shows exactly how much history repeats itself.
• After three years as photo editor of local blog We Love DC, Brian Mosley has stepped down.
• A chance conversation at a Beijing bar led Tomoko Kikuchi to explore the world of drag queens in a society where attitudes have slowly changed.
• Local photographer Dan Hendrickson’s photos of Spaceport America in New Mexico were published in Air & Space this week.
• Want to know how much editorial clients are paying? There is a wiki for that.
• “Directors like Judd Apatow and Quentin Tarantino are pushing movie studios to commit to buying a certain amount of film from Kodak for the next several years” to save the company.
• Flickr has a new “licensing experience” they are calling Curated Connections. The program is very short on details.
• National Geographic Traveler announced the winners of their 2014 photo contest this week.
• And finally, Tuesday was International Tiger Day so we should celebrate with one of the funniest tiger photos ever.