Tuesday Links! The Gallery Girls Edition

• The New Yorker pans Gallery Girls for not being as good as Lena Dunham’s Girls.  [The New Yorker]
• We watched the Gallery Girls season premiere last night. So did the rest of the art world. Chloe Wyma, like Blake Gopnik, points out that so far, there’s been very little mention of actual art or artists, and a whole lot of focus on class warfare with the show’s “Jets-Sharks/Brooklyn-UES thing.”  [ARTINFO]
• Speaking of other “girls,” it’s worth mentioning that the show is just a drunker Mean Girls. [hereisafantasy]
• On our site, we’ve been writing about Gallery Girls for the past few weeks. Paddy Johnson wrote about the series’s launch and Ben Macaulay recapped the first episode. At The L Magazine, Whitney Kimball’s interview series with real-life gallery girls has entered its second week; Will Brand summed up Gallery Girls as a “show about deeply flawed people tearing each other apart for no good reason”; and Corinna Kirsch wrote about why Magical Elves wanted her on the show. Whew. [AFC, The L Magazine]
• Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan might not be as conservative as he’d like you to think: one of his favorite bands is Rage Against the Machine. In 2008, the band attempted to stage a protest show at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. [MTV]
• Pussy Riot made their closing statements last week. Videos and statements from the trial show the three band members unafraid to continue their vocal dissent of Putin’s government. From Maria Alyokina’s closing statement: “Russia, as a state, has long resembled an organism sick to the core.” We’re still waiting for the final verdict. [Pussy Riot Trial]
• New Orleans is bubbling with new projects like The Drop, a subscription service for limited-edition work by NOLA-based artists. It was started by the city’s newest art blog, Pelican Bomb. Kyle Chayka has the scoop on the NOLA scene, here.  [ARTINFO]
• New York is full of more pot-smoking teens than ever! [The Village Voice]
• Helen Gurley Brown, former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief and author of Sex and the Single Girl, has passed away. She’s the one who coined the phrase: “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” [The Atlantic Wire]
• “Chalk. The gateway art supply.” [Mother Jones]

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