Eli Ping

We’re back, Readers!

We hosted our annual benefit on Monday night and after many hours of cleaning, we are set to blog, and blog hard. Here’s some links to help you get through this soon-to-be rainy day.

• A 300 year old douche, one of the oldest douches in the city, has been found at City Hall! [Animal New York]
• One of our favorite Red Hook galleries 247365 has taken over Eli Ping’s old basement gallery space in the Lower East Side. Their first opening’ll take place this Friday night. [Gallerist]
• It’s hard to believe, but rents in Manhattan are dropping. Brooklyn rents continue to skyrocket. In any event, it’s still expensive to live nearly anywhere in the city. [Brooklyn Magazine]
• Manhattan may be the most expensive city in the country, but Verge reports that the most expensive town to rent is in the oil boomtown Williston, North Dakota, where rents have reached a median of $2,394 for a one bedroom. [The Verge]
• So much for Olympics amnesty. Pussy Riot has been tweeting that they’ve been detained and beaten in Sochi, where they’d come to shoot a new video. [The Art Newspaper]
• Artists have been named for the Hammer Museum’s second L.A. biennial, Made in L.A. [New York Times]
• Strange that a big corporation would be the one fighting for net neutrality, but apparently Netflix is lobbying Congress and the White House to stop allowing service providers to privilege certain sites. Says Huff Po. [Huffington Post]
• Michael Sartisky, longtime head of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, has been forcibly removed from his position by the organization’s board. Sartisky claims the board violated its by-laws by removing him “abruptly” and without notice.  [The Times-Picayne]