Artists' rendering, Royal Baby. Courtesy of Nickolay Lamm, Nikolett Mérész, and Jenny Chen, via MyVoucherCodes.co.uk
- Peter Schjeldahl reviews Thomas Hirschhorn’s “Gramsci Monument”, installation at a city housing project in the South Bronx, and calls it the year’s “most captivating new work”. [The New Yorker (paywall)]
- Kate Middleton is in labor! Updates at #Royalbaby.
- As we sweat our faces off on the L-Train platform, a handy new website informs us that it’s currently 111 degrees. [http://www.l-degrees.com/]
- Masterpieces by Picasso, Lucian Freud, Matisse, Monet and others, stolen last October from the Kunsthal Rotterdam, may have been burned in an oven by the thief’s mother. [New York Times]
- Not this conversation again. With Detroit now in bankruptcy, The Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection, rumored to be worth approximately $2 billion, could become a casualty in Detroit’s efforts to cover some of the city’s billions in debt. [NYTimes]
- Harrisburg, PA, another bankrupt American metropolis, is selling off its collection of Wild West artifacts. [Gawker]
- If you lied about your marital status on eHarmony, an outdated Internet law could technically send you to jail. [Mother Jones]
- Interns band together to create Intern Magazine, showcasing talent from those unpaid wonders in the creative industry. We have to ask, who brings them coffee? [Animal New York]
- Are the Brits the only ones who catch onto the the ridiculousness of New York’s current mayoral race? Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner battle over who can be the least…bad. [The Guardian]
- AFC’s Paddy Johnson reviews the Renzo Piano show at Gagosian and finds it full of documentation yet lacking illumination. [Architect]
