- Be still my heart: Tracey Emin and David Bowie interviewed each other in 2001 about fame, art history, drinking, drugs, and other great things. [The Guardian]
- And in other obligatory David Bowie linkage, WTF? “Gates” McFadden (best known as Star Trek’s “dancing doctor” Beverly Crusher) led a prior life as Cheryl McFadden, the director of choreography and puppet movement for Bowie’s 1986 camp-classic Labyrinth. [Mental Floss]
- From a $7.7 million Felix Gonzalez-Torres heading to the museum Walmart built to a massive gift of Pop Art classics in Chicago, here’s an exhaustive roundup of the major museum acquisitions happening in the United States. [Observer]
- I fulfill my dream of writing architecture criticism (it’s much more fun to be snarky) in my new column with Baltimore City Paper, Degenerate City. Mostly, I’m so happy I got to use the headline “Both of the harbor’s holes are about to get stuffed with massive erections”. [City Paper]
- Uh, the hurricane-damaged L train tubes connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn might be closed for THREE YEARS. I can’t begin to imagine what a Williamsburg/Bushwick without subway access to Manhattan would even look like. [Gothamist]
- But here’s some good news for transit users in the Long Island boroughs: a streetcar running from Astoria to Sunset Park has been deemed “financially viable”. The line would connect booming waterfront neighborhoods that presently have limited Manhattan-centric subway access, including DUMBO, were AFC is headquartered. [Next City]
- Champagne Life, Saatchi’s first all-woman show, as described by CEO Nigel Hurst: ““It’s an ironic, hopefully lighthearted title, one that throws into contrast the long lonely hours that these women artists have to work in their studios, against the glamour of the art world, with its endless launches and art fairs and parties.” I’m not sure why I can’t read that quote with a straight face, but after three attempts I ended up laughing. [Vogue]
- Elizabeth Verdow, a retired art teacher, left the Detroit Institute of the Arts $1.71 million. The majority of that endowment is dedicated to acquiring contemporary art. This is awesome, but how did the retired 86-year-old art teacher end up with almost $2 million? [Detroit Free Press]
- Today is “Facebook Nudity Day,” a protest of Facebook’s censorship policies. Organizers encourage users to post images of naked bodies to Facebook. Something… something… Jerry Saltz joke. [Facebook]