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Friday Links: Halloween’s Hangover

by Paddy Johnson on November 1, 2013

Let's just say we can relate to how this kid feels.

Get your cheeseball on. War on Kinkade. [Deviant Art]
The Queens Museum makeover stories are coming out. This one focuses on the partnership with the Queens Library, which will be housed inside the museum. Very cool. The Museum opens November 9th and we plan to be there opening day. [The Wall Street Journal]
You can now take pictures at MoMA P.S.1 [Hyperallergic]
This is ugly: Calder heirs accuse the the Perlses of surreptitiously holding on to hundreds of Calder’s works and swindling the artist’s estate out of tens of millions of dollars. [The New York Times]
Laurie Anderson has published a short eulogy for her late husband, Lou Reed. “He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.” [The East Hampton Star]
Anyone else tired of reading about Obamacare’s troubled start? Just fix it. [The Internet]
Holland Cotter notes that rent was cheaper in New York in the 70’s and performance art flourished. He likes the performance art show (1970-1980) curated by Jay Sanders at The Whitney. [The New York Times]

On a Queens beach, 3,000 people held hands Sunday to commemorate Hurricane Sandy. Image via: The New York Times

Lou Reed has inspired a ton of tributes on twitter and obituaries. Here are a few:

[Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone]

[Jody Rosen, Vulture]

[Ben Ratliff, New York Times]

[Gabrielle Bluestone, Gawker]

[Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice]

[Steve Chawkins and Randy Lewis, LA Times]

And for those unsatisfied with a simple obit, here’s the Lou Reed smear obit. [The Daily Mail]
A few Suzanne Lacy performers have put their petition for fair wage on change.org. The petition’s inspired a lot of public conversation on art world and gendered wage standards (especially on Facebook and Hyperallergic), so we hope it continues to do so. [change.org]
NYC mayoral debates have been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday, so that it’s not held on the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. [Daily Beast]
“A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government.” Paul Krugman on the ideological divide that has made Obamacare a kludge. [The New York Times]
Tomorrow is Sandy’s one year anniversary in New York. WNYC looks at the recovery of the South Street Seaport. [WNYC]
Boston’s trying to start a literary district in order to attract some of the intellectual community it’s lost over the last decade. Henriette Lazaridis Power, editor of Drum calls it “a Broadway for writers.” If they succeed, it would be the first literary district in the US. [Boston Globe]
Creative Time takes the show on the road. Next year, they’re holding the Creative Time Summit in Stockholm, Sweden. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]
Katz’s Art Gallery is already open, and ARTinfo’s making video posts. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]
Ben Sutton rounds up this weekend’s Bushwick Beat Nite. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]