Edith Vonnegut, “Taking Out the Garbage.”
- New Yorkers, be on the lookout for the results of tonight’s Rent Guidelines Board meeting. Tonight, they decide whether to freeze rents for the thousands of tenants living in rent-stabilized apartments. [Capital]
- Across the pond, Nicholas Penny has announced his retirement as director of the National Gallery of Art in London. [ArtsBeat]
- After years of budget cuts, inner-city schools are slowly reintroducing art, music, and gym classes. The reason? These subjects encourage students to stay in school. [NPR]
- What a great find: Feminist novelist Kathy Acker interviewed the Spice Girls in 1997. Marxism, racism, and anger ensues. [Venus Radio via @longreads]
- If Kim Kardashian’s entire life sounds like a video game to you, you’re on the right track; she just released an app where you can learn how to be a paparazzi queen. [The Daily Beast]
- Julia Halperin surveys performance art collectors and finds that performance still remains one area of the art market where art-as-an-investment has yet to kick in. [The Art Newspaper]
- Art Basel closed yesterday. Most of the work was sold long before Sunday, though, mainly in the first few days. [Art Slant]
- Art writers, need some Monday morning inspiration? Writer and poet Kenneth Goldsmith talks about the myth of writer’s block. Also, he printed the internet. [Frieze]
- Well, this defies common sense. In an effort to clean up the J, M, and Z train lines, the MTA has decided to remove all but one trash can from the Brooklyn stations. Get ready for some summertime grossness! [The Brooklyn Paper]
