- Whitney Kimball makes a case for artist resale royalties. Artists talk about why they’re so fucking poor. [Slate]
- Peter Schjeldahl says that if you approach The Jeff Koons Retrospective with your eyes and mind open, you encounter Koons’s formidable aesthetic intelligence. [The New Yorker (behind the paywall)]
- People are getting shot all over New York. [ANIMAL]
- Now that Facebook sucks, email is supposedly the way to go. It’s being described here as the cockroach of the Internet – impossible to kill. [The Medium]
- Oddly enough, David Carr over at The New York Times has written a piece on exactly the same subject that closes with a line comparing email to cockroaches. [The New York Times]
- So much for the idea that Koons bankrupts himself to make his art. He’s getting a mega mansion on the Upper East Side, combining two mansions to create “one of the city’s biggest homes”. According to Page Six, the original plan included a pool and maids’ quarters but this was rejected by the Department of Buildings. Upper East Siders are complaining. [Page Six]
- Speaking of neighbors complaining, residents of the gated Georgetown community Hillandale are complaining about Janet Yellen’s security detail. “Neighbors seem especially put off by the aesthetics of the security detail, in particular their blue uniforms and—in the words of one resident—’doughnut bellies.’” [Wall Street Journal]
- A recent study in which Facebook altered the news feed of 689,000 of its users to see if moods were “contagious” found that, in fact, the social network can alter your mood. Zeynep Tufekci finds this very disturbing. [The Medium]
- Yesterday’s Gay Pride March was led by a group of Boy Scouts. Though gay youth can join the organization, openly gay adults are still banned as leaders. [The New York Times]
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