- Save the environment; rent a Christmas tree that’s still in the ground. [Treehugger]
- Suzanne Mallouk was a long time lover of Basquiat’s and her stories of him are now relayed in Jennifer Clement’s book Widow Basquiat. Vulture has a few of them—we learn Basquiat never read, did drugs constantly, and loved sex. The writing is gorgeous. [SEEN]
- Someone’s in trouble. [Animal Planet]
- The desire to overthrow Wall Street goes back to the beginning. A comprehensive history lists a 1920 bombing, farmers starving out bankers, foreclosure enforcers beaten to a bloody pulp, and an official political slogan “Shoot the banker”. [VICE]
- Bloomberg interviews Paddle8’s Founder and COO Osman Khan—it’s basically a big ol’ ad for the auction house. Not too much new information here for those who have been following the company—they specialize in work valued at $100,000 or less—though it’s always great to Khan talk. He inspires confidence. One nugget: the company grew its sales from $15 million last year in sales to $35 million this year. As Khan says, it’s just a question of how much they can scale the company. [Bloomberg]
- A beautiful image of the Pullans, an all-albino Indian family. [Twitter]
- New York Magazine’s feature of a kid who made $72 Million in the stock market turned out to have a few fact checking issues, namely that the kid made the whole story up. It’s author Jessica Pressler said of the error over Twitter, “In any case, it’s New York mag’s Reasons to Love issue, we’re not a financial publication.” [The New York Times]
- Ben Davis analyzes the year’s art answers to the times, both problematic (like “memefied” politics) and powerful, like Yams’ “The Way Black Machine”. The art world’s political responses have, to this point, been pretty lame. But this year, Davis seems to conclude that art’s starting to do what it can. [artnet News]
Tuesday Links: Shoot the Banker!
by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on December 16, 2014 Massive Links
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