- A new bill would offer loan forgiveness to museum workers and humanities professors for up to $10,000. I see no chance of this ever passing. [artnet News]
- Sotheby’s netted a total of $161.3 million at its Impressionist and modern evening sale in London, exceeding its low estimate of $141.2 million. ARTnews’s Nate Freeman describes the sell-through rate of 74 percent as middling. The good news is this sale number jumped up by 24 percent from their sale last year. It seems like a bidding war over a Kandinsky helped the sale quite a bit. [ARTnews]
- The 12th-century Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq was destroyed the Battle of Mosul. Iraqi and US officials blame ISIS, ISIS blames the US. [Hyperallergic]
- The senate has finally released its new version of the healthcare bill, which they drafted in secret. It looks much the same as the house’s version. What assholes. [The New York Times]
- @goodbaddrawings gets a profile on Curbed. The twitter account charts all the crazy signs in the city. [Curbed]
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