- Jeremy Bailey’s sickle-shaped iPhone case test print. <3. [Facebook]
- Happy Friday! Here is a creepy, psychedelic sing-along on the topic of Jell-O. Brought to you by the musician Ariel Pink. [HUH.]
- Someone is selling a Rodin on Craigslist. The sales writeup is lifted from from the Met. Buyer beware. [Craigslist via @shaneferro]
- Relatedly, if you’re on Twitter follow Shane Ferro. She’s one of the best tweeters around. [Twitter]
- Starbucks is being forced onto the side streets of New York because the rent is too high. [Commercial Observer]
- Art critics Holland Cotter and Roberta Smith have picked out ten galleries to visit in various boroughs throughout the city. Finding art that’s likable is standard fare for art critics; what’s distinctive about their selections is how they focus on the changing landscape of each neighborhood, nearly as much as the art. Their write-ups capture a specific moment in gallery-time—before they move on, in the next wave of new developments. Cotter on the Upper East Side; Smith on Chelsea. [The New York Times]
- After 12 years in office, Susan Henshaw Jones, will retire as director of the Museum of the City of New York. [Museum of the City of New York]
- Spanx, and other shapewear, has been linked to a range of medical problems, like gastroesophogeal reflux disease. [Los Angeles Times]
- Publicity stunt or “hell yes” moment? Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan writes an article about how his editorial staff met with union organizers. Gawker is thinking about forming a union; they’ve had one meeting about it. Nolan does write that “the organizing effort is still in the early stages” and “[i]t would be easier to have this conversation internally. But Gawker Media is, for better or worse, a company with a rich history of gossip.” [Gawker]
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