Fried chicken by Nick Kegeyan
- In the Bronx rests one lonely castle without an owner. It’s for sale, awaiting a buyer. [Daily Intelligencer]
- Rhizome has been on a roll lately; Michael Connor’s latest essay on “postinternet” gives us another reason to ponder the term’s potential use or uselessness. It ends with a really touching, personal note from Connor, who writes: “I wanted to write this text in a way that would appeal to olds like me.” [Rhizome]
- “The biggest artistic find of the postwar era.” Now, with slideshow. [The Guardian, BBC]
- How not to run an art auction, brought to you by the Jan Krugier Estate and Christie’s. Before Monday night’s auction, it was generally assumed that many of the estate’s Modernist paintings were overpriced, and suffered from overexposure; many had been circulating in the market, however unsuccessfully, for years. [The New York Times]
- Artspace interviews Performa founder Roselee Goldberg. On acting like an art historian: “I’m always trying to expose the history of performance and tell the [Performa] artists about it, because, really, a lot of people don’t know the history very well.” Okay. On the Internet: “The Internet, on the other hand, is keeping people out of the galleries—I’m hearing that from different writers, and I think it’s very real.” That’s kinda not true, but fine. [Artspace]
- A story of gentrification: Since its development in 1993, Philadelphia’s “Avenue of the Arts” has caused real estate prices to jump by nearly 1,300 percent. [The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Arts Journal]
- Luck does not smile broadly on musician Questlove. After six months, his Chelsea Market fried chicken stand has shuttered. We blame this on location, location; Chelsea Market-goers like raw juice, not chicken buckets. [Eater]
- A juicy summary of SAC’s guilty plea to all five counts of insider trading violations and pay a record 1.2 billion dollar penalty. This, in addition to $616 million in insider trading fees SAC agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a host of legal fees. According to The Times: “Guilty pleas by financial institutions are exceedingly rare, and legal specialists say the case against SAC could embolden prosecutors to bring criminal charges against other firms.” [Dealbook]
