- The NEA lives to see another day. In fact, it actually got a funding increase through Trump’s administration. [artnet News]
- The Met gala pictures are out. Watch out. It’s a time suck. [CNN]
- PS1 founder Alanna Heiss and New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni talk. [ARTnews]
- B&H workers are on strike. The electronics company is being accused of union busting, following the announcement that it would be consolidating warehouses in New Jersey and eliminating those in NYC. [Hyperallergic]
- Michael Kimmelman discusses Penn Station and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to update it, which he compares to slapping “a two-car garage onto a dilapidated split-level and declare the property good as new.” He also compares Cuomo to Republican Governor Chris Christie. Uh oh. [The New York Times]
- Ivanka Trump gets profiled in the Times and comes out smelling pretty okay. Her book, though, “Women Who Work”, gets a thorough trashing. According to Jennifer Senior, it is written entirely from a point of privilege and is witlessly derivative. Those are the biggest issues identified by Senior, but from the reporting, I’d think the complete lack of interest in others might be larger. In the few quotes provided, I actually found it offensive. [The New York Times]
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