- The avant-garde composer Robert Ashley, who was probably best known for his television opera “Perfect Lives,” has died at age 83. [Pitchfork]
- 160 years later, the New York Times published corrections to its original piece on Solomon Northup, the man whose story inspired the film 12 Years a Slave. The Times misspelled Northup’s name. [The New York Times, via The Verge]
- A sex tape allegedly featuring Marilyn Monroe, JFK, and RFK will not be sold at auction. Not this time. [Daily Mail]
- The Guardian’s Art Critic Adrian Searle speculated over Twitter this weekend that Manifesta 10, which is slated to take place in St. Petersburg, will not take place due to Russia’s role in the civil unrest in the nearby Ukraine. Yuri Leiderman, an artist who participated in the first Manifesta and is a native of the Ukraine has written an appeal urging the international community to boycott the event and to spread his words. Leiderman’s appeal is now on e-flux founder Anton Vidokle’s Facebook page. So far, Manifesta has made no statement. Readers can harass them over Twitter. [Facebook]
- The Cleveland Museum of Art has tagged unspecified millions, out of a $10 million donation, to community outreach as well as the purchase of Native American paintings. [Artforum, via the Cleveland Plain-Dealer]
- Who’s up for three fair seasons! The Independent has announced that it’ll replicate its feeding frenzy in New York again in November, to coincide with the auctions. “We wanted to do something different,” fair founder Elizabeth Dee told Gallerist. Yeah, another fair in New York. That’s really different. [GalleristNY]
- The Domino Sugar Factory will be turned into high rises as planned, but thanks to Bill de Blasio, those buildings will now include 700 units of affordable housing. That’s up from the originally promised 660, but short of the mayor’s original ask by approximately 20 units. [ANIMAL New York]
- Student loans: Ruining the economy for everyone. [TIME]
- Georgia’s Kennesaw State University opened its new museum this weekend. Two days prior to the opening, museum staff were ordered to remove an installation by artist Ruth Stanford; it featured artifacts from the home of the late Georgia writer Cora May Harris. Opponents claim that Harris, who is known for writing in defense of racism, “did not align with the celebratory atmosphere of the museum’s opening.” [CBS Atlanta]
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