Gabrielle Bluestone

On a Queens beach, 3,000 people held hands Sunday to commemorate Hurricane Sandy. Image via: The New York Times

• Lou Reed has inspired a ton of tributes on twitter and obituaries. Here are a few:

[Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone]

[Jody Rosen, Vulture]

[Ben Ratliff, New York Times]

[Gabrielle Bluestone, Gawker]

[Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice]

[Steve Chawkins and Randy Lewis, LA Times]

• And for those unsatisfied with a simple obit, here’s the Lou Reed smear obit. [The Daily Mail]
• A few Suzanne Lacy performers have put their petition for fair wage on change.org. The petition’s inspired a lot of public conversation on art world and gendered wage standards (especially on Facebook and Hyperallergic), so we hope it continues to do so. [change.org]
• NYC mayoral debates have been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday, so that it’s not held on the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. [Daily Beast]
• “A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government.” Paul Krugman on the ideological divide that has made Obamacare a kludge. [The New York Times]
• Tomorrow is Sandy’s one year anniversary in New York. WNYC looks at the recovery of the South Street Seaport. [WNYC]
• Boston’s trying to start a literary district in order to attract some of the intellectual community it’s lost over the last decade. Henriette Lazaridis Power, editor of Drum calls it “a Broadway for writers.” If they succeed, it would be the first literary district in the US. [Boston Globe]
• Creative Time takes the show on the road. Next year, they’re holding the Creative Time Summit in Stockholm, Sweden. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]
• Katz’s Art Gallery is already open, and ARTinfo’s making video posts. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]
• Ben Sutton rounds up this weekend’s Bushwick Beat Nite. [BLOUIN ARTinfo]