A $100 De Maria, Kim Gordon, Daily NYC History, etc. [Collected]

Allan D'Arcangelo, Wing Two, 1982 at at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Photo: 16 Miles [more]

• Addicting: Today in NYC History [via Brian Sholis]
• Cindy Sherman, Spike Jonze, Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, David Shrigley, Carrie Brownstein (who just moved to New York), and others talk to Miranda July.
• A preview of Bob Nickas' Painting Abstract. Next level.
• "How to Explain Art to Your Parents." [via TRYHARDER]
• "I would have loved to have been a rock star." - John Currin [via Amy Goodwin]
• Walter De Maria: $100, forever and always - and more early work.
• The creation of Detroit's demise. [via Gallery Hopper]
• Szarkowski on photography.
• Athens, Hong Kong, Paris, and Geneva? The sky is the limit.
• Pat Hearn passed away nine years ago this month. Linda Yablonsky's essay is great. Mary Heilmann's is too.
• "... Kim Gordon, the Sonic Youth bassist who is widely recognized as one of the coolest people in the universe." - The Nation on Dan Graham: Beyond. Kim Gordon and others at MoMA.

Buying Sehgal's Kiss, Funding Mass MoCA, etc.[Collected]

Yayoi Kusama, Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009. Photo: 16 Miles

“Buying Kiss was a huge ordeal,” Biesenbach reports. The negotiations involved a dozen different people, including lawyers, curators, dealers, conservators, and an “interpreter” for Sehgal.

- Linda Yablonsky, on collecting the ephemeral, in ArtNews. More of this, please.

• Mass MoCA now has cash. For its first ten years, not so much.
• Holland Cotter highlights some a Pictures Generation cover-up noted by CAD.
• In other Met news, a Dutch Vermeer is coming to visit.
• Anaba was up in Hudson, New York. I want to see Pettibon and Okon in Venice Beach.
• Creative Time is bringing contemporary art to Governors Island.
• Jerry Saltz is not starting a blog, and this is why.
• Tracey Emin always looks like she's having fun. Lots of fun.