Two links; both dealing with artistic legacies and work coming from New York City.
1. Whitney Pastorek announces the shutdown of Pindeldyboz, with some nicely bleak humor thrown in.
And then hopefully, someday, I’ll stop paying the web hosting fees, and the site will be gone. In my dreams I see it hosting an exciting array of porn and/or travel deals.
2. John Freeman Gill discusses the fate of century-old stonework, for The Atlantic.
Griffins and sea monsters, gods and kings, most of the inmates of this forlorn encampment spend their days and nights with their weathered faces turned to the heavens. When it rains, water pools in the vulnerable sandstone eye sockets of some and nourishes the green biological growth that clings to others. In winter, water freezes in the bowl-like terra-cotta medallions, imprisoning in yokes of ice the heads of women and animals that protrude from them.