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- Jeffrey Deitch (who spent a heavily criticized four-year tenure running MOCA before decamping to New York) has announced plans to re-Manifest Destiny and open his own 15,000-square-foot gallery in Hollywood.
- The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj will be hosting the White House Correspondent's Dinner; it still remains unclear who actually plans to attend said dinner.
- Newly published correspondence from the late poet Sylvia Plath alleges domestic abuse by Ted Hughes.
- According to the Harvard Business Review, a face-to-face request is a whopping 34 times more effective than an email, which is really too bad because I'm definitely still sending an email.
- It's Tuesday, so here is Marcy Playground's official video for seminal '90s song "Sex and Candy":
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