Notes from New York: How to Manage an Artist’s Estate

Notes from New York: How to Manage an Artist’s Estate

You could be cleaning out storage units, taking inventory, digitising papers and creating databases – or just seducing their landlord Before he died in 1989, the queer experimental filmmaker Jack Smith had turned his downtown apartment into the set of a feature film he never made, titled ‘Sinbad in a Rented World’. Judging by footage from 1990, Smith liked to write on walls; he’d painted his ceiling blue and left behind campy murals of goddesses…