LENA DUNHAM’S TATTOO
The New Yorker has a feature on the writer, director and actress Lena Dunham, who grew up here in Tribeca, the daughter of two artists, and who has settled recently in North London. As she told the reporter, Rachel Syme: “I think I like it here because of its inherent Tribeca-ness,” Dunham said. “I was, like, O.K., this place makes sense to me.” Turns out she has a tattoo of the Odeon’s sign…“On my butt, or I would show it to you,” she told Syme. She really *does* love it here.

FRESH CROP OF DESIGN TALENTS
Surface has a story on Colony’s residency program, which has a new crew exhibiting their designs at the gallery now. It just moved to West Broadway from Canal.

ARTISTS ON ANTISEMITISM AT 81 LEONARD 
The Forward features 81 Leonard Gallery’s inclusion of Marina Heintze in a show titled “Artists on Antisemitism,” a survey of Jewish artists’ responses to the current global surge of antisemitism up through August 30. From The Forward: “Making art is ‘the only way for me to express either my disdain or my point of view and feel maybe that I can do something with that,’ said Heintze, who grew up in Tribeca but now lives and works in Los Angeles. ‘Antisemitism is a disease and that’s what I wanted to relate to with the material that I chose,’ she added. ‘And if it’s a disease, there has to be a cure.'”

PROTECTING LANDMARKS IN FLOOD ZONES
6sqft reports that The Landmarks Preservation Commission launched the LPC Climate Resiliency Initiative, the result of a $500,000 grant from FEMA to identify historic properties in flood zone areas. That includes us.