The Digest. 05.20.09.
Detail from Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, ca. 1944, by Francis Bacon, at the Met. (Photo by C-M.)
Congrats to Vidalia for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza, S.F. Street Art Edition!
- An artificial traffic jam.
- Relentless self-promotion: Me, me, me…blabbin’ about spring art shows on WNYC.
- Looks juicy!!! Trailer from the BBC doc The Great Contemporary Art Bubble. (@theartmarket.)
- ¡Blogga smackdown! AFC versus Christopher Knight, FLOTUS edition.
- Creatives sleep free.
- Fixing all that badly-crafted contemporary art: The New Yorker profiles art conservator Christian Scheidemann.
- Maria Lassnig’s You or Me.
- Hubba hubba: Paul Cadmus’s painting Jerry.
- I heart artsy financial schemes: The Castlestone Art Fund. “Art to me is exactly the same asset as gold bullion,” says CEO Angus Murray. Uh-huh.
- Video from the Francis Alÿs Fabiola exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Plus: Adrian Searle at the Guardian has a podcast. Art21 has more on the show here.
- Jimmy Stamp looks at SFMOMA’s new sculpture garden in a review that offers lots of photos.
- Looking Around has pics from Chicago’s new Modern Wing at the Art Institute. (See his full review here.) Plus: Hello Beautiful! compares the pedestrian bridge to some iconic rock n’ roll imagery. I, however, think it’s more water park.
- The Gardner Museum trustees approve an expansion. (Arts Journal.)
- A design round-up devoted to letters.
- “People who frequently check their e-mail have tested as less intelligent than people who are actually high on marijuana.” But what if you’re baked and checking e-mail?
- Today’s Graff: Zbick in Prague.
- A solar powered stadium in Taiwan. Looks like downright reptilian.
- “Architects are like whores.”
- Overlooking the Pacific: A super cool looking house by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen in Montecito.
- A tour of post-punk Liverpool. (@MatthewLangley.)
- Your moment of everything is better with a bag of weed. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)