I learned to drive in a mint green ‘67 Mustang. Here is John Schuh’s redo of the car company’s famous logo: Chrome, 2005. (Image courtesy of Schuh.)
- Virus doilies.
- That WSJ story about bloggers making all kinds of money for their clever wordsmithing? Like, totally bogus.
- How David Zwirner knows he’s found an interesting piece of art: He asks himself, WTF is it?
- Reporting on the art world is a very slippery prospect.
- More evidence that Miami is totally nuts: Despite the fact that the entire state of Florida is in an economic crater, the city is allegedly proceeding with a $280 million museum park. (Arts Journal.)
- L.A.’s drive-by art.
- Curiouser and curiouser: A committee of apparatchiks at Brandeis have approved an art garage sale.
- Museum acquisition committees see one recession benefit: cheaper art. Also: expect cheap deals at the spring auctions, which the NYT describes as having a “faint whiff of desperation.” And a story on catalogue shrinkage here. (Arts Journal.)
- Details of the pay-cuts at the Getty.
- Christopher Knight talks about how a video by Yoshua Okon is a perfect metaphor for our time. (Modern Art Notes.)
- How to understand Tony Smith’s minimalist sculpture Die: Get a cat. And a box. Watch hilarity ensue. Seriously, this video is unbelievably rad.
- The Cuchini, protecting young women everywhere from the perils of camel toe. For reals.
- Today’s Street Art: David Gouny in Paris.
- A video of NYC in the ‘80s that channels Wild Style.
- Havana’s architecture continues to crumble.
- Blair Kamin is totally loving the Art Institute of Chicago’s new modern wing: “Boldly planned and exquisitely crafted, it is a temple of light, in which carefully filtered sunlight will be as central to the visitor’s experience as steel, aluminum and Indiana limestone.”
- They Knew the End Was Near: Chrysler’s headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich. was designed so that it could be easily repurposed into a shopping mall in the event the company died.
- Developers of the Chelsea Barracks in London are ignoring Prince Charles and moving forward with their Richard Rogers-designed plan. (architecture.mnp.)
- Your moment of architects, Monty Python style.
Because I’m feeling sporty this week: Ring of Honor, by Seattle artist John Schuh. See it large. (Image courtesy of Schuh.)
- When product placement fails. Miserably. (Via Steve Lambert.)
- Today is Election Day. In Canada.
- The Walker Center has some rad politically-inspired buttons. Oh, to be in Minneapolis. Sort of related: Hitchens endorses Obama.
- Stuff to do in London during Frieze. Besides buy, buy, buy. Related: ArtInfo wonders what’s happened to all those satellite fairs.
- Forget the Tate’s Turbine Hall, says Jonathan Jones at the Guardian. If you want real inspiration, go see Richard Serra at Gagosian.
- What a K-Hole: Victoria Miro gallery in London is turned into a gay nightclub.
- **Sublime Art Story of the Week:** Pieter Hugo photograph causes racial kerfuffle at Hollywood talent agency.
- L.A.’s Chinatown galleries are in flux.
- Curators as models. For reals.
- CultureGrrl reports on the estrogen-fest going on in American museums. Just don’t call the phenomenon “girly,” she says. Well, what about grrly?
- TEXTile, 2006 by Jean Shin. (Via NotCot.)
- Strangely, the whole thing works: Photos of Jeff Koons at Versailles. (Via Marshall Astor.)
- The National Art Museum of China is to get a big-ass new building next to the Bird’s Nest.
- The Day in Neon: Robert Irwin’s Light and Space III at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. (I took the hint from Richard McCoy’s Twitter.)
- Take a poll to decide whether Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls “sucked big time” or were “the best thing ever.” (Via Hrag Vartanian.)
- Monsters from 19th century Japanese newsprints.
- Today’s Graff: The latest from Blu.
- Chicago’s Humanities Festival to examine 100 years of Chicago’s urban plan and global cities of the future in two separate panels on Nov. 2nd.
- The pendulum continues to swing against starchitecture. (Via A.J.)
- A house within a house within…: House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects in Oita, Japan.
- Your moment of Bang Bang. (Thank you, Yvonne!)
Population, 2008, a painting by Carl Hammoud. (Via Eclectic Cow.)
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Los Reyes del Mambo in Madrid. (Photo courtesy of SpY.)
- Zak Smith’s daily sketchbook.
- But will he be biting himself? Vito Acconci to deliver New School commencement address.
- New York mag has an excerpt of the De Kooning bio, An American Master, in which Rauschenberg swings by and asks to erase one of his drawings. (Via MAN.)
- Photo Essay: Robert Rauschenberg’s Time covers.
- Plus: Art to Go looks back at moments in pretty recent history when Rauschenberg wasn’t so popular, while NPR has audio of an interview with the artist, as well as a bit of music he composed, as part of his obit profile.
- I’d like you to meet your cellmate, “Tiny”: Asian antiquities expert arrested on fraud charges, stemming from SoCal museum raids this past January.
Artlog.net Artlog.com has a brand spanking new function on their site that could serve as a good hub for organizations doing open calls for artists. If you’re an organization doing an open call, put your stuff up there…and if you’re an artist, check it out…- The Brooklyn Museum has a super rad, comprehensive online exhibit of Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
- When museums rent their art for money. Yeah, they’re talkin’ about you, Louvre.
- Staff cuts at the Getty.
- Harvard Art Museums to unveil new Renzo Piano designs for a new building this weekend.
- Robert Storr in Frieze magazine, on the power of patrons: “Eli Broad’s plan for sharing his collection with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art while holding onto it in perpetuity is a glaring example of ‘what’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine’ deal-making in the philanthropic domain.” (Via Eyebeam.)
- The Telegraph’s Richard Dorment on the Turner Prize nominees: “For the first time in many years, the Turner Prize shortlist looks to me like a dud. First, the four shortlisted artists struck me as unusually – and irritatingly – similar.” And, the kicker: “It’s the kind of modern art that pundits pay deference to and that deep down nobody really likes.” Plus: Bloomberg and the Guardian help sort out who is who.
- More on Susan Dessel getting censored by the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in N.J.: Heart as Arena and Winkleman.
- When paintings cost more than houses: Lucian Freud painting sells for $33.6 million at Christie’s and sets price record for a work by a living artist (via AJ). The Kaufmann Desert House sells for $15 million.
- Graff of the Day: A Flickr set of the Schmitz Park Bridge in Seattle.
- Ad Deville of Skewville and Ali Ha will open the doors on their Factory Fresh gallery in Brooklyn in early June.
- Marty caps Shepard Fairey on Houston Street in NYC in broad daylight.
- Daze released in Scotland.
- Architectural billings are flaccid.
- National Geographic has a photo essay on architecture in China.
- Charles and Ray Eames introduce their new lounge chair on NBC in 1956.
- A White Forest in a Grey Field by Junya Ishigami in Tokyo.
- Here’s what that fancy hotel yuck-ifying Manhattan’s Lower East Side looks like from the inside.
- The day in graffiti merch: Graffiti’d furniture and graffiti’d dishware.
- More street art as advertising, this time for Vespa in Montreal. Creepy-looking photos here.
- Me love: Nico Nico animated gifs.
- Your moment of bad ideas.
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Rochambeau, by Ryan McLennan in From Fur to Bone at Kinsey/Desforges, through May 10th. (Photo by Vidalia.)
- All of those important-looking and allegedly objective military analysts you see on cable news? Puppets of the Pentagon.
- Bacteria artist Steve Kurtz cleared of all charges. (Via Art to Go.)
- Poo as art, Seattle edition. (See #9.)
- In related news: Yale art school dean wants to ban a work by a student in which she claims to have induced miscarriages. Catching a whiff of the free publicity, I imagine that some enterprising
shark art dealer will soon be representing her.
- Koons sculptures to decorate the Met’s roof. Let’s hope that no socialites with sharp bracelets will be traveling anywhere in the vicinity of these fine works. More here.
- Virtual art in London tube stations.
- New Book: The Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks. (Via Coudal.)
- Attendance slips at Art Cologne.
- Can you tell an art fair attendee from a ComicCon attendee? Take AFC’s handy quiz and find out!
- Paris Bureau Chieftess Yvonne Conasse has been web surfing her little heart out ever since her bar privileges at the Ritz were suspended and she sent us enough links yesterday to produce a veritable mini digest:
- First and foremost, she forwards us this video of a Cadbury Crème Egg Crusher, a piece that will surely give Tim Hawkinson a run for his money.
- Second, she sends over a couple of ComicCon reports that includes a story about how nobody seems to be reading Inconegro, a critically-acclaimed comic about an African-American journalist, and an item on Power Girl, who will be getting her own comic book series, co-starring her boobs.
- Third, she discovered a great posting on subway advertising mash-ups.
- And, last, but not least, she also forwarded us this link, about the controversy unleashed by a high school student’s art project in Independence, Missouri. Missouri High School Student: 1. Yale Art School: 0.
- From the Department of WTF??? L.A. trying to regulate taco trucks out of business.
- Shipping containers as playground equipment.
- The Day in Museo Blog Artspeak, courtesy of SFMOMA.
- Charlie Rose, as if produced by Samuel Beckett. (Via VSL.)
- Video about Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar’s I Want You to Want Me from the Design & the Elastic Mind show at MoMA. (Via Eyebeam.)
- Kinda looks like a strip mine to me: Where BCAM was born.
- Coming to London’s V&A this fall: An exhibit about Cold War-era design.
- Pope-ylactics.
- The Guardian on the new Oslo Opera House by Snøhetta: “Even if opera is not your thing, and you have little interest in the finer points of auditorium acoustics, this is an unmissable building, and immense fun to engage with.”
- Abandoned hotels in the Egyptian Sinai.
- Portable cardboard walls.
- Graff of the Day: Kurz in Italy.
- Killer Photo Set: The Georgetown graffiti wall in Seattle.
- Greetings from the Occupation, Wish You Were Here!
- Nick Walker sells big at Black Cat in London.
- New Book & Video: We Come At Night.
- Your moment of V.D., courtesy of Mlle. Conasse.
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