Reporting Live, from Miami. Photo by Petite Abeille.
- Art Basel, it’s, like, totally huge.
- And I Quote: “…the whole thing is like a sophisticated, grown-up spring break!” Yeah, except for the “sophisticated” and “grown-up” parts.
- The new Miami Art Museum could be “astounding,” reports the Herald. Provided someone comes up with the cash to get the damn thing built. (See a photo essay here.)
- For the procrastinators: You still might be able to get a hotel for Basel, reports ArtInfo. Just pay through the nose or stay at the No-Tell Motel.
- Banksy=Picasso, reports Bloomberg News.
- Private galleries are so turn of the millennium. Now it’s all about art caves.
- Visual nuggets: The photography of Maxim Ryazansky.
- Saving the planet, one do-gooder celebrity at a time: Brad Pitt commissions green home designs for New Orleans’s Ninth Ward.
- Painting: Not dead yet, reports the L.A. Times.
- Art spam.
- Russians now rich enough to buy their own art back. They’re buying everyone else’s art, too.
- Graff of the Day: Lem in Roubaix, France.
- From the Department of I-Said-it-First: The new Gehry-designed art museum is a “staggering success,” reports The Globe and Mail, even though the museum is still a year away from opening. (Via Arts Journal.)
- For the relics who still read dead-tree media: ArtForum is running ads that show coochie. (Wait ‘til C-Monster starts accepting ads. It’s gonna be full monty 24-7.)
- World’s Worst Book Cover.
- Jerry Saltz on the New Museum: Not big enough. (Plus: an accompanying round-up on destination museums.)
- In related news: The L.A. Times describes the building as “fuzzy.” (And not in a teddy bear kinda way.) And Ghost on the Aisle likens it to “Wal-Mart lighting in a warehouse.”
- The N.Y. Times building: “a stolid lump,” says NY Mag.
- But does the hot naked chick come with the lamp?
- The Day in Velvet Paintings.
- In Miami: Jorge Pardo at MoCA.
- In N.Y.: Multiple Interpretations at the N.Y. Public Library.
- In Honolulu: Vladimir Ossipoff at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
- In Barcelona: Art for the number crunchers: a video game, by Derivart, in which players can shoot real-time real estate bubbles on-screen.
- In Bethlehem (not the Pennsylvania version): Santa’s Ghetto in a former chicken shop.
- Your moment of socklessness.
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This may be ancient history (well, `05), but did you hear about the Basquiat action figure?? The mind reels…
http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/03/basquiat_toy_to_street_soon.html
LOL. most excellent.
A message to the person that claims to have found the worst book cover ever:
You obviously aren’t the voracious reader that I am.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidalia/16775730/in/set-400899/
LOL!