Sometimes photos just take themselves: No Art For You in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District during Basel. Photo by C-Monster.
- Video of the Day: Legos go graff.
- In related merch: Now you can customize your own toy graffiti train. (Via Ekosystem.)
- Let the corporate jockeying begin: Curator John Elderfield is retiring from MoMA.
- Bummer: Gaugin statue of a faun at the Art Institute of Chicago is a fake. (And it’s not just the statue that is a copy.)
- The Day in Whoa: The best piece at Art Basel for stoners.
- From the Department of They’re-Just-Discovering-This-Now?: The New York Observer reports that Art Basel is, like, totally excessive.
- The only way to see those silly art fairs: with a jet pack. (Via Complex.)
- God’s Eye View: The Glue Society’s Biblical satellite images.
- The Garden of Earthly Delights: Kate Moss edition. See it large. (Via Two Coats of Paint.)
- Terracotta warrior fakes discovered at German museum. (Via Arts Journal.)
- The continuing intersection of art and buttplugs.
- And since all Jeff Koons posts seem to come in multiples: Decadence will meet decadence when he exhibits several large-scale pieces at Versailles (not the restaurant) next fall. (Via Art Observed.)
- Just in time for the holidays: A critical round-up of museum gift shops.
- LACMA’s library is having a book sale today and tomorrow.
- Caravaggio worth up to £50 million is discovered.
- The Deforestation Towel Dispenser: Reminding all those paranoid wankers who need paper towels to touch door handles that some tree somewhere is paying the price.
- But will there be a guy with a megaphone and an umbrella? Art tourists take the Art Bus. And this week, they’re in Williamsburg.
- The Guardian reports that art is losing its soul to populism. And I was under the impression that it had already lost its soul to money.
- Photo Essay: The architecture of parking garages.
- In Brooklyn: Air Kissing at Momenta, in its final week.
- In Boston: Two exhibits about consumption.
- In Madrid: Robert Mapplethorpe at the Galería Pepe Cobo.
- In Nederland, Colo.: The opening of Co-Conspirators, the debut show of the NOWhere Limited Gallery, outside of Boulder.
- Your moment of neurosis, poker-face edition.
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