The Day in Involuntary Collaborations: Augor and Revok redo a Murakami billboard in L.A. (See it LARGE.) The piece lasted for about two days. (Thanks to StreetRes for catching this on Flickr.) Photo by Ribbon Controller.
- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer isn’t allowed to use the word “bitch.”
- Method # 5,678 to get money out of art industry stage parents: a service that will tell you if you’re little spawn is an artistic genius by offering a critique of their splattered scrawls.
- Marion True has nothing to do with this one: A cuneiform tablet, thought to have been illegally smuggled out of Iraq, was pulled from an eBay auction in Switzerland just minutes before a final sale.
- Not surprising auction news of the week: Magna Carta bought by incredibly rich private equity guy (Via Arts Journal.)
- Philly museum gets hype-less makeover.
- Mystery bench baffles New Yorkers. (Update: It was created by Brad Downey.)
- Spencer Finch will create a public art project for NYC’s High Line.
- Don’t tear down those New Orleans projects, says Nicolai Ourossoff, they’re historic. (The article studiously avoids reporting on what living conditions might have been like in those projects, but the accompanying photo essay is definitely worth a gander.)
- Oh, the tit-illation: Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon get contemporary makeovers.
- Much cooler than anything by Damien Hirst: a skull made from paracetamol (aka Tylenol).
- The Internets are generating art. (Via AFC.)
- Corporate Memo of the Month.
- The latest in holiday must-haves: plushie guts. (Via Offbeat Homes.)
- Street artist Michael de Feo worked on New York Mag’s end-of-year cover: a script word that says “love” on the Bryant Park ice rink. See a time lapse video of the installation.
- Visual Nuggets: Book autopsies by Brian Dettmer.
- Artworld Smackdown! Russia versus England.
- In Melbourne: The Tattoo House by Andrew Maynard Architects.
- In Innsbruck, Austria: Zaha Hadid’s new railway stations.
- Your moment of Christmas bling: oldie-but-goodie edition.
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