At the Pulse Art Fair. Photo by celso_nyc.
- Paintings by Picasso and Candido Portinari stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. (Via ArtForum.)
- From the Department of It’s-off-It’s-on: Exhibition of Russian-held art will make it to England after all.
- Detroit is an open canvas.
- Hong Kong: The Jan Brady of contemporary Asian art.
- Art Criticism of the Week: “Like P.T. Barnum, Salvador Dalí, Muhammad Ali and Cirque du Soleil, Matthew Barney is not known for understatement.”
- Frank Gehry: Not-so-hot, according to Fortune.
- The Day in Planned Makeovers: The Public Library and Governor’s Island in New York, and the Gardner Museum in Boston.
- Where authoritarianism and architecture intersect: Fidel Castro says he wants to live as long as Oscar Niemeyer.
- Afghan treasures to go on tour in the U.S., starting at D.C.’s National Gallery in May.
- Pakistani artist Gulgee found murdered in his Karachi home. (Via ArtForum.)
- Fake is the new real: All about the fakers in Dafen, China, in one and two parts (the latter one via Off Center).
- Newsflash: Beauty in art is dead. Also dead: high culture. Even deader: Photography.
- A public service message: Don’t dump your paint. (Via Ekosystem)
- On the Internets: Lowbrow pioneer Robert Williams.
- And speaking of lowbrow: Is Princess Di art? Who the hell knows. But she sure sells tickets.
- New book: Dave Ellis and Doze Green’s Shaft.
- Just in time for Xmas: Skullphone merch.
- Because Manhattan really could use more retail: Is the closing of the Oliver Kamm gallery an indicator of a coming art bust?
- Visual Nuggets: The work of Ala Ebtekar.
- I ♥ The Holidays: “With a Rebel Noel.”
- Separated at Birth: Architect Charles Renfro and comedian Charles Nelson Reilly.
- A visual tour of the Cloisters.
- “It doesn’t say Cox, unless I say it tastes like Cox.”
- Urinal of the Day.
- In Sydney: Emily Kame Kngwarreye at the Mary Place Gallery.
- In S.F.: All Star Hustlaz at White Walls Gallery.
- In Queens: New York States of Mind at the Queens Museum of Art.
- In Chile: Art takes the bus.
- Your moment of Christmas cheer: ‘80s Dallas edition.
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