Sever, in the Wynwood District.
The best part of Art Basel: leaving the facelifts at the convention center to see what was going on in the outside world.
Lots more pix after the jump.
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
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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Photos from the opening reception of Infinity’s Going Out of Business Sale at the Garage Gallery in Brooklyn. The show runs through Dec. 22nd, 2007.
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Jen Stark at the Spinello Gallery, in Miami. Photo by C-Monster.
- I Want, I Need, I Have to Have: An L. Ron Hubbard doll.
- Only in the dead tree edition: A Q&A with Os Gemeos in Bomb’s Winter ‘08 issue, in which the twins manage to avoid answering just about every single question. The photos, however, are awesome.
- Iraq’s National Museum now admitting small groups of visitors.
- Bring on the Dancing Dwarfs: The Met scores Arbus archives.
- L.A.’s Norton Simon Museum begins to loosen its death grip on its art.
- Visual Nuggets: NASA Edition. (Via Fecal Face.)
- Newsflash: Charlie Finch is grousing that the visual arts community doesn’t play a role in presidential politics. (And that’s probably for the best, given the pathetic state of national politics.) (Via Winkleman.)
- Modernism ain’t all that, says a new architectural book. (Via Arts Journal.)
- Art Lawsuit of the Week: The story behind those contested Picassos.
- In related news: Classical antiquities, once in the hands of the Getty and the Met, go on display in their new home, Rome.
- How the Art Institute of Chicago ended up with a bogus Gaugin. Plus: Looking Around meditates on the recent industry of fakes.
- When the toilet eats your coke.
- A bit of Open Air, a doc about street art, featuring Espo, Skewville, Tiki J, Faile, Dan Witz and Michael de Feo.
- Necessary merch for the impending apocalypse: the world’s smallest home.
- In a related story: Blinged-out shipping containers you can live in.
- A profile of the man inside the meat suit: Zhang Huan. (Worthwhile for the good photo essay.) If you’re in NYC, don’t miss his show at the Asia Society, on display through January 20th.
- Yay. Now let’s ban them here.
- In Bethlehem: Ron English on the Wall. (More shots here.)
- Your moment of Jean-Claude: splits edition. (Via Fecal Face.)
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The opening of Behind the Seen, at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn. The show is up through January 20th, 2008. Photo by F. Trainer.
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Body work by the Endless Love Crew. Photo by C-Monster.
- I wouldn’t know Julian Schnabel if I ran him over in my truck.
- The Ongoing Debate on Image Appropriation—Shepard Fairey Edition: Josh Macphee at Visual Resistance gives his take.
- Yes, it’s come to this: shit=art.
- Cooler than shit: Star Wars origami.
- Some vintage video related to the Futura/Basquiat scrawl that was recently discovered in NYC. (Just watch the first half; since the second quickly devolves into talk about “vaulted ceilings” and other real-estate-agent-with-a-hard-on descriptives.) (Via ArtBlog.net.)
- The Day in Carcass: It’s Hirst-a-palooza at the Tate.
- The Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City buys rare daguerreotype of John Brown. (Via MAN.)
- The Basel Frazzle: $400 million in four days. (Via Arts Journal.)
- Where war and the birth of the saviour intersect: Camo Christmas ornaments.
- More merch that’s ideal for the holidays: Horrified B-Movie Victims.
- Starchitects, they’re just like us, reports the NY Times.
- In related news: Photos of the Zaha Hadid floor at Hotel Puerto América in Madrid.
- The city of Brasilia’s co-designer, architect Oscar Niemeyer, turns 100.
- How to build an igloo.
- A video simulation tour of the world’s largest moose, in Sweden. (Via Fecal Face.)
- Photo Essay: Sydney Now.
- I have just one word to say to you, just one word: Plastics.
- Up for sale: A copy of the Magna Carta. Someone please buy it and send it to our Dear Leader so that he can learn about a little thing called habeas corpus.
- In S.F.: Tony Labat at Gallery Paule Anglim, in its final week, plus Vulcan and Apex in the Tenderloin.
- In NYC: Barbara Crane at Higher Pictures and Love/War/Sex at Exit Art.
- In Lithuania: Os Gemeos. (Via Ekosystem.)
- Your moment of Cornholio: run-for-the-border edition.
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