Celso in the country. (Photo by C-Monster.)
- 99% of everything we buy ends up in the trash within 6 months: The Story of Stuff. (Via Small House Style.)
- Murakami commercial tornado to hit Brooklyn.
- It’s gonna be a pop art summer in NYC: Jeff Koons to take over the roof of the Met.
- More ways to waste money: Take a class about art collecting at NYU.
- Watch your ass, Satan. It’s Manga Jesus.
- I want to be a New York enemy. (Please nominate me!) You can be one, too. (Via Edward Winkleman.)
- MoMA getting all edgy-like: Dunny is now in the collection.
- A sobering Q&A with tech guru Nicholas Carr about the power of technology to manipulate us.
- Sooreh Hera, an ex-pat Iranian photographer living in the Netherlands, who has photographed images of gay Muslim men with masks, has gone into hiding because of death threats.
- Because it’s all about mid-century Modern: there are now Eames stamps.
- Banksy: Increasing property values all over Britain.
- Graff of the Day: Supakitch in Montpellier. (See a bigger set.)
- Can someone please explain to me what this blog is about?
- Andy Warhol is the “Dow Jones industrial average” of the $11 billion art industry. Does that mean that Damien Hirst is the NASDAQ? (Via ArtsJournal.)
- In case the art market isn’t giving you enough of a beating: you can now kick your own ass.
- Short films wanted for Long Beach, Ca. festival.
- Old-school skin mags. (Via World’s Best Ever.)
- Frackin’ hilarious if you happen to speak Cuban: 299, a series of 1, 2, 3 videos that re-imagines the epic film 300 as pura guapería.
- In S.F.: Letters to the Editor, featuring work by Cum*, Eine, Brent McHugh, Ryan Jacob Smith, and Mario Wagner at Fifty24SF, opening Jan. 10th, and Willie Cole at Stanford’s Cantor Center.
- In L.A.: Os Brasileiros at the Carmichael Gallery.
- In NYC: Colin Johnson at Charming Wall, Extreme Embroidery at the Museum of Arts and Design and Martin & Muñoz at P.P.O.W. Gallery. Plus: My Architect, a doc about Louis Kahn, is screening tonight, at MoMA.
- Your moment of David Lynch.
Posted by C-Monster.
can’t wait for Murakami and Koons….
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