Sticker, found on a newspaper dispenser on the Upper East Side, NYC. Photo by C-M.
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Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Chomp. Photo by Vidalia.
- The trippiest video I’ve seen in a very long time: The Pearce Sisters, a BAFTA-winning short. (Via NotCot.)
- Art Story Lead of the Day: “You could almost hear the New York art world breathe a sigh of relief when the Guggenheim Foundation announced today that Thomas Krens had resigned as its director.”
- The Krens-master Cycle, Day 2: MAN, Art Daily, Culture Grrl, Goings On.
- Robert Rauschenberg sues gallery over “art” pulled from his trash. (Via ArtForum.)
- Okay, so maybe that Amber Room isn’t gonna be so easy to find after all.
- Photo Essay: Frida Kahlo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Plus: The latest Frida merch.
- And I Quote… Andrew Kuo on Charlie Rose, talking about art: “It hangs on a wall. It’s ridiculous if you think about it.”
- The show everybody loves to hate: A preview of the Whitney Biennial.
- ¡Artworld Smackdown! Tyler Green versus the Warhol Foundation.
- Tampa Museum receives $2.5 million gift. (Via ArtForum.)
- Art paralysis, a condition that no doubt will soon be remedied by the pharmaceutical industry. (Via AJ.)
- Photos of Windows.
- Graff of the Day: Zonenkinder Collective and Spectrum Crew in Poland.
- A Q&A with James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab. (Via Ekosystem.)
- The Day in Sublime Ridiculosity: The Guardian channels All the President’s Men on some Banksy graffiti in a London parking lot. (There appears to be other graffiti in the lot, but the reporter completely ignores it. There’s some crack information gathering for you…)
- Bring on the boogar sugar: there’s cocaine at Colette.
- When you wake up this morning, please read my diary. Look through my things, and figure me out, by Gretchen Bennett.
- Bring back Chris March.
- Lori Earley painting stolen from the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC.
- In related news: Stolen 19th century painting turns up at the Palm Beach Art Fair.
- Monaco House by McBride Charles Ryan in Melbourne.
- The recently renovated Rossio Railway Station in Lisbon. (Via Coudal.)
- I Park Like an Idiot. (Via NotCot.)
- The Global Seed Vault.
- Not safe for anywhere: New Abu Ghraib photos show Americans jailers displaying all the subtlety of Savak.
- Balloon tank.
- Your moment of rockin’ it to the bang bang boogie.
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Sonumbra, an architectural textile that collects solar energy during the day and then gives it off at night. By Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl, for Loop, pH. (Photos by C-M.)
We only got to do the briefest jog-through of MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit due to an impending job-related meeting. But the little bit that we glimpsed was damn interesting. Some of the technology presented in the show has some interesting real-world applications (portable solar panels can provide electricity in the smallest of off-the-grid villages); some of it just makes for good show-and-tell (coffins with dildos). Our photos are sparse, but the exhibit was not. (We’ll be back.) In the meantime, you can check out the show’s website, where some programmer clearly went totally postal with Flash.
Money shots after the jump.
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Sculpture by John Powers at Virgil de Voldère Gallery in NYC, through March 29th. Photo by C-M.
- The Krens-master Cycle: Guggenheim director Thomas Krens steps down. Though he will remain at the foundation as a senior adviser, overseeing the new franchise in Abu Dhabi. Cue the Greek chorus: LAT, Bloomberg, Looking Around, Culture Grrl, AFC.
- ¡Artworld Smackdown! Tate vs. MoMA.
- No more blockbusters, says London’s National Gallery.
- The Sotheby’s report: People still buying stuff. Including a painting by Francis Bacon for almost $40 million.
- Stuff White People Like. (Via WBE.)
- Walker Art Center images now available on Facebook.
- Gap uses Warhol as window poster boy.
- Creative uses for junk mail. (Via ackackack.)
- Graff of the Day: Naut in L.A.
- The Blotter: Examining court cases on Nazi-era art that will determine what counts as a “forced” sale. (Via AJ.)
- An art show inspired by Google.
- In Western Mass.: Inciting arts coverage where there was none before.
- The history of choneys.
- Beck has a pretty badass website. (Via ackackack.)
- R.I.P. William Buckley and his addendum, proviso and quid pro quo. You can admire the conservative pundit at his finest in this video, where he threatens to give Gore Vidal a beat-down after Vidal calls him a “crypto-Nazi.” All in good fun, of course…
- Architects to power: like flies to shit. This awesome story includes a wonderful round-up of ethically-unsavory architectural projects around the world, as well as some deep thoughts by Philip Johnson: “I’m out to work for the Devil himself if he’s building.”
- Buildings as sculpture.
- An architectural gathering of libraries.
- Now we’ll need you to hump the shoe.
- Are you a taco, a burrito or a nacho? (Via LA Taco.)
- Your moment of Japanese television.
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Double Grooves and Dirty Menudo with Julio César Morales and Eamon Ore-Girón. (Photos by San Suzie.)
Photos from a wrap party for the annual Starlight Ball at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, held at the Thirtynine Hotel in Honolulu’s Chinatown. Featuring a show by Los Jaichackers, a collaborative installation between Julio César Morales, from S.F., and Eamon Ore-Girón, of L.A. Also included: images of some truly resplendent cocktails.
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Sylvia Ji. Photo by Jason Woan.
- In L.A.: Sylvia Ji at Corey Helford.
- In Chicago: Andy and Ben Kehoe at Green Lantern.
- In NYC: Charles Demuth at the Whitney.
- In Santo Domingo, Colombia: Parque España, designed by Giancarlo Mazzanti.
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Waiting to meet the band at the Los Tigres del Norte concert, Brooklyn. Photo by C-M.
- The stratastencil. (Via ackackack.)
- Because the Dear Leader Said So: Press escorted everywhere by minders during the NY Philharmonic’s gig in North Korea. (BTW, if you haven’t read Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, go get it now.)
- Talking Points Memo becomes first blogger to win Polk Award. (Via ackackack.)
- In less lofty blogosphere developments: Man liveblogs his vasectomy.
- No condos here: Charles Bukowski’s L.A. home named a landmark! (Via The Elegant Variation.)
- The wood sculptures of Mike Rea.
- Photos of the Day: No-Tell Motel, Holiday Inn.
- Make it stop: Andy Warhol perfume.
- An interview with Yayoi Kusama. (Via Art Observed.)
- Wearable pixels.
- Even during Black History Month, black artists are MIA from galleries.
- Artists wanted for hot one-inch action in Vancouver. (Via AFC.)
- The Day in Magnanimous Art Dealers: The Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland to get beaucoup pieces from Anthony d’Offay, including works by Sol Lewitt, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. (There are some names you never hear…)
- Art press release factoid of the week.
- The Prado restores two Goya masterpieces damaged in the 1930s, when they were moved away from Madrid because of fighting related to the Civil War.
- LACMA + MoCA=A real museum.
- Culver City hot, hot, hot.
- Milwaukee Art Museum team wins design award.
- No Dutch Masters For You: Reopening of the Rijksmuseum delayed until 2013. (Via ArtForum.)
- The Thing.
- Nekkid lady gets a Slog reader’s skivvies in a knot.
- An evolution of the graffiti wall at Dean Lane skatepark in Bristol.
- Graff of the Day: The Krah in the U.K.
- Video interview with L.A.’s Retna.
- Pollution turns Chinese river red.
- Your moment of hot chicks with douchebags. (Via LA Taco.)
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Detail of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates. Photo by niznoz.
- On TV: The Gates, a doc about Christo and Jeanne-Claude and a lot of orange fabric, on HBO.
- In L.A.: Megan Geckler’s Set a Course for Wayward Schemes at Bert Green Fine Art.
- In L.A.: Julius Shulman at DWR on Feb. 29th.
- In NYC: Entrances of Old Man Winter, with Emery Blagdon, Keith Goodhart, Chris Hipkis + many others at Cavin Morris Gallery, closing on Saturday.
- In NYC: Parmigianino’s Antea at the Frick.
- In NYC: Audubon’s Aviary: Portraits of Endangered Species at the New York Historical Society.
- In Chicago: Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper at the Art Institute.
- In Newark: Trellis: a Sculpture Survey at Rupert Ravens Contemporary, in downtown.
- In Lancaster, Pa.: Nancie Yang at Metropolis.
- In S.F.: Lee Friedlander at S.F. MoMA.
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Ilana Bloch at California Dreamin’: LA to HI at the Nu-uanu Gallery at Mark’s Garage, in Honolulu. Photo by San Suzie.
- Where the hell is Lou Dobbs? Oscars outsourcing awards to ferners, who do the job better for cheaper.
- In related news: this is the song I’d like to have played at my funeral.
- Totally awesome video of the Cloud sculpture at Heathrow.
- OMG, it’s 1921 all over again: British Museum and British army want to help Iraq restore their culture. More here.
- Cha-ching: The Tate buys sculptures by Jake and Dinos Chapman from Charles Saatchi.
- Think like the animals.
- The Daily Racing Form: The Art Newspaper has some handy charts that rank museum attendance. The Louvre, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern take the first three slots respectively. (The Americans come in at #5, with the Met and NYC’s MoMA settles in at #15. LACMA, you’ve got a long way to go, baby.)
- Curate yourself into a New Museum exhibit. Just don’t dare take a picture. (Via Razor Apple.)
- Art Fag City, reporting live from ADAA.
- Sculptures by Christopher Conte. (Via ackackack.)
- The Atlantic on The Birth of Cool. (Via Modern Kicks.)
- Bananas don’t have sex.
- Dear Orange County Register: Please cover art.
- I heart trailer trash.
- Inside the Dark Lord Foster’s design for the Beijing airport.
- The Day in Government Effectiveness: Commission on Chicago Landmarks not very good at protecting landmarks.
- Jean Maneval’s plastic bubble house from 1968.
- Well That Explains Everything: Was Adolf Hitler into Disney? (Thanks, RMH.)
- Photo of a glow worm cave.
- Color-blind artist paints by hearing.
- Starbucks, Computer Lab.
- Weird toys at WonderCon.
- Your moment of fucking Matt Damon. Don’t miss the response.
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Thangka paintings from Bhutan.
Photos from the opening of The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, which opens today. The show was so moving that it discouraged us from taking our usual clandestine photos. We did, however, manage to blow $80 on incense, in what will no doubt be a vain attempt to take a little bit of Bhutanese compassion back to the mainland.
Click on images to see ‘em large. Money shots (and strap-ons) after the jump.
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