
Sticker, found on a newspaper dispenser on the Upper East Side, NYC. Photo by C-M.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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