Retna in Miami. Photo by C-M.
Hold on to your egg salad sandwiches: In just a couple of hours, far-flung correspondent San Suzie will have an incisive report on the happenings at Sunday’s BCAM opening in L.A.
- Gagosian’s moneyed paw prints are all over BCAM.
- The NY Times analyzes the effect of Eli Broad’s coitus interruptus on LACMA as an L.A. art institution.
- A street art map of Paris. (Via Ekosystem.)
- The Boston Globe has a story about how some scholars are questioning whether antiquities should be returned to their country of origin: “As one museum after another negotiates deals, and prosecutors all over the world target the commercial trade in ancient objects, some prominent scholars are drawing a line in the sand, saying that objects belong where they are – that the movement is based on a false reading of history, and, if allowed to progress, could do serious damage to the world’s cultural inheritance.” Um, any more damage than all that museum-sponsored looting already has?
- Spiral Jetty update from the Salt Lake Trib. (Via MAN.)
- The crime blotter: $100 million worth of art stolen–including pieces by Cezanne and Degas–from Zurich museum.
- Has everyone been too hard on the Smithsonian’s profligate spender W. Richard West? No, they haven’t, says the Washington Post, but we should probably bag on his bosses, too.
- British public sculpture: Enough with the “Frankenstein monster memorials.”
- No Art for You: Fisk University will not be allowed to sell the Stieglitz collection to the Wal-Mart Museum.
- Tristan Eaton’s blue suede shoes.
- Hot shit, I’m gonna get me a buckle cam and head right over to the 303 Gallery.
- And I Quote… Jimmy Breslin prefers the New York City of the Mafia to the New York City of the hedge fund managers: “They ought to let the Mafia shoot the hedge-fund people.”
- New York, all old school-like.
- The Day in Wishful Thinking: Is the art market recession proof? (Via Arts Journal.)
- Wired is having a Holga photo contest.
- Scientists are using T-Rays to look through art. (Via Arts Journal.)
- Green Porno.
- Q&A with Kehinde Wiley. Also: Get the lowdown on his pieces at the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. here.
- Video from the Guy Ben-Ner show at Postmasters.
- Not all is frosty between the Ruskis and the Brits: Norman Foster’s Crystal Island project in Moscow receives preliminary planning approvals. And, writes Christopher Hawthorne of the L.A. Times, “As a monument to the petro-wealth sloshing across much of the world, and of the stark gap between rich and poor in post-Soviet Moscow, [it] could be hardly be more perfect.”
- S.F. container house by Leger Wanasjela Architects. (Via Coudal.)
- Photos from the public opening of Frank Lloyd Wright’s La Miniatura in L.A.
- Green synagogues.
- The seven habits of highly effective spaceship captains.
- A Q&A with authors Daniel Alarcón and Alex Espinoza.
- Cheeseburger in a can.
- Art of the Day: Criollo by Edgar Orlaineta.
- Your moment of crazy GIFs. (Via Fecal Face.)
Posted by C-Monster.
Enjoyed the Kehinde Wiley piece.
I’ve always found it tremendously amazing when people want to bap or throw a dig at the rich people who buy the art. Where oh where would Kehinde be without those very rich buyers to fuel his fun ?