It’s Valentine’s Day! Bring on the tonsil hockey. (Sugar Dudes. Photo by C-M.)
- The Art World’s 50 Least Important People.
- Let the BCAM Pile-on begin…
- Mat Gleason of Coagula Art Journal: “…a blue-chip warehouse of ArtForum’s finest from the past 5 decades… (Via Marshall Astor.)
- Linda Yablonsky of Bloomberg: “This theme park of a show is less about art than what money can buy.”
- Guerilla Girls send an open letter to Eli Broad about the fact that 97% of the artists represented at BCAM are white and 87% are men.
- Lucas Cranach the Elder too racy for the London underground.
- Fear-mongering headline of the Day: “Everyone is wondering if the downturn will be like 9/11.”
- That incredibly odd point where Bollywood and Hip-Hop intersect.
- Pajama’d artist wants to bring peace to Israel. (Via Art Observed.)
- The Brooklyn Museum has apps for your Facebook page.
- Modes of Production: The Brooklyn Rail has a good story about art assistants, the slave-wage apprentices who actually make a lot of the overpriced stuff you see. (Via AFC.)
- Photo Essay: the ARCO contemporary art fair in Madrid.
- Fluorescent lighting field.
- Missing Basquiat found in Manhattan warehouse.
- From the Department of Abject Futility: British government unveils plan to give children five hours of culture a week.
- The 50 Greenest Cities in the U.S. (Via ackackack.)
- The C-Monster Fashion Report: Skinhead looks are hot hot hot. (Thanks, Alex.)
- Knitted shields.
- The best link round-up of the day: Fima_Psuchopadt (c). (The middle video is priceless.)
- Korean graffiti.
- When reverse graffiti is not graffiti. (An older story on the concept of reverse graffiti can be found here.)
- In related news: Graffiti Restoration.
- Scroll down for a great shot of an abbey painted by David Ellis and Maya Hayuk.
- Finnegan’s Wake as diagrammed by László Moholy-Nagy.
- Wikiart. (Via AFC.)
- Instant architect. (Via Coudal.)
- Your moment of learning English.
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